Today I was treated to a special trip with my host family. It started out with them asking if I wanted to go eat some ramen and ended up in an excursion of Sapporo‘s, “hard to get to” treasures. In earlier posts I talked about the Matsuri. There are tons of different kinds of Matsuri [...]
It’s been pretty busy around here lately. I’ve been keeping up at school, as well as, planning for a big after Semester trip. Today I bought the Lonely Planet Guide to Japan (EN) and started making out a rough Itinerary for the trip. Yesterday I had kendo where we practiced the “Kata” kendo form. Kata [...]
The Nippon Ham Fighters Take the Japanese Championship!It’s been 44 years since the Fighters last victory in 1962. With a score of 4 to 1 against the Chunichi Dragons, the Nippon Ham Fighters won their 5th and final game to take the Japan league Championship. “I can’t believe it,” said Trey Hillman (American coach for [...]
On a lazy Wednesday I awoke to the cold and peered out my window to gaze at the plethora of fall colors and golden leaves. Fall has reached Sapporo and is slowly transforming the landscape into a sea of fiery reds, oranges, and yellows. Japanese for Fall is “Aki” but the kanji for fall is [...]
They told me that Hokkaido gets cold in the Fall and the Winter months. Perhaps I wasn’t listening or perhaps I didn’t believe that cold meant cold. This morning the temperature hovered at around 2.7-2.9 degrees Celsius (about 37 F). Now that was pretty cold to walk in, but the commute, on my bike, today [...]
For new readers who wanna read older posts, I changed that archive format so you can click on the month (on the right hand bar) and the title of the post comes up. Just click on the title and the blog post should come up. ~J //
Well it wasn’t what you’d call a “camp.” It was a two day excursion of southern Hokkaido. It was like the bus tour where they tried to cram too much in too little time. It could of been planned better in my opinion. For starters, the school had us show up late on Saturday (12:30 [...]
I told y’all that i’d be going on a big trip this weekend and so I thought I would clue you all in as to where I was going. We’re going to Norboribetsu City (登別市), it’s a mostly a tourist trap for Japanese and Gaijin alike. The city is famous for some geological sites like: [...]
The other day I got myself new duds for kendo practice. The First is a jacket or “Keigoki” that is made of a real thick fabric and the second piece of clothing is the pants called “hakama”. There are rules and procedures to putting this clothing on: For the Keigoki, you must put it on [...]
Seeing as my Major in College is East Asian Studies International Relations (EASIR), I want to briefly comment on the UN Security Council’s recent resolution (Resolution 1718) concerning North Korea (DPRK) and their WMDs. This is a big deal, internationally, for a couple of reasons. First, the U.S. and Japan are the most aggressive players, [...]
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