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Monthly Archives: September 2004

As if it were the end of spring

21-Sep-04

I don’t ever want to forget last night. Seeing Tomoaki again might have been the most memorable event in my entire stay here.
Ueno and the zoo, off to Ebisu to see Tokyo Bosse Nova, and through Ginza on the way home. Remember the Okonomiyaki, the view from the 38th floor with the orange [...]

Arakawa in the news

20-Sep-04

Arakawa mayor arrested for accepting bribes
Technically, I work for this guy… just a few levels of politeness below him actually. I met him too. I served him peaches and pears during some kind of inter-ken diplomatic meeting or whatever. I’ve been in his office-suite like, twice.
Anyway yeah. Apparently, this isn’t the first [...]

I’m a REAL Gaijin!

19-Sep-04

I guess there are a few things that you have to do before you can be a real “dumb gaijin” in Japan. You have to offend a few people by using the wrong form of the word “to give”. You have to endure endless and annoying “You are such a cute foreigner! your [...]

Moved again!

15-Sep-04

Lots and lots of moving.
The move to my third host family was pretty odd… They came to pick me up on bicycles as if I wouldn’t have any luggage. That was a pretty amazing sign of a great sense of accomodation. I kind of had a hunch that things were going to [...]

got gmail? plus OCHA

11-Sep-04

First 3 people to ask in a reply to this entry get invited to gmail.
just give me your email address either in the comment or by other means.
In Other News: I got to take a class on the Japanese Tea Ceremony today. The degree to which each simple motion [...]

First birthday in a foreign country

04-Sep-04

Brain is still a little bit numb from everything. I woke up and got ready for work… had the normal “I don’t want to go to work” blues, got there and had a pretty normal day. I got to go to a culture museum and see all the local stuff they found [...]