Saturday, September 22, 2007

Some intresting stuff.....!?!?!?

So these are some of the things I actually thought "hey look at that I need a picture of that"! So here they are some are funny some are just interesting....but don't worry I'll try to post WEIRD stuff monthly :) ENJOY

Mmmmmmm Chocolates :P








Restaurant candies!








This is like milk and orange juice together (interesting)!?!?!







Can't go wrong with chocolate covered almonds :)








This sounds like a threat.....*I'm scared*(Click to laugh)








Mmmmmmmm I keep four O saki's by my computer....they go down smoothly :)







This is a Red Bean cookie kinda weird and kinda tasty :P







And this is the inside :)








The "Miracle of Grapefruit" Drink MMmmmm yummy.








The "Sweet Lemon" also good :)








And last but not least some of the yummy food we had on our last day of training dinner.







So I hope you had a laugh and liked some of what you have seen here to day and I WILL have more for you all enjoy and have a good time where ever you are :P


















So its been an intresting 2 weeks here in Japan with adventure and SCHOOL???

So first off I have loved my experience so far....it was a little stressful the first week because of our training and all but once we both got into it everything started seeming more right :D I have to say that the change from big city to rural area is quite shocking not that the density of the buildings changes that much but more of the old looking Japan seems to jump right out at you. There have been so many beautiful sights and I'm afraid that I have been lacking in the camera department for the last two weeks because of the training and all. But none the less I have picks for all to view and the second we get into our permanent housing (which is in a day :P) I will be back on the I love lamp.....I mean I love camera binge again.

So this is the name of the company that we work for I took the time to write it out on this toothpick (click to view) eat your heart out rice guy who writes names on rice :P





So this is our first training session in a classroom Marsha and Julia are taking the picks but this is all of us in the Osaka crew Yo...and our trainer the mighty Glenn.





This is a little seat that one of the JT's (Japanese Teacher) has for her self in the classroom....and yes I want one....and yes it might be pink too XD






Julia's mock class with some very bad boys (left to right: Nathan (Crazy Ausie), Brian, Brett & in the background Roger (AKA the boys from BC)






Lara (Larr-Ra)(Finlandish), Brett & Crazy Nate waitn' for our a drinkie poo's after class Mmmmmm booze.







Mmmmmmm Temple lishous (this was behind my first class room building where I taught my first class by myself)






So many statues in rural areas. This was beside the building where my first class was.







This Buddha's palm was so inviting to sit upon....but I did not because I also thought he might pinch my bum!?!? (it was larger than a sidewalk bench)






Oooop another temple they are so beautiful and simple.








Up the stairs of destiny to our class with Glenn.








For all you electro geeks like me this is where you want to go in Osaka right by Umeda station floor after floor of games, Tv's, cameras.....*Drool**Bizarchhhh* Oops...hey I can't afford that!!!!





This is the door to one of the classes that I taught in and unfortunately I cannot show you the inside (company policy people) :D






Here we are gambling for kids play blocks during a brake from class :) (the house always wins)







On the way to my last teaching class I saw this building in the distance if you click on the pick you can kinda see that it looks hand sculpted.....very neat...I would have gone closer but class can't wait.





Test day and last day of training.....First Girls Club Marsha (London England), Lara & Julia.







Boys Club....Left to right: Brett, Roger, Brian, Nate & Me Bill in the back ;D







And last but not least Group photo....So Glenn is on the left side with me and the Japanese girl with Nathan....I apologize to her but we met briefly and I cannot remember her name.





Dinner with the lad's and lady's for our last night all together except for Lara who had to catch a train for her placement.....and crap Roger why did you have to go to the bathroom dammit!!!!!





So thats all I have for the training portion of our trip like I said I was very busy and kept forgetting to take pictures when I actuality had the time too....So next is some of the weird labels and kool drinks section so go to it y'all.
anyways








Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Still in Vancouver :P

(This was at Aug 29-Sept 3rd) So this is our trip to a park in Vancouver......which rocked. I cannot begin to say how much I enjoyed my self here so sit back and enjoy....because I did XD

This is a picture from a cable bridge entering the park.








This is a water fall that you will later see me on....your not suppose to climb out to it but I cannot resist doing stuff like that. But for my disobedience I lose my green button up shirt to the rapids...it fell out of my pack in my jumping and leaping :P"""




Julia traversing the water way.








Chris and I taking pictures of each other taking pictures of each other....yea thats sounds right.







This is one of the may paths we took to adventure the wilderness before returning to the rapids to go to the falls.






Julia & Chris's buddy Chris going out to watch some kids jump off cliffs into this....(go down on pick)







Yes it is deep here but we did not bring bathing suites to go swimming though :(







Again I cannot tell you how much I Lovvvvveeee trees.








Back to the rapids....well this part of them is more like slowpids. But so much fun to jump rocks people.







I found this Rose floating down the stream while I was rock jumping.







This is one of the many area's we went jumping.








Chris having a smoke brake and Julia is walking through the water.....its cold as heck in the water by the way.






This is the entrance to the falls I climbed ahead and took this one while holding the camera almost on the surface of the water.






Chris standing mightily on the top of a high rock near the entrance to the falls.







Aaaaaaa the mouth of the falls....it was really pretty up here and the people walking the cable bridge above me were pointing at me.....probably calling me stupid (hahaha) they just wished they could do it too :D





So I had to climb back from where I'm sitting here and give the camera to Chris and then climb to this spot again...Chris P. wanted to be in a photo too but he fell in the water soon after this was taken lucky not far enough out for the current to sweep him over the edge (sigh) so I opted to show him the way back and continue on back to the way home :P



More beauty I saw on the way back :)








Looks like the mouth of a Hippo :D








To end off our adventures in Vancouver a couple more picks...Julia & some sunflowers.







SUNFLOWER!!!!!!








Chris & I went for a ride downtown him skating and me biking on this kick ass BMX yea!!!! (and yes that is a pink shirt)






This is a beach in the city that people come and build these....and there are soooooo many.







I found these cards laying on the stone beach and thought they were cool so now you can see them too (they were arranged like this on the ground I did not touch them at all)





These are some of Chris's friends we met while in Vancouver as well. Left to Right Val, Chris, Me & Angelica.






So thats it for Vancouver its sad I did not get to put all or at least more picks up for all to look at....but if anyone wants picks I can send them to them....by the way you can click pictures to look at them more closely....so the next picks will be in J-pan everyone Love you all and enjoy.