Hey Kids! Today was great but it really didn't start for me until a bit later in the day which was perfectly fine with me! But in the mourning I headed over to Atago Shrine which was erected in 1603 during the eighth year if the Keicho era and it is said that as you walk up the steps to the shrine it is said to represent the succes in life. yet ...

Getting to Tokyo was no mean feat. We heeded the warnings that taxis from Narita were expensive so took the tokkyu train. Deciphering the herioglyphs was made easier by a very helpful and pleasant travel assistant. Narita is 65km outside Tokyo so it took over an hour to reach central Tokyo where some very nice little (by this I mean smaller than...

Aries, May 14,2002: There are several lunar eclipses in the communications sector of your horoscope and this can indicate plans going a little awry, machinery playing up, journeys rearranged, with delays perhaps. Try not to get mad about what you can`t alter just yet. Not the most positive of predictions at the best of times but this is hardly w...

No complaints on the flight over - watched a couple movies - slept a little and read some travel magazines. Before we knew it we were in Tokyo. We got in early - which all of our pilots have managed to do today - and we had time to check e-mail in the World Club and walk around a bit before the last leg. 7 hours to go....

Today after work I made time to go to the gym before my language class and then we did some studying and had a group meeting- after which Chris and I got some spaghetti (good- al dente with a fresh tomato and onion style sauce and a huge portion!) at a place near our apartment on Merry Road called Carol. We just learned that our street is called...