Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

Thoughts on Universal Orlando

I recently went on a vaca­tion with friend down to Uni­ver­sal Orlando with some friends. We went in part to see the new Wiz­ard­ing World of Harry Pot­ter sec­tion which opened this sum­mer. This was my first time going to a major theme park, so below are some tips and com­ments from my vaca­tion. Tips […]

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Chicago’s Field Museum

Over Thanks­giv­ing week­end, some friends and I went to Chicago to see the King Tut Exhibit. It was amaz­ing. Unfor­tu­nately, they had a no photo pol­icy on that exhibit. With the crowd and all the secu­rity peo­ple, I didn’t want to get kicked out so I didn’t take any pic­tures of that exhibit. But our […]

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Reflections on Japan

I’ve been back in the States for a few days now and I’ve been mean­ing to1 write a lit­tle some­thing reflect­ing back on the trip; how­ever with jet lag and what not2, I’ve been a bit too tired to write any­thing up. Since I received a friendly reminder about it from AWelkin; I fig­ure I […]

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Japan Day 13

Another day of rais­ing from bed far too damn early; only to hop on trains and run like the wind to make all our train/plane con­nec­tions. *sigh* The day started off poorly as one of the stu­dents spent the night in S-sensai’s room and another had the key to her room with him at the […]

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Japan Day 12

Today we went to Kyoto. We’d been warned that it was one of the hottest places in Japan, but I hadn’t paid too much atten­tion to the warn­ings think­ing that I wouldn’t really notice the dif­fer­ence after the heat I’d already been deal­ing with. Boy was I ever wrong! It was the sin­gle most brutal […]

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