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Monthly Archive for March, 2008
It is Tuesday, 3.25.2008 and it’s clear and warm in Hamamatsu.
I put my futons out today and beat them with a stick to get all of the dust and junk out of them. I swept the entire apartment and rearranged some furniture in anticipation of the German invasion tonight. There will be 4 grown men sleeping in my tiny apartment tonight. SLEEP OVER!
I was frantic for the better part of the day. I left my mobile on the train last night coming home from the regional meeting and the subsequent after-party in Sumpu-koen. Continue reading ‘ケータイ ã‚ã‚Šã¾ã›ã‚“ (Without Mobile Phone [?])’
It is Monday, 3.24.2008 and it’s raining in Shizuoka.
I’m in Shizuoka city today for a regional meeting of all staff in Shizuoka prefecture. It’s 11am and I have an empty stomach. Meetings are awesome, kindof. I love seeing the people in my area outside of the regular Native Teacher monthly meetings, we have a really great group. Also, for these combined meetings, we get to visit with all of our Japanese English Teachers of the company, of which are all awesome and hilarious and interesting. Not only do I get to work on what little Japanese I know, but I also get to really ham-up my foreign-ness. Continue reading ‘Play The Gaijin Card’
It is Sunday, 3.23.2008 and it’s sunny in Atami.
Atami is a resort town on the JR line on the way to Tokyo from Hamamatsu. I am writing this in the evening after an entire day out. We woke up a bit late and literally rolled out of our futons and jumped on the Shinkansen East. It was really great, and I love that I live right on a semi-major bullet train stop that literally flies by my house 30 times a day. Atami was interesting, my Lonely Planet guide calls it a ‘Naples of the Orient’. I would only qualify this by saying that it is the ‘Naples of the Orient trapped in the ’70s’. Continue reading ‘Misty Grey, or Awkward Purple Glass’
It is Saturday, 3.22.2008 and it’s sunny and clear in Hamamatsu.
Dad and I woke up a bit late and had RHB at 10am. We took a bike ride down to the coast and took some time watching the fishermen and a group of surfers. Dad climbed some tetrapods and I had this horrific vision of them crashing down upon him, pinning his legs and my frantically running for help trying to communicate my emergency. These are the weird things that pop in to my brain, along with jumping in front of trains, or throwing myself off of high places. I’d never do or wish for those kinds of things, but they oddly just pop in to my brain sometimes. Over-active imagination much? Continue reading ‘Last Day in Tenryu’
It is Phriday, 3.21.2008 and it’s sunny and bright in Kyoto.
We were up early and out of the hostel by 9am. I brushed my teeth at the subway station’s bathroom, Shiakusho-Mae to be particular. We ate at a spot in the attached underground mall and had a moningu seto. After finishing, we hopped on the subway to Higashiyama and walked around Heian temple, and the gardens. Continue reading ‘Kyoto Finished, Home and Tired’
It is Thursday, 3.20.2008 and it’s raining in Kyoto.
Dad and I got up a bit later than planned, RHB and we jumped on the Hikari Shinkansen at about 10am. After one stop in Nagoya, we were in Kyoto by half 11. Dad made me talk to him the whole way there so I couldn’t play my DS. Maybe the DS is obstructing my reading routine? I’ll have time for both once he and the Germans are gone in mid-April… ugh… mid-April. Continue reading ‘Fire Temple, I Mean Buddhist Temple’
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