i like presents

Maybe I’ve been a little down on Japan in my last few entries – but there’s something I want to write about today that I really like.  Omiyage!!  (おみやげ –  sounds like oh-mi-yah-gey) That’s Japanese for a souvenir or present.  And I like presents. Whenever you go somewhere, you’re supposed to bring back omiyage for [...]

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hong kong top 5

Okay! I know you’ve all been jiggling around in some sort of I-have-to-pee type dance fashion since my last entry but relief is here people.  The top 5 things I Will Have Trouble Forgetting About Hong Kong.  With photographic evidence! Let me start by saying I know absolutely nothing about Hong Kong except that its [...]

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oh yeah, international travel.

Ooops. Maybe should have mentioned this before I left, but I spent the last week in Hong Kong!  I have so much I want to write about so I’m trying to pare it all down so you don’t have to sludge through a long entry of “and then we…and after that we went to..” and [...]

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hiroshima – its more than just the most depressing place in the world

I went to Hiroshima this weekend!  You know you’ve been in Japan a long time when “Hiroshima” is no longer synonymous with “we killed a lot of people” and has instead elicits memories of drunken sake revelry.  This year makes the second Sake Matsuri I’ve experienced in Higashi-Hiroshima.  It was pretty rad.  Included meat stick, [...]

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engyoji

This weekend we went to Engyoji – a temple complex atop Mt. Shosha – in Himeji.  It was so much fun!  I haven’t been a tourist in Japan in quite a while, so it was nice to just put on some sneakers and do some walking and take hundreds of pics and not know where [...]

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finally getting used to my job. yay.

I think I’ve finally hit my stride with work (-knock on wood-) and it feels really nice. It’s taken a long time for me to feel even remotely comfortable here – days and days of maddening frustration, crying in the bathroom, being full of hope only to be shot down, being super low and having [...]

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