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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So here’s another couple of things that I wanted to mention that don’t go anywhere else. A couple weeks ago our Friday Project was called E-Tegami (which in Japanese basically means picture letter), which involved us painting pictures of fruits and flowers onto postcards and then writing short letters to someone on them. [...]

So this weekend is ’spring break’ at JCMU. Its ’spring break’ in quotes because they gave us a Monday off. And that’s it. Although, I guess it all evens out since I will actually be done with my classes 2 weeks before everyone at U of M. So [...]

For the weekend of March 11-12, I plan on visiting Tokyo, leaving JCMU immediately following the Friday Project on March 10 and taking the JR trains in the direction of Tokyo (end destination still undetermined). The trip will last at least 7 hours but because we will be using the Seishun 18 ticket (which [...]

Thank you Hard Rock Cafe. I’ve been on the fence in the past week attempting to figure out where I should travel to in my last month in Japan, especially where I should go for the upcoming ’student directed fieldtrip’. Well today, HRC was so helpful and sent me an email to say [...]