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Japan Anniversary!
As of today, it’s been one year since I came back from Japan. It’s hard to imagine that it was so long ago that I saw everyone there…that I said good-bye to all the friends I made and to the places I’d grown to love. There are still some mornings I wake up thinking I […]
ConnectiCon 2009
[slideshow id=20] My last few days in New England, Kelly, her boyfriend Max, and I drove down to Connecticut for the 2009 ConnectiCon. The ConnectiCon is a conference in Hartford, Connecticut every year that hosts an assortment of anime, video game, table-top, LARP, webcomic, and otherwise “geeky” related things. It was my very first conference, […]
Fine Arts Overload and a Great View
Today was Day B on my “Boston plan,” and so I began by visiting the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston….When I finished my art-rendevue, I took the green-line train further into Boston to the Prudential Center and the Skywalk Observatory.
Read MoreDare wa Oni? Showa Day Celebration!
Today was a national holiday in Japan called Showa Day (Showa no hi). It is a celebration of former Emperor Showa’s birthday, and all the ryuugakusei (foreign students) at my university didn’t have any classes. The regular Japanese students did have classes, but I received a text from my home visit sister to meet her […]
Read MoreNaked in Japan
There were naked women everywhere. I was still stuck by the entrance, hugging my towel to my still clothed chest. Welcome to the Japanese public bathhouse! My adoptive mother, Chieko, pulled me inside. I knew it was true, logically speaking, that people were naked beneath all their clothing. Still, I must iterate that there is […]
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