 | Are you coming to visit?
2007-04-21, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | My summer vacation starts August 1 through the month and I'm trying to plan who is coming out to visit me!
Please email me and let me know if you plan on coming out and your tentative dates so that I... |
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 | Hump Day
2007-04-18, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | It's the third day of teaching, as well as the third day straight of rain rain and cold cold. Remind me to never ever even consider living in a place that's even remottely cold in any way, PLEASE!
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| My First Day of School
2007-04-16, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | I couldn't sleep last night, not because I was nervous but for some reason my brain had thoughts running a mile a minute. I woke up this morning at 7am and thought to myself-Today is the first day of ... |
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 | School Starts Tomorrow!
2007-04-15, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | I have been mentally preparing myself for tomorrow since Friday when I went to visit. I was a bit disappointed to be frank, but maybe it just wasn't the best firt impression.
The day started with ... |
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 | My Keitai
2007-04-12, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | For those who don't know, a keitai is a cell phone. And I got mine today...!
There were really 3 services to choose from: AU, DoKoMo, and Softbank. Although I opted for Softbank first cuz it was th... |
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 | A lot of Walking
2007-04-11, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Last night I slept like a baby!! I bought an extra padded mattress for my futon and it was like HEAVEN!
Woke up and went to the store. I debated rushing over to meet the other teachers at 12pm, bu... |
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| Officially in Mito!
2007-04-10, Mito, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Tonight is my second night in my new apartment. I have already had to spend over $500 on just the utilities and bedding, shopping for food and household items. I guess it's not that much to furnish a ... |
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 | Latest News
2007-04-09, Sendai, Japan. By: mindyjapan | | Hi Everyone,
This is Peggy writing about Melinda's life.
Melinda just started her senior year in school. She officially graduated from being a junior in March, complete with a diploma and cer... |
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 | Happy Easter!
2007-04-08, Tokyo, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Hello all and happy Easter! I'll have all of you know that with only 4 hours of sleep, Judy and I went religiously through a 1-hour subway ride to her church and witnessed the Easter service. They had... |
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 | Officially Completed Training!
2007-04-07, Tokyo, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Today we presented our mock teaching lessons to our peers and I must say, I feel my partner and I did really well, even with his hangover from last night. I'm very loud, I project my voice, I can spea... |
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 | The Host Boys of Dotonbori
2007-04-07, Osaka-shi, Japan. By: superjo | | So yeah, I walk down this busy street at least twice a week. During the day, it has restaurants, a little shopping, and lots of tourists. But at night, which when I am usually walking in this area, ... |
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 | Training...so much Training!
2007-04-05, Tokyo, Japan. By: jeccojade | | So today is our official 4th day of training, but really our 2nd full day of training for our classes. It's been really kinda freaking me out as we've moved along. Yesterday we made an outline for our... |
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 | Day 1 of Training
2007-04-02, Tokyo, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Nothing super exciting yet, but I figure I should take advantage of the free internet from the hotel as much as I can before I have to figure out how to pay for mine at my apartment.
Today was Day ... |
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 | Arriving April 1st
2007-04-01, Tokyo, Japan. By: jeccojade | | Hello all and I'm officially in Japan!! Arrived around 1pm LA time, and Japan is 16 hours ahead. Right now it's 9:15pm so it's about 5:15am on the same day.
The flight was okay, 12 hours of sitti... |
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| It's been awhile kiddies
2007-03-30, Osaka-shi, Japan. By: superjo | | Hey there everybody. So my journalwriting has gone down the toilet recently. No huge crazy news yet. Things are calming down and I'm getting into the swing of things.
My buttplug of a roommate i... |
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| Day 5
2007-03-13, Kyoto, Japan. By: mindyjapan | | Hello fellow travelers,
Yesterday most of our group saw the Imperial Palace and wandered the streets of Kyoto for 5 hours visiting temples and shrines. There are 1600 temples in Kyoto, so no way a... |
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 | Day 4
2007-03-12, Kyoto, Japan. By: mindyjapan | | Today was a laid back day. We enjoyed breakfast of buckwheat pancakes filled with spinach, a salad made of tomatoes, jicama, cucumber and boiled potatoes, sticky rice, and tea. Then we packed up and... |
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 | Day 3 in Japan
2007-03-10, Kyoto, Japan. By: mindyjapan | | We are now back in our Royokan after a very busy day. We had a wonderful Japanese breakfast in our guest house, including salad, a staple of every breakfast here. Our breakfast was cooked by the own... |
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| Japan Day 1 and 2
2007-03-07, Kyoto, Japan. By: mindyjapan | | Hi Everyone,
We are just getting ready for bed on day 2 of our Japan trip. Today we met Mindy at Tokyo Station, where 28 million people travel through every day. We were making elaborate plans to... |
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| Cool new update!
2007-03-08, Osaka-shi, Japan. By: superjo | | Ok so nothing super new going on. Went snowboarding last week, busted my ass a few times. Discovered an awesome new hangout, and found out about a new roommate.
So snowboarding...Last Tuesday I w... |
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| Ha! I'm not well.
2007-02-26, Osaka-shi, Japan. By: superjo | | So yeah. My apologies to everyone else that isn't my dad for that last journal entry. I was feeling a bit, how do you say...."emotional" last night. Perhaps that story could have just been written ... |
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| Homesick...
2007-02-08, Osaka, Japan. By: superjo | | Holy Christ I need to find a hobby! Okay, so here I was thinking that I was being brave trying out life in a new country by myself...
Truth is, I'm a big whimp. I'm not really meeting any new peo... |
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| Pics are finally up!
2007-01-26, Umeda, Japan. By: superjo | | Ok guys! Finally got some pics up of Osaka and my apartment. I'll start taking more pictures soon! Oh and I'll try to send out some personalemails in the near future. And if ya'll would like me to... |
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