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foreignfilmfreak
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She studied here a few years ago! Her language partner was a friend of mine. I probably met her as well. So surprising though!
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FlareNetworkC
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LL: Ugh, I'm spending today doing summer homework. I have work to do for Honors English, APUSH (AP US History), and Honors Geometry. It's grueling and awful. Usually, I'm pretty competent when it comes to school, but not when my brain is stuck in the summer mindset.
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husky51
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husky51
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husky51
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foreignfilmfreak
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HL: So I've been trying to plan a potential trip to Japan during cherry blossom season next spring (mainly Kansai region). Except kind of been drawing blanks on what I want to do because I'm not really into tourist attractions and I'd prefer getting to meet people.
I started looking into farming opportunities in Hokkaido because I'm trying to plan a one to two month long trip there during the summer in the next few years and then realized I could look into farming in Kansai area. So now I think I might do that! Mainly want to go to Kansai to reunite with old friends, although might be able to scoot down to Shikoku for a week if I do this.
Now just hoping my work's layoff period is at least a month long. Also, this is inspired pretty heavily from Only Yesterday. lol I had always wanted to try farming and that film.. just really impacted me.
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arren18
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Are you familiar with WWOOF? It's an easy way to get to do farming things, and there are loads of opportunities with it all over Japan.
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husky51
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08.02.2017, 02:22 AM |
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foreignfilmfreak
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quote: Originally posted by arren18
Are you familiar with WWOOF? It's an easy way to get to do farming things, and there are loads of opportunities with it all over Japan.
Yup, that's what I was looking into when I started thinking of Hokkaido. Was kind of surprised there are at least a few in Hyogo and around so going to look into them. At least there if anything went awry I have people I can depend on.
My friends are a bit worried if I can handle farmwork but I'm used to long shifts and factory work. I can also look into wwoofing opportunities in my own province because there's bound to be some for sure. My province is mostly agriculture and dairy farming.
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arren18
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Even if you do feel the physical labour could be too much, there are a lot of options. Some wouldn't have much of that kind of thing at all, if you'd rather avoid it.
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foreignfilmfreak
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quote: Originally posted by arren18
Even if you do feel the physical labour could be too much, there are a lot of options. Some wouldn't have much of that kind of thing at all, if you'd rather avoid it.
Pretty sure I could handle it! Probably better than getting sprayed with fish guts and blood in the face. I see there's a ton of cool options though!
I'm considering now doing it for 2-3 months, starting in South Korea and then move over to Japan, possibly spend a week in the Kansai area and head up to Hokkaido. I just need to work out costs because I am planning to return to school for at least one year. This would mean I cannot reapply to JET for next year but that's fine. It's the type of experience I know my area's coordinator will be super happy with me trying. I'll probably talk to her about it (perks of a small consulate with great staff).
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husky51
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husky51
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HHL:
Took 3 of my granddaughters to lunch at McDonalds yesterday and then a surprise trip to the movie's afterwards... I was teasing them that we were going to see "Atomic Blonde" while we were standing in line, lol... Bad Grandpa, lol...
The girls were ages 7, 10 and 12... As were got closer the 12 yu said, "But, Grandpa, it's an 'R" rated movie" and I said oh!... Oh, well... (snicker) When we went in we went over to the "Emoji" side... I said, Wait a minute, we're going in the wrong one!!!... Then I fess'd up and we went to the Emoji movie... Spent a little time afterwards looking at some historiccal pics on my computer at home before I stopped and picked up a Happy Meal for their little brother who had cried when we left their house earlier...
While driving them home, it started raining so bad, I had to stop and park in a parking lot until it eased up for a bit... we had an 1-1/2 inch of rain in a half-hour......
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FlareNetworkC
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Aw, that sounds fun, Husky! I'm glad you got some bonding time.
HL: I got employee of the month at work today! The best part was that it was accompanied by a 20 cent raise
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husky51
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Kazegami
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HL: new fish~ We bought some pretty guppies and a couple of glowlight danios.
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husky51
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Back in my mid-20's, I had fish... I liked the Tetra's and Neon's and small algae eaters in a 10 gal tank Even had a Mollie once.. In my 26 gat show tank I had a Tiger Oscar and a large Plecostemus algae eater. I had the Tiger since it was abt 2" long and when grown, if I slowly laid my hand flat in the water, palm up, the fish would come over and lay across my palm for a few seconds. Then I would toss in a couple of feeder goldfish. When the Tiger was about 4+inches long, I came home one day and the dang thing was laying on the floor... I picked it up and it was ok, but I had to put a screen cover over the tank and weight it dowm
When it was young, I started it off on Brine Shrimp, also known as Sea Monkey's. lol
I was at work one time and we had a pretty solid, rolling earthquake and the 26 gal tank was on a spindly metal floor stand. I was worried...lol It was ok, just a little wetness on the carpet...
That was the time I also had my little female white Rat, "Babe". I would put her on the bed ontop of my newspaper and run my fingers around the paper and she would chase my fingers and attack, lightly biting and clawing, then I would chase her and push her over on her back and tickle her tummy... I loved that little girl. I gave her and the fish to a neighbor boy when I moved to another city to where they didn't allow pets...
hahaha, I showed them, I got a parakeet that flew around when I was home...
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