aquamarine
08-28-2004, 02:03 AM
Well as some of you may have known, I've since moved from Calgary to Saskatoon and finally ended up in Yokohama, Japan (actually about a 10 minute walk across the city divide into Tokyo!).
I have seen many many MANY of you out there chat and talk about how you wish you were out in Japan and the things you would do. Well my question is why don't you just go out and travel for a bit? Sure, it might take you to sell your car but if you get over here for even half a year and pick up a part time job like most other foreigners (mostly teaching english) then you can afford to pick up (close to) a brand new car once you get back to Cow-Town, Edmonton or wherever you hail from. Just a thought at least!
I'm basically just putting this post here to share some of my pictures and stories with you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask publically or privatly (and YES I am taking requests for the searching and/or sending of hard-to-find car-parts as one of my colleagues runs a car junk-yard). If I could suggest anything, it would be to go and do some traveling after you are done college, university or what-have-you. Even if it's not Japan, just get out and go somewhere. Why? Well I've asked many people in their fourties and fifties if they have any regrets and nine-times out of ten, they'll say they regret not doing more traveling. Well isn't that something? I would rather experience it and absolutly hate it, then think back when I'm 50 or so and say to myself "Boy, I wish I did some traveling around the world when I was younger". Just think about it.
So far I have walked about 300km in the past two months (in Japan, you tend to walk a LOT) namely because I didn't know just how far thin s are from place to place so in once case a train ride took me 20 minutes.... so I thought I could walk the same train line in about 3 hours at most. Six hours later I hadn't even covered half-way from point A to point B. That sucked some major ass.
Anyhow, enough of that for now, take a peek at my website located at
http://www.pozland.com
and the photos i've been taking since I arrived:
http://www.pozland.com/japan
Enjoy folks, I know I already have been!!!
-Aqua
I have seen many many MANY of you out there chat and talk about how you wish you were out in Japan and the things you would do. Well my question is why don't you just go out and travel for a bit? Sure, it might take you to sell your car but if you get over here for even half a year and pick up a part time job like most other foreigners (mostly teaching english) then you can afford to pick up (close to) a brand new car once you get back to Cow-Town, Edmonton or wherever you hail from. Just a thought at least!
I'm basically just putting this post here to share some of my pictures and stories with you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask publically or privatly (and YES I am taking requests for the searching and/or sending of hard-to-find car-parts as one of my colleagues runs a car junk-yard). If I could suggest anything, it would be to go and do some traveling after you are done college, university or what-have-you. Even if it's not Japan, just get out and go somewhere. Why? Well I've asked many people in their fourties and fifties if they have any regrets and nine-times out of ten, they'll say they regret not doing more traveling. Well isn't that something? I would rather experience it and absolutly hate it, then think back when I'm 50 or so and say to myself "Boy, I wish I did some traveling around the world when I was younger". Just think about it.
So far I have walked about 300km in the past two months (in Japan, you tend to walk a LOT) namely because I didn't know just how far thin s are from place to place so in once case a train ride took me 20 minutes.... so I thought I could walk the same train line in about 3 hours at most. Six hours later I hadn't even covered half-way from point A to point B. That sucked some major ass.
Anyhow, enough of that for now, take a peek at my website located at
http://www.pozland.com
and the photos i've been taking since I arrived:
http://www.pozland.com/japan
Enjoy folks, I know I already have been!!!
-Aqua