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		<title>Magical Trees of Magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 12:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category>

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Yeah, so basically for Golden Week I met up with JETs from Toronto and we had a blast. I&#8217;m having what they call 五月病 (Go Gatsu Byou). This basically means after a string of holidays in May, we get mad depressed because we have to face reality&#8230;
Oh well&#8230;anyway I solved it by going to Fukuoka [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take me out to the ball game!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 02:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[jump rope]]></category>
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At my school we just had a baseball match with a rival school and it was a jam packed day full of goodies.
The first part of the day was a sports/class battle kind of day at my school. The students were separated in each of their homeroom classes and had to bond with one another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of festivals and monkeys&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 02:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[parade]]></category>

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This is old news, but I figured I&#8217;d post it up anyway to get it out of the way.
About 3 weeks ago, a festival popped into town and I attended. It was pretty cool because usually my town is pretty boring. However, once the festival rolled into town my citybecame a rustling and bustling place! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s sunday, I&#8217;m at work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>

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Anyway, look at this button. I&#8217;m going to reiterate the description I was given about this button, so I kid you not:
Well, there&#8217;s a big giant festival coming to Miyazaki this year, and students must wear this button. This button is for students to be safe because if they wear the button on their left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh Blood aka New Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[new students]]></category>

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The new students arrived and man they are really small people.  I thought my students from last year looked young, but the ones this year look like elementary school students. It&#8217;s ridiculous!
Also, as another reminder of how hardcore Japan is about their ceremonies, I posted a video of the welcome ceremony for the students. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese parties and Crazy Yelling Men (or just one)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher party]]></category>

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And so it&#8217;s the end if the year, and that means end of the year teacher parties!About 18 teachers are transfering schools and so we had a goodbye party for them. It was really nice and all and I had a good time, but then some bat @#$% crazy Japanese teacher started yelling his mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you like Bananas? Do you like Lofts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
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How about putting the two together? Your mind would blow up from the awesomeness.

Well, prepare to be blowed&#8230;.

&#8230;UP FROM YOUR MIND! Check out BananaLoft.com!


It&#8217;s a cool site about asian culture in North America (Specifically Canada. So,  Americans, get used to the extra &#8220;U&#8221;). It&#8217;s a new site up and running with new content being added [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No one tells me anything</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ceremony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know why there&#8217;s a picture of a Hobo right now? Well, it&#8217;s because apparently the whole school forgot to tell me that today was the GOODBYE ceremony for all the teachers transferring to other schools and/or retiring.
So, I walked in looking like the above picture while everyone is dressed looking like freaking James [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conclusion: Japanese Children are Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[adorable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[too cute]]></category>

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I think it&#8217;s only logical that Japanese children are evil. Why? Well, because no way ALL Japanese children can be cute right? I mean, there&#8217;s gotta be some ugly swans swimming in there.
Well, no we&#8217;re wrong. Contrary to popular belief, ugly Japanese babies DO NOT exist.
Don&#8217;t believe me? Watch the menacing video of the kid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class Match? Badly named day, but fun in the Sun.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elstar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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This was a while ago. Actually, they wanted me to choose a better name for it.
Teacher: So, Lester, how about &#8220;Class Match&#8221; or &#8220;Inter-Class Sports Round-Robin Competition&#8221;
Lester: Uh&#8230;.stick with Class Match.
Now, I realize I should&#8217;ve just said &#8220;Sports Day&#8221;. Oh well.
You can check out some pics after the jump.




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