 | Kobe Japan
2004-10-02, Kobe, Japan. By: lukas | | Visited Kobe, Japan for work with John Sharkitt. Will have to find specific date. |
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 | Travel day
2004-10-01, Kyoto, Japan. By: redlands | | We all enjoyed a very restful and peaceful sleep in our tatami rooms, arising for a leisurely 9 am breakfast. After breakfast, we took the tour bus back to Hakone station and caught the shinkansen to ... |
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 | The best day ever
2004-09-30, Hakone, Japan. By: redlands | | We arose bright and early for our departure from Tokyo. After breakfast, our tour guide met us to take us to the shinkansen (bullet train). She was a little grumpy because Mr. O’Brien was running late... |
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 | Im here!!
2004-09-29, Tokyo, Japan. By: craisen | | After saying goodbye to the folks, a two hour drive to Heathrow, I was on the plane to japan. Take off was delayed for an hour, then we were finally in the sky. Dinner of Teriyaki chicken and sticky r... |
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 | The group is gelling.
2004-09-29, Tokyo, Japan. By: redlands | | We arose very early for our trip by train to the sumo wrestlers. We were fortunate to have Reika joining us for the day. We made our way through rush hour traffic but we were so disappointed to find t... |
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 | September Update
2004-09-28, Osaka, Japan. By: teresam | | Well it seems like monthly updates are about all I’m going to get around to these days. I’ve been pretty busy I guess and I’m really trying to get into more of a routine. Work is going very well. I’m... |
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 | Walking and walking and walking around Tokyo
2004-09-28, Tokyo, Japan. By: redlands | | Although the wake-up call was not scheduled until 8 am, Anthony was already outside Mr. O’Brien’s door at 6:55 am to get envelopes for his letters home. He was back at 7:05 to inform Mr. O’Brien that ... |
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 | Sydney to Tokyo…
2004-09-27, Tokyo, Japan. By: redlands | | The group met this morning at Sydney Airport at 7:15. Everyone was well-organised and ready to go on time. Although the check-in staff did their best to make things challenging, the group was too exci... |
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 | Trip to Koya-san
2004-09-26, Sakai, Japan. By: crgoss | | In the time since I've last posted, I've gotten to take two trips: one home to the states and the other to Koya-san, a nearby mountain complex of all things Buddhist.
The trip home was really relax... |
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 | Whole lotta shaking going on....
2004-09-09, Sakai, Japan. By: crgoss | | Of all the things I was told about Japan and the JET program before I arrived no one mentioned a thing about natural disasters. In the past 4 days we've had about 7 seven major earthquakes and a typho... |
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 | School, Earthquake, etc.
2004-09-05, Sakai, Japan. By: crgoss | | So I started school on Wednesday...three days of work and all together I have a very favorable impression of my school and the people and I am really excited about working there until the end of the s... |
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 | another day in the coal mine
2004-09-03, Osaka, Japan. By: genki_gal | | the funny things i have seen today.
The no. 1 song at the moment is called light and breezy, the chorus.. lalalala ur light and breezy and I am Japanese..ze. well done utada.
At the supermarket ... |
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 | Fuji-San!
2004-08-27, Fuji-san, Japan. By: crgoss | | The highest point in the US is McKinley at abour 6194 meters - But that's in Alaska so it doesn't really count. The highest point in the contiguous United States (anybody?) is Mt. Whitney in Californi... |
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 | Fuji-san
2004-08-27, Osaka, Japan. By: teresam | | Ahh man I think I just lost my wonderful entry about climbing Mt. Fuji. So sad! It's getting late now so I'm just gonna say that I climbed Mt. Fuji! and got the brand on my walking stick and the bruis... |
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 | Nara
2004-08-23, Nara, Japan. By: crgoss | | Nara was Japan's first capital and is billed as the number two tourist attraction in the Kansai region behind Kyoto. It has a human population of about 350,000 a large bronze buddha population of 1 an... |
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 | Osaka
2004-08-22, Osaka, Japan. By: crgoss | | Really an amazing city and I am so glad that I am living close to one. I've spent the most time here -- I've gone shopping (the personal electronic stores are AMAZING) I've done the touristy things, g... |
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 | My new home
2004-08-21, Sakai-shi, Japan. By: crgoss | | Here are some pictures and some updates about my new living situation:
I sleep on a futon which is basically like sleeping on a comforter. Traditional japanese bedding is supposed to be stored in ... |
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| Settled in!
2004-08-20, Sakai-shi, Japan. By: crgoss | | The nice old japanese internet man came this morning and provided me with the final piece of my "moving in" experience...an internet connection!! So now I can upload pictures and stories of my adventu... |
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| From my new home
2004-08-02, Sakai-shi, Japan. By: crgoss | | Greetings! I arrived at my new home on wednesday and since then I have been spending lots of time setting things up (bank account, gas, cell phone, etc.). I should be getting my landline and internet... |
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| Tokyo!
2004-07-26, Tokyo, Japan. By: crgoss | | I arrived in tokyo about four hours ago and now, after some light unpacking and a post-flight shower, have found some wireless to send emails and post a short something something. The hotel i... |
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 | Almost there...
2004-07-08, Tokyo, Japan. By: liazbiatch | | Good news! Joyce, the USPS passport nazi has relinquished control of my passport and now I am on my way to Bangkok. The first leg of the trip involved a long flight from San Francisco to Japan, wher... |
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 | June update
2004-06-19, Osaka, Japan. By: teresam | | Hello! Well I haven't written much lately. I guess that just means I've started to settle in a bit. I went to the Umeda sky building with some other teachers a couple weeks ago to see the view at ni... |
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 | yipeee! internet
2004-05-29, Osaka, Japan. By: teresam | | I'm connected! got internet at home. Now I can finally put some pictures up! Didn't do much this week. Last weekend I went to Himeji with a few other teachers to see the castle and the gardens there.... |
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| I can read!
2004-05-26, Osaka, Japan. By: teresam | | Wow how exciting! I read my first word in hirigana today - to ba ko. then I read - u do n, I read some other signs too but I didn`t know what they meant. Tonight I'll study katakana so that I actually... |
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 | Big Update from Last 3 days in Japan
2004-05-20, Tokyo, Japan. By: frodo24 | | Hey to all those who have stumbled across this page,
Well I’ve actually got some time on my hands to write this update! It’s about 11.50pm Wednesday night in Tokyo and I’m back in Shiba Park Hotel ... |
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