When I was a teacher in Japan I experienced a different way of 'clocking' in at work. Each teacher had an 'inkan' or a stamp with their name on the bottom. Mine is pictured here and I was lucky because most of my 'Gaijin' (foreign) friends had their names in 'Katakana' (Japanese writing of foreign words) whilst I had mine in 'Kanji' (Chinese characters). I wish I could say that I wrote the characters that you see here, but they were written by the friendly librarian, with whom I remember drinking black coffee and eating tiny cookies.
On a personal note, it is my birthday today and I was born in the year of the snake.
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