Teaching in Ehime, Japan

Having just arrived on in the Japanese state of Ehime on the island of Shikoku, I can see that things are very different here than in the U.S. I have however, seen other U.S. citizens here, as Ehime is the most popular tourist destination in Japan. I look forward to meeting my Junior High school students in Masaki, though I also look forward to taking a trip to Dogo-Onsen, which is the nations oldest hot spring resort.

The school lunches here are interesting; I enjoy a wide range of foods, so I look forward to tasting some of the things that look tasty like, beef and carrot stew or the "devil's tongue" tree root. My students uenjoy eating with me.

mayan disappearance theory

My theory is that the Mayans fled their city out of fear of a man-made plague called Anemia. Anemia is caused by lack of iron in the blood stream. This makes sense because 8O percent of the skeleton found in a city called Copan showed signs of Anemia. I have 2 possibilities as to how this plague came to be, 1. By sacrificing all of their important genes they created the disease. 2. they over farmed their land, by growing the same crop year after year they did not allow any time for the soil to regain it's nutrients, producing less crop each year.