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| Sunday, 12-Dec-2004 00:00 |
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A trip to the arcade and music festival
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Serious Mah Jong.
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Korean teeter totter with a boy falling off.
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Japanese woman dresses in traditional mexican clothing.
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The arcade in Japan is...interesting. They have video versions of games we don't consider very interesting, and woud only have on our PC like Tetris, Mah Jong, Othello, and Chess. I like to watch the men who smoke and play Mah Jong VERY seriously. I would have loved to get a close up, but though they were oblivious, I think they would have noticed that. Michelle and I managed to find an audience to watch two pretty foreign girls play Dance Dance Revolution. The vending machines in the arcade are also interesting. And we have new puricura of course.
There are also pictures from the world music festival, and Toyota scenery from our walk back.
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| Saturday, 11-Dec-2004 00:00 |
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Bridge series
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There is a nifty bridge in Toyota that leads to the Toyota arena/stadium. There were free world music concerts today at the stadium so we went. The bridge is supposed to look like a dinosaur skeleton. You can see Tony, Teresa, Michelle, and Nicholas walking.
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| Friday, 10-Dec-2004 00:00 |
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New purikura!
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Teresa was busy playing Tetris, so Michelle and I took a few more pictures. This machine let you add backgrounds, but it was a little disappointing because it advertised so that we thought we could add our heads onto traditional Japanese bodies. These are okay, but it isn't as cool.
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| Saturday, 4-Dec-2004 00:00 |
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New Purikura!
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Me Michelle and Teresa in Toyota
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Me Michelle and Nicholas in Osu Kannon
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Me and Nicholas in Osu Kannon
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There was a purikura machine in Toyota that was only 100 yen! So we are little kids when it comes to the photo booths....it's a cheap fascination.
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| Wednesday, 1-Dec-2004 00:00 |
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What Japan looks like from the train.
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Bamboo forest we passed on our hike.
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Flowers from the hike.
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Just more pictures of generic Japan. We went on a nature hike at the BBQ on Sunday with Michelle"s teachers. And Toyohashi is decorated for Christmas now. The stores even play real Christmas music. Not that fake no-Jesus music that is all that will pass now in the states. I hear Silent Night and Away in a Manger in the stores instead of "Let it snow" over and over again.
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| Tuesday, 30-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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BBQ pictures
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Michelle with the HUGE mican...almost oranges.
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The teacher making Yakisoba...so good...so good.
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Making the fire.
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I went to a BBQ near Handa with Michelle's teachers. I even spoke a little pathetic Japanese. (It is amazing how much you can say at a BBQ if all you know is..."tasty.") Then we went for a walk...there was actually nature, something I hadn't seen yet in Japan. We picked Micans too, which was the excuse for the BBQ. It must've been one of the teacher's land. There was a little log cabin her and her husband had built. They made the tastiest food. Everyone hovered around three grills the whole time, and people just kept putting little bits of any kind of food on to BBQ, and you just had to grab it fast before somebody else did. (not so easy with chopsticks, but I held my own). They had mushrooms, beef, pork, chicken, green peppers, pumpkin, beansprouts, cabbage, riceballs, eggplant, and onions. Then I was so full, I was sure we were done. But they were just starting. Then they put out a flat grill and made Yakisoba, which is grilled noodles....oh...my...goodness....I love yakisoba. And then after all that, there were marshmallows. My stomach still hurts remembering. But I was happy.
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| Monday, 29-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Weekend
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This weekend I went to Toyota where I ate conveyer belt sushi. The sushi store is called Kappa sushi. The sushi goes by your table on a conveyer belt, and you just grab a plate. Each plate is 100 yen (about a dollar). It's really fun!
More later...
Okay, and I added the pictures of Michelle and Teresa fearing the Expo creatures...they are spawning in Toyata. There are new Christmas diaplays with new bushes. (And new flowers...in December....I can't get over this...)
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| Tuesday, 23-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Thanksgiving/ Labor day
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Jesse cooking the turkey pieces.
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Digging into the food.
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Kim and Tony eating lots.
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Tuesday, the week of our thanksgiving, Japan has a National holiday. So, we decided to gather 7 guests and have thanksgiving. We special ordered little turkey pieces from the foreign buyers club, but the only way we had to cook them really was to fry them...still...it was turkey! I made deviled eggs (poorly) and pumkin bread in my little microwave/oven. We had stuffing and mashed potatos and pumkin pie and good American foods like that. It was wonderful! Then we all played cards (so there is an adantage to folding up your beds and putting them in the closet...more space for guests). It was a fantastic party.
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| Wednesday, 17-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Flowers and Stuff
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A close up of the flowers.
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The flowers and Mt. Mito.
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The strange bell.
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I finally took the picture I have been wanting to take. I was afraid the frost would come before I remembered my camera. This is the beautiful field of flowers I pass on my way to school. You can see Mt. Mito in the back. The bell is at a little shrine I pass by on my way to school. I took the photo because it is the same as the bell the girl rings in the typhoon in Karate Kid 2? 3? I always liked that scene (But I was a kid, please forgive me). It was just surprising to me to ride by something exactly like it on my way to school. I have no idea how old it is or what they use it for, but, there it is.
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| Sunday, 14-Nov-2004 00:00 |
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Another store with a funny name
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The expo mascots, as bushes. Not quite as cute.
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This weekend we finished most of our Christmas shopping in Osu Kannon, near Nagoya. One stupid old shop lady wouldn't sell us stuff because we are foreigners. It's really weird to be in the minority...it makes you think. But, other ladies were so nice and helpful, I bought extra at their stores in appreciation. The first picture is just a funny store name. English is always a little bit mixed up here. And the second is the scary World Expo mascots in Toyota. I thought they were just cute Totoro type things, but, apparently they are bushes.
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