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	<title>To Iyo And The East</title>
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		<title>Inarizushi, My First Japanese Snack</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I ate the other day was actually inarizushi.
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to start doing small posts in Japanese to improve. If you are Japanese or you know Japanese, please correct me if (when) I make mistakes! Here it goes:
Minna-san, konnichiwa! Watashi wa Margaret desu. America kara kimashita. Rotari Koukan ryugakusei desu. Nihon sugu kimasu. Tanoshimishiteimusu!
Sayoonara
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		<description><![CDATA[*****For reference throughout this post, Katsumi Itoh is my country officer, that means he chose me for Japan and is handling much of the logistical preparations. He and his wife are from Japan, but he has lived in America for many years now and speaks perfect English. He also has been hosting meetings for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=margaretjapan.wordpress.com&blog=1378121&post=10&subd=margaretjapan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Why Japan?&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;m actually going to live in Japan for a year. I can&#8217;t really comprehend that on August 24th, I&#8217;m actually going to step onto that plane, leaving my family waving in the terminal, and everything else that&#8217;s familiar to me behind. It&#8217;s surreal. And I don&#8217;t think other people can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=margaretjapan.wordpress.com&blog=1378121&post=9&subd=margaretjapan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Host Information</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For about 5 months, I was under the impression that I was going to Matsuyama City, (red dot on map). I recently discovered that I&#8217;m actually going to Iyo, which is a town about a 30 minute train ride Southwest of Matsuyama. Iyo is vastly smaller than Matsuyama. It&#8217;s larger in area than Salem, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=margaretjapan.wordpress.com&blog=1378121&post=8&subd=margaretjapan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When choosing countries back in January, I went largely on instinct, and partially on what little I knew of the countries, but one thing I didn&#8217;t take into consideration was language. This may sound silly, because after all, language is a significant challenge you will face in a foreign country, but I honestly thought language [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=margaretjapan.wordpress.com&blog=1378121&post=7&subd=margaretjapan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Exchange Student</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember a specific, climatic moment when I leaped up, pointed my finger toward the sky and shouted, &#8220;I want to be an exchange student!&#8221;. In fact, I don&#8217;t distinctly remember deciding this at all, it just sort of&#8230;happened. Throughout my life, I always had a sense of adventure, a pull to the unknown. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=margaretjapan.wordpress.com&blog=1378121&post=6&subd=margaretjapan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Hello. This will be my travel-log for Japan. For now, I will update sparingly only on matters concerning Japan, Matsuyama, and my exchange. I would, however,  like to tell you about how I got to this point, and about the wonderful city that I am going to. And I will. But it happens to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=margaretjapan.wordpress.com&blog=1378121&post=5&subd=margaretjapan&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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