As you can see from my previous posts and photos, I seem to spend quite a bit of time at Japanese cemeteries. So I don’t know why I was surprised when I ended up at a HUGE cemetery when I went on a seemingly innocent walk across Nisshin to go to their Hydrangea walk. This […]

So on July 1st (Canada day) my Canadian roommate Kerry and I went to try to celebrate the Canadian way - drinking. Sadly, we failed…. We went to Nagoya looking for a bar she had seen advertising “come celebrate canada day”. We took the train/subway after work and got out in […]

Well, we finally found a bar in Nisshin. Actually, it’s an Itzakaya which is a place where you sit at a narrow bar and order drinks and food if you feel like it. Very Japanese.  It occurs to me that I forgot to get a picture of the outside of it. […]

Yeah!!!!!!!!!! I went to see sumo on this past Thursday (the 20th). It’s been raining like crazy here. Today’s the first day in almost a week that it hasn’t rained. So of course I started to feel fluish on my first day off (Weds.). I had been planning for quite a while to go […]

SO, it was my birthday on the 24th (Monday) and we decided to go out on Sunday night. Nova closes a little early on Sundays, so it seemed sensible. A few students had recommended an Irish pub called Rickey’s which is in Toyota - about a 3 minute walk from Nova. Just about everyone from […]