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Arriving in Kariya

Arriving in Kariya

It’s been almost two weeks since I’ve been back. I was very fortunate this time that I didn’t experience any jetlag coming home. I think my body is used to traveling halfway across the world by now. Hehe. I’ve also had time to go through all my photos, so I figured I should get going with the rest of my journal entries. Thursday morning we started off at the airport. About half of us were late due to the traffic…

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Tadaima!

Tadaima!

Back from my trip to Aichi! It was one of the most memorable weeks of my life. I seriously do not have enough words to express my gratitude for my host family, all the members of the association, and to everyone who came out to all the events. It’s amazing the amount of things you can experience in just one week. I really want to write a more in depth entry later, but I’ll try to point out some quick…

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Chado

Chado

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…

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