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Nature in Japan I really like these videos. All made by the same Japanese man. He also makes video about his cats but After I watch these nature videos I feel so at peace. Take a few minutes to enjoy the beauty of Japan! Check out his youtube channel:  Nyanta8355 If you want to see more of my nature videos, check out my nature playlist .

Learning to use the English language When anyone is learning to use a new language its good for them to use the new alphabet/collection of characters in various ways outside of writing or reading. For me this means creating little 'cards' of each character so that words can be explored in a hands on way outside of writing. Writing in English While writing in English can be very beneficial to learning the language there are different parts of the brain that understand its creation (motor memory) and another part that aids in understanding what the letter means. This is my theory anyway. I don't know the science behind this. So be cause a lot of people get caught up in what style to use or where the letters are placed I've decided to add a different way to learn spelling/reading. Writing in Japanese Japanese language doesn't use spaces or capitals or lowercase and therefore when kids are learning to read and write...

I arrived in Hamamatsu on November 2nd, 2011. For the past nine months I have called Shizuoka-ken my home away from home. Some of things I love about Hamamatsu are as follows: The best thing about Hamamatsu is the climate. While I might have been lucky that it has been relatively mild, temperature wise, I feel like by default, the climate in Hama is drier and cooler than most places in Japan that I've had the privilege to visit. That alone makes it a special place.

This really resonates with me, all the wars we fight and all the people that die from violence for example are all a victim of the struggle of geography. Food water all a result of geography. It needs to be more important in education. Good video/message, hope you find a chance to watch it.

Language has always been important to me. I have been listening to Japanese for 12 years. I took a class in Japanese in my second year of high school. But I've had mixed spats of study in the realm of grammar and verb conjugation , ect. I've taken a few university courses and went to Japan while in Art school. Long story short Japan and its language has always been a part of my life in some way. Now I live there and am feverishly trying to improve what little I do know of the language. What I lack most is practice in speaking. But this is also complicated by my weak grasp on taking what I know and adding grammar and new vocabulary to the right situations in a timely manner. So while my speaking confidence is low, my listening confidence is much better and I can generally listen to someone talk in their native speed and manage to provide the right combinations of responses so that they can continue trusting that I understand what they have said. In reality, I maybe under...

Osaka Donjon

Sayonara days of limited quality and control!  A new adventure begins. Check out a review of this camera on  DPreview.com When I first got into photography it was a SLR Pentax that my dad got me for my birthday. I was pretty young, I don't recall the age I was, but it was pretty cool. Later I got to use the family's Sony Mavica on some vacation, I don't recall the details but digital cameras were cool. In the early years of the new millennium I got a Sony Mavica CD1000 which used mini CDs as the medium to record to. It has an amazing zoom! And a whopping (at the time) 5 mega pixels!