Monthly Archives: April 2007

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Korea was amazing!  Really short update just to say I’m safe, and a LOT more tomorrow or something~ Took over 160 pictures too, so you’ll also get to see stuff.  I still haven’t shown any of the 100+ Singapore pictures … Continue reading

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Leaving

It’s Saturday morning, and I’m just about to leave the house for the airport.  I’m really hoping South Korea will be fun!  Please pray for my safety and stuff, big update when I get back!

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EARTHQUAKE

So today during first hour of school, there was an earthquake.  That is a new life experience for me.  It was really small, and nothing fell or anything…some kids didn’t even notice it.  I was surprised because all of a … Continue reading

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USJ and STUFF

Universal Studios Japan was REALLY REALLY awesome! Of course! Yudai and I got there like 45 minutes early, so we were close to the front of one of the lines to get in. Which turned out to be awesome because … Continue reading

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USJ

I’m really really excited for tomorrow! Because we want to get there so early, I’ll actually be leaving the house at 6:30 AM, even earlier than what I do every day for school! (But only by ten minutes, haha) On … Continue reading

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Silenced

After a slew of bad events, I really didn’t feel like writing.  This includes Maki-san Grandfather dying, the Virginia Tech shooting, Nagasaki Mayor assassination,  and other generally bad things that have occurred this week in the world, and to me.  … Continue reading

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New Haircut

It’s really Japanese, you can’t see that from the picture that well.  But it’s really cool.  And it was cheaper than my uber-bad haircut to boot!

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Back!

I hope everyone enjoyed Easter…it was completely skipped over in Japan.  No one mentioned it, no decorations, sad.  In fact if a bunch of family members wouldn’t have emailed me about it, I wouldn’t have known it was Sunday.  Oops.  … Continue reading

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Hiroshima

Tomorrow and Sunday I will be in Hiroshima.  Kind of nervous about being an American and going. Today I gave my speech at Rotary, which I thought was a decent one.  It may have been my longest.  But the bus … Continue reading

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Clubs

Ok, today I’m going to talk about after school activities, or clubs.  I am in the English Speaking Society, like I mentioned before, mainly because that was the group that gave me a tour around the school and it looked … Continue reading

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