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Hirosaki Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hirosaki, Japan
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Chapter 15: More Birthday Joy
This is a top pick! ... the packages, phonecalls, presents, thoughts blah blah blah...it was really cool. I am so happy to be having such an awesome time in Japan. By the way, Last Wednesday I had a speaking test. I got the top grade in my class, which is weird because I didnt ...
Chapter 25:@Still hot and not a lot happening
This is a top pick! Good morning everyone. Things here in Hirosaki are great. Andy is off to Brazil tonight so I will be all on my lonesome for the next couple of weeks. Michael came back from America yesterday (we think) so I am glad. Yesterday I bought a present for him ...
Chapter 21: Atsukuteshinisou
This is a top pick! ... before we went to Tokyo, and it was about certain kinds of pottery and cloth and history of lacquering in Tsugaru(this part of Japan) and frankly I wrote a bunch of randomness, but I wrote alot and I think more than anyone else. I was first finished ...
Chapter 22: What is happening?
This is a top pick! ... upstairs. My fate of going last was determined by a competitive game of JUNKENPOI, also known as rock paper scissors. Everything in Japan is determined by bouts of junkenpoi, from exam order to basketball teams to who gets to use the bathroom first. Well ...
Chapter 30: Laziness brought about by the weather
This is a top pick! Ok folks, lets go over the finer details of my life. 1. It is freezing. 2. It is wet. 3. I slept until noon today despite having a class at 8:40. 4. The bathroom flooded again this afternoon. 5. I made it to French at great peril of being hit by ...
CHapter 35: Final Words
This is a top pick! ... have regrets. I learned from everything I did, and I have all these memories to look back on now. To anyone thinking about going to Japan, its not always easy and its not alsways fun..but it is absolutely worth it, and if you dont go, you will really be ...
Chapter Eight: Shizuoka, Tokyo again, Hirosaki
This is a top pick! ... some more time and dont have to do a million things. My address is Becky Crouch B202 Shimoda Haitsu III 55 Tomita-machi Hirosaki, AOMORI JAPAN If you feel your kanji is up to it (if its not, dont even try, it might not get here) ...
Chapter Twelve: The daily routine.
This is a top pick! ... is improving in leaps and bounds. Yesterday I had a conversation with this lady about teaching her son english, New Zealand, China, Japan and Japanese in general. It lasted for an hour and I understood almost everything she said. I am by no means good at ...
Chapter 23: The heat
This is a top pick! It is so hot. There shouldnt be places this hot. I am aware there are places hotter than this, but I dont see how life can be sustained there. This is crazy. The bike ride to Andys house almost kills me. By the way, I got a new bike. Rusty the falcon ...
Chapter 31: Winter Wonderland
This is a top pick! ... evil eye and I dont have any trouble. Gotta run By the way, mail/christmas cards/ phone calls/messages would be much appreciated. Becky Crouch Nakano 5 chome 10-27 Shimoda Haitsu II 302 Hirosaki Shi Aomori Ken phone (81)080 6001 6036 ...
Chapter Nineteen: Another day
This is a top pick! ... I finally got to drive in Japan, as our Japanese friend with a car was shall we say unable to drive. So I got to cruise around Hirosaki with a bunch of people in the car commenting on how weird it was to be driving with me (Thanks Michael) and saying how ...
Chapter Nine: New friends and I need a new pot
This is a top pick! ... is at the top of my priority list. Its not so big and not so small here, it takes me about 40 minutes to walk to the Hirosaki castle which is in the centre of town, and about 10-15 mins to walk to school. The laundry is less than ten minutes away, but ...
Chapter Eighteen: Misadventures
This is a top pick! ... , but here I am, in the wops of Japan, explaining in French what I like about Matsuris and how I feel about student activities at Hirosaki Daigaku. My brain hurt so much. At one point I thought about having a picture taken with my phone, of me on the ...
Chapter Seventeen:
This is a top pick! Put some photos on for you folks. Sorry they are a bit random, I am using a friends computer. This weekend Thom, Maribel (from Honduras) Mike and Victor (from California) went to Tokyo. I wanted to go, but I seem to be perpetually poor in this place. ...
Chapter 27: New Neighbours
This is a top pick! Ok people. School has officially started. After some visa related craziness, Andy is back too. Things are still good, our house is just as fantastically full as ever. We have new neighbours, and indeed there are many new people here to introduce to ...
Chapter 26: Lonely, Im so lonely..
This is a top pick! ... me the money I laughed an even sadder and more tragic laugh thinking about how I would pay her back. And here I am, in Hirosaki, one more week to look forward to. Actually its going quite fast, I went to our neighbours host familys house for lunch last ...
Chapter 20: My life is insanity..
This is a top pick! ... (sp?) came from New Zealand to lecture in Japan, and since one of our teachers knows him from New Zealand, he came to Hirosaki for 2 days. In preparation for his visit, Sawada Sensei asked me to teach the Haka to one of the Japanese classes, who are ...
Chapter Ten: What happened to Ten??
This is a top pick! ... Bride, neither of which Andy is familiar with. I intend to rent the original BBC version next week and start a revolution here in Hirosaki. Can someone send me the BYU version??? *Mum* I bought a fridge!!! It is so awesomely cool. I decorated it with ...
Chapter Thirteen: Good weather coming
This is a top pick! ... of the day and yesterday I wore shorts! Unfortunately yesterdays weather turned to custard and I was left freezing in the middle of Hirosaki with no sweater but thats another story. Last night Michael and I went to a department store ish thing to take ...
Chapter 28: Continued Craziness
This is a top pick! Righto. Sorry its been awhile since I updated, but all is well. I have a few points of interest to relate to you...the first is that last week I went and got my hair done again, it cost over a hundred bucks and I am not bragging but its fan TAS tic. ...
Chapter 32: Danger Will Robinson!
This is a top pick! Hey! Its quite a warm day today but there is still quite a lot of ice everywhere...hence the title. This morning was filled with numerous recounts of people's slippery near death experiences. Including my own. Luckily no one has fallen yet. I ...
Chapter 29: The first SNOW
This is a top pick! ... futon. (Japanese bed)...it is YELLOW and if I can I want to ship it home...anyone know of any good shipping companies from Japan to NZ? Hmmm.. Well I was just in French, (hilarious as usual) and the highlight of the class this time was not the boy ...
Chapter 24: Photos
This is a top pick! Hey everyone. I have finally posted lots of pictures, they are on my msn site. The address is http://nzprncss.spaces.live.com/ I get my pictures from my friends so luckily there arent too many figfatheadshots of me. This is because my camera was the ...
Chapter 16: Another Fantastic Day
This is a top pick! ... guess as word gets out, it will probably grow too big for my apartment and then I will have problems. My motto here in Japan, and everywhere really, is .....I`ll deal with that later....anyway it should be fun. Right now I am headed home to get something ...
Chapter Eleven: This place is great...
This is a top pick! ... with campus, learning the ropes, and meeting new people. This was not the case. Let me give you some insight into the Hirosaki Trash sorting phenomenon. It is quite complex. Im not even going to go into it fully because it is brain frying. This morning, ...
Chapter Fourteen: Birthday in Japan
This is a top pick! ... house. She gave me a TV. She said it was another students and they left it there so I could have it while I am in Japan. She said she will look for a fridge too. So I am pretty happy. Japanese is driving me insane. People dont recognise how awesome I ...
Chapter 33: Merry Christmas to All!
This is a top pick! ... traditional Christmas food and decorating trees and kissing under the mistletoe. I, sadly, would not be kissing under mistletoe even if Japan suddenly sprung a bushel out of the kitchen table. If we had one. ITS CHRISTMAS!!! I have to keep telling myself ...
Chapter 34: Hisashiburi
This is a top pick! ... she will stay about 2 weeks and I am really relieved because I wont have to deal with leaving her at the bus station in Hirosaki when I go. Shes coming 2 weeks after me. Perhaps I can lose weight before she comes? Yeah right.... OK people, thats about ...
Hirosaki & Golden Week
... and myself, Kira (from Oregon) and Anna (from NY) traveled to the northern prefecture of Aomori to the city of Hirosaki where there are 1,000s of Cherry blossom trees of various types within the former castle grounds which are now a park ...
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