Last post

This is the finish of my blog. It was incredible fun writing it and even more so living it. I am also planning of making a book out of this blog to keep as a memento of this year, which I will remember forever.
If you haven’t read it yet and whish to do so in [...]

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Lab farwell party and origami

Monday 3/8:
After my last whole weekend with Kojiro it was time for my last party with my lab friends. They were arranging a farewell party for me that Monday after school, free of charge for me and everything. We went to a nice izakaya and ate and drank more than enough, and after a lot of [...]

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Asakusa Hanabi

Saturday 25/7:
It was summer in Japan, and hanabi season, so this weekend it was time for yet another firework festival. This time together with YSEP friends, Yuka and friends of hers that lived in Asakusa.
Asakusa hanabi are on of the biggest firework festivals in Japan, and I read in the paper the day after that [...]

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Factory Study Tours to JAXA and Asahi brewery

Wednesday 10/6 and Wednesday 8/7:
Part of the YSEP program consists of something called Factory Study Tours, or FST. Every second week or so, we all go inn a buss to some factory, and learn about the Japanese industry. I am gone write a little bit about our last two study tours, just because they brought [...]

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Ghibli museum again

Sunday 7/6:
Sunday I ended up going to Ghibli museum again, together with some YSEP students, Japanese friends and Kojiro.
You are of course allowed to take pictures outside the museum, even if you can’t take them inside, and since the wheatear was actually nice this time I got a lot of nice pictures. There is for [...]

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Sun umbrellas, the swine flue and visiting the Emperors palace

Sunday 21/5:
Which is actually not such an easy thing as it might sound. First of all, the Emperors palace, or Tokyo Imperial palace as it is called is only open to the public two days of the year, that is January 2, which is New Year’s Greeting day over here, and a big thing, and [...]

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A small mountain trip and Golden week

Sunday 3/5:
The day after I went on a short Wander Vogel trip to a small mountain outside of Tokyo. Actually I had been in the area before, on my first camping trip in Japan, which I wrote about in this post (Ps: in Norwegian). It was golden week by the way, so there were lots [...]

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Skiing in Hakuba

Friday 13/2 – Sunday 15/2:
Friday night I headed out on my second snowboarding trip in Japan. This time with friends from the YSEP program, Sheng, Josh and Ben from America and Koo and Sunna from Korea. As last time we went to Shinjuku, and tock a night bus from a big bus station there. This [...]

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En Travel Uke

Mandag 10/11 – Søndag 16/11:
OK, nå har det vært veldig mye skriv om Wander Vogel i det siste, og veldig lite om Japan. Denne posten er nødt til å få et oppsummeringspreg, bare så jeg kan komme opp til speed. Veit man ikke trenger å skrive om alt som skjer, men har lyst til å [...]

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Halloween

Fredag 31/10:
Av mangel på alt for mye å gjøre (ikke egentlig), bestemte jeg meg for å arrangere noe som skulle være en enkel Halloween for alle som måtte ønske å bli med. Logikken var at jeg skulle på min første fjelltur med Wander Vogel tidlig dagen etterpå, så derfor kunne jeg ikke drikke eller dra [...]

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