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      • School + Cafe Merci
        01/30/08
        School starts up again next monday, and things have been thrown a little bit into disarray this week. On Friday, my roommate moved out to go to a different Seminar House (there are four, and one of them was closed over the break), leaving me to my own devices. On Monday evening, both of my new roomm

      • Cafes and Movies
        01/23/08
        I know, it's been a while since I've posted. Nothing much has really been happening.

        There's a cafe down by where my host family lives called "Cafe Been." Don't ask me if that's supposed to be pronounced as "been" or "bean"; the katak

      • Bicycle safety
        01/17/08
        Hi, I know it's been a while. Nothing particularly interesting has been happening around here. Been mostly just hanging out with friends and going out to Karaoke.

        On Monday, on the way to one such Karaoke-adventure, I was somewhat forced to ride on the back of somebody's bike.

      • Bread
        01/09/08
        Did you know that the Japanese word for bread is "pan"? It was originally brought over by the Portuguese (not the Spaniards), and in typical Japanese fashion, the word was appropriated. (Other fun words: Miruku (milk), Toranpu (trump), karuta (carta), karute (Karte), pantsu (pants, in the

      • Bandwidth
        01/07/08
        So, I've exceeded the bandwidth limit on Photobucket, oh noes! That means most of the pictures will be replaced by place markers. I think the biggest problem was that I had two picture heavy entries load on the first page: Hiroshima and Mochi-making. In the future, I'll just link to the im

      • Scary Tales from Tohoku
        01/05/08
        It was a dark and stormy night, or possibly a gray and drizzly afternoon, when I arrived in Kitakami. The trip itself had gone well, and Matthew and Stefanie of Let's Sharing fame were there to meet me at the platform. It was cold, but not too cold, as we drove to their home. I got a small tour

      • Let's Recessing
        01/02/08


        Happy New Year! The management of Let's Sharing and Please Take Recess rang in 2008 together. Here we all are on New Year's Day, ready to eat the delicious specialty foods of New Year's.

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