Monthly Archives: July 2006

If I Had Money…

July 31, 2006 – 12:34 pm

I’d be able to travel Japan with Lee and my friends. We wouldn’t have to wait on the school to provide school trips to various places, we’d be able to travel to Kyoto, Tokyo, Hokaido, Kamakura, Saitama, Osaka, Hiroshima, Chiba, Okinawa, Tottori, and even outskirts of these places just to see rural Japan. To travel [...]

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Green Acres

July 27, 2006 – 8:35 am

I took my grandma bike today for a ride around Nisshin, to the out-outskirts. Besides the excellent exercise (the standard Japanese bike has only one gear), it gave me another chance to see a part of Japan that the school will never take us on a field trip to.
Even though the area where I live [...]

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Domestic Travel… Expensive?!

July 26, 2006 – 10:55 am

Since this summer vacation has started and I’ve been planning trips around Japan, I’ve discovered that domestic travel in Japan is expensive. Even though the train system is extremely established, even though there are multiple bus companies patrolling the streets and running buses regularly, it’s still expensive to get anywhere far on publis transportation (that’s [...]

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Required Skill of Japan

July 20, 2006 – 11:31 pm

The rainy season has begun I think: it’s been raining almost constantly for the last 3-4 days. Other than the fact that it looks dismal while raining, it’s been great. The weather is cool, I don’t have to pump the air conditioner at night in order not to wake up in a pool of sweat [...]

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