Changing seasons

 Winter is over. The cotton-like layers of ice along the roads are slowly melting away. The mountains are gradually bared from being giant chunks of white rocks to lively and lush mountains as the warm rays of the sun strike every corner them. It’s spring.
 
It’s been almost seven months since I came to Japan. That [...]

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Exploring ancient Japan

Japan is home to ancient and modern Asia. It’s transformation from a feudalistic society to a free-market oriented economy generated so many changes in it’s societal, physical and even cultural structures. It’s sudden rise to economic power, being the second largest economy in the world from a once impoverished nation in Asia especially after the [...]

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Beyond traveling

I love traveling. It’s one of the things I enjoy doing no matter how tiring and quite expensive it is at times. Among my sisters, I was the one my mom would always tag along with her when we were small whenever she goes home to her province or just to the city because I [...]

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Arriving in Japan

We arrived at the Narita airport in Tokyo on Sunday at 7:44. I was asleep most of the time in the plane because of the “tearful parting time” at home the night before. When I woke up, we’re almost in Tokyo. When I Iooked at the window, the dark sight outside made me shiver. I [...]

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