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31.May.2011 アンソニーは天候についてぶつぶついうこと

昨日は強い雨が一日中降りました。青森県が大好きだけど、青森県の気候はちょっと。。。例えば、冬の時期は平均最低気温は-5度で、雪がいっぱい降ります。それは大丈夫だ、しょうがない、しかし、春の時期は三日しかいい天気じゃない、その後すぐに、露がきます。つゆというのは毎日雨が降るということです。やだ！それも夏のときに暑すぎるようになります。去年の８月にそとの気温は３４度ぐらいけど、家の中は３８度だし、湿度が高いし、夏の天気が大変ですね。ごめん、ぶつぶつ言ってすみません。まだ、青森県の天候が落ち着いていません。確かに後１年間青森県に住んで、もっと丈夫な人になるといいんですが。

19.Mar.2011 東北関東地震（大震災）　

今から、私は日本語と英語のブログを書くことにしました。最近、ブログを書く機会がありません。先週金曜日、ひどい災害が起こりました。金曜日に教育委員会 の事務所で仕事のときに、地震があって、最初は普通の地震だと思ったけど、地震は長い時間続けていました。例えば、普通地震は３０秒ぐらいだったけど、金 曜日の地震は５分ほど、ありました。地震のときに一番心配していることは窓が割れて、私と同僚は怪我をされると思いました。私達は運がよくて、窓が壊れて いませんでした。その後も災害は止まってなくて、１、２分ずつ余震が来ました。５分ぐらい地震の後に停電になって同僚は携帯電話を使わなかったけど、私が Iphone 4を何となく使うことができました。たった今、両親にメールを送って、ニュースを調べました。ついに後１時間仕事を出てよくて、家までゆっくり運転しまし た。停電なので、信号が消えて、全ての信号の前に止まらなければなりませんでした。それより、家に安全に帰りました。

13.Jan.2011 Tokyo Disneyland, Asakusa and My First Capsule Hotel

The order of my post is a bit off actually I was in Tokyo before I went to Osaka. I went to Tokyo from the brand new Shinkansen station in Shichonohe and went all the way to Tokyo. The Shinkansen rides are a bit expensive, but they’re quiet and quite comfortable. There’s also no customs [...]

Tsutenkaku, Hep 5 Shopping Center Osaka Japan

A cool spot in Osaka was the Tsutenkaku which is a giant Hitachi Tower. Its located in Shinsekai and surrounded by some cool shopping centers. Also I had some really good kushikatsu which are like meat, or vegetables on a stick. The tower itself was okay if I had the choice I don’t think I [...]

Osaka World Trade Center and Aquarium

The World Trade Center (WTC) seemed like a bit of an unlucky title after for this building. Regardless of that though its a great spot to get a view of the whole city. The WTC is located way the heck west of the center of Osaka, but was still an easy subway ride away. From [...]

Umeda Sky Tower Osaka Japan

Another sight in Osaka was the Umeda Sky Tower. If you take the subway to the Umeda station, its about a 10 minute walk to the sky tower. It was a little sketchy getting there at first thought because you have to walk around a construction zone and cross through this 200 m tunnel to [...]

Dotonbori Osaka Japan

Dotonbori is one of the liveliest spots in Osaka. There was never a shortage of things to do there, and along the main strip there was a plethora of restaurants, nightclubs, and every manner of shopping one could possibly imagine. Also some cool sights in the area were the famous Glico Man, mechanical crab and [...]

Osaka New Years Eve

For New Years I went out in Osaka with some of the folks I met at my hostel. The night began by drinking a mysterious Japanese energy drink (see photo) with the Kanji for strong on it. After that we headed down to Dotonbori, milled around there for a while then Nipponbashi, and in America [...]

12.Jan.2011 Tennoji Zoo, Shitennoji Temple, Tennoji Ku

I did some sightseeing on my last few days around the Tennoji ku, or ward area. It was an easy subway ride to get to the zoo and that’s where I started my day. The zoo was cheap but mostly geared toward elementary kids. I also thought some of the cages could have been a [...]

Osaka Jo 大阪城

Here are some photos from Osaka castle from a trip I took during my holiday in late December. Osaka castle was really amazing I was very impressed with just how big the place was. Plus the walls, moat and inner castle were all amazing. As a park itself I thought the area was great and [...]

Hakodate Trip Photos

Here are the photos from a trip I did with my co-workers at the Board of Education to Hakkodate in Hokkaido. Probably the highlight of the trip had to be the delicious seafood as well as the seafood don, crab buns, and squid ink ice cream!

06.Dec.2010 December

Getting ready for December. It’s going to be very busy. There are a whole ton of different work events that I will be going to this month. Not to mention an office trip to Hokkaido coming up. Also with Karate and trying to plan my trip to Tokyo things may be a bit busy.

JLPT N4

This weekend I took the JLPT N4 with some of the JETs from Towada, and Shichinohe. Also there were a lot of people from the prefecture there as anyone wanting to write the JLPT in Aomori Ken had to do so in Morioka and only Morioka… This is a little inconvenient, but it did offer [...]

03.Dec.2010 First Newspaper Article

Here is my first newspaper article. The Daily Tohoku article was the second article I did. The first one was for a once a month newspaper edited, and owned by my interviewer. The interview itself was quite an experience. I did it with one of the JETs from my town. The JET from my towns [...]

Daily Tohoku Article

Last week I was interviewed for a regional newspaper called The Daily Tohoku. This was a really cool experience because this newspaper is fairly well read and I think it’s a great way to introduce some of the foreign language teachers to the community. The interview itself was really cool and my supervisor did an [...]

29.Nov.2010 Hirosaki Halloween Party

I went to a Halloween party in Hirosaki city. Some of the mount Hakkoda photos I took were on the way to this party. My costume was totally unoriginal I went for the Harry Potter look with lightning bolt and chopstick wand. Some of the other JETs costumes were way cooler and one person went [...]