Blogger Ben: My 1 Week Anniversary
A week ago, I started the 16 hour journey to Tokyo. In retrospect my fears of getting lost were ill-conceived. Major cities in Japan are probably one of the most tourist friendly places in the world. I was fortunate to have befriended Jeremy, an American who is in Japan teaching English. He was extremely kind [...]
Blogger Ben: Sashimi like a highroller
The neighbourhood around me is pretty upscale, which means there are upscale grocery stores. I have been to my local (somewhat upscale) Maruetsu Petit location a few times and noticed that the price of their fish is comparable to that of other, more budget locations. I picked up a package of Aji (from Nagasaki 長崎 [...]
Blogger Ben: I ♡ Engrish が大好き
I was exploring the neighbourhood yesterday, and came across this (see photo, English words below store name). It made my day. If only everyone is upfront and honest about what they cook up, our world would be a much better place.
Blogger Ben: I made it
I think altogether, it took me about 18-19 hours to travel door to door from my parent’s home to my new home here in Shinjuku. It was not bad at all, in retrospect. The flight was fine, and I saw a few movies that were on my list of movies-to-watch. Immigration/Passport control was a snap. [...]
Blogger Ben: What to pack and not pack
Since my last post about travel insurance, I have decided to go with the basic emergency medical offered by Travel Cuts for $117, all in. So that’s dealt with, and paid for. I hope I won’t ever have to use it. Money well spent, perhaps? So now on to packing. I have 5 days left, [...]
Blogger Ben: 日本語を勉強しています
I’ve been reviewing mostly Japanese vocab and some grammar lately because, and I am guessing here, that I can at least get by at the beginning in Japan by stringing verbs and nouns together to construct something remotely understandable to a native Japanese speaker. Case in point (maybe not so appropriate): in the movie Full [...]
