Blogs from Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Asia - page 6

As the Moomin-painted A340 descended towards Centrair, the major regional airport on an artifical island south of Nagoya, the sky seemed somewhat blueish in colour, but as we came closer and closer to the ground the sickly grey haze got more and more prominent and started to consume objects at the horizon, and then creeping steadily closer and closer. For some reason I have developed an idea that much of Japan (and other cities in Asia for that matter) seems to be consumed by this grey hunger. Buildings in drab concrete whites, beiges and greys don't add much spice to the variety either. On the other hand, this is more than compensated for by a colourful and interesting population. My philosophical wanderlust was swiftly whisked away by a breeze of hot air streaming towards my face ... read more

That one word helps a lot. It means seperate or independantly of. I use it a lot when I go out to eat with other coworkers. I have taken to carrying a Dictionary in my pocket just in case. I am getting a bit better at picking up and saying a few things. I think I owe this to my Japanese teacher Uetake-san. Well we talk about music and guitars all the time during breaks and he teaches me a few Japanese words and I teach him English. So any way, I had been stalling on updating my blog here. I feel bad but I just did not have any pictures to put up. So I decided that I should probably carry my camera on me at all times when I walk around and snap pictures ... read more

8 Days?!?! Really? I thought I had published my last entry sooner than that. Time is flying. This weekend everything seemed to slow down a bit and I was able to walk around and enjoy a few things. However, all these pictures are from my trip 2 weekends ago. I have more pictures of some shrines. I also took a picture of a car for the shop guys, I did not forget about your request to get some nice pictures of a modified car. Speaking of cars I have seen 4 Ferraris and 1 Lamborgini. I do not know where those people get thier money. I have to say I have had great food here. I will try to get some pictures of it. My pants get tighter everyday, so I am going to have to ... read more

Well I've finally found time and have internet at home to start my travel story.....so here we go. Megs and I arrived in Osaka on the 13th March 2008. I was SO excited to be in Japan for the first time, but extremely tired after our long flight from Brisbane, Australia. The day didn't start off as planned and all 4 of my flat mates including myself set our alarms for 4am to leave for the airport at 530am. Well that didn't quite go to plan when I had one of my friends come barging into my room at 530am yelling 'Sarah, Sarah we've got to go" I was in hysterics I couldn’t even think straight it was like a bad dream. But within 10 minutes I was dressed packed and in the car my mind ... read more

A little bit on how I get to work everday. My day usually starts around 5 or so in the morning. About 3 in the afternoon for you guys. I get out of the hotel walk about 5 minutes to the subway. Its not a bad walk and its usually pretty good to get the blood flowing so I wont fall asleep. Hop over about two stations to the main Nagoya station and meet up with some of my new teammates. We take a train out of Nagoya to a small town that has a couple of factories. We hop into a cab and get taken to work. If the weather is good the Japanese workers go outside and stretch with the plant leaders leading them in stretching. I have yet to be able to attend ... read more