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Dare 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 […]
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Spring Break
March 13th was the last day of school before going onto spring break. I finished classes around 1:00 with ceramics, and not having much else to do, I rode my bicycle back to the seminar house and fixed some ramen noodles for lunch. I was nervous and extremely excited, because on Saturday I would be […]
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Spring Break: Day 4
Our last day exploring Kyoto, we decided we would visit the Imperial Palace. It was within walking distance of our hotel, so we again set out by subway–bound for what we hoped to be landscape just as beautiful as the Heian Shrine’s gardens. [singlepic=414,320,240,,left]We arrived on the Imperial Grounds after rounding a wall of shrubs […]
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