Konnichiwa! I:ve been at Camp USA the past week doing training and it has been very entertaining. We are now in osaka for the day to meet our Japanesed host families. The camp has us getting up at 6:30 in the morning to do stretching exercises to music. i think it is called radio taiko. […]
So I think that Nose might be Japanese for Nowhere because that:s where it is. In the middle of the woods with lots of huge bugs. Jumping spider cricket thingies, of which there were 5 plus in our room the other night. The first three things they told us were:1. don:t drink the water without boiling […]
Yesterday in Nara I got a shirt that says just that. And has a picture of a donkey on it. I love Japan. So tonight, at 8PM we are meeting our american counterparts. Training for the next few days, and then the kiddies should start arriving. I hope they like camp songs, because I plan […]
Young people all wear converse. Socks are a big deal. Baggy socks (a la scrunchy socks) are cool here, as are these weird socks that lace up your leg. Most people around our age (women) wear sandals with kitten heels. And few know how to walk in them which results in clunk clunk clunking around […]
Today Lori and I had an adventure. Having found an interesting beverage, called Bickle Juice, in a vending machine I found myself being called to by the spirit of Spiderman. I then bought Lori a bottle of Bickle so that she too could be enlightened and before long, she also heard him calling. Spiderman beckoned […]
i must admit it’s hard to motivate myself to post more when it feels like no one reads this thing.. our travles are nearly over – camp starts on monday!
Rail passes are nice. They make taking the train free. And since trains here are so comfy, and airconditioned, that can be a nice break. Plus each trip is so expensive, the more we take the train the more we are saving from having a rail pass. So anyway, our friends in Hiroshima invited us […]
I dragged Lori to Harmony Land. That:s a Hello Kitty theme park that is a day trip out of Beppu (about 30 min away). We were the only:1. Non-Asian2. Not parentsin the whole park! But it was very cool. There was a rollercoaster, a big ferris wheel, and a 4D animation virtual reality show (I […]
Mt Aso is a volcano that we visited on a day trip from Beppu. What we didn@t realize is that it:s actually about three hours away from Beppu, and that the train/bus schedule is totally sporadic. Not only were trains infrequent (1st was at 8:00, and the next was at noon), you have to wait […]
Been to mt aso, Harmony land (dreams do come true!), a July 4th party and a sumo tournament. Japan is awesome. Off to Tokyo today, hopefully will get to an internet cafe sometime soon and will actually have a chance to write a more detailed post!