Sakuragi-Cho Washington Yokohama

... around and speaking to different groups and she feels like this experience really verified that she wants to pursue motivational speaking. I have spent more time with Lindsay throughout the trip but found out that one of the reasons th Lindsay is such a good dancer is that she danced for three years in high school and went to LA several times to train with professional dancers. Upon high school graduation ...

... the hotel we had booked in Tokyo, Disneyland was a 45 minute train ride, which had between 4 and 6 changes of train, depending on which route you chose to take. So the 45 minutes would easily blow out to over an hour by the time you finished running between train platforms in the Tokyo peak hour crush. The reason the Yokohama trip is so quick is that the first journey to Tokyo station is via ...

... try and get well and most importantly, go empty my sick and ailing bladder. I will leave it up to Michael or future me to finish this entry and tell you about the great time we had with our two hour english class, complete with a felt story, puppets, games and songs. Pray for us as we travel, and pray that I get better as soon as possible. I miss you all and Hope to hear from you soon. I'm gonna email you back soon Grace, sorry for the delayed response. Love you, family. -Chris

... in Bangkok, although definitely not on the same scale! Ended the day in Ginza, where the lights really are pretty dazzling. Dinner was spent in a Tokyo institution (another name I've forgotten but I'll google it for you!), where I was able to feast on stir fried lamb whilst admiring the amazing interior of the venue. Decked out in the style of a German bierkellar, quite strange! But a good way to round off the day :o)

... to be named, yes; you guessed it right, No. 3, No. 4... The programme of the ceremony, which was handed out to me on arrival, told a different story. It featured a bar graph representing the number of pupils over the thirty years of our primary school. It started off at somewhere around 500 pupils in 1977. Then the number peaked to 800 in 1980. From then the number steadily declined. In 2007 the number stood at ...

... The perfect beginning. Every other piece was in a class of its own. From sea urchin, to hamachi, ikura, tile fish, unagi, awaogi (giant clam?) and a couple others, we paused after each piece to savor the best sushi we've ever eaten. Tiny Daiwa, we will never forget your mega sized, fresh flavors. After the market we visited the Hama Rikyu Gardens next door. We would not recommend this place! The water channels, which supposedly run through the ...

... and other more private parts on busy trains. If all these things are considered civilised, the Japanese are heads and shoulders above everyone else. Anyways, needless to say he picked on the wrong folk. Drunken Scots and Irish are not the people you want to be picking fights with. So, I tried asking him why he chose us and not the Japanese to ask to shut up, however although my Japanese isn't fluent it isn't bad. He literally ...

... pagoda temple in our backyard. It is outside of the crazy neon filled Times Square-ish neighborhoods which are very expensive and in more of a residential neighborhood. There is a wall-mounted heater inside but we are unsure yet how effective it will be and whether we will need to buy a space heater. Although it was the first place we looked at we reserved it right away because our classmates are all looking for apartments and the ones near campus are getting ...

Here we are! We arrived a bit ahead of schedule yesterday, touching down at Narita a little before 3 p.m. Getting into the city was another matter, though, and it was nearly 6 o'clock when we dragged our bags into our temporary quarters. We should be getting our real apartment next week, so we'll have to live out of our suitcases for a few days more. I'm in G's office at the moment, while he pokes around and looks in drawers, inspecting his ...

... there were no nasty surprises. It was a very cheap lunch too so that's all good. The afternoon was a lot better. We decided to take the monorail out to Daiba - yet another part of Tokyo. Now, the monorail here puts Sydney's to shame. The circuit takes over half an hour and it gives you an excellent view into the various parts of Tokyo - I definitely recommend it. Daiba was a lovely experience, not too busy and not too touristy so we took our time to relax and ...