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		<title>The sun sets on 3 years in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is it! Joe and I are flying out of Japan tomorrow morning, so this will be my final blog post. A lot of mixed feelings right now — sadness that this journey is coming to an end, excitement about moving back, being near family and resuming a life where certain everyday things are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Nuanced&quot; English</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/93213/nuanced-english/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking back through old photos tonight and found some hilarious pictures I took two years ago and meant to blog about but never did. They&#8217;re from a book meant to teach English slang and colloquial language to Japanese speakers. My Japanese teacher picked this up and loaned it to me to see what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dude in the frilly dress</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/92766/the-dude-in-the-frilly-dress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past three years we&#8217;ve become acquainted with lots of Hiroshima&#8217;s little quirks. One of them being this guy: Occasionally we see him walking down the Hondori shopping arcade downtown, always in a very frilly little girl type dress. A few days ago I snapped him wearing this number, which had the lyrics to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>65 years after the Bomb</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/91467/65-years-after-the-bomb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace cranes hanging around the Children&#8217;s Peace Monument in Hiroshima&#8217;s Peace Memorial Park. Friday, August 6, was the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yanked from slumber by a 5 a.m. alarm, Joe and I rose and got ready to catch the first train downtown to attend the ceremony. Thousands were already milling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiroshima Carp center fielder&#8230;or Spiderman?</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90899/hiroshima-carp-center-fielder-or-spiderman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this incredible video I saw on JetWit.com. The Hiroshima Carp were playing the Yokohama Bay Stars on August 3 when outfielder Masato Akamatsu robbed the Bay Stars of a home run with this unbelievable catch.]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Goodbye Enkai</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/90385/hello-goodbye-enkai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was my last day as a JET. Goodbye job, goodbye health insurance! I&#8217;ll miss you. Joe and I have been replaced by another American married couple, who arrived in Hiroshima around a week ago. Last Friday I went out with the new JET for my school and the other English teachers for a welcome/farewell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tragedy</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/89768/tragedy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been putting off writing this post. Part of it is that Joe and I have been really busy preparing our exit from Japan later this month. But part of it&#8217;s also that this is a tough thing to write about. We&#8217;ve been saying a lot of goodbyes the past couple weeks, but the biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big 3-Oh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a lazy, rainy Sunday — and my 30th birthday. Woooo-eeee! We enjoyed a low-key celebration at the house, doing some writing and watching movies. Joe made a cake and put every candle left in the cupboard on it. Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m broken up about bidding my 20s adieu. My 20s were a helluva [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English education in Japan: If you can&#039;t say anything right&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been teaching in Japan for two years now, and by and large my classes are a pleasure. In addition to my classes, students have other lessons with Japanese teachers who teach them the grammar and mechanics of the English language. Those teachers are the unlucky ones, teaching the kids all the necessary boring stuff. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hell hath no fury like a Japanese baseball coach</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/82264/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-japanese-baseball-coach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember when Joe and I were finally notified of the names of our schools before we moved to Japan. I excitedly typed my school&#8217;s name into Google and found its website. Of course the site was all in Japanese, so I hit the Google translation button to get an idea of what it said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much for that doggy in the window?</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/81156/how-much-for-that-doggy-in-the-window/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you resist a face like this? Look at those round black eyes. That button nose. That soft snow white fur. Japanese people see this and go ga-ga. Hypnotized by cuteness, they open their wallets, turn them upside down and shake. Money blows away. So it goes when it comes to pets in Japan. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A walk around Hiroshima&#039;s Peace Memorial Museum</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/80794/a-walk-around-hiroshimas-peace-memorial-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watched stopped at 8:15 a.m. — the moment the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima. Last week my sister-in-law Jenny and her friend came to visit us, so we took them around to all the big tourist sites. Of course they couldn&#8217;t come to Hiroshima without visiting the Peace Memorial Museum, and though I&#8217;ve seen it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#039;s play &quot;Find the Foreigner&quot;!</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/77728/lets-play-find-the-foreigner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe came home the other day with a print of his school&#8217;s staff photo for the yearbook, and as soon as I saw it I started to laugh. He&#8217;s like a giant gorilla next to all his Japanese colleagues. Check it out. (Click it to see a bigger version.)]]></description>
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		<title>Macau: High rollin&#039;&#8230; for a moment</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/77577/macau-high-rollin-for-a-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macau&#8217;s MGM Casino While in Hong Kong, we took a day trip to Macau, which is kind of like the Las Vegas of the East. Macau, like Hong Kong, is a special administrative region of China and essentially functions as its own country. It was a Portuguese colony up until it was handed back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong: The street markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents of Hong Kong&#8217;s goldfish market Out of all the sightseeing we did in Hong Kong, my favorite places were decidedly low key, and free — the street markets scattered throughout the city. In our time there we made it to a goldfish market, flower market, songbird market, jade market and some random fish, fruit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong: Glamour and Grime</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/76148/hong-kong-glamour-and-grime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong skyline at night Hong Kong skyline by day The above two pictures do a lot to illustrate my feeling about Hong Kong. In many ways I felt it was a city of total contrasts — luxury and wealth side by side filth and decay. At night, Hong Kong&#8217;s skyline was dazzling. I&#8217;ve never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Trip: Xi&#039;an</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Beijing, Joe and I took an overnight train to Xi&#8217;an, home to the famous Terracotta Warriors. Hate to say it, but Xi&#8217;an was probably the low point of our trip. While we enjoyed some of the sights there, worries about safety definitely put a damper on our stay. We splurged on a private room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Trip: The Great Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe and me on the Great Wall of China Of course one of the highlights of our China trip was our visit to the Great Wall. Though the Great Wall once spanned more than 8,800 miles, it is no longer in one piece. Parts of the wall have crumbled and broken down, but certain sections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Trip: Temples</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Temple of Heaven Park Beijing boasts plenty of interesting old temples, and we wandered through a couple while we toured the city. These places were lower key than the Forbidden City and Summer Palace, but still beautiful and rewarding, and they brought us closer to Chinese going about their daily lives. First up is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Trip: The Summer Palace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canal at the entrance to the Summer Palace Out of all the incredible things we saw on our China trip, my favorite had to be the Summer Palace, a site once used by China&#8217;s royalty as a summer retreat from the Forbidden City. M y Lonely Planet described it as an &#8220;opulent dominion of palace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Trip: Donghuamen Night Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We made it to a handful of markets while we were in Beijing, including the Silk Street Market (haggling for anything and everything) and the Pearl Market (huge building overflowing with pearl vendors), but the most memorable by far was the touristy Donghuamen Night Market. The Donghuamen is located in a swanky part of Beijing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China trip: The Forbidden City</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were 600+ photos on my camera from our trip to China and Hong Kong over the Golden Week holidays this spring. You could say I&#8217;m feeling a little overwhelmed about writing about the experience. There is just so much to show and tell, but I&#8217;ve got to skim the cream, and that&#8217;s difficult. I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yukata Festival</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/71378/yukata-festival-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids are always cutest in yukata Toukasan, also known as the Yukata Festival, happens the first weekend in June and marks the beginning of summer in Hiroshima. It&#8217;s one of the biggest festivals of the year here, and also one of my favorites. The Yukata Fest is your standard Japanese street festival with plenty of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HipPop Monster!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 08:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engrish is everywhere in Japan, and by this point I am so used to seeing my native language horribly butchered that it doesn&#8217;t even really register most of the time. However, now and then you do still come across a real gem. This is one of those times. I was in the Fuji Grand department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring visit to Mitaki-dera</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 08:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statue at Mitaki Temple Earlier this spring when the cherry blossoms were in bloom I took a day off work so I could check out the cherry blossoms at Mitaki Temple without having to beat the crowds off with a stick. It was a gorgeous day, bright and sunny without being too warm, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some globetrotting Peeps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we came to Japan, my parents have been kind enough to occasionally send packages from home with certain necessities or gifts. The latest package was a box including a bounty of Easter candy. Usually the packages take one week to get here, but when Mom and Dad&#8217;s package hadn&#8217;t arrived three weeks after they&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherry blossoms in Hiroshima</title>
		<link>http://bloglinkjapan.com/japan/en/64284/cherry-blossoms-in-hiroshima/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 08:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cherry blossom season is a special time in Japan, one regarded with much reverence. Every year around early April the Hiroshima landscape bursts into a cloud of ethereal pink blossoms that stay just 10 days before unceremoniously fading away almost before you can notice. The Japanese take advantage of their arrival by planning picnics under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing dress-up with kimono and yukata</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 09:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me, wearing a traditional kimono. When my Japanese teacher, Yoshiko, asked me recently if I&#8217;d be interested in learning how to wear a kimono and yukata (summer kimono), I figured this was one opportunity I shouldn&#8217;t pass up. Joe bought me a yukata a couple years ago as an anniversary gift, but I&#8217;d never actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scuba diving in the Kerama Islands, Okinawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 07:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me (on the left) with two diving buddies While in Okinawa, I couldn&#8217;t pass up the opportunity to experience the islands&#8217; world class SCUBA diving. I was able to do three dives in the Kerama Islands while we were there, and it was awesome. I am truly, truly blessed. When Joe had told my supervisor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chinese garden: Marvel of man and nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Okinawan souvenirs. Aren&#8217;t they cute? (Photo ripped from the Net) Hundreds of years ago, Okinawa had a close trade relationship with China, and Chinese influences are still apparent today all over the islands. Perhaps the most ubiquitous souvenirs for sale were pairs of shisa, a creature from Okinawan mythology that&#8217;s a cross between a [...]]]></description>
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