http://advena.your-japan.com Just another Your-Japan weblog... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:18:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I suppose I'mg going to post this now since Valentine's is just round the corner and this is the only bit of romance I have to share...! Hope all the people reading fared better than I Valentines-wise! As my year in Japan came to a close I realised there was one ... http://advena.your-japan.com/2010/02/13/my-prince-i/ The past few months have gone really fast and pretty much before I knew it I was back on the plane to England looking over the Rivier Thames. Apart from wasting my time brooding over what I want to do with my life. I have since turned 21 years of age ... http://advena.your-japan.com/2010/02/12/sakura-slip-ups/ Ok so I guess it's about time I should admit it. I have a Japanese boyfriend. And before you joke, yes yes I've heard them all before; "Wow is that like a rule of thumb for when you go to Japan?" hahahaha... ¬_¬ But no, it was sort of an accident since I met him ... http://advena.your-japan.com/2009/05/11/confessionsconfessions/ Recently the old morbidity of lab has been thwarted by some lively and interesting new students. The new acacemic year brought us Maiko, Miki, Bubs and Jimmy. Not their real names but I think they sound good together. Plus I'd like to preserve their anonimity. Maiko and Bubs I've met before since ... http://advena.your-japan.com/2009/04/19/more-lab-stuff/ Labs are pretty much boring. I either sit in the prep room thinking about what the Japanese students would do if I decided to throw myself out the window... or try and mostly fail at my experiments. I sometimes go to my professor for help and advice, who usually avoids me because ... http://advena.your-japan.com/2009/03/07/lab-shenanigans/ So it's been almost 6 months since I've been here, and I'm only here until July. One thing I realise about being here is that stories come so much better to me when I reflect on them a while after they've happened. so I'm going to aim to write down my ... http://advena.your-japan.com/2009/02/19/updates-ears-and-39-year-old-men/ So I mentioned before that I'm not your average Japanese Studies student. My degree course is science as well and I have come here to carry our an experment over the course of the year and eventually write it up. Upon getting here, the university placed me in one of the labs ... http://advena.your-japan.com/2009/02/02/guide-to-a-japanese-laboratory/ Sorry for the absence I tend to get writer's block a lot! Happy BeLATEd new year to everyone! I'm not really a skilled writer and I didn't really expect people to read this, and now that they are I tend to worry if I can keep up the standard. But hey, nothing ... http://advena.your-japan.com/2009/01/29/all-star-travel-iii/ Deeming the Shinkansen, or bullet train, too expensive, Smith and I decided to go for the cheaper option, the overnight bus. I had told Satori that we were going to see him, prior to booking, so he helped us find some sites for booking the bus for cheap. But as neither ... http://advena.your-japan.com/2008/12/16/all-star-travel-ii/ http://advena.your-japan.com/2008/12/09/full-bloom/