saturday jess and her host mom keiko picked me up at the nice early hour of 9 AM to journey to Unzen. we drove there via Obama, where I went last sunday to the onsen. only this time, keiko decided to take roads that were dangerous but gave us fantastic views. it was pretty fun […]
i was msning last night with a few people and pointed out that “it was shaking” since it lasted long enough to realize it wasn’t just me (and I hadn’t been drinking) i supposed it was an earthquake. i was right!! From the random news source since no one seems to care but me: TOKYO […]
yesterday we decided to go out (read: “Jenn your dad says we’re going out”). first we went to ginambo. there i played some kendama. it took awhile, but with mama-san’s coaching i caught the ball. mama-san wasn’t the only one coaching. kendall was trying to help eric have a date with a girl. quite […]
yesterday kendall was missing so we decided to go downtown to play again. i spent 2 hours in the 100 yen store and thoroughly enjoyed myself. i think that there should be a show on TLC that has you redecorate rooms only using what you can find at the 100 Yen shop. i especially got […]
on Wednesday we got an assignment. we were given money, and told to go to the Starbucks downtown and sit and observe customers and staff for an hour. we weren’t to talk to each other. well, that was fun. and first chad and i hit up a kaiten (conveyor belt) sushi place that was 100yen […]
I took a bunch of pics of Nachan’s place before I moved out. They’re all in this album if you’re curious. Here are a few of the room where we slept and the kitchen.
nagasaki has a famous lantern festival to coincide with the Lunar new year. it’s primarily in China town, but there are lanterns hanging all over the downtown shopping arcade. My favourite are the lanterns that were made by school kids in all sorts of figures and shapes. There’s even a float that runs along the […]
On Saturday I went to lunch at mama’s Fry Pan with Nachan. There we met up with Rie and her two adorable children – Misaki and Hiroki. They adolpted me for the weekend. We had a great time. Our first stop was the game centre. Misaki has this game called Rabi Berry that she’s obsessed […]
i’ve been looking for wool in Nagasaki. I hadn’t been able to find any, and people I asked don’t knit and couldn’t help me. but saturday as nachan and i walked down Naka-dori to lunch, I noticed one! it was filled with old ladies and wool! so i dragged nachan inside to pick out wool […]
I am a homeless Canadian. For a number of different reasons, Nachan couldn’t keep me for February so I moved out of there this morning. I was supposed to move in with a family today, but they’re all sick with the Flu. So in the meanwhile, Kendall is my host dad. Here is a picture […]