Through the Eyes of a Vagrant

The Adventures of Adam T. Horvath Around the World

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Entries from January 2007

Strange Numbers?

January 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve noticed that a lot of packages of things come in strange numbers. They don’t come in the nice round numbers that we are used to in Canada like 10 or 25 or 50 for instance. But rather, many things come in packs of 11 or 9. Rarely do I see nice [...]

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Dancing and Capsule Fun

January 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Last night I attended an all night dance party for foreigners and Japanese people alike to promote internationalization. There were around 4 DJs that switched throughout the night and were spinning house all night long. I finally got the chance to see how Japanese people interact with each other in a club setting and compare [...]

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Santa Wields a Guitar

January 8th, 2007 · No Comments

As promised I went back to Sapporo
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for the Christmas party that Slowhand was hosting.  The bar was fairly full as opposed to last time and it was actually hard to find a place to sit down.  Also having full winter gear on didn’t make the situation any [...]

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Mid-year Conference Shenanigans

January 5th, 2007 · No Comments

On Monday and Tuesday there was the Mid-Year Conference for all of the ALTs. Any of the English teachers that wanted to attend in Hokkaido could also do so. Knowing that a whole bunch of foreigners were going to be in the same spot and that much partying was about to commence, I [...]

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