Blogs from Tokyo, Japan, Asia - page 231

062206 To Namja Town for ice-cream, lots of different flavor ice-cream. I ate ice-cream that is black in color, as black as coal. all my teeth was black!!! I took a photo but it's 2 scary to be shared! I saw some ice-cream like the one I ate in osaka Dotonbori 道頓堀. In there called "Turkey ice-cream". my friend bought & i tried some.... ugh! it's very sweet & powder like.... like eating milk powder & mashmallow instead of smooth ice-cream. No gd... ... read more

---Note: I started the blog entry almost three weeks ago and couldn't get through with it. I'm just going to finish up that first part of the entry, then start anew with a fresh entry about the past week or so. Sorry I'm being such a piece of trash about keeping this updated. Pictures coming soon.--- Ah, the long awaited beginning of the research segment of the program. With the orientation process out of the way it came time to say goodbye and move on to new horizons. Friday Night: Urban Planning and Karaoke After the last round of classes in the morning, we all came back to the hotel and got spiffied up for a presentation on historic preservation in major cities sponsored by the US Embassy. The roundtable discussion featured some really interesting commentary ... read more

062106 We went to DisneyLand in tokyo... Always many ppl there! The space mountain was slightly different from the 2004 version from my memory... (2004--- not only small light bulb as "stars", but also some bigger planets like Jupiter...) 2006 version only small light bulb! Only photo w/ Goofy! But have fun! ... read more

Hello all. So this semester I've been teaching English a little bit... it's quite an interesting experience and I never really anticipated doing it before coming here, but I have come to love it! I have several friends who have private students, and with their guidance I found a service online that matches potential students with potential sensei (teachers). Basically native-English speakers post a small profile on a website and then note the locations in which they are willing to teach. The locations are based on the train system, so students living in one part of the city look for teachers living in the same area. These teacher-profiles are then available (for a small registration fee) to Japanese people. It took a few weeks for anyone to respond to my profile, and just when I was ... read more

Today was the beginning of my week-long stay in Tokyo. We took the 4.5 hour bus from Fukushima to Tokyo early in the morning and made it to downtown Tokyo by 1pm. And, just as we were getting off the bus, it started pouring rain. After exchanging some currency, I expertly navigated the subway system to find our hotel in Asakusa, in Northern Tokyo. Things were going well until we got above ground in the rain and realized that the map the hotel provided was less than accurate. After dragging our luggage and umbrellas up and down the block for about 30 minutes on the vague directions of the hotel and the local convenience store clerk, we finally stopped at a police box- literally a small, closet-sized station that holds one policeman- and he was able ... read more