Route Inn Yokohama Bashamichi

... There is definitely no flow in the exam and the one question could be about "what or where is My Lai?" and the next could be "how does the government take steps to fight influenza?" I think this test was easier than the first one though so I will see how I did in a few days when the post the grades. After the exam I went to Physics for Mariners and am glad I did since we had two quizzes at ...

The Cooney cousins met up in Tokyo last night for some serious fun. We started the evening at this place called The English Hub. They served up half off cocktails and beer until 7pm. We ate some nasty fried bar snacks and drank well drinks together. The group included my cousin Tara and her buddy who married a Japanese girl! He is now living in Yokohama with her. Tara had come to Japan to visit them ...

... the breeze. It was a fun night. After the sushi we came home and decided to make videos to post on this blog. I made a video that is about two and a half minutes chronicling the strangeness of Japan and all the tourism we did. Michael's video will focus on the work we are charged to do here and will probably be up soon too. I hope you will watch them and give us some feed back. Have a great day or night. In case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening and good night. - Chris

... child to sit next to or be held close to me as the screams of horror break my eardrums. All the while the parents laugh and smile as if this is some sort of great pleasure. (Note from Santa: these are BAD parents and NO picture is worth your child's going through this trauma.) Then there is the mother and father who bring their child in a stretcher/chair to see Santa for the first time. The little boy (I don't have a guess about his age) is severely challenged, physically. I am not ...

... put, I did not give a damn about the project, caring about the project as much as Mr Yoshihara did. Inside the capsule were several memorabilia. I was intrigued by these. Newspapers, restaurant menus and textbooks. Before leaving the gym I scanned through the newspaper. It had a feature article on our school - a story about the tenth anniversary time-capsule. No one paid attention to the newspaper. Even I alerted ...

... funny: you have all the style that you want, you have a picture of the room at the entrance to choose which kind of ambiance you would like ( Oriental, castle ...), there is a private entry for the car, and they even hide the matriculation of the car to keep it anonymous. You have 2 prices: one for 3 or 4 hours and one for the night. The night price is not so expensive or at least like a normal hotel so I will maybe test it before my departure.

... decided, after a long time of consideration, to have a baby. Junya had to go to the airport to collect our baby as he was coming from another part of Japan. So, as you've guessed, we had a dog. He's the cutest wee thing ever. He's a Shiba ken or in English Shiba Inu. We named him Yamato, which is the old name for Japan. Transalted it means "Big Peace". He's 2 months old but has a slight biting problem. He was quickly ...

... seen the movie, Lost in Translation, the hotel where they stayed is the Park Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo. It is very fancy, extremely tall, and was listed in the book, A Thousand Places to See Before You Die. And Dane really wanted to check it out. So we were back on the metro and then wandering the chilly streets, by now in daylight (although it was a very cold and blustery day). I wasn't quite sure what to expect or what exactly Dane was ...

... girl who teaches English to young students. The dresser-like object is a zipper-up object a little shorter than me. There's a neat view of this section of Tokyo from the rooftop -- big buildings, lights, the hectic pulse of the metropolis are all visible. I didn't have to work today, so I caught up on sleep -- didn't get much Sunday or Monday. Now it's 10:41 p.m. Tokyo time on Wednesday as I write this. I will make my first trek to The Japan Times' offices tomorrow. I'm ...

... themselves before entering the shrine. The walk up to the shrine is lined with little market stalls selling all sorts of souvenirs and food - it was very lively there! I then wandered over to the main crossroads to admire the Philippe Starck Flamme d'Or building (a black, shiny building with a massive golden flame stuck on the top that looks like it's toppled over) and the Asahi building which is gold and metallic white and resembles a very square and very big pint of ...