2/27/09
Goto Apartment, Machida, Tokyo
Today was my last day here in Tokyo, tomorrow I get on a plane for Fukuoka. Janet and I went out for lunch with a bunch of the Koreans in our class.
Said a lot of goodbyes. Big day tomorrow!
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Showing posts with label Party. Show all posts
2/20/09
Goto Apartment, Machida, Tokyo
Today we did the "introduction to the train system" workshop.
In the evening I went to Maaya's Labo party again. Daiki came too. There were a couple kids who were visiting home from a three year stint in London.
2/13/09
Goto Apartment, Machida, Tokyo
This morning we did the songbird workshop.
I got a package from the Nakatani family in Nagoya with a birthday present and some valentine chocolate. Chocolate penguins.
I went to Maaya's Labo Party after school. Saw Yuima there.
2/4/09
Watanabe House, Machida, Tokyo
Today I visited one of Watanabe Tutor's parties near Nagahara station. Had fun.
Went shopping with her and Taizo, and found alfredo. Nom.
Geez I'm tired.
1/30/09
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
Today I said a lot of goodbyes. The office threw a tea party for me, and they got me a wonderful little traveler's almanac. Chocolate covered potato chips aren't nearly as disgusting as they might sound, although they probably are just as unhealthy.
My host mom held a farewell party as well, all her labo kids came. It was a very crowded house, and now everyone is very tired. Packing too, I think I'm going to need to ship a box back home pretty soon. Leaving tomorrow for Tokyo!
1/29/09
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
Visited Uchida party today, my last Labo party in Chubu.
I just found out about the eclipse this summer. Longest totality of the century? Just south of Kyushu? This is gonna rock. I REALLY hope the weather agrees. Current predictions of mean cloudiness are just above 50%.
1/28/09
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
Today I visited Nakano party. We had a grand old time, more setsubun. Pretty wiped though.
12/17/08
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
Today was my last scheduled office day and/or Labo Party for almost a month. There were like 50 people there (Kitatani tutor). it was plenty of fun, but I didn't get home until like ten.
I messed around with videos for a bit... there were some problems, youtube would truncate the video way down, so I had to put it into a different format and I tried Google video instead. After finally successfully uploading five videos, I now see that there is no userpage to link to. Google video sucks.
(Next best thing I can do is link to one video, and you can see "more from user." I'll probably reupload them somewhere else later, too.)
12/13/08
Kawamura House, Kanazawa
Got up nice and early to get the train back to Kanazawa, and visited Sugihara Party. Then I went to Kurachi tutor's house and did two parties. Now I'm staying with a member of Kurachi's party, Haruhi.
My first host father Mitsuda Tokio sent me an email today saying that he read my site and saw that I'm in Kanazawa, and that he actually grew up here. Awesome!
12/12/08
Matsumura House, Nanto
I visited two separate kindergartens with Kokaji tutor, and then went to Matsumura party in the evening. For lunch Kokaji tutor took me to a really nice tofu restaurant, it was really good. Don't wanna know how much it cost though. Went out to dinner with Matsumura, Kokaji, and a few of Matsumura's Labo kids. One of them was named O, he was pretty cool. Matsumura's house is way out in Nanto, so it was like an hour drive home over some mountains.
12/11/08
Kokaji House, Kanazawa
Lots of fun today. I did two parties of about 50 kindergartners each with Iwamoto tutor in the morning, and two more with her in the afternoon. Then I took off to Toyama and visited Matsuki Party, and now I'm back in Kanazawa with Kokaji tutor.
I was in the office of the school with Iwamoto, and I looked over and saw a little basket full of Hikaro no Go erasers. They were one of the few HnG related objects I've found so far here (guess it's out of style or something), so I pointed them out. Turns out that one of the people working there is a bit of an anime aficionado, and he gave me one of the erasers. Then he helped me explain to Iwamoto how gravity and Gs and orbits work.
There was a bit of a rainstorm going on in the evening, it made some of the trains late.
We watched a late night show where some dudes tried to break the Guiness world record of most T-shirts worn at a time. The record was 224. They got up to 169 and couldn't go any further. Still entertaining.
zzz
12/10/08
Iwamoto House, Toyama
Today I had two Labo Party kindergarten sessions with Kokaji tutor in Kanazawa, then two sessions with Kida tutor in Komatsu. They all went great. Now I'm with Iwamoto tutor near Isurugi.
Man I'm wiped. This journal would be really interesting this week if it weren't for me doing so much stuff and being hardly able write a comprehensible sentence. I'm seeing lots of cool stuff, I'll leave it at thatzzz
12/8/08
Kitao Apartment, Kanazawa
I'm in Hokuriku! Yay! Brrr.
Took the Hikari Shinkansen (the "slow" one that makes more stops) to Maibara, then transferred to the Shirasagi line. Lovely train ride, it had apparently snowed this weekend. Hardly any snow here in Kanazawa, but it's still plenty chilly.
The Kitao family is pretty nice, I'm staying with them for tonight. There's a four year old and a nine month old, Asuki and Yotaro. The party went ok for the kids being as young as they were.
long day, sleep...
12/5/08
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
After spending a few hours at the office calling all the tutors I'll see next week in Hokuriku, I went to visit Suzuki Party. The party itself was fine, but the interesting part came afterwards. Suzuki's father, a Go teacher, visited with some problems and little go boards for everyone. He gave everyone sets of beginner problems to work on, while Suzuki's son (6y/o) and I did some lower-kyu problems.
That didn't last too long before everyone had to go home, and we ate dinner. After dinner, Minoru (I think that was his name, I just called him "sensei") and I played a full game. He's a licensed amateur 6 dan, and he gave me nine stones. He played a good teaching game, but I didn't realize just how much control he'd had until after we counted our territory; he'd pulled an Akira and tied the game. I was sure impressed. I recorded the game, too.
At that point it was ten, I didn't get back home until after eleven. Late trains are nice, not so crowded.
12/4/08
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
Went all the way out to Toyohashi today to visit the Furui party. Yay fun! I'm tired.
12/2/08
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
This morning I went to a kindergarten Labo Party with Yamaguchi tutor. It was three half-hour sessions with 30 kids and 30 moms each. That's a lot of people.
I went back to Labo Center and studied a bunch, my test is coming up this weekend.
I hung out with some college mates before their meeting started, taught a few of them how to juggle.
Walking home, I looked up and saw the crescent moon next to bright planets Venus and Jupiter. It's rare that I see much in the sky at all, so that was kind of a treat.
I've been bonking my head against Terminal, trying to get a wireless upload working with my DS. I must have a unique version of netcat that refuses to actually run. It's very annoying.
Oh yeah, and a building about a hundred meters or so away went up before dinner. Smoke and flame and tons of fire trucks and sirens. We don't know anything about it yet, but it seems like the firefighters got everything under control. One of my host mom's friends lives there, I hope they're ok.
11/28/08
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
I visited Inoshima Party today, the second time I've been through Jinryo Station in like two weeks. The party was ok, but man were those kids all over the place. I am wiped.
I went online and checked out some of the black friday deals. The sites with deals won't ship to Japan, though, so oh well.
11/27/08
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
I found a Subway in the building kitty corner from the Labo building. I don't know how I missed it for two months. It was a little more than I usually spend, but it seems to have survived the transition from the US pretty well. They even still had footlongs.
I went to see Osada Party today, way up north. The train ride was nice, I like that line. Fun party, too.
11/25/08
Nakatani Apartment, Nagoya
Today I visited the Suzuki Party out in Kaguyama. I had to take a bus to get there, which meant I had to go to the Oasis 21 bus terminal in Sakae. The place is more like a shopping center with a UFO hovering over it than a bus terminal, it's really cool. I'll be visiting it again soon.
The party was great (played a traditional game called "hana ichi monme," I was pretty lost but it was still fun). The tutor dropped me off all the way back at Hoshigaoka station, so I didn't get to ride the bus again. The subway had just pulled up when I got to the platform, and I went towards the nearest car. A station attendant politely pointed me to the next car down, and I realized I had been about to board the women-only car. Oops. That would have been embarrassing.
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