Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
I have been keeping busy, exploring, joining clubs and meeting lots of people and making new friends.
October has seen the Vegetarian festival in Kyoto and it also led to me further Northwards to a small town in the hills of Kyoto where men and children carried lighted torches to the nearby shrine. The men were unseemingly fazed by the [...]
Posted in Me in Japan, tagged Kyoto on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Coming back home today I felt the autumn weather settling in. Unlike the nice weather which Felicity and I were fortunate to bask in during the day by evening the sun had disappeared and the cold weather crept slowly in.
Felicity and I had spent the day in Kyoto at a vegetarian festival which we had [...]
Posted in Me in Japan, tagged Barbie, Osaka, shopping on October 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Today I was lucky enough to have had the chance to spend the day with Mayu, a lovely friend from University. We met at Shin Osaka station at midday and then we decided to fill our stomachs in order to prepare for our long day shopping. Being pushed along the streets by the busy crowds we [...]
Posted in observations, tagged Japanese schools, Ibaraki, Japanese students on October 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
HELP! Click here if you want to see the beauty of a Japanese toilet!
When even something simple like going to the toilet can cause confusion I wonder how difficult it would have been to start my life in Japan completely by myself. It is no exaggeration to say that the JET programme has held our hand the [...]
Posted in Me in Japan, tagged Ibaraki Pachinko on October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
While the hustle and bustle of everyday life whizzes by and as one adventure leads to another and as each working week ends as quickly as it begun, I thought that I would take a moment to actually tell you what my little home town looks like.
Jumping off of the train at Ibaraki for the train bound [...]
