Through the Eyes of a Vagrant

When I was browsing around the internet I went to the homepage of Bonnie Pink and noticed that during her new “One” tour that she would be coming to Okayama on July 17th. Rockin’! The tour took her all across Japan starting with Nagoya and eventually ended in Tokyo. I knew well [...]

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In Hokkaido, from July the 7th to the 9th, Japan will be hosting the 2008 Toyoko Summit (G8). This time, Japan, the United States of America, England, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Russia, and the President of the EU Commission will be meeting to discuss things such as global warming. This summit has been [...]

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Today I woke up at around 2pm and didn’t really feel like getting out of bed since it was the weekend. I got up anyways because there was a Beethoven and Brahms concert that I was planning on attending. Going by the tradition that I have with my friends, when attending an orchestral [...]

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For winter vacation I was told to travel around Japan for the three weeks I had off. I did a lot of things but in order to not bore you and save my sanity I will only highlight a few interesting things that happened. Even so, this entry is going to be long.
The [...]

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I had been waiting for this day for weeks now, and it finally arrived. Today I got to see Asian Kung-Fu Generation (or Ajikan for short) live in concert. The venue was Zepp Sapporo and this was Ajikan’s last stop on their 2007 tour that took them from one end of Japan to [...]

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Today I went to a concert by a Japanese band called Capsule. Two years ago, a Japanese exchange student introduced me to Capsule and I’ve liked them ever since. So, I was waiting for today for quite some time and was quite excited.
This happened to be the 1st year anniversary of Mole, so [...]

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The rules in Japanese junior high schools are quite strict.  I’ve been warned against many things so far as I’ve committed many faux pas.  I’ve decided to write about this topic as a result of what happened today.
As you know today is Halloween.  So, I decided to buy some chocolates to hand out to the [...]

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So after being here for a while I’ve heard that there are quite a few gaijin bars in Sapporo. Feeling kind of bored, I figured I had some money to blow and wanted to check out at least one of them. It was a very spur of the moment decision type of thing and I [...]

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So today I woke up thinking that today would just be some normal day at school. I would say ohayou gozaimasu after I walk into the teacher’s room and we would have our regular morning meeting and start the day. Nope. Not today.
I walked into the teacher’s room after greeting everyone and [...]

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Today I taught a similar lesson to the one I taught on October 2nd. But, as I was walking up and down the aisles, one student hadn’t written anything yet and just sat there uninterested. I asked him why he hadn’t written anything yet and he responded with, “I don’t want to study [...]

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