[url='/Videos/4572.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4572.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Transformers Day 21- A Big Surprise So I woke up at around 10 am and hung out for a while until 3, when we went to Namba, a city near Tondabayashi. There we went into some really cool back alley shops. There was a place for companies, like restaurants and such, to buy the various signs you see around like "No Smoking" etc. I got a little sign that says "Push" for my room. We then went to a place called Namba Parks, which is really just a collection of semi small malls and stores. I wasnt allowed [View Full Entry]

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[url='/Videos/4455.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4455.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Hanabi 1[url='/Videos/4456.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4456.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Hanabi 2[url='/Videos/4460.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4460.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Scarab Beetle[url='/Videos/4458.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4458.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Hanabi 3[url='/Videos/4462.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4462.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Hanabi 4So these last two days were really cool. The first day was a day of rest. We just sat around all day basically. We watched Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, another Miyazaki movie. Hiromi came to the house and I guess it was planned that I would go with her to Takayashima, mall, so I got into the car and we went. We talked a lot in Japanese, and it was hard to understand because I was so tired. [View Full Entry]

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So yeah, I havent written anything just because I was lazy. I did do a fair amount of stuff though. Day Ten- A Day of Rest The Day I came back from Japan we rested. We didnt do anything. For almost the entire day we just sat around. I went to the super market with Mrs. Tanaka, but other than that I did nothing. There are some cool pictures I took, though. The shopping "carts" are just basket holders with wheels (see picture). Well, actually, there is one more thing. It was Chihiro's birthday, so I gave him the redsox [View Full Entry]

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Osaka-Kyoto Arthur Zetes[url='/Videos/4390.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4390.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Hoko[url='/Videos/4392.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4392.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] Presentation 1 So much has happened, I am going to need to get fancy in here in order to organize everything. Day One- Arrival So I woke up and we hung around for a while. And then at around ten we went to the station. With a heavy backpack full of clothes etc, we got on a couple of trains, taking about two hours to get to Kyoto. From the train stop we got on a bus. I was suprised to see quite a few foreigners on the train. Kie explained to [View Full Entry]

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Day six is kind of a blur in my head right now. Probably becasue I am so tired. Anyways, Today I think I just hung around the house for a while. Then we went to this old part of Tondabayashi where they had a lot of old houses and everything was very traditional. We went into one old house that was two hundred years old! It was really cool. We went to aunts house and i spoke english with kies aunt. I then went upstairs and hung out with kie and her cousin for a while. They asked me how [View Full Entry]

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Aww man, I forgot to write about the past two days! Its a good thing I didnt do much, or take a lot of pictures. Day Four- So day four I found out a Typhoon was coming to Osaka. Ive never seen a typhoon in my life, so I am kind of excited/ freaked out! It was all over the news and public broadcast messages were made fairly often. It is supposed to hit the fifteenth. I sat around, didnt do much, and then I found out we were going to play tennis with Kie's grandmother. We drove in the [View Full Entry]

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[url='/Videos/4289.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4289.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'] jinbei zame 今日はすばらしかったね！Today was amazing! This morning, I woke up at seven, instead of six. I went downstairs and I got some breakfast, Mrs. Tanaka makes really good food! (Eggs, Sausage, raisin bread, peach, amazingness...) I just vegged for the rest of the morning, and then the day got interesting. We first went into Osaka-shi (Osaka City) to go see Osaka-jou (Osaka Castle). There I tried for first ever Mos Burger. Mos Burger is a restaurant chain in Japan that makes incredibly good burgers. Americans ain't got nothin' on these! That was great. Afterwards, we went to Osaka [View Full Entry]

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I went to sleep at around 11 last night, and woke up at five thirty this　morning. I stayed in bed until six thirty, and then I had to get up. I got up at around the same time Mrs. Tanaka got up. I read some, and tried incredibly hard to understand what she was saying to me when we spoke. She asked me if I wanted was not hungry, so I said no thanks, probably in an hour. An hour later, exactly, she makes me breakfast. I am so lucky I live in a house with an amazing cook! Breakfast [View Full Entry]

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So today was full of suprises. I an typing on a Japanese computer, so it is really difficult to type well. I have had to restart this about　five times now. My first flight from Boston to Detroit was fine. I got on with no problems. When I arrived at the Detroit airport I was in for a few suprises. First, the signs are not only in English and Spanish, but also in Japanese. I thought that was cool. I had about a three hour layover so I decided to get something to eat. I called up some　people, talked to them [View Full Entry]

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My first blog, ever! I have traveled a lot in my life, and now I decided I want to document it. On the 9th I am going on my first trip to Japan, or Asia for that matter. I am really excited and am preparing for the trip. I just wanted to start a base of where I've been, so here is the map: [View Full Entry]

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