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 Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:28 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:33 pm
Maaaan. What happened to this guild? surprised
EDIT: I miss Radioblog! What happened? : (
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:54 pm
I've had a headache every day this week.
WHAT IS THIS burning_eyes
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:10 pm
Do you have a beehive?
MITE B SPYDERZ.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:04 pm
Guess who finally came back from the dead?
Me.
I really should get back into hitting up concerts regularly, but holy crap is my town inconvenient for any of that. ;_; I want to live in Nagoya again; as it stands now, I'm turning more and more into a country bumpkin.
May Tokyo save me this weekend.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 3:01 pm
Where are you living now?
Sapporo was the most convenient city I've ever lived in, and had some good shows, too.
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:54 pm
I've been living in a town called Nagahama in Shiga prefecture for almost the past two years. If I were living four stops further south on the Biwako line, I'd be in a better position to enjoy any sort of night life in Kyoto or Osaka, but alas, I don't. I feel like I either have to catch the Cinderella Train up north, or dedicate myself to an overnight stay anytime I want to do fun things in a major city.
I've heard a lot of good stories about people living in Sapporo, but wasn't it really cold up there in the winter?
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:17 pm
Ouch. Sounds really inconvienent and...boring. Maybe only because I really enjoy the night life. What are you doing in Japan that is more than a 2 year stay? School?
Well...I'm from Canada so I didn't really notice the cold. Except on school days where I had to wear a bloody skirt first thing in the morning. But no, the winters aren't too bad there, and the awesomness of Sapporo makes up for the cold. Good concerts, good stores, good schools, excellent transportation, I love that city. There's always something going on. [/rant.]
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:55 am
I go to school .... to teach. I'm currently working in Japan at an Elementary school as their English instructor. I only teach at one school, and only to the first, second, third grade students as well as the special needs kids. It's fun because the children have fantastic energy of their own, but I'd like to have a life outside of work. After I promised to myself at the beginning of this term that I would not stay and work unpaid overtime, I managed to open up some extra time in the evenings.
Even so, it's not an easy thought to justify over an hour's worth of train fares to get to Kyoto, and hour and a half to get to Osaka unless I am able to be there for the full day. During the week, I'm living near rice paddies and the largest lake in Japan (it smells odd during the summer).
It sounds like you had an awesome time in Sapporo, and since you come for an area that has real winters I suppose that the cold wouldn't have been any sort of shock. I'm a p***y who was born in California, and raised in Arizona, so the only weather that I am familiar with is nice or murderously hot. Adjusting to an area that has snowfall in the winter is nothing short of painful for me. To learn all the hassles of winter life without having the blessing of enjoying the snow as a child is--- for a lack of a more eloquent phrase-- not cool. However, i know that I am just bitching about something that I never had to deal with.
While you were in Sapporo, did you go to the Yuki Matsuri that attracts crowds from all around Japan? I didn't manage to make it up there this year (or last year... or in 2005 sweatdrop ), but I have heard a lot of awesome things about it. Would you suggest going? Or anything else awesome up in Hokkaido that you'd think it'd be a shame if someone didn't visit? I'm looking to see if I can throw together a Hokkaido trip at some point, so the advice of someone who has spent a lot of time on the island would be a huge help for me.
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Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 3:36 am
Ohhh. Did you take a course or something before you went over? We have a TESL course coming up in June, would it be helpful to have? It would be awesome to teach those grades, a high energy atmosphere, eh?
I understand about the train fares...They add up quickly. It may not be exciting but I guess it's a cool experience to live...near rice paddies : D;.
Heh. Yeah, I went to the Yuki Matsuri last year. It's a really neat experience it extends through Odori, it's just...Really cool. One of those uniquely Japanese things, I live in Canada and I've never been to a snow festival.
I would definitely suggest a trip up to Hokkaido. Sapporo is fairly close to Otaru (I'd say about half an hour), which is a really cool kinda 'harbor city' I've also heard Hakodate is a nice spot, but I've never been there myself.
Sapporo itself is really easy to get around. Maybe because it's newer city, it has a lot of signs, so it's easy to know where your going (which was a lot of help when I first moved there). There's a lot to do, Susukino, Miyanosawa, Okura, Tanokikouji, etc etc. Plus the beer and ramen are huge pluses : D. I hope that was of some help. ><
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:47 am
IKN - WELCOME BACK, this better be for good. How're your kiddies?
KAO - You lived in Sapporo!? I freaking love Sapporo. It's my favorite place in Japants. (so far) I even decided this before falling madly in love with a Sapporo-born physicist. It really reminded me of my birth city, at least climate-wise.
I want to go to Hakodate and Aomori (yeah, I know, not Hokkaido, but close enough.) I know there's nothing in Aomori, I just have my own music/Terayama-geek reasons for this. Actually I just want to see the Nebuta matsuri and Osorezan.
Speaking of my birth city/country... I'm there now. smile
Yesterday I went where "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust" took place. It was horrifying to see a little child running around playing at the very place where Nazis once lined up and machine gunned over 33,000 people in two days. (And 70,000 more after that.) My emotions are really messed up right now.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:56 pm
Mad Tiger- I'm taking a chance here and saying, your German? (I want to go to Europe one day). What brought you back to your home country? Seeing a little kid playing where all that took place would be pretty chilling...But, I think people are starting to forget (for lack of a better word) the horrors that happened in the past, humanity is so present/future orientated...It's worrying, to say the least.
I agree about wanting to go to Hakodate. Everyone took a ton of pictures from when they went there and it looks really pretty...Nice place for a vacation. I pretty much want to visit a lot of places in Japan, I've never been to Okinawa. The only places I've been in Japan are: Sapporo, Annaka, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto...The normal places, pretty much. I really liked Annaka cause it was kind of smaller and out of the way, nice temples and stuff, too (Japanese architecture is amazing..)...Sorry, and little off topic.
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:46 am
O Blue Sky Complex Mad Tiger- I'm taking a chance here and saying, your German? (I want to go to Europe one day). What brought you back to your home country? Seeing a little kid playing where all that took place would be pretty chilling...But, I think people are starting to forget (for lack of a better word) the horrors that happened in the past, humanity is so present/future orientated...It's worrying, to say the least. I agree about wanting to go to Hakodate. Everyone took a ton of pictures from when they went there and it looks really pretty...Nice place for a vacation. I pretty much want to visit a lot of places in Japan, I've never been to Okinawa. The only places I've been in Japan are: Sapporo, Annaka, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto...The normal places, pretty much. I really liked Annaka cause it was kind of smaller and out of the way, nice temples and stuff, too (Japanese architecture is amazing..)...Sorry, and little off topic. Not German... But go through Poland and you'll be there. wink I was just visiting relatives... Back home now. Where do you want to go, exactly? Western/Eastern Europe? I don't really want to visit Okinawa, except I know this one kid who's a total sweetheart and really proud of being Okinawan, so he got me kinda interested. Also, the more south you go in Japan, the bigger the cockroaches sad So Kao, what did you think of all those "normal" places? I studied in this one little town on Mikawa Bay (right next to Nagoya) for a month, so the most exciting place in the area was Nagoya, which is technically a huge city with tons of people... but it seemed kinda empty to me. I ran away to Tokyo and whatnot (*cough* to visit ikn.) on the weekends.
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:09 pm
Ukraine, eh? My family is all from the Czech republic (even though they still call it Czechoslovakia xD). I really want to visit Poland, Czech, Germany, Russia...Pretty much a lot of Europe. I hope your time there was awesome, any good stories?
Uhm, I love big cities. Kyoto, Tokyo, what I called the "normal" cities, I loved them. However, I also really liked the small towns I visited that were almost purely Japanese. I was a really bad foreigner in Japan, other foreigners, particularly loud mouthed American's seemed to gravitate toward me (especially in big cities). If they were nice I was generally nice to them, but if they were stupid and rude, etc, I generally pointed them in the wrong direction xD;;. Except for my few other ryugakusei friends, I had this weird almost...prejudice against some of the other foreigners. (I met a few other ryugakusei from other schools and they were horrible, maybe I was mentally scarred..Always talking in English, rude, stupid, only there for anime it seemed like). I think that's why I liked running away to smaller, almost all Japanese, out of the way towns sometimes xD. /random
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:15 pm
O Blue Sky Complex Ukraine, eh? My family is all from the Czech republic (even though they still call it Czechoslovakia xD). I really want to visit Poland, Czech, Germany, Russia...Pretty much a lot of Europe. I hope your time there was awesome, any good stories? Uhm, I love big cities. Kyoto, Tokyo, what I called the "normal" cities, I loved them. However, I also really liked the small towns I visited that were almost purely Japanese. I was a really bad foreigner in Japan, other foreigners, particularly loud mouthed American's seemed to gravitate toward me (especially in big cities). If they were nice I was generally nice to them, but if they were stupid and rude, etc, I generally pointed them in the wrong direction xD;;. Except for my few other ryugakusei friends, I had this weird almost...prejudice against some of the other foreigners. (I met a few other ryugakusei from other schools and they were horrible, maybe I was mentally scarred..Always talking in English, rude, stupid, only there for anime it seemed like). I think that's why I liked running away to smaller, almost all Japanese, out of the way towns sometimes xD. /random Aw man, awesome! So you're a fellow Slav smile Visit my country, it's really great. Tons of stories, but I probably shouldn't post them here. Yeah, Japan is full of morons, both gaijin and Japanese. But, I freaking love Tokyo. The bigger the better. If you frequent the right places (as in... not Roppongi, not Harajuku) you'll rarely run into embarrassing "ANIME IS MY LIFE Let me tell you in detail" gaijins, from my experience. The areas I like (...certain West Tokyo neighborhoods) are still diverse places with quite a few foreigners, but super-otaku don't venture there often. (Hot Russian model chicks do though surprised ) It's kinda hypocritical to b***h about other gaijins in Japan (which I do a lot myself), but they should at the very least look at themselves from the outside. Too many don't give a s**t about the image they're projecting to Japanese people (who are, imo, especially closed-minded and prone to making dumb generalizations)... but, people are stupid and that's that. Off topic, as is the intention of this thread: - My nails are freaking Barbie pink - I think I ripped out a visible chunk of my eyelashes yesterday. sad - Why are my Silkroad servers always so ridiculously crowded?!
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