Harry Pears

1. At last, I have found a simple yet geeky theme! I will probably stick with this one for a long time- I think this place could do with a bit of consistency! I found this wonderful theme at http://www.themeporter.com/ 2. I forgot to mention yesterday about Japanese web addresses. On nearly all URL’s in [...]

[Read more →]

1. You may have noticed my new Vista-look theme… I did find a better one, but it didn’t have navigation links and couldn’t work out how to put hem in. 2. Japanese cars in one word- square. The Nissan Cube, what an appropriate name. Not all the cars have such a steep rear, but nearlyall [...]

[Read more →]

Wednesday 13th Feb 2008 Early start. Very early. 5.30, train leaves at 6.45. It was a very sad goodbye as we all waved to our host families while boarding a local train for a short journey. Get off, next train. We were on this one for slightly longer, but we soon got off and onto [...]

[Read more →]

Monday 11th Feb 2008 The first night with my host family went really well, and we were up bright and early in the morning to meet at the town hall for 9PM. The group was split in two, and my half started off the day but going up the ‘Ropeway’ [basically a cable car] to [...]

[Read more →]

Thursday 7th Feb 2008 My first ever plane journey was extremely boring. 12 hours to Japan isn’t the best way to have fun! However, it wasn’t too bad; apart from the fact that my friend woke me up at about 1am GMT only to say “I think we’re there.” We weren’t. I had got about [...]

[Read more →]