Blogs from Hyogo, Japan, Asia - page 16

Asia » Japan » Hyogo » Kobe February 26th 2006

Hello Everyone, It´s a rainy Sunday morning in Kobe, a perfect time to tell up about what I´ve been up to in the past week. Training continues to go well, we have moved on to the final stage and are no learning about teaching children. The kids classes begin with children who are 1 year old, so its quite possible that I´ll be teaching a variety of levels of students ranging in age from 1 to 100, we´ve been told not to be too suprised if we encounter students who are quite elderly. The lifespan in Japan is significantly longer than in the West and one of my trainers said that he taught a student who was 103! On Wednesday we met our second trainer, Bill. Like most of the ECC trainers Bill is from Canada, ... read more

Himeji castle and an engineering lesson

Asia » Japan » Hyogo » Himeji September 10th 2005

Himeji castle

Lanz

Yesterday I woke up and joined my new friends in the common room again (Kyle and the Swiss guy- Kasper), and also an American guy who has been living in Japan for 18 years, so as you can imagine his Japanese is fantastic. And he also speaks heaps of other languages too, he speaks Japanese, Russian, and Spanish (oh, and English naturally) fluently, and he also speaks German, Chinese, Malaysian I think, enough to get by! Wow! That really impressed me! I would love to be able to speak heaps of languages! But it's only a matter of trying right? There's no reason to stop me from doing just that if that's what I want. But back to yesterday, we all sat around and talked for a good hour again before 10am when it was check-out ... read more

Tokushima: the end of Shikoku and adult cafes in Kobe

Asia » Japan » Hyogo » Kobe September 9th 2005

Traditional costumes

Lanz

Well, I can't say I'm surprised, it had been chasing me all over the country, it was bound to happen some time wasn't it? Yep, the typhoon caught up with me. The last proper entry I wrote when I was in Takamatsu was the day it happened, after writing that entry I was about to make my way to the station to catch a train to Tokushima, but things didn't quite turn out that way. As I made my way back to the station from the internet cafe, I walked through the covered shopping arcades as that was the quickest way, and I noticed that a lot of the shops were closed and they had taped up their windows and doors and put huge sand bags out the front, I noticed that they had signs on ... read more

Kobe

Asia » Japan » Hyogo » Kobe August 15th 2004

Ijinkan area

tika

Kobe is near the harbour area.... read more

Himeji

Asia » Japan » Hyogo » Himeji August 15th 2004

Himeji Castle

tika

Himeji Castle is one of world heritages in Japan that is located in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture.... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol...more history

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