I have lotsa pictures!!! http://jetsetseattle.zoto.com/galleries Ok. That’s that. I’m not gonna pull a bunch of emo bull in my last entry (sorry Jordan) but rather just finish it off. This part of the Toyko trip is over for now. I know I’ll be going back to Japan, so I guess it’s just a matter of when. Japanese is my major, after all. If there was some super huge life lesson that I am to get out of this whole experience, I haven’t got it yet. Reading the emails from all of the kids struggling to used to life back in the [View Full Entry]

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Ok, well I’m starting to actually feel like a student here. But only in these last two weeks of class have I been really forced to work. Of course, I could have had my head stuck in a book all semester long and have gotten good grades, but I wouldn’t have learned nearly as much as I have. I find it a little frustrating that I’m probably only going to get fair marks in the semester where I’ve learned more about my major than I have all through college. It’s that kinda shit that turns me off to teaching. But although [View Full Entry]

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Man, I must have eaten something funky, cause I feel green. If you end up in a Japanese McDonald’s don’t get the Big Mac with the egg on top or the DBC. Blarg. It’s pretty much been business as usual around home and campus. I’m constantly reminded of the fact that I have no money and no business going into Tokyo—or pretty much going into any store for that matter. Yesterday Dane and I went into a Fair Trade coffee shop in Harajuku, and ended up paying 630yen apiece ($6.00) for a regular cup of joe. As much as I like [View Full Entry]

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Oh, the ups and downs. The more I find out about this place, the more I can’t seem to understand it. For more strange, sometimes drunken, never normal adventures, I now have over 1100 pictures up for browsing on my photo site. http://jetsetseattle.zoto.com/galleries (bookmark and I wear smile!) The first thing I can’t understand—how I got a girlfriend. Her name is Ryoko and she’s cute as a button. I can’t even get a date in the states and somehow I’ve managed to pull off a somewhat stable relationship with a Japanese girl who doesn’t spea [View Full Entry]

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Hellooooo~ These last few days have been absolutely amazing. Not only did my date with the super cute Japanese girl go extremely well, but my study abroad group took a trip to the island of Okinawa for 4 days!! Lots of Okinawa pics on my site! http://jetsetseattle.zoto.com/galleries So first of all, the date. Awesome. Simply awesome. Secondly, Okinawa. I can’t even begin to describe how wonderfully gorgeous that place is, so I’ve posted up quite a bit of pictures here to try and give a feel of what the place looked like. The first picture up is the view from our [View Full Entry]

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Ho, shit, my arms hurt. Yesterday was the Asakasa DaiMatsuri, and I played a ton of taiko. On top of that, I carried the o-mikoshi way more than I should have. But damn, it was fun!! It pretty much followed standard procedure for a matsuri—only since this one was really special, it was even crazier. It’s estimated that 100,000 people attend this celebration every year. I met my taiko group at 8am, and was drinking by 9:30! I was amazed that after the celebration ended around 6 or so, the group decided to, you guessed it, go out drinking. All right, [View Full Entry]

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I wasn’t originally planning on updating until after Pieter and the gang came up and we had a few adventures, but the last few days have been amazing—I’m absolutely compelled to post. I’ve also been updating my photosite like mad, and finally had to buy a paid account. It’s the same web address, though. http://jetsetseattle.zoto.com/galleries So after a busy week (I’m actually doing work!?), I decided it was about damn time to blow off some steam. I’m never going 4 days without partying again. Saturday was supposed to be the IES community ser [View Full Entry]

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Well I keeping with tradition of updating my blog in a coffee shop, I’m sitting here—a Seattle kid—in Starbucks drinking an enormous cup of coffee. Again, I apologize to those who don’t want to read my blog, yet get the email about my updated journal. I keep my photo-site updated somewhat regularly, so feel free to check that out. http://jetsetseattle.zoto.com/galleries Alright—onward to looking back. This last week I didn’t have class as it was Golden Week, or the whole country of Japan’s spring break. I finally made it outside of Tokyo and [View Full Entry]

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I don't really know how often I should update this thing, because I'm sure how much people want their inboxes filled with my trivial findings and what not. But after a couple of days at my internship, I figured I should write something. Through a series of unfortunate events (ha) I ended up interning at Akasaka Hikawa Jinja in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. Jinja is Japanese for Temple, so I go to work and put on Shinto robes and sit in a temple. It's weird to get off the train in a huge party district of Tokyo, pass "Gentelmen's Clubs" [View Full Entry]

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Before I kinda go into whatever it is I may write about, I have tons (ok, hundreds) more pics up on my photo site here: http://jetsetseattle.zoto.com/galleries <----no reading involved!! What’s it been, three, three and a half weeks? I wish I could post on this blog more, but internet access is sort of few and far between for me. Or else I have to pay out of the nose for it. Speaking of which, I’m kind of sick of paying out of my nose for everything here. I’m sitting in a café that has kinda cheap coffee. 300yen ($2.80) for a [View Full Entry]

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