Ok, so the topic is a lie. Nothing much has been happening this week at JCMU. On Wednesday, I had my weekly Japanese Religions in Architecture, Film, and Modernization class, where we talked for 4 hours about…..thermoses. Yes, thermoses. I’m totally not kidding or being sarcastic. We actually talked about [...]

A little background information first: In the year 794, Emperor Kammu moved the Japanese capital from Heijyo-kyo (today known as Nara) to the city of Heian-kyo. What followed the moving of the capital was the Heian period of Japan, which stands out as a period of great art, literature, and culture. Some [...]

In Japan, they do not celebrate Halloween, so every year at JCMU they put on a party and invite about 80 children under the age of 10 and their families to come and do some things like face painting, walking through a haunted house, and of course trick or treating along the halls of the [...]

….in the form of a Studio Ghibli good store. And its in Nagoya!! Must buy Totoro noren…..
Heaven:

Get ready for a long rambling post….
Coming back from my class at the University of Shiga Prefecture today, enduring the winds from Typhoon 20 (they have numbers here, not names) was an incredibly tedious experience. This one didn’t even make landfall, but since Japan is an extremely narrow island, everyone is close to the [...]

Yet another boring weekend is passing by here at JCMU. Starting Friday night and continuing on until way past when I went to sleep on Saturday night, it rained constantly. And in Japan, when it rains, it doesn’t sprinkle or even drizzle. Its either pouring or its not raining at all. [...]

Its Thursday afternoon here, which means that its study day. So I don’t have time to write much other than to say I wanted to post some picture of the University of Shiga Prefecture, where my ‘Japanese Religions in Film, Architechture, and Modernization’ takes place.

The main entrance to the college and a [...]

The grocery store that is closest to JCMU is called Caines Mall. Inside Caines mall there are two stores, Caines and Besia. Caines is a Home Depot like store, and Besia is more like a Meijers. Outside of the ‘mall’ is a separate building housing the Caines Electronic Store (at least, that’s [...]

So on Saturday I wandered to a salon called Symphony, which is inside of ‘Caines Mall’ a big grocery store that is a mere 15 minute bike ride from JCMU. (Its the closes place to buy food….and luckily its very very large and nice.) I went with Cassidy because I was way too [...]

On Wednesday night my mom sent me an email to tell me my oldest guinea pig, Furball, had passed away. I was really hoping that, despite his age (4 years and 2 months, quite elderly for a guinea pig), that he would make it through the 8 months that I’d be away, and I [...]