so that's why I won't be able to update here~ (besides I have problems uploading photos... and I am too lazy to fiy it rght now ( Read more... )

it was like being the heroine of my very own Showa-movie (the historical Japanese period between 1926 and 1989) - I am, in fact, a Showa-born woman. But actually I am a kind of mezurashii (hm, particular?) heroine for this epoch - a single woman on tour is no something all too normal, so to speak. And yes, I got treated like a rare animal in ( Read more... )

group activity day - our whole university group went to Kamakura - a place I have difficult memories about: I was there during the earthquake two years ago ( Read more... )

On sunday I went to Yokohama with a friend - to Minato Mirei, Chinatown, Node and upupup the Landwark Tower for a beautiful Night View~

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walking around and taking dozens of random pics~ that's me
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you know what's really incredible about countries bathing in sunlight like Israel ( Read more... )

...much different ~
hard to explain - it reminded me of Tunesia or a "typical" eastern Mediterranean country - but different
it's so full and overwhelming - with beauty and unseemliness, history and modernity, religion and atheism - diverse but still harmonized

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six weeks are over~ way too fast, way too slow~
being here was like being out of time

it was good, healthy (in a way - not so in other ways...)

I'll come back, next spring to give a lecture or rather short introduction about my working-theme, maybe again to work on another project
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I already cleared my working space in the archive


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I still can't decide which's the most important prey


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