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 Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:40 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:03 pm
bakahito The Guerilla Artist Freakezette matchaflavor Just last month I went to Osaka, Japan and stayed with Hitomi, a girl I hosted when she came to America. It was awesome!! I have an album up of some of the pictures she and I took: ( Osaka 2005) And here's some purikura we took!    It looks like you had a ton of fun, I'm so jealous. My good friend from my japanese class just left for fall semester at Kansai Gaidai (in the Osaka-prefecture, so he'll be around where you were). I feel like the women of Kansai need to be warned that they are all about to hit on by a skinny tall tattooed American. If you are there, his name is Ian, tell the girls to stay away. biggrin Ha, I WISH I was there. As soon as I got home I wanted to go back again! But to tell you the truth, there were some downsides, too. But I like to put it this way: --36 bug bites --3 dog bites --food poisoning --ear infection --two weeks of menstruation --a slight hickey O_o --being called gaijin by yakuza --losing eight pounds after being sick --having the flu --rooming with an over-talkative preaching mormon who speaks Japanese in a hick accent despite her three years of Japanese Language class ("duu ittiishiimeshattuh!!") --missing the world expo in Nagoya --missing the golden temple --missing tokyo towers AND the imperial palace --throwing up 2 out of 10 hours on the plane --FINALLY getting home... and missing Japan terribly It was worth all that and more, quite frankly. I loved it. Especially the first week when I stayed with my host family; they were so nice to me, and so considerate, and so much fun to be with! I won't get back there until next year (hopefully, if mine and Kazuya's plans don't fall through), but I'm just glad to be going back! I hope they end up visiting me, too. Hitomi's really awesome and a ton of fun to shop and go to Karaoke with, and Kazuya is, well, the nicest person I've ever met. They don't make boys like that here.. sweatdrop Awww... you missed the Expo in Nagoya. Too bad, i was doing my internship there at the US Pavilion. Jolly good times xp I don't know much about these confangled computer things but I'll try to upload some photos sooner or later. I went to Japan when the World Expo was in Nagoya, and yet, i somehow seemed to miss the USA pavilion...
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:56 pm
Akira_Hoshino megaman2040 Akira_Hoshino HTML is weird on this site. *sigh* I prefer BBC code anyway. Tis easier. Osaka-jou! I loved that place. I took so many pictures of it. Osaka was probably my favorite place. Next to Kyoto. Nothing beats Kyoto. *squee* My teacher is trying to ship me off to Gifu, which is apparently close to Kyoto but I won't have many chances to go there. o__O are you talking about my pictures? cause that's Ogaki-jou not Osaka-jo, and Gifu's not that bad... it's where i was based when i went to kyoto, and hiroshima; Kyoto's only a 1.5 hour shinkansen ride from gifu station... Ahh. They look similar. I went to Osaka-jou so I freaked when I thought it was the same place. wink Where is Ogaki-jou? And is Gifu really a super traditional town? Gifu is not a really traditional town, just a whole lot of rice fields, no appartments, that is, unless you happen to get to Hashima, which is freaking close to Gifu. Ogaki is about １4km east of Sekigahara, and 16 km south-west of Gifu. I hope you like Japanese history, 'cause you can go to a very important site in Japanese history: Sekigahara (関ヶ原).
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:09 pm
megaman2040 Akira_Hoshino megaman2040 Akira_Hoshino HTML is weird on this site. *sigh* I prefer BBC code anyway. Tis easier. Osaka-jou! I loved that place. I took so many pictures of it. Osaka was probably my favorite place. Next to Kyoto. Nothing beats Kyoto. *squee* My teacher is trying to ship me off to Gifu, which is apparently close to Kyoto but I won't have many chances to go there. o__O are you talking about my pictures? cause that's Ogaki-jou not Osaka-jo, and Gifu's not that bad... it's where i was based when i went to kyoto, and hiroshima; Kyoto's only a 1.5 hour shinkansen ride from gifu station... Ahh. They look similar. I went to Osaka-jou so I freaked when I thought it was the same place. wink Where is Ogaki-jou? And is Gifu really a super traditional town? Gifu is not a really traditional town, just a whole lot of rice fields, no appartments, that is, unless you happen to get to Hashima, which is freaking close to Gifu. Ogaki is about １4km east of Sekigahara, and 16 km south-west of Gifu. I hope you like Japanese history, 'cause you can go to a very important site in Japanese history: Sekigahara (関ヶ原). Unless you like history and 鵜飼("ukai" or traditional bird fishing), I find Gifu to be a really boaring place. I drove through there once or twice and about the most exciting thing to happen to me was my car breaking down (-_-)
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:20 pm
Rindi Whee, nice pictures, everyone! whee Nice Hiroshima pictures, megaman2040. They're better than mine, and I was just there this past weekend. sweatdrop I didn't have the chance to take any pictures inside the a-bomb memorial museum so it's a huge chunk missing from my day, photo-wise. Wow, looks like you went everywhere! Er, well, if you count Hiroshima/Kansai/Tokyo as everywhere. ^^; Thanks for sharing your photos. [choco.banana] Tokyo, Harajuku station, after last summer's big earthquake that stopped all trains for about 3 hours: Heh, I remember that earthquake. It happened on my birthday in the middle of a party that my work supervisor was holding for me. Good thing he was in the same neighborhood as me so I didn't have to do any train traveling that day. [choco.banana] Temple in Tokyo.. Cookies to the one who can guess which temple it is! http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n227/ichigobabababy/IMAG1479.jpg Why hello there, Meiji jingu! I was there last summer and saw a Shinto wedding procession. xd [choco.banana] After looking at your appartments pictures... Mine is the small version! They look exactly the same eek You're right! Your place looks just like mine. Is it owned by Leopalace, by any chance? o_O And you're back in France already? That was fast! Congratulation for finding the Temple's name! whee How did you guess it was Leopalace.. Of course it's Leopalace... eek Yours too? Oh and yeah, I'm back already. 40 days in Japan only. ("only", this might seem long for some people...) To tell the truth, I was broke and had other issues to deal with... SO I just took the plane. It was a hard decision, I just hate everytime I must say goodbye to my boyfriend, but now I'm getting used to it. I didn't cry as much as I did last time, exactly like last time I didn't cry as much as I did the time before... I guess our relationship is getting stronger and stronger, despite our age (I'm 17 and he's 24). But this is going off topic, isn't it?
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:00 am
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:51 pm
The Guerilla Artist Freakezette matchaflavor Just last month I went to Osaka, Japan and stayed with Hitomi, a girl I hosted when she came to America. It was awesome!! I have an album up of some of the pictures she and I took: ( Osaka 2005) And here's some purikura we took! It looks like you had a ton of fun, I'm so jealous. My good friend from my japanese class just left for fall semester at Kansai Gaidai (in the Osaka-prefecture, so he'll be around where you were). I feel like the women of Kansai need to be warned that they are all about to hit on by a skinny tall tattooed American. If you are there, his name is Ian, tell the girls to stay away. biggrin Ha, I WISH I was there. As soon as I got home I wanted to go back again! But to tell you the truth, there were some downsides, too. But I like to put it this way: --36 bug bites --3 dog bites --food poisoning --ear infection --two weeks of menstruation --a slight hickey O_o --being called gaijin by yakuza --losing eight pounds after being sick --having the flu --rooming with an over-talkative preaching mormon who speaks Japanese in a hick accent despite her three years of Japanese Language class ("duu ittiishiimeshattuh!!") --missing the world expo in Nagoya --missing the golden temple --missing tokyo towers AND the imperial palace --throwing up 2 out of 10 hours on the plane --FINALLY getting home... and missing Japan terribly It was worth all that and more, quite frankly. I loved it. Especially the first week when I stayed with my host family; they were so nice to me, and so considerate, and so much fun to be with! I won't get back there until next year (hopefully, if mine and Kazuya's plans don't fall through), but I'm just glad to be going back! I hope they end up visiting me, too. Hitomi's really awesome and a ton of fun to shop and go to Karaoke with, and Kazuya is, well, the nicest person I've ever met. They don't make boys like that here.. sweatdrop you poor thing! Glad you had fun though, i've never been but really really want to go.
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:10 pm
Tokyo Hanami 2006Hey here are some pictures I wanna share. This is at the garden at Shinjuku. It is really breathtaking smile
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:02 pm
dwhelp Tokyo Hanami 2006Hey here are some pictures I wanna share. This is at the garden at Shinjuku. It is really breathtaking smile breathtaking indeed! can i save them on my computer? the flower shots are truly amazing...
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:52 pm
I so badly wanna go to japan!!
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:52 am
wow you guys are lucky gonk
the closest ive been to Japan is when the exchange student stayed with me for a wekk in May. heart 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:30 am
sure go ahead smile I'm glad you liked it smile [choco.banana] dwhelp Tokyo Hanami 2006Hey here are some pictures I wanna share. This is at the garden at Shinjuku. It is really breathtaking smile breathtaking indeed! can i save them on my computer? the flower shots are truly amazing...
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:01 am
I have alot of pics... but I can't transfer the images
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:34 pm
[choco.banana] How did you guess it was Leopalace.. Of course it's Leopalace... eek Yours too? Well, clearly it's the same for me. How would I know otherwise? xd [choco.banana] Oh and yeah, I'm back already. 40 days in Japan only. ("only", this might seem long for some people...) To tell the truth, I was broke and had other issues to deal with... SO I just took the plane. It was a hard decision, I just hate everytime I must say goodbye to my boyfriend, but now I'm getting used to it. I didn't cry as much as I did last time, exactly like last time I didn't cry as much as I did the time before... I guess our relationship is getting stronger and stronger, despite our age (I'm 17 and he's 24). But this is going off topic, isn't it? Awww.... *hugs* Hopefully you'll have the chance to go back to Japan again! @dwhelp: Wow, those were some really fantastic pictures. I wish I could be in Japan in time for hanami someday... @Tanaka Yuko: If you want some help getting pictures online, you'll have to be a bit more specific than that. Are you having trouble uploading your pictures? Try a free photo-hosting account like Imageshack or Photobucket. Or is it that you can't get the pictures onto your computer in the first place?
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:50 pm
Rindi [choco.banana] Oh and yeah, I'm back already. 40 days in Japan only. ("only", this might seem long for some people...) To tell the truth, I was broke and had other issues to deal with... SO I just took the plane. It was a hard decision, I just hate everytime I must say goodbye to my boyfriend, but now I'm getting used to it. I didn't cry as much as I did last time, exactly like last time I didn't cry as much as I did the time before... I guess our relationship is getting stronger and stronger, despite our age (I'm 17 and he's 24). But this is going off topic, isn't it? Awww.... *hugs* Hopefully you'll have the chance to go back to Japan again! Thank you for the support heart Hopefully I'll be going before Christmas! Otherwise, in February or March next year. It all depends on my wallet, which is getting used to its current emptyness stare In any case, I must order some of those Japanese curry blocks...
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