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Like how Tokyo is just so big, and at times you feel a little like a trapped animal in some wierd cage of suits and buildings. Anyway, the mom then said that when she was in college she went to Tokyo for nursing school, she spent one month over there and then came back. She said she often ( Read more... )

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So, I actually ended up meeting with Hiromi-chan, 稗田先生(Hieda Sensei's) lil sis, in this kinda Inaka of a beautiful little  town called 観音寺(Kaonji).  She had said that if I could find some way to make it to the station that she could pick me up in her car, and also that her mom wanted to ( Read more... )

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The walk back from the onsen was really something. It was already dark before I left and I was actually just thinking of sleeping outside near this graveyard that I passed on the way there. "Graveyard" has such a bad image but to me it just looked like a temple or shrine anyways so- it was ( Read more... )

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So after he dropped me off at the station I was headed toward 徳島(Tokushima) when I ended up on the train with the soccer team.  I started talking to them and they were really cool about it.  So far Japanese works, lol.  So, I was just asking them like where was the hot spot, or like if they ( Read more... )

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This morning I woke up in the 加藤 (Kato's) house and I was freezing my ass off, it occurred to me then that it's much colder in Shikoku than in Tokyo, and I would have died trying to sleep outside.  I mean really.  All morning, from about 7 when I woke up, till about 9 or so when I got up and left the little room I heard the constant barking of like ( Read more... )

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Well, well, well..after yesterday's tragedy I was about to call it quits but this morning the weather was so nice I decided to go out again.  I went all the way to the 港北 P.A. (Kouhoku) and waited for about 45 min or so before I was finally offered a ride by two young guys.  They asked me ( Read more... )