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It’s been sweaty weather here this week and some people are starting to suffer. Roberto, the nice and occasionally sweary german in my class, more or less wilted during a lecture on Thursday. Various Japanese folk panted around college using their only available breath to breathe “atsui!” (hot!) at each other and receive nods of […]
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The ladies brought me to a famous rose garden in Nara yesterday.
It was very beautiful..
We had iced rose coffee.
Then looked at some more roses..
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We’re already starting to realise how little time we have left in Japan. Giita booked her flights this week - she’s flying to Edinburgh with Ã?ris on August 1st and then on to Iceland for a little over 2 weeks. I’m leaving two weeks later, after a 5 day trip to Nagano with the Rock […]
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Hi from Kyoto’s warmness. No adventurous weekend travels this week, since it made us both ill. I sniffled about college pathetically all week, but did manage to push myself into going to see the Tenniscoats in Urban Guild, who started really well, then invited everyone they knew onstage to join them, so that by the […]
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We’re back from Shirahama and all slightly sick. This probably has something to do with the panda-related excitement on Sunday. It took ages to get there on Saturday. Bus to Omiya, train to Osaka, fortification with chocolate/banana croissants, 4 hour bus trip to Shirahama. We had just enough time to check in to our Minshuku […]
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The highlight of the week so far was on Monday when me, Iris and her boyfriend Ossi went on a boat trip down the treelined valleys of Kameoka to the picturesque town of Arashiyama. I had just finished my Japanese class and had planned to stay at home to prepare my class for Tuesdays English […]
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Hola. Last week wasn’t the most exciting one we’ve had here. I played with Rune in Osaka on Sunday in a very fancy looking concrete basement venue called Nu Things. The other bands were mostly of the wobbly noisy samplery variety. There were tons of them so it wore a bit thin after a while. […]
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There was a cartoon strip in the Peanuts book I had years ago when Sally correctly predicted that if Linus were to ask their parents: “How come there’s a Mother’s Day and a Father’s Day but there isn’t a Children’s Day?”, they would respond “Why, every day is Children’s Day.” I tested this on my […]
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Hola. So it’s the beginning of Golden Week in Japan, so we’ve no lectures this week. There are, of course, words for both Gold and Week in Japanese, however they prefer to call it Go-ru-den Weeku, amusingly enough. The weather seems to have perked up for the occasion, so it’s 27 degrees today in Kyoto. […]
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My dad just left this morning. We had a great time together for the last two weeks. He was here for the most celebrated season in Japan: Spring, when cherry blossoms are in full bloom. The Japanese celebrate Spring by having picnics with their family and friends under the pink flowers. We went all over […]