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Dare wa Oni? Showa Day Celebration!
Today was a national holiday in Japan called Showa Day (Showa no hi). It is a celebration of former Emperor Showa’s birthday, and all the ryuugakusei (foreign students) at my university didn’t have any classes. The regular Japanese students did have classes, but I received a text from my home visit sister to meet her […]
Read MoreEndless Pizza, Flooded Kimonos and Women Dressed as Men: My Weekend
((Phew…still so busy!!!!! I have to prepare for a presentation on Japanese media tomorrow in class, so I’ll work on these later.))
Spring Break: Day 6
My parents plane left sometime in the afternoon, and with my Shinkansen ticket to Hiroshima at 5:00, we had to part ways with each other fairly early. I escorted my parents to Osaka, and we had enough time to visit a few stores and buy some “last minute things.” I went as far as the […]
Read MoreMade of Nabe
Tonight I went with Kelly and my friend Meg with Ai and her friend to Hirakatashi. We went to a Nabe all-you-can-eat restaurant…and when they said all-you-can-eat, I literally left that place barely able to move.[singlepic=201,320,240,,left] Basically, Nabe is very similar to fondue. They bring out a giant pot of soup like liquid and you […]
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