Hotel Monterey Kobe

... lot of Shanghai is under construction at the moment because the city is holding the `Expo 2010` next year which means that China has invested billions of pounds into getting the city ready for the international attention it`s going to receive, just like they did for the Beijing Olympics. The adverts for the expo are on ever street corner and run on every tube in the city and every train in the country that has TVs. It looks pretty amazing, so much so that we were even ...

Seconds please. I had to go back to Osaka, one way or another (my return flight was leaving from here). Ate just as well if not better than the first go around. Went to the Takoyaki museum at Universal city walk but it was more tako vendors than museum, not such a bad thing. Had simply amazing Kobe ...

... After a few group photos, things wound down and the dinner guests filtered out.<br><br>Next: up to the rooftop commons for internet...<br><br>-----<br>OLD FRIENDS AND NEW:<br><br>In the commons I reconnected with my "student," Taichi (yes, that's his name, and no, he doesn't do tai chi; no connection).<br><br>Met students recently arrived from India: Akram, Sandeep, and Mansoor. Had nice conversation with Akram and learned a bit more about Indian ...

... eat and stopped to watch the dancers for a bit while we at.<br><br>Finally, even though we were all having a great time, decided we'd have to get moving if we were going to get to our hostel, by check-in ( which ended at 9pm ).<br><br>We had all planned to come back after checking in, but by the time we got settled we were all so tired we just decided to go to bed.<br><br>I will continue our Kansai adventure in the next post.<br>

... through a lengthy japanese visitors process, and then we went on a semester at sea trip to visit a temple in Kyoto and experience a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony. We couldn't find babysitting, so Barrett came along. He actually did very well for the first 30 minutes, but then I left with him to explore the temple grounds ...

... the sharks back into the ocean) to the assembly of about 200 delegates from the attending countries. Kobe The meeting was held in Kobe, Japan at the International Convention Center of Kobe (ICCK) on a man-made island off the coast. I took a monorail train called the Port Liner from our hotel to the meeting. It was always extremely crowded but otherwise clean and easy to navigate. We arrived on Saturday afternoon and my meeting started on Monday, so I had ...

Konnichiwa, Ogenki Desuka-- If I could figure out the keys on this foreign computer I would put a question mark after that sentence but hell if I can figure it out. We have successfully traveled throughout western and southern regions of Japan. Navigating through this foreign country is slightly difficult. We must have looked like complete idiots numerous times throughout the day trying to ...

It's been a hard week to be in Japan, especially knowing what so many people are going through at home with the recent massacre at Tech. It's hard being so far away, I feel really detached. I've been thinking about everything a lot this week, reading the news, watching video clips, and it's sad that in so many countries today we really aren't safe anywhere, even schools. 9/11 changed a lot, then there was the sniper in the D.C. area, in between a ton of school ...

... sem se sla malzgubit med divjad v gozd in prsla vn v enem naselju, kjer so ble lustne hiske. pol sem bla pridna in sem sla naslednji dan na tradicionalni sejem, kupla nc, vse se je zdelo zelo kitajsko s previsokimi cenami. Moje oglede sem nadaljevala z opazovanjem z udelezbo v petek - shopping v osaki. zdej pa vsi fantje, tipi, modeli karkoli POSLUSTE - ce zelite met zrihtano bejbo, ki povsod hodi v visokih petah, pol rabte Japonko! cist ...

... was this Sunday, so we met up at a bar in Kobe after work. I can't remember the name, but it was your basic beer and burger joint. So there are people from our school and people from another school where Stus girlfriend, Donna, worked. To make a long story short, I met these 3 Japanese girls who all speak English very well. Satsuki, Iku, and Naoko were all local Kobe University students. Iku and Naoko were leaving the country soon to study, Iku in ?Australia and Naoko in Oregon ...