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Published: 2005-01-27 04:19:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 138; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 15
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From left to right: Sayo, Kazusa ("Kaz"), & Yuri.I hosted Sayo at my home a few years ago and when I went to Japan she hosted me. This photo was taken at the farewell party.
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oh!! i like.. there's lots of personality to this shot.. different smiles.. i like the angle..
and the grain of this piece.. pretty!
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oh very cute
lots of personality
this photo makes me smile
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heheh, cool. nangatsugurai nihon ni sundeitta no?
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hachi gatsu wa nihon ni ikimashita. Anata wa?
doko ni Nihongo wa narimashita ka?
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that failed miserably...never going to try to use script again on devart...lol. what i said was:
ore wa 10kagetsugurai nihon ni sundeita. ashikaga-shi de ho-musute- no kazoku ni sundeita. anata wa toukyou ni osumaideshitaka?
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Darn I hate romanjii....It gets me so confused sometimes since I somehow am slow to recongize words I should know. I can't remember what "osumaideshitaka" is asking....
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one of the ways of asking 'where did you live?'. yeah, my japanese is a bit scratchy seeing as i haven't been doing much practice since i got back a couple of years ago. really should keep it up...lol ashikaga was about 2 hours north of tokyo...my school was in the middle of a bunch of rice fields! lol
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My homestay was only 2 weeks long and it was at Chino, its a city near Suwa in Nagano Prefecture.
I am taking Japanese this semester but still I forget some phrases.
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two weeks? i must have misread one of your previous romanjii posts...I could have sworn it said 8 months. or did you leave your homestay after a while?
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Nope 2 weeks long. It was a sister cities exchange and had to be held through their summer break.
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ah, k. cool, yeah, you should try and go for a longer time, I did mine as a year 13 program, so I had graduated here, and then got to go back to study at a school over there for 10 months, 'cept that none of the tests mattered, I could focus purely on learning the language and friends etc.
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I am either going to go in a year in a half for a semester at a university in Tokyo or I will wait until I gruadate and go do the JET program for...2 or 3 years.
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hmm, see, thats difficult. the semester at uni would be better, I reckon, cause JET sucks balls. hardly any breaks, stuck in the same place and forced to work...lol
what I've been informed is the best way, is to get into a specific post-grad field of study, and then apply to a university over there in that specific field. they'll take you up and you'll spend more then a semester with them, most prob.
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well thats another option
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yeah, and they're more likely to be nice towards you...I mean, with Jet, they get you accomodation etc, but they make you work! lol...Imagine that!
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Yeah but the plus is with that I know I can get placed in the city I staied at and so I would know a lot of the people there....and I would get paid. Since I have to get a job anyway I figure that it would be great to live in a place that is beautiful and do what I would most likely do anyway...work with kids. (I work at a Day Camp during the summer)
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ah ok. yeah, i suppose it wouldn't be too bad. for me personally I've already spent 10 months in a japanese highschool as a student of 17-18, and the next time i go back I'll be 21... So I want to experience that side of Japan, 20+ live band events, going out to restuarants and drinking without worrying about being caught...lol not that my age stopped me from drinking and whatnot when i went over last time, but yeah. 
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sounds like you had a blast
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heheh, yeah, i had to spend most of the time at school, but every so often i went down with my host sister to visit my host cousins in tokyo and ended up going to restaurants and everywhere and drinking, usually when one of them got a bonus...lol and saying 'never mind school tomorrow, I will catch a train back whenever i wake up...lol this is of course a 2 hour train ride...lol heheh it was all pretty fun, it'll be interesting to see what I'll get up to now that I'm actually of legal age...
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Wow that would be cool to do a film there...humm the posibilites.
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hahah, yeah, I'm planning on finish my current uni degree over there, and one of my last units can be a this independent 'research project'. I know one person who did a documentary on a band by going on tour with them for this unit, so i thought, why the hell shouldn't i be able to do a doco on something like that in Japan, instead of here? so yeah, my first thought was a doco on the ska music scene in Japan, traveling around etc, but then i thought maybe just hook up with a ska band over there and travel around with them...not sure. but it'll be fun no matter what i end up deciding on!
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just have to do all the organizing...which will be soooooooo fun....NOT
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I know why is it so hard. It just takes so much time and effort....something that I serious lack for things like that at the moment.
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meh, when it comes time to do some real organizing I'll force myself to do it, but now...pftt, yeah right.
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put off what you can do tomorrow is what I always say...which is why I am booked straight tomorrow to finish everything.
Well off to sleep.
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hahah, ok, its only 4:30pm here...I'll take another 3-4 hours then crash...lol too hot to stay awake. Night!
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Don't think this will work:
おれは１０& #12534;月ぐらい& #26085;本にすん& #12391;いた。あ& #12375;かがしで& #12507;ームステ& #12540;のかぞく& #12395;住んでい& #12414;す。あん& #12383;はとうき& #12423;うにすん& #12391;いたの？
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heheh, yeah, didn't think it would. rewrote it out in that other message.
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