Archive for March, 2010

From Tokyo to Yamaguchi

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1 year ago
by Chris Valdez in

I’m living in Shunan-shi, Yamaguchi-ken, but just how did I get here? I took the shinkansen, or what many call the bullet train. But before that, I must go back a few days before that. Oh, by the way, the picture above is not from Shunan, but from some place I passed by on the train.

I arrived in Japan on Friday, Feb. 26, 2010. I took the Narita Express, an express train from Narita Airport to Shinjuku-ku, a ward of Tokyo. I then took a train from there to my friends’ apartment nearby. My friend and his wife have been great friends of mine for several years now. In fact, he was my first Japanese instructor I had when I lived in Houston. When you expand your horizons and try new things you can meet all sorts of interesting people. (more…)

Leaving my college town behind

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1 year ago
by Chris Valdez in

Stephen F. Austin State University

I went to school in a small East Texas town. It was not what I expected, but then again, I suppose I didn’t know what to expect in college–I never researched them at all and figured that if one school had computer information systems, ALL of them had a program of equal level. Yeah, that was bad thinking. (more…)

Sushi party before I left

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1 year ago
by Chris Valdez in

Salmon

About two weeks before I moved from Houston to Japan, my roommate had a sushi party for some of his friends from school. Seeing as how I lived with him at the time, I was able to participate, so long as I helped with the cooking and prep. We started around 8 p.m. and finished at 2 a.m. It was six hours of standing and cooking nonstop, but it was a blast. (more…)

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