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Bleah, Japan has a rainy season, and it sure does suck. Being from Texas,
I've never experienced more than like three straight days with rain. But
here I got to enjoy two weeks, a one-day break, and then several more days
in a row. And it's still here for the next week or so. The good part is
that I haven't been going out much so I haven't been spending much money.
I’ve mostly just been hanging out with my housemates and Mizue and going
fencing. The weather only gets better after this (not). After about
mid-July the rain pretty much stops, but the heat and humidity don't let
up a bit. It's still around 90 or 95 degrees each day, but with an
average humidity of 87%. At least it's not 120 like it was that one awful
day in Austin. It rarely gets over 100 here, but the humidity leaves you
soaking in your own sweat--or so I've heard. We'll see if I can handle it
or not. I think I have a better chance than the Canadians who are here,
though.
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Clocking InThe teachers names are color-coded: light blue for the boys and pink for
the girls. As if we're going to forget our gender or something....
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I'm StonedThis is one of my students, whose name I forgot. When I go into class I
try to guess their names, but there are like 500 students at Nova, so I
can't possibly remember even half of them. I still can't remember even
half the names of the fencers at Kyoto University, and there are only
about 20 of them! So here's what's-his-name wearing a shirt with a
rastafarian lounging in a hammock. Across the top it says "I'm Stoned and
I Can't Get Up." He didn't know what it meant, so I explained it to him
and the other students, and they got a good laugh out of it. A friend of
his sent it to him from Jamaica.
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Insured StatuesI thought this was a historical monument or something, but it's built by
some Japanese insurance company and has nothing to do with anything
historically significant. That's what Jean (you'll meet her soon) told
me. She can read kanji, but she doesn't know any Japanese. She goes to a
music school in Beijing, learning music composition and the koto, and she
knows some Chinese. The characters usually have the same meaning between
Japanese and Chinese, but totally different pronunciations. Anyway, this
is on Gojo-dori, near my house.
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Urban GraveyardI found this between Teramachi and Karawamachi. It's tucked between some
department stores, tenements and a temple.
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Little Grey Statues
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More Grey Statues
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