Hey everyone,
I’m back from Hokkaido, which was amazing (heaps of good snow, food, fun times) and now I’m just trying to get used to being back in classes again. Just found out this morning that I need to learn about 25 new Japanese verbs for a test tomorrow morning. Yikes.
Anyway, just thought I’d mention that […]

I’m going skiing in Hokkaido and will be gone for a week. I’ll start posting again when I get back!

Miyajima was sooo nice! It’s close to Hiroshima and I went there on Sunday. It’s a little island about a 10 min ferry ride from the mainland, and has the big red (more orangish though) torii that’s a pretty famous symbol of Japan, I think. It was still kind of cold when we were there, […]

Saturday morning I was up at 6am to catch the shinkansen (bullet train - goes ~300km/h) from Osaka to Hiroshima. I was with a huge group of about 70 other students from the uni here, cause part of the reason for the trip was to listen to a lecture by an a-bomb survivor set up […]

Awhile ago I wandered to Osaka on my own for an afternoon to see an exhibition of modernist art at the Osaka National Museum of Art. It was really easy to get to and it was a gorgeous day, so I didn’t mind (in fact I really enjoyed) just walking around by myself, doing whatever […]

This is my house. My host mom says all the time that “her house is very small.” It is small, but big enough for everything it’s needed for. Since everything here is small it makes me realize that everything at home is unnecessarily large.
Later on this day when I took the picture of the house, […]

The other night a bunch of us girls decided to stay out all night and go bowling/karaokeing. Was pretty fun and ridiculous. Check out the fluorescent bowling shoes! They came out of a vending machine. Anyway, it just so happened that the day we decided to do this landed on Girls’ Day, a Japanese holiday where […]

Last weekend I went on a trip to the city of Nara, which is about 1.5 hrs from where I live, with my Japanese Architecture class. Our main purpose was to visit Todaiji Temple, a really famous temple from the 8th century (most of it’s newer now though, because they’ve had to fix things) that […]