Archive for March, 2006

and so it ends

Friday, March 31st, 2006

today is my last day in japan. i leave for home tomorrow. which is the reason i:ve been busy and not blogging lately. wish me and my bags luck – first we have the train ride to fukuoka, then the subway to the airport, and then the airport itself. they are big. very big. i […]

i went to tokyo

Friday, March 31st, 2006

i’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.         domo arigato to christine for showing me such a great time!

Gambare Erin!

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

The mutant has her fashion show coming up this weekend. She’s been presiding over it for the past year and it’s finally upon us! And well timed to0 – it’s saturday night when I arrive home. Anyway, here’s a picture of her from the cover of a magazine in KTown. The other folks are her […]

Tama-guilty

Monday, March 27th, 2006

I went to Tokyo. My Tamagotchi did not. Only one of us survived the weekend…

christine sure knows how to show you a good time.

Monday, March 27th, 2006

tokyo is great. home tomorrow. more soon.

GOODLUCK!

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Good luck on your exam Jeffyboy! I:m sending you whatever the Japanese version of Mazal is.

what’s in the package

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

i bought these things in fun cat packages in Fukuoka and mailed them to some people at home. i didn’t keep one for myself, so i was really happy when lindsay sent me a picture of what was inside. cool! update: she also sent me some links to sites about the nameneko cats (one, two). […]

Seido no more

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

We’ve been teaching at a school called Seido. Jr. High every week, and the little kids every now and then. Monday was our last time going there. It was sad, but fun too. We (the interns) do a skit called “soup” that dates back to my camp days. We did the skit for them, and […]

toky-uh-o

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

yesterday was the last day on my rail pass. today is the first on my new one! depart for Fukuoka this evening, and tomorrow at 6AM it’s onwards to tokyo and the christine that awaits us! when we went to get tickets yesterday. to get from hakata to tokyo, you take two trains: one from […]

Second, Sanda.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Last weekend I was in Sanda visiting the Hori family. It had been almost 2 years since I saw them last. The girls have grown so much and it was amazing to get to play with them. I arrived at shin-kobe late Wednesday night to be greeted by Masao. We got home to Mika and […]