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Anyone for strawberry pasta? Or ramen at the library?

Posted in Spring term, tagged confusing, cultural differences, food, japan, nagoya, SOAS, strange on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Just when I thought I had seen it all in Japan, I realised I have only been scraping the surface of bizarrity. (That isn’t a word but it sounds right somehow. My English ability has dropped to the level of a 6 year old.) I went for a mosey around the public library at Tsurumai [...]

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Strange foods that I have eaten in Japan…

Posted in random, Spring term, tagged food, japan, jellyfish, meat, raw, sea cucumber, strange, whale on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Japan has a wonderful variety of food, some of which is strange, some of which is horrendous. Some things which I used to think were really different or interesting have become so normal (green tea ice cream,miso soup, seaweed, raw eggs, pickled cucumber and radish etc) but there are still things which I find a bit bizarre.

However strange something sounds, I will always try it once to see what its like, and so I thought I would share a few of my experiences with you.

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Umbrella Karma and Crows the Size of Lawnmowers…

Posted in Around Japan, Spring term, Term 2, tagged akihabara, asahi, english teaching, foreign policy, ginza, honorifics, ikebana, kobe, kyoto, nagoya, nara, newspaper, niigata, proof for the existence of God, ryokan, shibuya, snowboarding, sumie, Tokyo, travel on March 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Sorry for such a long absence! The last month and a bit has been very busy with a fantastic 10 day visit from my parents, never ending mountains of work, and a trip up to Niigata for a weekend of snowboarding! Seeing my parents was a really nice break and we managed to cram a [...]

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Earthquakes

Posted in Spring term, tagged earthquakes! on February 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Today I slept through my second earthquake. I am really annoyed because I have never consciously experienced one before, and I keep sleeping through them!

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Valentines Day

Posted in Spring term, tagged alien, baking, chocolate, confusing, cultural differences, exchange, facts, food, japan, love, obligation, reverse, valentines day on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Question: what whips Japanese girls into a fury of baking, borrowing sugar, and locked kitchen doors? Valentines day of course!

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The Party to end all parties!

Posted in random, Spring term, tagged japan, nagoya, organise, party on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Amongst all the flower arranging (Ikebana), Japanese Foreign Policy studying, Business Japanese skills developing, Sumie (chinese Black ink) painting, Japanese Language learning and extra-curricular-socialising, I am currently occupying my time organising the party to end all parties! Over the last 2 months my best friend George and I have gathered 7 different sponsors (two hair [...]

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