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Today we were unable to go to the lavender fields like we had planned, so we improvised. Sapporro being the beer capital of Japan, we headed to the beer museum. Fascinating though it was, we were still below Japan's drinking age and therefore felt a little left out of the festivities. The beer museum was adjacent to a crazy huge shopping mall and we needed some lunch, so we decided to head in. We grabbed some ...

... br> Next we discovered that the Japanese Winter Sports Museum was located just a short taxi ride away from the park. We went and checked out the olympic ski jump and the interactive simulators for several winter sports. Perhaps the funniest discovery of the day, however, was the INCREDIBLY inappropriate mascot for the ski jump area. Please see the picture below.
Realizing we had finally passed ...

My friend took me to the Moerenuma Park (http://www.sapporo-park.or.jp/moere/en glish.php) where a famous Japanese-American architect/designer, Isamu Noguchi designed.
He's famous for those Akari series lights (you can see these at IKEA often).

I heard this place was just for garbage dumping... and the city of Sapporo decided to have a nice park here.

We had a nice lunch at "Yuuhi ...

... from this town. The government planned on building a dam on Saru River, where Ainu people have used for salmon hunting and other sanctuary rituals. Many individuals including Mr. Shigeru Kayano who became a politician later fought about this project. The dam was built, but during the court session, Sapporo regional court mentioned about Ainu people as the indigenous people. That was the very first recognition of the national level about them. Since then, Hokkaido ...

Apres Sapporo nous avons passe 2 jours a Otaru, ville de pecheurs, qui a prospere grace a l'industrie du harengs. De nombreux entreports anciens bordent le canal et le bord de mer. C'est aussi une destination populaire pour son domaine skiable en hiver. On pouvait voir encore de la neige sur les montagnes autour et on visualisait clairement les pistes ...

... used to the new group dynamic, but I'm sure it will be just as great as last year. We have people from the East Coast this time which I'm excited about: Pennsylvania, North Carolina and New York!! Even people who know of Mary Washington! Besides that we have JET's from New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, England, Hawaii, Alabama, California, Ohio, Florida and Washington. Lily and I are already planning our next Wakayama event, which will be held in our town in ...

... is then rolled out. As well as allowing multiple pitch types in the stadium, rolling the football turf out is necessary so the pitch can get natural light as the dome is complete in doors. The result is an immaculate pitch that looked like a golf green. We found out that there was a football game on that night, and although they were only in the second division of the J-League I thought it would be a good experience to watch football played on that pitch. We went to ...