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The Dropped Jaw Effect: Halloween Party
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Sunday, November 1, 2009. Every year in Akita city we have a Halloween Dance Party and the proceeds go to Room to Read. This year we had a bigger turnout; due to relocating to a better venue and possible the fact that Halloween fell on a Saturday night this year. So this year I decided to put at least a small amount of effort into my costume. Shortly after arriving in Japan, about 2 years ago, a young student told me I looked like Lupin III. Set in a local store.
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The Dropped Jaw Effect: Hokkaido
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Monday, April 12, 2010. On the 9th February a group of us headed to the northern island of Hokkaido. After about 20 hours travel, including a ferry, we arrived in the capital Sapporo. Every year they host the most famous snow festival in Japan; the Sapporo Snow Festival. We spent 2 nights in Sapporo before heading to Niseko, the most famous ski resort in Japan. Niseko is popular because of its size and mainly because of the powder snow! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Dropped Jaw Effect: March 2009
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Thursday, March 26, 2009. In Japan the school year is from April to March. There is only a 2 week spring holiday for the students, though most will continue to come to school for club activities. For the teachers there is only a break from teaching classes, but they must still come to school as normal. And sit back down at their desks and continue working as if nothing had just happened. Even though the previous day all the teachers were saying how nervous they were about it!
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The Dropped Jaw Effect: August 2009
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Monday, August 31, 2009. On Friday 28th August I got on a night bus in Honjo and 9 hours later I got off in Tokyo. I met up with another ALT who works in Akita city. We hung around for a bit waiting for restaurants and toilets to open. Strangely many of the toilets in Tokyo station close for the night! We were on our way to Mt. Fuji. The tallest mountain in Japan, standing at 3,776m (12,388 ft). Up Mt Fuji. It about 14:30 when we set off and the weather was a little cloudy. We wer...
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The Dropped Jaw Effect: Akita CC vs Sendai CC
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Monday, October 19, 2009. Akita CC vs Sendai CC. On October 18th Akita Cricket Team took on Sendai Cricket Team in Sendai. We played two games. Sendai clenched the first game by a single point. But Akita came back strong in the slightly longer second game to claim victory. The following report was written by our team captain; Tapojoy Mandal. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have been living in Japan since August 2007. View my complete profile. Akita CC vs Sendai CC.
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The Dropped Jaw Effect: Winter Holidays
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Thursday, February 4, 2010. In Japan, Christmas day is not a national holiday. Many of the foreigners here take holidays and travel. That's what I did last year when I went to Taiwan. But this year I decided to stay in Honjo. On Christmas Eve, Chika an myself went out for a romantic dinner at a local Indonesian restaurant. And then headed to a darts bar where we were given "Christmas". Cheese cake and hot sake. Cake from random customers drinking in the bar. After our 4 hour drink...
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The Dropped Jaw Effect: April 2010
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Monday, April 12, 2010. On the 9th February a group of us headed to the northern island of Hokkaido. After about 20 hours travel, including a ferry, we arrived in the capital Sapporo. Every year they host the most famous snow festival in Japan; the Sapporo Snow Festival. We spent 2 nights in Sapporo before heading to Niseko, the most famous ski resort in Japan. Niseko is popular because of its size and mainly because of the powder snow! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Dropped Jaw Effect: February 2010
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Monday, February 8, 2010. A friend of mine who lives in the neighbouring prefecture of Iwate asked me to organise a group of people to evaluate a doburoku. Tour that he wishes to offer as a service to tourists to the area. Doburoku. 濁酒) is basically home make sake. So on February 6th a group of 16 of us went to Shizukuishi. Some of us went up early and had time to visit the Snow Festival at Koiwai Farm. This was a line of snow restaurants you could go into and have lunch! Outside ...
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The Dropped Jaw Effect: Tororo
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Monday, November 2, 2009. On Sunday 1st October, as part of the local townspeople festival, there was a tororo. Eating competition. This competition has taken place every year in Ouchi for the last 26 years. Dai 26 kai Ganso Tororo meshi Oogui Taikai. Each bowl is carefully measured out to have 120g of white rice with 90cc of tororo. On top. We were given a set of chopsticks, two umeboshi. The winner of the competition ate 15 bowls! One bowl every minute! When he was walking up to...
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The Dropped Jaw Effect: Kiritampo Party
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The Dropped Jaw Effect. Sunday, October 11, 2009. The nurse at one of my schools is a member of LABO. And every year they have a kiritampo. 三望苑) in Honjo. I went last year for the first time, and she invited me again this year. This year 6 of the local ALTs joined the party; Paul, Austin, Abby, Todd, Jimmy and myself. When we arrived the barbeques were were already cooking sweet potatoes. We were all handed beers and told to enjoy ourselves! Was cooked we were served kiritampo nabe. Akita CC vs Sendai CC.
