|
|
| Thursday, 13-Jan-2005 00:00 |
Email | Share |  | Bookmark |
|
Winter Holiday
|
|
Well, I have finally got around to uploading the photos from my winter holiday.
From the 26th of Dec 2004 to the 3rd of Jan 2005, David, my houhai (academic junior), and I traveled to Okayama, the srrounding towns of Kurashiki and Tamashima, and also travelled to visit a friend in Osaka and visisted the cities of Nara and Tenri. We stayed with my friends who are of the Tenrikyo faith.
(More info about Tenrikyo is here.)
We travelled around using JR "Senshyuu Jyuuhachi Kippu" (roughly translates as "The 18(th) Springtime (teenage-hood) of our life ticket" - yeah, like that), a ticket that allows you to travel anywhere in Japan for a 24hour period using the slower trains (no shinkansen (bullet trains), unfortunatly). It took us 10 hours to get from Kumamoto in Kyushyu to Kurashiki (halfway between Hiroshima dn Osaka, thereabouts...). お疲れ様でした！！ 
The trip was a great chance for me visit the homes of many of my friends and for David to experiance Japanese culture for the first time. We saw and experianced quite a lot of "old school" Japanese culture, including sleeping on zafuton with a Japanese garden outside. A lot of young Japanese kids have never done that!
Thanks to everybody who helped out for making it a memorial trip. Special thanks to Nahoko san, the 1,110,333 many Harada tachi san, Kanda okusan, the crazy Japanese girls on the train, the staff of the Tamashima church, the staff of Kanda's Church, the staff of Moriwake's Church.
An extra best thanks goes to Kanda san, Moriwake san and, of course, David kun.  ありがとうございました！！
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Saturday, 25-Dec-2004 00:00 |
Email | Share | | Bookmark |
|
Christmas day!
|
|
A few photos from the nice Christmas lunch we had that Laura (from the UK), made...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Tuesday, 14-Dec-2004 00:00 |
Email | Share | | Bookmark |
|
Early Christmas celebrations
|
|
We had a Christmas party early because Jo was going back to Australia for a few weeks.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Saturday, 11-Dec-2004 00:00 |
Email | Share | | Bookmark |
|
A weekend away with Nahoko and Terada at Mt. Aso...
|
|
|
Mental note to self: Terada's a DAMN funny guy when he's drunk....
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Monday, 6-Dec-2004 00:00 |
Email | Share | | Bookmark |
|
The roof of the kaikan....
|
|
|
FINALLY! Some guys came to service our lift in our dorm and left the door to the roof unlocked... so I was able to sneak up and take some shots....
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Saturday, 4-Dec-2004 00:00 |
Email | Share | | Bookmark |
|
Trip to Beppu city to do the (expletive delelted) ??ユ??茯???緒
|
|
|
Well, the trip to Beppu was interesting even though the exam probabaly wasn't....
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Tuesday, 30-Nov-2004 00:00 |
Email | Share | | Bookmark |
|
Trip to the Japanese Sword Maker
|
|
Note: this is the wrong date, but fotopapges doesn't seem to let me change the date of an entry once I7ve uploaded it; the correct date was Saturday, October 30, 2004. 
We all were taken to a Japanese sword maker and we all had a chance to cut, slash and parry with real Japanese swords. Also, a Japanese martial arts display was held.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Saturday, 27-Nov-2004 00:00 |
Email | Share | | Bookmark |
|
Time with my Tenrikyo freinds
|
|
|
My Tenrikyo (紊???????) friends, Kanda and Harada, came to Kumamoto ken to see me and visit other people...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Tuesday, 16-Nov-2004 00:00 |
Email | Share | | Bookmark |
|
Updates!
|
|
Finally some updates... Scroll down to find these new dates:
October 1st, 9th, 10th, 17th and (Nov/Oct) 30th. (I screwed up the date of the one below.)
Also, here are some old photos for the laptop I got a few months ago (the one I'm on now)... sme people have asked to see it: a Japanese issue (w/Japanese kb), HP NX9110, Celron 2.8gHz, ATi Radion Mobility 9000 (W00T!) and a Buffalo/Melco 801.11a/b/g wireless PC card.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sunday, 14-Nov-2004 00:00 |
Email | Share | | Bookmark |
|
3,333 steps to pain
|
|
|
At this famous tourist trap, you can climb 3,333 steaps up a mountain, as monks did in years past. I have not been in that much pain for a long time....
|
|
|
|
