By Marian on June 16, 2009
Yesterday morning we left Kyoto heading for Ise, with a couple of goals on our minds for this little two-day trip: to learn about the local job market in agriculture (that would be for me), and to scout for a house.
First, however, we made a detour and stopped in Osaka, where we had to visit [...]
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By Marian on June 14, 2009
This afternoon I had the second day of the driving school program: a one-hour theory class and a session in the car simulator.
I’m slowly getting used to the class idea (it’s been a while since I last sat on a bench)… Sometimes, as I noticed much earlier, Japanese can be strange with regard to their [...]
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By Marian on June 13, 2009
A full day today.
For the beginning, I’ve had my first day at a school here, in Japan. True, it is just a driving school but, nonetheless, yesterday’s class was a first and interesting experience.
I went there accompanied by my sweetheart, in order to minimize the potential points of confusion brought by totally alien and somewhat [...]
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By Marian on June 10, 2009
The warm, damp days that have just passed were nothing but a prelude to tsuyu. The rainy season is here.
Its workings are no longer a mystery to the modern science of meteorology, yet I still find this weather pattern fascinating for its predictability. Nothing like where I come from.
I enjoy rain, in a sort of [...]
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By Marian on June 5, 2009
Don’t know what got me. Must be the dampness of this overcast, late summer afternoon. Apparently, rain can’t seem to make its mind. However, if it does decide to descend upon us, we’ll welcome it with a smile, me and my flowers on the balcony.
Or is the fact that, digging through some old, dusty folders [...]
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