Blogs from Osaka, Japan, Asia - page 6

Today is Friday! YAY¨! And it is TAKOYAKI PARTY! YAY YAY! :) So today I woke up early as I went to bed at 9 pm last night. Direction the school, to be there at 10.30 am for the Takoyaki party. As part of our integration, the new student had an event today, in order to know each other and have fun! We made Takoyaki :) For the one who don't remember, Takoyaki is this special dish from Osaka consisting in a round (ball) crepe with inside vegetables and OCTOPUS :D As usual, even if I woke up early, I had to run a bit because I was late... and when I arrived, everybody was there already :P We were sat by table of 12-ish people and we had to introduce ourselves, telling what is our ... read more

Today is the second day... and my real first ALL day in Osaka. I planned to wake up early but as I have some problems with that, I finally got up at 10 am after some fight with my alarm. I met in the Kitchen Bon-chan and Junya, and we had breakfast together... It appeared that what I bought the day before was not sweet bred, but curry bred... lol well, it did the job. I also got some insight about the onigiri colors, so now I know that the good ones are the orange and light blue... anyway, I will try them all :) After some small chat, Bon-chan and Junya went to work / university, and I got ready to go to town... My way to town was pretty easy as it was always ... read more

Po nicmoc spanku ,rano pobalenie, batoh nechani v jedalni a smer plaz. Na plazi posledne hodinove lenosenie, kupat ma to nelakalo, obloha zamracena, more dost chladne. Na plazi sa pohyboval bager, ktory bagroval piesok. Daval ho na vytycene miesta, co som si prvy raz myslel,ze tu budu lehatka. Fakt vysoke kopy piesku. Neskor tu neaky chalani zacali rozkladat dva velke stany. Tak zrejme sa tu nieco bude cez vikend diat, zeby stavanie soch z piesku? Ktovie. Zamavanie moru, posledny pohlad na bielu plaz a nazad na ubytko. Majitel mi dal typ aby som sa cestou zastavil v Toretore Ichiba, rybaci trh. Okolo 12/00 byva kazdy den porcovanie tuniaka. Kedze z ubytka to je len neake 2,5km idem miesto lokalnym busom pesibusom. Cesta prijemna pri pobrezi, obcas neaky ten rybar, resp rybarsky domcek. Po pravej strane v ... read more

I've held this story in a long time-since 1983 to be exact. It just wasn't a topic that came up in conversation often but now, with President Obama heading to Japan and all the talk about should he apologize for the US dropping the atomic bomb, it seemed like the right time to share it. Let me tell you how my husband and I ended up going to Japan. In the early 1980's we hosted many Japanese high school students. We lived in a small rural town in Western Massachusetts, population 1,500, that bordered Vermont. The Experiment in International Living was headquartered in Brattleboro, Vermont and they liked to place their students and incoming groups with families in our area. Mainly, we found out, because many countries would not let their students be placed in urban ... read more

Istanbul v noci vyzera z vtacej perspektivy paradne, vsetko pekne osvetlene. Pristatie dost dlho trvalo, teda hlavne rolovanie po drahe. Tak sa mi zda, ze neaky ludia nestihli pripoj a este v lietadle vyplnali dake papiere. Na domovkej stanici turkish airlines som veru necakal nakladanie ludi po vystupeni z lietadla do busu. No nic, nasackovanych v prepravnom prostriedku nas to odviezlo k terminalu. Pri transfer stoliku personal pytal od ludi letenku, ja som presiel aj bez jej ukazania. Bol tam fakt naval a len jeden kontrolor. Hned sa ocitam pri gatoch, tu milion ludi, nebolo si ani kde sadnut. Zistujem odkial mi to leti,jasne,z uplne opacneho konca. Mam este cas, zazrakom chytam miesto na sedacke. Skusam wifi. Opat tu je, len sa treba zaregistrovat pomocou smsky,ktora pride na mobil. Najskor som tam natukal zle cislo. Clovek ... read more