http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Japan , Hyogo en-us Sun, 26 May 2013 03:25:03 +0000 Sun, 26 May 2013 03:25:03 +0000 Adelaide and Himeji are sister cities and for more than 20 years there has been a teacher exchange program between them. In 2010 I taught EFL in Kotogaoka Senior High School. Here are some insights from this experience.Bu nen kai is the end of year staff dinner at wedding chapel small room for 80 on 4th floor complete with 10 courses table service and as much alcohol as could be drunk in 2 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Himeji/blog-786540.html The shrine was cool but i love castles. I asked a local where i could find a castle nearby and surprisingly he took me to one that was only a block away from where we were. I was dumbfounded on how big the Himeji castle is. It would have been nice to be the lord who lived in there long ago. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/blog-776849.html Day 9 Breakfast was a mostly Japanese affair with a little fruit but no yogurt. There were some rolls you could toast and the butter and jam came in a squeezy packet removing the need for a knife but meaning you had to have both parts. As we left the hotel the sun had not come up on this side of the gorge and the cloud was down. We went through a tunnel to the other side of the mountain an http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Kobe/blog-757575.html Another Timewarp precious details remind me of the similarities and differences between Japan and China. Schools are institutions that shape and mould future citizens. Teaching other peoples children is such a priviledge and a way of getting to know so much about a country. 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Some men and women play together withthe swimming http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Ashiya/blog-750962.html Wspczesny glob jest miejscem dynamicznym za zmiennym w ktrym raz za razem wicej granic stoi otworem. Zachca owo nas do zmiany miejsca zamieszkania a czstych przeprowadzek czasem w owszem odlege miejsca.Wspczesny Bkitna planeta jest miejscem dynamicznym a zmiennym w ktrym raz za razem wicej granic stoi otworem. Zachca to nas a do zmiany miejsca zamieszkania oraz c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Ashiya/blog-739801.html Thursday the 5th of July was one of the more uneventful days of my stay in Japan.Lentle had classes and so I was alone again to explore Japan. I traveled to Sannomiya station and my plan was to try and find the 39Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution39 a.k.a. the Earthquake Museum. Kobe was struck by an earthquake that measured 6.8 on the magnitude scale in 1995 which was at http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Kobe/blog-738456.html My first full day in Japan was a Tuesday which meant that my friend Lentle had to go to university and so I had to face this new country all by myself. To not make things too complicated on my first day I decided to stay in Kobe and explore around the city centre a bit.The day started out not so well. I had wanted to shave my legs before going out Japanese warm weather required skirts but my http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Kobe/blog-738437.html I39m back in BelgiumI39ve been back since yesterday 11AM but didn39t get much rest because we had to drive home from Schiphol airport ca. 2 hours visit my maternal grandmother who wanted to hear all about my trip ca. 2 hours and in the evening we went out to eat at a restaurant. Though now I39m rested and ready to start my Japan report postsBecause I posted my pictures on faceb http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Kobe/blog-738436.html I have a few left over blogs from Germany to write but something bigger has come up parenthoodSo our son was due to arrive give or take a few days or weeks on the fourth of August but he decided to up the ante a little and make it on the first. This kind of thing is all old hat to people who39ve been through it I know...You always wonder how you39ll be when your pregnant wife wakes y http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Kobe/blog-734338.html Some people search their entire lives to find happiness but what exactly is this According to the dictionary happiness is a state of wellbeing characterized by contentment ranging to intense joy. To anyone who has experienced sheer happiness before this definition is an intense understatement. Happiness is that feeling in the pit of your stomach that causes you to always smile no matt http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Awajishima/Sumoto/blog-722727.html Karen Millen Saleby means of with Planet Wide Net is usually a extremely expert option. Unmatched Energy Department not give birth to step knocked out from the planetary property to get that preferred dress. And in addition unmatched may possibly not discover the exact colour in a stack away. Basically it constitutes a contrasting story online.This coif collecting also includes strapless decor http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Himeji/blog-720417.html January 1st we left Osaka and headed for the port city of Kobe only 25 minutes away from Osaka. We were slightly concerned that nothing would be open it being both a Sunday and New Year39s Day but when we arrived midmorning Kobe was buzzing with people celebrating Hatsumde the first visit to a temple or shrine of the year which is quite a big event. Lucky for us our hotel was right http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Kobe/blog-682980.html So we39re sitting here wearing our cotton yukata robes in our rice paperwalled tatami matfloored room having just eaten a 6 course traditional Japanese dinner and bathed in hot springs with water famed across Japanese for its healing mineral properties and things are generally Pretty. Awesome.Rewind We forgot to tell you when we got back to our room in Kyoto there was a letter stuck to http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Kobe/blog-667175.html Mama39s Food RocksEating at home in Japan is my favourite thing in the country. It still amazes me how Japan on the surface out on the street at work in social spaces is highly formal ritualised and in this sense Japanese culture looks miles away from where we39re 39from39. Of course you have the obvious external differences in the construction and visual arts in general http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/blog-656152.html Last Friday I handed my annual leave form to my supervisor he gave me this strange look. Was he envious surprised I still can not tell what Japanese people are thinking sometimes... I39m lucky that in Japan I am a gaijin and don39t need to feel guilty about taking day offs. So my twoweek summer vacation has begun. Our first trip was to Kinosaki onsen. Where to go was really not a big iss http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/blog-633421.html My journey started back to the main island again with a short jaunt on the ferry and then a train to Okayama in ridiculous heat. This did mean on reaching Okayama I was completely floored and didn39t feel like doing anything at all. I felt quite miserable as I was only there for one night and felt like I should be making the most of every second but the thought of dragging a heavy bag around fo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Kobe/blog-625908.html http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/blog-612608.html After Kyoto we headed to Hiroshima. It is far so we spilt the drive into 2 days. On the first day we stopped in a small town full of Onsens. An Onsen is a Japanese hot spring which is separated into male and female pools and where you bathe naked. They are very relaxing and I felt like a new woman after. Must be those healing minerals Dana and I went to one beside a waterfall which gave off a co http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hyogo/Himeji/blog-493726.html