http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Brand New Creation/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Brand New Creation en-us Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:11:09 BST Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:11:09 BST 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 c http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Japan/Osaka/Tondabayashi/blog-187550.html Hanabi 1Hanabi 2Scarab BeetleHanabi 3Hanabi 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 w http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Japan/Osaka/Tondabayashi/blog-185061.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Japan/Osaka/Tondabayashi/blog-184109.html OsakaKyotoArthur ZetesHokoPresentation 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Japan/Kyoto/Kyoto/Gion/blog-182644.html 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 au http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Japan/Osaka/Tondabayashi/blog-181508.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Japan/Osaka/blog-181344.html jinbei zame 201702608512399123771240012425123751236312387123831239765281Today 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 w http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Japan/Osaka/blog-180384.html I went to sleep at around 11 last night and woke up at five thirty this12288morning. 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 exac http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Japan/Osaka/blog-179934.html 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 about12288five 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 w http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Japan/Osaka/blog-179641.html My first blog everI 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 http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Massachusetts/North-Shore/Marblehead/blog-177449.html