Hello again. As my time here in Japan is drawing to a rapid close, I wanted to share a bit about the second day of our conference and a few more adventures we had thanks to our friends at Swagelok Japan! We heard a number of presentations throughout the day about new media, from media in China which still has much government censorship to blogs ...

After 4 days of "intensive" Japanese courses a friend (Amber) and I decided to hit up the harbor and enjoy ourselves after such hard work. We went down and sat on the steps in a park area overlooking the harbor. There were pigeons galore and they weren't afraid to walk right up to us. There was also a homeless man wearing 3 pair of pants, I only...

This is me and my girlfriend at her mums friends house for learning and taking part in the Tea Ceremony at her own house,it was a wonderful time.