Adventures in Repatriation
Cassandra Berg
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Bio
- I lived in rural Japan from 2006-2008, teaching babies through adults how to talk the English. Now I'm trying to find my way in a country that's both a stranger and more home than ever.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Obama Bows to Japanese
Emperor, Disgraces Xenophobes
November 19, 2009 04:46PM - Who needs balanced journalism?
EVERYONE.
October 17, 2009 06:22PM - Little Girls in Glossy:
Sexualizing Pre-teens in
Japan, U.S.
October 13, 2009 02:49PM - My Idiot Cousin's Janky
Website Earned him Slot on Fox
News
September 02, 2009 05:07PM - To Hijab or not to Hijab
August 25, 2009 02:27PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I've enjoyed reading
your writing here and glad
you're having
such a good time
wi…”
January 01, 2011 01:51PM - “This is a very nice
eulogy of sorts.
(But
I have one minor correction.
It was t…”
October 02, 2010 11:25PM - “Ha, I've never been able
to write while drinking,
though I
think that there
must…”
July 19, 2010 12:32AM - “(but great piece, and
rated)”
June 08, 2010 05:07PM - “To be fair, when asked
about her favorite founding
father,
she EVENTUALLY came
up…”
June 08, 2010 05:06PM
Cassandra Berg's Links
On a holiday from school, Halima came to program without her headscarf. She seemed to be in a bad mood when her mother dropped her off, her eyes shifting around as she gave her a somewhat squirmy and resistant hug. Before going to join the other kids, she flipped up the… Read full post »
text: This year I lunrD adout JaPan I
know that JaPan PePole eat white rice and they Have Mcdonls an
American wun and a JaPanies wun. and You have to were
indor sliPers, even in School! JaPan is a great
Plas.
It wasn’t long after I offered to organize a Japan… Read full post »
Repatriation diaries: September 17, 2008
One thing this country has given me besides huge, heaping plates of lettuce called “side salads” and all-you-can-eat chicken fingers is an unparalleled level of anonymity. In Japan, my foreignness infiltrated every aspect of my pu… Read full post »
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