Friday, May 26, 2006
Peanut Gallery, now open for business
So it seems that I forgot to open to privilidges for non-blogger members to comment. My bad. Any and all readers who've been dying to add their 2 cents, please feel free to do so now.
Labels: japan
Monday, May 15, 2006
Hanami
So I finally experienced the Japanese phenomenon that is Hanami, or quite litterally "looking at flowers".. The flowers in question are the beautiful cherry blossoms that signal the start of spring. Of course, beautiful or not, it doesn't really matter. The blossoms themselves are completely incidental to the whole event, which is only about two things: BBQ meat, and drinking. All in all, not a bad tradition. Check out the pics, and see for yourselves. I through a couple a pics of the actual flowers in there just to prove that they do in fact exist, but even if they didn't, I doubt that would hinder the festivities.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Channeling Wen
I found an extra 50 yen in the coin return slot of a vending machine the other day.. Just thought that you`d like to know.
Just a wee bit late
Ok, so it looks like its been almost a month since my last post.. I've gotten some gentle and not so gentle prodding about how I should post some more pics, so I'll be doing that soon..
In the meantime, I've got a few here, with a rundown of some of what has been keeping me so busy.
First.. school..Its only 3.5 hours a day right now, but that of course doesn:t include all of the time it takes to do homework. The teachers are all supremely nice, and the pace is pretty quick. Really requires a fair bit of both preparation and review, but I guess that that is why I`m here. My classmates are pretty cool, and we`ve gotten a chance to hit the izakaya a couple of times.. (that`s kinda like a bar for all you Wen types, who need to have everything explained to you)
I also got a chance to check out my first ever live soccer game. The home team, Consodole Sapporo (10 points to whoever can tell me what a Consodole is), beat up the visiting Shonan Belmare (10 more points up for grabs) 4-1, so it was a pretty sweet game.. I think I may become a fan.
In the meantime, I've got a few here, with a rundown of some of what has been keeping me so busy.
First.. school..Its only 3.5 hours a day right now, but that of course doesn:t include all of the time it takes to do homework. The teachers are all supremely nice, and the pace is pretty quick. Really requires a fair bit of both preparation and review, but I guess that that is why I`m here. My classmates are pretty cool, and we`ve gotten a chance to hit the izakaya a couple of times.. (that`s kinda like a bar for all you Wen types, who need to have everything explained to you)
I also got a chance to check out my first ever live soccer game. The home team, Consodole Sapporo (10 points to whoever can tell me what a Consodole is), beat up the visiting Shonan Belmare (10 more points up for grabs) 4-1, so it was a pretty sweet game.. I think I may become a fan.
