I know it is the next day but I had to say a few things.First of all my birthday was awesome. After school I went shopping and now I need to take a picture of my toilet because it looks so awesome. I went with some friends to a store called Village Vanguard which is [...]

We called in at Himeji on our way to Kyoto, as it is home to Japan’s most impressive castle. We only just got there in time though as the last admissions were at 4pm – I kept forgetting that we were still in off season. It worked out fine though as we were able to [...]

Righto, and here we are again. Ive had some people email me out of the loop because they just joined the mass following of those cool people who read my blog. If you have just joined us, basically the deal is that I am here in Japan, from New Zealand, on a university exchange, so [...]

Good morning everyone.Things here in Hirosaki are great. Andy is off to Brazil tonight so I will be all on my lonesome for the next couple of weeks. Michael came back from America yesterday (we think) so I am glad. Yesterday I bought a present for him in a store we randomly discovered on the [...]

Shock horror, our train to Hamamatsu was delayed by approximately ten minutes on the Sunday morning because of all the snow that had fallen overnight. I couldn’t remember the last time that this had happened to me in Japan! We were calling in to have lunch with Yumi before continuing on our merry way to [...]

It is so hot. There shouldnt be places this hot. I am aware there are places hotter than this, but I dont see how life can be sustained there. This is crazy. The bike ride to Andys house almost kills me. By the way, I got a new bike. Rusty the falcon piked out on [...]

Meaning: Its so hot I might die.As you know, we went to Tokyo this weekend, and it was quite fun. The bus ride (9 hours) was murder, luckily while we were there I bought a pillow at the Jumpshop, which sells anime and Manga merchandise, so at least Andy and I could be relatively comfortable [...]

Japan is still cool. I have to say that my Japanese really is improving in leaps and bounds. Yesterday I had a conversation with this lady about teaching her son english, New Zealand, China, Japan and Japanese in general. It lasted for an hour and I understood almost everything she said. I am by no [...]

Ok, so the last Tokyo entry was getting too long, so I’m breaking it up into three parts, Karla at Disneyland The next day we rose with the sun, Karla suffered no Jet lag today, for she was going to Disneyland Tokyo, the “Happiest Prace on Earf”. We wrangled up some breakfast and left Shinigawa [...]

So yeah, apparently I have seen my last snow-less day in Hirosaki. ITS CRAZY. Two days ago there was no snow. Now there is about a foot and its snowing heavily outside while I am writing this. Its been snowing all morning, this morning I lost a glove on the way to school. No idea [...]