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Tue, 7 Apr 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [517]
"We have the pleasure to inform you that your short film “Flip” has been selected for the Official Selection of Animation on the 7th Manlleu Short Film Festival." Just got this email last night. So that's four festivals so far, no rejections ... Read more >
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [350]
I am back at work again :( Things are a little different with the new faces in the teachers room. Plus I will have an extra elementary visit this term, so i will be away more often. My JTE has said she needs me in every class at Kurohone, so i will ... Read more >
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 | By colin_and_lou | Views [3625]
Nikko is a small city at the entrance to Nikko National Park. It is most famous for the Toshogu, Japan's most lavishly decorated shrine complex and mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Nikko has been a center of Shinto ... Read more >
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [602] | Comments [1]
Well, there's a bit to cover about the last two days. I got to Thailand late Saturday night, the plane was delayed in Tokyo so we arrived about a half hour later than expected. Fortunately I had prepaid for my hotel room when I booked online so it wasn't ... Read more >
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 | By ladydowse | Views [791]
I stuck my finger right into the middle of a raw egg this morning. I thought it was boiled and as I attempted to peel said egg I got a hand-full of goo. Quite what I was supposed to do with a raw egg I am not sure, but given the selection of random food ... Read more >
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 | By ladydowse | Views [616]
Something I have
realised is that Japan makes me feel a bit like an uncivilised heathen. Not on
purpose I’m sure. The first thing that strikes you is how incredibly polite
everyone is, how calm and clean the subway trains are and how efficiently
everything ... Read more >
Tags: culture shock
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 | By peter_allen | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 | By kurenai | Views [2725]
Sumo season is here in Osaka
and with it comes bustling crowds of people in an already bustling part of a
busy city (Namba). This is probably the strangest time for a foreigner to live
in Osaka because not only are you repeatedly mistaken for ... Read more >
Tags: culture, japan, osaka, spring, sumo, tradition
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By colin_and_lou | Views [559]
WE made it plane landed ok -- and i was right we are freeezzzzzinnngggggg more about japan when we thaw out !!!!!
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [500]
The elementary school ceremony was this morning. It was more or less the same as the junior high school, but the kids are smaller and funnier, especially in the audience. They got tired and bored and fidgeted a lot. My principal drove me to the school, ... Read more >
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 | By peter_allen | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 23 Mar 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [339] | Comments [1]
'Flip' has been accepted into the 11/22 International Comedy Short Film Festival in Vienna. I originally got the email confused and thought it was Venice, oops. It's a good start to the festival run, so far 2 acceptances and no rejections (3 acceptances ... Read more >
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 | By peter_allen | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 23 Mar 2009 | By kurenai | Views [3112]
A midnight in a cemetery?! Well, not quite. Rather inside
the bottom basement floor of a smoky dark club. I give you Midnight Necropolis:
the gothic club night that happens once a month here in Osaka. While the name and “theme” changes
(Black ... Read more >
Tags: clubbing, fashion, goth, gothic, japan, nightlife, osaka
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 | By abcarlson | Views [674] | Comments [1]
I saw this group of daycare kids and their caretakers out for a stroll the other day and had to get a photo. Have you ever seen a four-child stroller?! It looks like it hinges in the middle to allow the kids in/out. The kids in front face towards ... Read more >
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