Monday, April 10. The last day that I could use a Seishun 18 ticket for my time in Japan. On today’s schedule: Brian and I were going to hit up an aquarium in Osaka that I had been hearing good things about, one last visit to a Hard Rock Cafe for lunch, and [...]

Sunday April 9th was day one of two that Brian and I had to use up the two remaining uses on our Seishun 18 tickets. After our speech and before our final we and I think everyone else at JCMU was just itching to get out of the dorm building. So, because the [...]

Friday saw the second to last test in Japanese class come and go, where I will probably get the worst grade of the entire semester. Luckily that was followed by the shortest and easiest Friday Project of the semester, which was me reading my speech to Melville for 10 minutes. I’m not really [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ok, so its been quite a while since I’ve updated my blog, not because nothing has happened around here, but because its been actually fairly busy and I just haven’t had time to be blogging. So, here’s what’s been happening since last week:
Saturday February 11 was the first of 4(?) field trips for my [...]

Should be studying for tomorrow’s test right now so no time to proof read so beware of typos and enjoy!
Day 1 (Friday February 3, 2006)
As I’m typing this, its 4:17pm and I’m sitting on JAL Flight 2507, 37,500 ft. above sea level on way to Sapporo. We’re scheduled to land at 5pm. The [...]

I’m leaving for Hokkaido in (as of now) 19 hours!! As such, I won’t be online for the next couple of days (unless our hotel has wireless, which I highly doubt). The official website for the Sapporo snow festival is here, and you can see what all of the large snow sculptures are [...]

After the events of Friday night, I wanted to get out of JCMU for at least a day trip. Luckily the night before I had chatted with Scott and Michael, who had planned on meeting Brian in Omihachiman (the closest stop to his homestay), for a day in Kyoto. I told them all [...]

For the past month, I’ve been enjoying using the special Seishun 18 tickets, which allow you to go as far as you can go on JR trains in a 1-day period. I could try to add up all the money I’ve saved, going to Tokyo, Ise, and Osaka, but that would take brain power….we’ll [...]