Toyoko Inn Nagoya

... and perhaps after 5 more weeks of this he'll either throw me out of Japan in disgust or I'll have actually improved.

3. I love people who laugh easily. It's why I love my husband and both of my families so much. Fortunately, there are a couple of people over here who easily find the joy in life. It's not hard to, I guess, when you get to spend time doing something ...

Here I am, my final destination in Japan. Seems pretty strange that I'm only 3 days into my trip and already at my final destination, but that's how it is.

This morning I woke up really early. I'm not 100% sure of the time, but there was no light outside, nor was there any traffic - so I figure somewhere around 5ish (possibly 5 Aussie time which would have meant that it was 4am Japan time!). As I was completely ...

... long that straight line was. By the time I got to where I thought the palace was supposed to be, I was stuffed. I had stopped off along the way and bought a couple of onigiri (rice balls with stuff inside them), and had envisioned enjoying my lunch in the shade of the palace. But by the time I got to the Noh theatre (which was at the entry to the palace gardens), and then discovered that the palace was yet a much longer ...

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... Coming from Canada, I'm used to making friends and growing up alongside people from a variety of backgrounds. Some of my closest friends are colored, eat some *****in good and sometimes complicated foods, and worship God or nothing at all. Variety is something I'm used to. In Japan, standing out is usually the last thing you want to do, but not always. There's always a free-spirit somewhere, and once in awhile, if you're patient, you can find it waiting for you just as readily ...

So today my host mother was kind enough to give me a map to get to Higashi-Okazaki Station, and I biked all the way there. Took about half an hour, the weather was nice though ^_^. I met up with Emily and Roxy and Roxy's host mom showed us around we took the subway (totally a sky train but smoother) to Nagoya (that took another half hour) and then we had lunch and went to Tokyu Hands ...

It's been a fairly busy past couple months here in Nagoya. Mid-winter means a ratcheting up of overtime work, what with the coming of "Kids Interviews" through my company's subsidiary. Basically imagine six straight hours of giving oral tests to one kid after another and you've got the idea. It's good money though, and there isn't really much else to do in the winter here since I don't ski or snowboard. On top of that, my band, Oran, has started doing gigs around town, so ...

I have a new toy. After years of living in the traditional age of photography, I have set aside my Pentax K-1000 fully-manual for a Canon IXY500 compact digital. Now that I've finally caught up to the 21st century, I'm wondering why on earth I waited so long. Digital cameras rule! At last I can manipulate pictures to complete satisfaction without having to shell out bucketloads on film development. I still haven't figured out many of the options on the camera ...