Tag Archive: grave

Jul 13 2011

third week

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culture, economics and science, food feed, history, the country and its people, weird things

Here comes the mouse! Friday. My host Celine has no internet access at home which is why she is taking me to her university, Dokkyo university. There she hands me her wireless password and heads off for her lectures. It’s simply great. This is how I even get to know Japanese student live. Even …

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Tags: alcohol, american, architecture, briton, Buddhism, buildings, canteen, cemetery, churchyard, custom, day care, Die Maus, Dokkyo University, earthquake, economy, energy, English teacher, family, food, grave, hospitality, host, internet, Japan, job, journalist, Kitaurawa, life, mountains, mouse, Omiya, part time, phone, price, Saitama Shintoshin, school, technology, temple, tomstone, turtle, values, warning system, wife, work

May 25 2011

the first week

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culture, economics and science, flora and fauna, the country and its people

Moving moments Since the flight from London to Japan takes you over the north pole and the sun does not set there in late May, the trip was literally is the longest day of my life. And an astonishing one as well. An eternal ice desert until the horizon! Even if the following does not …

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Tags: 11 hours flight, address, airport, alien registration card, american, architecture, arrival, australian, backpack, Baden Baden, bank, Bento, Buddhism, catch 22, cemetery, change, Chiba, climbing, construction, couchsurfing, disabled, dish, earthquake, first impression, flat, Flight, fruit, Germany, grave, host, house, humidity, Japan, Jim and Heath, Kaiser's, Kanji, kindness, laptop, lines, manhole, money, movie, park, politeness, post office, sleep, sugoi, sunny, teacher, temple, The Kings Speech, The way Back, ticket, Tokyo-Narita, train, train station, tripod, turtle, vegetables, vending machine, warm, way, wheelchair, Wi-Fi, wireless, work and travel, Yen