Good morning all! It is now Thursday morning at 8:14 AM. I will be leaving for the airport in a couple of hours and will be back in Tucson on Thursday afternoon (it is currently Wednesday afternoon in Tucson).
We all gave our presentations yesterday. We had a few technical problems at the start, but otherwise [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Leaving…
Posted in Japan on June 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Back in Tokyo!!
Posted in Japan on June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hello everyone!!! It is now Tuesday night and I have been back in Tokyo for one day. I am sorry I did not blog much recently, but I was without internet access until yesterday, and yesterday I was simply too tired!
Friday June 22nd – Before leaving for my weekend with my host family and ryokan [...]
Aomori City Furukawa Junior High
Posted in Japan on June 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Good morning everyone. I apologize for lack of post last night, but I went out for a little while with some JFMFers and I was simply too tired when I got back.
Yesterday we spent the day at Aomori City Furukawa Junior High. In Japan junior high runs from 7th grade (1st year) to 9th grade [...]
Aomori City Namiuchi Elementary School!
Posted in Japan on June 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As the title of my post might suggest we visted Aomori City Namiuchi Elementary School today. I must apologize for another post without photos (I added some this morning will add more later). It is not for lack of photos (I HAVE added a few this morning but I am still lacking access to most), [...]
That’s Aomori!
Posted in Uncategorized on June 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
(I’m sorry there are no pictures in today’s post. Unfortunately I am out of hard drive space and cannot download my new pictures. I promise I will get some up soon.Until them, I posted some back photos in a previous blog. Please let me know what you think!)
Today we had another amazing day in Aomori! [...]
Tadaima! Aomori City
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I am currently writing to you from the Aomori City hotel. Today was an incredibly busy day and I am exhausted! It is 8:32 PM and I can barely keep my eyes open (even before I took Nyquil!).
I woke up this morning at 6AM. I had set my alarm at 5 AM, but with such [...]
Aomori – Green (blue) Mountain Prefecture
Posted in Japan on June 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here it is nearly midnight and I feel compelled to write another post about today’s experiences. This is the case af ter typing for nearly a half an hour to get in my last journal entry of yeserday’s events.
I have one word to say about my experiences in Aomori prefecture thus far – breathtaking. Our [...]
Free Day!
Posted in Japan on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday June 17th 5:16 AM (transcribed from book journal)
We have been so fortunate as far as rain is concerned. We have had only one day where it really rained during our time in Tokyo. For those of you who may not be aware this is the rainy season in Japan, and it is not [...]
June 13-15th
Posted in Japan on June 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Hi all! I am a bit behind in my posting. Please forgive me. We have been BEYOND busy!
June 13 – After the morning walk, which I inadvertently posted twice we went to a keynote speech on Japanese education and then we went sightseeing. I took an incredible amount of photos. I think I will be [...]
Yesterday Morning’s Walk
Posted in Japan on June 14, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Ohayo Gozaimasu! After I left all of you yesterday I went downstairs to have breakfast with my fellow JFMFers. They had traditional Japanese breakfast and American breakfast. Of course I chose the Japanese! The miso soup was to DIE for! I also had rice and fish. It was amazing!!! I am looking forward to it [...]
