Okazaki Hotels - Reviews and Rates

So it seems I am going to be writing week long updates from now on, just so you guys know I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. hahahaha. Monday attempted to read Harry Potter in Japanese in Sasaki's class. Oh boy was that painful, so many kanji I didn't know. Yamaguchi's class was cancelled but before he left he gave us sweet potato and ...

OMG so I know i haven't updated in the past four days or so, truth is I've been lazy. Sunday was weird, I went to have lunch with the family downstairs and for some reason me, Kozue, Tomomi and my host mom shared one fish, whereas Kozue's husband had one fish to himself. I found it odd, there was also some nabe soup but it was weird because ther...

So Japan is starting to be fun again, Friday was Yamaguchi's class, we read "The Face of Jizo" and then watched the play. After that I had lunch with Roxy and then Moriya took me to Japanese cooking class. It was very fast, I understood about half the instructions. We ended up making Suimono soup, Japanese rice, Onimanju and of course there was ...

So I have been in Japan for two days now, the flight from Vancouver was long and extremely crowded but we still had personal tvs and two decent meals for the flight. It was cool I got to watch the Sex and the City movie in Japanese and amazingly enough understood it . I also saw the movie Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan and Bruce Li, I though...

Today has been the coldest I have ever felt it. I have figured out that the reason why I sleep until 11-12am is that I don't want to get out of bed. The temperature here has been somewhere in the 8-11deg C range.. that's something like in the 40's low 50's. And it's march. Jeez, why did I ever leave Cali? I've always considered myself somewhat m...

Not on either of our part, however, we decided that Tuesday would be a good day to travel to Okazaki, a small town outside of Nagoya in central Honshu. That's the big island, in case you're wondering. In Japan, just in case you're wondering that, too. Ash and I packed up our luggage from the comforts of John-san's house (most of our stuff) and l...