Category Archives: School

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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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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Life

I have a whole new set of stuff to do now, speeches for Rotary on Friday and Sunday and now ESS Club is doing a movie and I’m writing the script for the 10 minute production.  The writing shouldn’t be … Continue reading

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Short

Ok, since I actually use this as a daily journal now, I feel obligated to try and post in it every day to document what’s going on. Basically right now I’m kinda stressed and stretched out with a sudden Rotary … Continue reading

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Sooo

I’m a little disappointed. I have a Rotary function to attend with all the foriegn exchange students over here, which normally would be a blast, but it’s the 8th, and an overnight to the 9th. Implications? My birthday just got … Continue reading

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School

EDIT: Got 4 new pictures up, more tomorrow.  Click “PHOTOS” on top. Ok, so I’ll touch on school now that I’ve been going to Nagano High School for over a month. I’m really enjoying it. Everyone’s nice to me, and … Continue reading

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Wait…do I know you?

Ok, in this post I wanted to address a very odd…occurance I run into.  That would be Japanese people randomly talking to me, or striking up a conversation.  Wednesday, I was on my way home from school, and I skirted … Continue reading

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