Spring Break
Hi all, sorry for not posting for a while, but I swear I've got a legit reason for not doing so. So this past week (22nd - 30th) was spring break at my university. However, being the kind of person I am I took kind of an extended spring break. So the week of March 16th a couple of my friends came out to go snowboarding up in Breckenridge and Keystone; and it was incredibly fun (despite having to go kind of slow due to my friends being used to the really tiny hills out in the midwest). I managed to get quite a few good pictures of the three-day snowboarding fiesta, so I threw them on Flickr. If you're looking for me, I'm the one with the obviously sunburned face. Yeah, that wasn't fun.
There other (and more fun) part of spring break was my trip to Japan. I went there to teach English at couple of camps for Japanese elementary, junior high, and high school students. It was defintiely a good time (minus the jet lag I had on the way back). The kids were definitely fun to work with, and were really good at understanding what I was acting out when the language barier was just too much for communication. So for a couple of observations about the trip/Japan in general:
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Don't give elementary school kids fireworks (one of my campers almost started a huge brush pile on fire...)
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Japanese toilet seats live up to the hype
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Japanese baths are kind of strange, but once you get used to them they're very enjoyable (just wish we could use them in the morning as opposed to at night)
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Narita airport's WiFi is not very secure (i'll probably write an article about how to bypass pay WiFi sometime around here)
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C.C. Lemon is the greatest drink in existence (it's a super-carbonated lemon soft drink)
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Akihabara (the elecronics district of Tokyo) is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread
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Yodobashi-Akiba dominates any electronics store that exists in the United States (7 stories of electronics goodness)
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Tokyo's subway/train system is amazing, not to mention very easy to understand
Enough of the talking anyway. Because of the huge number of pictures I took on this trip I actually purchased a Flickr pro account so I could upload all of them, so behold their glory over at Flickr.
Also, the reason I haven't posted for a while is because something went wrong with the Internetz while I was trying to post my little spiele on my pre-spring break festivites, so I lost the entire post and didn't have time to write it again before boarding my plane. In other news, I'll be doing a giveaway this weekend for the Call of Duty 4: Variety map pack and later today I'll be giving away some more arcade games on my Twitter account so try to keep an eye on that.
Later!