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Ester's journey of fun!: January 2011
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Sunday, 2 January 2011. Despite begin stuck in Japan, 2010 ended pretty well and started quite peacefully! After a crazy few days in the run-up to Christmas, I managed to settle down a little and spent Christmas Eve with a friend of mine and her family. This friend did a homestay in the States when she was in high school, so her host family from back then always sends her kids a lot of presents, and she celebrates Christmas the right way! On New Year...
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Ester's journey of fun!: Volunteering in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, Tohoku
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Sunday, 24 April 2011. Volunteering in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, Tohoku. Ishinomaki is one of the worst affected by the tsunami that came after the earthquake. As of April 16th, 2,750 deaths have been reported and at least 2,463 unaccounted for. This is a set of ‘stretching’ exercises (though they don’t do much) that are done as a group along to music, done in most schools and companies too! At the end of the day we were assigned to doing some gard...
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Ester's journey of fun!: July 2010
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Tuesday, 27 July 2010. Enough of all the self-reflection, back to a bit of Japanese culture for you. It may be one of the most versatile words in modern-day Japanese. Ok, so you get the picture. This is some of modern Japan that is common knowledge. Bento, or lunchbox, fillers. My favorite, mameshiba, talking soy beans. Astroboy, the 'cutest' boy manga. 8221; and waved. Whenever I waved back I would get the most ear-piercing KAWAIIIIIIIII! So whether it...
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Ester's journey of fun!: July 2011
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Friday, 29 July 2011. Granada, San Juan del Sur to Costa Rica - Liberia and Monteverde. I did a little retake of the beginning of the track, and this time I was able to see the trees growing inside the crater, which was pretty cool. That evening I was asked to join a pub quiz team with 2 other people and we won! I'm getting good at those :). Funnily (and luckily) enough the last day of the celebrations, the one we were aiming for, wasn't nearly as event...
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Ester's journey of fun!: Monteverde, Puerto Viejo, Panama, San Jose and home
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Friday, 5 August 2011. Monteverde, Puerto Viejo, Panama, San Jose and home. What a delight - the fresh air and cooler temperatures up in the mountains! Just outside the reserve there was a hummingbird garden with feeders and I managed to get some excellent shots of the little hummers - keep an eye out when I put my photos up! Didn't see any monkeys in the canopy, sadly. . I said my goodbyes to Agustina (we'd been traveling together for a month! I took a...
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Ester's journey of fun!: From San Ignacio to Flores to Antigua
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Thursday, 2 June 2011. From San Ignacio to Flores to Antigua. Having rested in San ignacio, I set off to the the ATM cave the next morning. I did pop by a mayan ruin called cahal pech, though to be the oldest, dating back to possibly 1200BC. But once you get in it's still a living museum. A lot of the original ceramics offered to the gods are still lying around, along with about 5 skulls - one of which has a full skeleton! Guatemala feels a lot differen...
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Ester's journey of fun!: August 2010
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Sunday, 15 August 2010. North and West of Tokyo. I didn’t stay for the dancing but I saw the decorations which were really pretty. There were over 3000 of them! Some of them shops along which they were hung but others made by students etc from all over. Oops So I ended up getting right back on the bus (which was an expensive ticket! But, instead, I’m leaving for Singapore tomorrow… It’s a pretty good life out here sometimes! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Ester's journey of fun!: September 2010
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Wednesday, 8 September 2010. As the days pass here, and it’s still averaging in the mid-30’s (with today being particularly disgusting as the rain came pouring down), summer is noticeably over with the beginning of work. Sadly I’m stuck subbing for my friend at his junior high school, with long days of doing NOTHING. At times like these, I like to reminisce over the good times from the summer. And 7 days is too long there. Au contraire my friend! Once t...
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Ester's journey of fun!: February 2011
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Tuesday, 15 February 2011. I learned an interesting fact the other day: in japan, when the bride moves in with the groom, if street is really small and it meets another car coming from the other direction, backing up would mean the marriage will break up, so they actually pay the other car to back up instead. Ha! I've just had a lovely trip to Hokkaido. On Friday we met up with one of my private lesson students who was also there with her husband, and w...
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Ester's journey of fun!: March 2011
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Ester's journey of fun! Next stop: central America. Tuesday, 29 March 2011. Monday, 28 March 2011. At this point in time you are more likely to be better informed about the possibility of impending doom in japan than I am! Even though I have fully prepared for my departure to Tokyo, I, rather sillily haven't had the time nor mental patience to keep up to date with the nuclear situation as I was doing a little while back. 1 was selling some things to someone in nagoya but she was getting back to me slowly...
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