Archive for June, 2005

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

PICT1199

PICT1199

Originally uploaded by jazzytrev.

Here’s the ropeway up Mt. Rokko that rode on Sunday. Everyone, sing the Hanshin Tigers song!

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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

The tyranny of air conditioning

Today it was in the mid 90’s in the morning, with a nice balmy 60-70% humidity. This meant that my students and I were slowly melting into puddles of sweat. The only real good thing that came from this was that I could teach” It’s hot / I’m hot“, and the students [...]

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Monday, June 20th, 2005

Nagasaki Article

This is making the rounds on different sites, so I thought I’d post a link.
Apparently, the Mainichi Shibun (one of the big newspapers here) unearthed a journalist’s accounts after the Nagasaki bombings (apparently the first journalist to arrive at Nagasaki). The story was censored, but is now available in its entirety here:
MDN: [...]

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Saturday, June 18th, 2005

kosaru

kosaru

Originally uploaded by jazzytrev.

best restaraunt evar! Not only do they have pretty good yakiniku in a nice relaxed atmosphere, everyday they have a waiter dressed in a monkey costume. awesome.

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Saturday, June 18th, 2005

wa pride

wa pride

Originally uploaded by jazzytrev.

100g=138yen. or, 1lb=$4.16 . ouch!:( . Washington Produce, soon I will be able to feast on you for non-horrendous prices!

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Friday, June 17th, 2005

I fought the law and the law won.

the ALT trip to the police station

I’m going to visit this gang this weekend, although I hope we don’t get taken to the police station . Still, should be a nice opportunity to be lazy and driven (!) places, as opposed to biking. Hurray for [...]

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Friday, June 17th, 2005

Farewell, Kodak Paper!

I remember developing many a photo from Kodak B&W photo papers in High School. My photography teacher (Mr. Myers?), was a retired, cranky old man who had personally collected all of our photo enlargers (15 of them!) and such. Using my shiny new Minolta HTsi+ SLR camera from my birthday, I would take [...]

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Thursday, June 16th, 2005

Minoh aftermath

My adventures in Minoh began when I got a text message from my friend Amber at 8:41 AM on Sunday. Seeing as how it was Sunday, I didn’t really crawl out of bed until 9:30 to check it. The contents of the message, as I recount, were:
LATELATE notice, I’m going to a [...]

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