Ikitai! I want to go!

I wanted to name this post "Places I Want to Go" but I'm not sure how to say that in Japanese. I'm sure I could figure it out pretty quickly, but I'm lazy at the moment. So... it just says "I want to go."Anyways... this is a listing of many of the places I want to go. I'll start with the ones I have planned for the near future and then list places that are a bit further away and may or may not visit. Then the last few will be places that are very...

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Things I Miss and Things I Don't Miss

Things I Don't MissDriving: Even though the bus here is pretty inconvenient (the last bus to Toi leaves the train station at 7:45 PM, it's expensive, and takes fifty minutes to reach the station) I still don't miss driving. I can use my time on the bus and train to study Japanese, sleep, or just enjoy the scenery. When I took the slower, cheaper trains to Tokyo the trip took about four hours in total, but it didn't really feel that long. If I take...

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A Day At Kindergarten

Yesterday I got to teach at a kindergarten. Though I spent more time just playing with the kids than actually teaching. My schedule even had "play outside" written on it. Awesome. :)I arrived at the kindergarten around 8:00 but the kids didn't start arriving until a little before 8:30. Once they started arriving I went out in the hall and greeted some of them that were running around and playing. Most of them were pretty shy at first and just stared...

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Walking Around Toi

Today I spent the day in Toi. I don't have any money to travel anywhere yet so I took advantage of the nice weather to walk around the residential areas of the town. I went on some of the smaller streets that I hadn't been on yet. They looked pretty much how I expected.Then on another street I found a shrine.Then I found a temple. It was nice and had some ponds and pretty plants and stuff.Off to the side there was a parking lot, which was mostly...

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