Oh yes, on Monday, we had whale meat for the first time in years (they say) for school lunch. Apparently, in those days when harpooning whales was done on a regular basis, they had it for school lunch quite often. Now it's very rare so the school made it a very special occasion ( Read more... )

Last weekend, Taka and I went to take a trip to Hakone, where it's very famous for its hotsprings and having a great view of Mt Fuji ( Read more... )

Taka and I were advised by Taka's sister to go to the west side of Tokyo to see the leaves changing their colours. It took around 2 and a half hours on the train.

It was a national holiday (labour thanks giving day) on that Friday as well so the timing couldn't  have been better. I mean, who would really want to go hiking in Tokyo? As people who ( Read more... )

I'm so sick of the bad working environment and attitude people have towards it in this country. I'm tutting like Alan Partidge and all I could say is: "This country ( Read more... )

I've been incredibly lazy with writing my journal simply because nothing really much has inspired me to write anything interesting ( Read more... )

I've been living in Japan for 6 months now and I started to notice that placing a high value on speaking another language is over rated ( Read more... )

I
went to see the fireworks in the middle of Kanagawa prefecture. They shot 10,000 fireworks and 550,000 people gathered around to watch this. The crowd was pretty crazy, I've never seen so many people concentrated in one place, but it was definitely worth watching. I forgot the mute the microphone so I'm sorry if my voice annoys you...


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I started my summer holidays and I've done quite a lot over these past few days.

I went to a beach party last Saturday in Enoshima beach. It was a lot of fun cuz I've never been to a beach party before. I actually partied in a very cliched manner, which I'm quite ashamed about, but hey, it was fun. It was like being in a night club, except that ( Read more... )

Mo came to visit me from Osaka
and we had a cracking time this weekend. It was a national holiday on Monday called a Marine Day so she came down here on Saturday evening and left Monday night. The only bad thing about this weekend was that the typhoon came (predicted a bad one, but it wasn't so bad here in the Kanto region) and there were 2 ( Read more... )

We went to 子供の国- children's land and fed farm animals.

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