It’s finally fall! Although this summer was too short and much too rainy, the crisp change in weather is greatly appreciated. With the changing fall colours, I can hardly wait for the crunching sound of the leaves beneath my boots when I stomp over a freshly raked pile. (As long as I don’t have to do the raking part myself). Once again I feel like I should be combining ten updates in one as so much time has pass since…
The past two months have been busy busy busy. Aside from working the two jobs, I also took on Japanese classes on top of the Mandarin classes I’m already taking. Purely suicidal. I’m actually amazed I’ve gotten through two months of this schedule without passing out from sheer exhaustion. Well, there is another month left…hehehe…we’ll just wait and see. Anyway, last Tuesday in class we had a special tea ceremony presentation, or 茶道 as they call it in Japanese. It…
There wasn’t much left to do as we approached the last two days of our trip. I think I hit all the tourist spots I had originally planned out, so I was happy to backtrack a little and revisit some of the earlier locations. My sister actually hadn’t seen Harajuku yet, so that was the first spot on the day. Well, I should really say, we had a very specific reason for going to Harajuku early in the day. I…
It was nearing down to the last couple of days in Tokyo and there was still one attraction on my list to see. Aside from being a looming orange and white structure 333m tall, the 11th tallest tower in the world and almost an exact replica of the Eiffel Tower, this was also another must-see location in Japan – Tokyo Tower. Coming off the trains, the tower was already visible in the distance. There were line ups when we got…
I can’t remember the last time I willingly got out of bed at 3:30 in the morning. However, seeing as the recommended time to go to the Tsukiji Fish Market was between 4:30-5:30am, I had no choice but to forgo my sleep in order to catch some of the action! Tsukiji is apparently one of the largest markets in the world. I read that on average they get 3,000 tons of fish each morning, selling 2.8 billion yen worth by…