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		<title>a few notes about my homestay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When they say that Japanese homes are poorly heated, they aren&#8217;t kidding.  The only heating I come in contact with here is the kotatsu at meal times (breakfast has been moved there from the dining table now that it&#8217;s cold), my lovely electric blanket, and the heated toilet seat (which I no longer find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Topics I (or anyone else who knows me) never thought I&#8217;d be making a blog post about #1: making my bed.  Like many of the small everyday activities, it&#8217;s different here than it is at home.  During orientation week when I was staying in Seminar House, none of us knew which order things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>homestay</title>
		<link>http://www.steffishjapan.kansai-gaidai.com/2009/11/homestay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I just read about someone else&#8217;s experiences with their homestay, I thought I&#8217;d finally get around to writing some things about mine, so that anyone who&#8217;s thinking about applying for homestay can have a range of information available :)
When I signed up for homestay, I said that it didn&#8217;t really matter to me what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>spa world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s adventure was Spa World, a multi-storey bath complex.  Photos aren&#8217;t allowed, for obvious reasons, so you&#8217;ll have to put up with my rambling instead.
We met around 10am at Yodoyabashi, then took the subway to Doubutsuen-mae which is near Spa World.  It was the creepiest station I&#8217;ve been to yet &#8211; looked old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>facts and figures</title>
		<link>http://www.steffishjapan.kansai-gaidai.com/2009/10/facts-and-figures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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Looking at this, it doesn&#8217;t seem like I&#8217;m very busy.  But somehow it&#8217;s just enough that I can&#8217;t really do anything on school days, except maybe Monday afternoons.  Oh, and Thursday mornings for cleaning my room XD  At least I don&#8217;t have any 9am classes :D

On the program for the Opening Ceremony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>catch up</title>
		<link>http://www.steffishjapan.kansai-gaidai.com/2009/10/catch-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve obviously fallen behind terribly, here are a few photos from the last month or so :)  I&#8217;ll even try to use my words a little bit this time, since the photos are fairly disjointed and a bit of explanation is required. 
On September 27th I went to Fushimi Inari shrine on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>fanta</title>
		<link>http://www.steffishjapan.kansai-gaidai.com/2009/10/fanta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my missions while I&#8217;m here is to try every flavour of Fanta that I find.  There was one that I had last month that was Italian Peach flavour, and it looked like it was part of a series of world flavours.  So the new flavour in the series has come out, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>my house</title>
		<link>http://www.steffishjapan.kansai-gaidai.com/2009/10/my-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the guided tour of my homestay house :)
Okay, I&#8217;ll start from the start.  Here&#8217;s the front gate:


And again.  My window is the second floor one with the brown thing hanging in front of it.


This is the garden inside the gate:

And the front door:

But!  In this tour I&#8217;m not going in through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>tokyo</title>
		<link>http://www.steffishjapan.kansai-gaidai.com/2009/10/tokyo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better late than never, right?  A few photos from my trip to Tokyo during Silver Week.

We took the Shinkansen (bullet train) on the way up to Tokyo.  Expensive but nice and fast!  We left Shin-Osaka station at 9:20 and arrived in Tokyo just before 12.

Also saw Mt Fuji from the window, though [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.steffishjapan.kansai-gaidai.com/2009/09/103/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time, right?  I&#8217;m finally settled in and feeling happy enough at my homestay to write here without making people reading this worry too much.  I actually thought I was completely adjusted and happy, but then I started listening to some NZ music earlier and cried (well, it was &#8216;Welcome [...]]]></description>
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