There’s only 18 days left until I am back in the US. I cannot wait to get out of JCMU and Japan. I love Japan, but I just need to go home. Some developments of late:
-Yesterday we actually had a thunderstorm, lightning and all. This is only the second time in [...]

So I’ve been lax on my blog updates lately. Lately I’ve actually been getting some mail, some expected and some not. First off:

If you click on the picture to get a closer look you will see that, yes, its a Totoro backpack!! The current backpack that I have is now about 5 [...]

Ok this is a little late….this trip took place on March 18, 2006.
Ah, another potential travel Saturday taken over by a field trip for my Japanese Civilizations class. Not having gotten much sleep the night before (its sadly been a pattern lately (an あくじゅんかん, as it were)), I wasn’t too excited to get up [...]

Well, this will probably be the first and last post on my blog about something that I haven’t done personally in Japan, but I felt the need to write about it. After reading this article on CNN.com about how China is going to begin taxing disposable chopsticks because of their immense impact on the [...]

So in the past 2 weeks or so, the scaffolding that has been around the dorm building for the past 3 months was finally taken down and I was able to open my window shades again for the first time without having to worry about finding someone standing there looking at me. Then, the [...]

So I am back from my second time (during this trip to Japan) going to Tokyo. Here is the rundown:
Friday March 10:
The day started like every other Friday at JCMU. Woke up early, did some extra cramming for the test, took the test, then got about 10 minutes of vegetation time before going [...]

Well, on Friday afternoon I’m set to take off to Tokyo once again for a quick weekend trip. My friend/classmate Brian is going to be coming along as well. We’re going to be headed straight for Akihabara on Friday night, where we will be staying at the Akihabara Capsule Hotel. Saturday morning [...]

So while on the bus ride back from JCMU yesterday, I got out my camera and decided to make a video of us driving through the streets of Hikone, starting near Hikone station and ending up at JCMU. Unfortunately, I was running low on space on my memory card so there are a few [...]

After my fun time going to all the Hard Rock Cafe’s the day before, Saturday morning I had to get up at 7am (after getting probably less than 5 hours of sleep) to go on field trip #2 for my Japan civ class. I think the combination of the past few night’s lack of [...]

Ever since the Seishun 18 tickets became available again, and I just happened to check the HRC website, I knew that I would have to make a trip to the 3 nearest Cafes (Nagoya, Osaka, Universal Studios Osaka) to pick up some pins. And for this trip, I was able to round up some [...]