Going through the motions
Posted by Tobias in Adventures, Updates on 25. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
It’s my second week in a row, sitting in my room from morning to nighttime writing this paper. I can’t seem to plow through it. As much as I want to just write crap I cant. The expectations have been set too high, at least by my preceptor. All I can do is put all [...]
Memories from the Break
Posted by Tobias in Adventures, Random Thoughts on 29. May, 2010 | 1 Comment
Although I wrote a 9 part chronicle on my trip to Japan, I can’t help but have random memories flood my mind from time to time. I figured I would write about them here. 1. We were all standing outside one of those pay before you eat type of ramen shops and I was teaching [...]
The Japanese chronicles pt. 9
Posted by Tobias in Adventures on 27. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Sunday 3-21-2010 Today Hong and I woke up at 7:30am and left for Namba to get our last minute souvenirs. Nothing was really opened at 8am in the morning besides Family mart and am/pm and Tsutaya near Starbucks. Went inside Tsutaya and bought a couple notebooks for friends then ate at ramen at the [...]
The Japanese chronicles pt. 8
Posted by Tobias in Adventures on 27. Mar, 2010 | 1 Comment
Saturday 3-20-2010 Woke up really early and found the womanizer downstairs. Wow, japaneezy is all I could say, she was wearing a cute outfit with a beautiful skirt. We decided to have a small breakfast at the all so good Freshness Burger. Hong decided to have lunch with his friends today so the girls, Gary [...]
The Japanese chronicles pt. 7
Posted by Tobias in Adventures on 27. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Friday 3-19-2010 Woke up early and headed to Osaka. Got there at around 12:30pm because we got off the wrong station and went to the wrong Hearton hotel. Who knew there’d be two within the same city, one station apart from eachother. …Aslo take note: there’s a distinction between the pronunciations Hiruton and Haaaton, one [...]
The Japanese chronicles pt. 6
Posted by Tobias in Adventures on 27. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Thursday 3-18-2010 Woke up. Had breakfast at Breakfast Pearl. Coffee and buttered toast. Oh how I love thee (butter) Hong, Gary, and I decided to bike around so we split up from the girls and rode our bikes to Inari, walked up and down the beautiful orange painted gates. We then ambitiously wanted to ride [...]
The Japanese Chronicles pt. 5
Posted by Tobias in Adventures on 27. Mar, 2010 | 1 Comment
Wednesday 3-17-2010 Today, woke up to a beautiful morning in Kawaguchiko. We went downstairs to eat this amazing breakfast: hot pot with eggs, seaweed and tofu. Technology takes the place of meaningful conversations Goodbye Kawaguchiko Jumping for joy, onward to Kyoto Then took the shuttle back to Kawaguchiko station. Nearly, lost my ticket at Otsuki. [...]
The Japanese Chronicles pt. 4
Posted by Tobias in Adventures on 27. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Tuesday 3-16-2010 Headed to Mt. Fuji today. What we thought was supposed to be a 2 hour trip turned into a 5 hour one. Got to Kawaguchiko, ate some Ramen and ended up walking to enjoy the scenery while looking at various souvenir shops. Bought a few items for friends. Need to finish [...]
The Japanese Chronicles pt. 3
Posted by Tobias in Adventures on 27. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Monday 3-15-2010 Yesterday, we didn’t head to Tsukiji, but we finally did today. Stopped by this weird looking Temple Went and had awesome eel and rice and tuna sashimi at the fish market. Then we had snacks at various corners. Found a really good tea shop but figured we could find tea somewhere else [...]
The Japanese Chronicles pt. 2
Posted by Tobias in Adventures on 27. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Sunday 3-14-2010 Originally we wanted to go to Tsukiji on Sunday morning but figured that it would be too crowded on a weekend day so we pushed it back to Monday. We bought our first all day pass for just 710Y. We took the metro to Asakusa and walked around. It was there that the [...]
