Where No Mangoes is back.

I will be needing this blog again, because almost as soon as I landed back on the Temple University campus in North Fulldelfia last August, word reached me that a request would soon be out to faculty to apply to go teach at Temple Japan.

Temple has had a campus in Tokyo, Japan, since 1982, making it the oldest, and apparently the largest, USA university campus in all of Japan. And the footprint just got larger, with this new campus opening in Kyoto this year. Enrollments are up, and more academic programs have opened for students.

So I sent in an application, and waited for absolutely nothing to happen. Temple is a big place, and over the years I have learned that with big places, it is best to have no expected outcome whatsoever. Things might come through. Things might not.

But this came through and I am off to Kyoto to teach both the summer and fall terms. I will be away for another 8.5 months. But this time I may only have to unpack once: in Kyoto.

Here is the logic of it all. As blog readers know, my younger brother lives in China, and my son is studying in South Korea. I figured I should have my own Asian country.

So I get Japan.

I have never been there, but I have started to learn Japanese for this adventure. A new campus, a new country, a new language.

So many mistakes waiting to be made!

Do stay tuned.