In order to reach the location of KCP’s school excursion for this semester, I had to ride the hour train to Shinjuku, then a full hour further west, past Mitaka (home of the Ghibli Musuem) and to Nishi-Tachikawa station. I arrived 15 minutes late, didn’t think to ask one of the teachers where the classes [...]
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Second half
I have no other interesting anecdotes about my last week in the dorm. I packed everything I brought and bought into two suitcases, a backpack and my laptop case, cleaned my dorm room, gave my key back to Mr. Sasaki and headed back down the road toward Nishi-Waseda station. The combined weight of my backpack [...]
Nara, Himeji
It was a given that I would have to take advantage of this summer vacation somehow. A total of 9 days free, 4 days left on my Seishun 18 ticket, and an entire country to carve my way through. It was a priority to carve a gash as far down the island as I could. [...]
Enoshima & Kamakura trip pt. 2
Breakfast was scheduled for 8:00, but if we felt so inclined, we could meet at the entrance to the ryokan at 7:00 and go hang out at the beach for a while. I felt so inclined, because waking up after 6:30 would be way sleeping in for me. So a number of us walked back [...]
Enoshima & Kamakura trip pt. 1
On Thursday we were given a packet of papers that laid out the schedule of the upcoming Kamakura trip. We would arrive at the school by 8:30 am on Saturday, have a lecture in the morning and then head toward the train station at noon. Tanaka-san went over some guidelines and made some suggestions of [...]