my best encounter with a friendly stranger was in japan. i was stranded in fukuouka, trying to get my teaching visa for korea. it was a busy, rainy friday night and the lodging accomodations had all been snatched up. i spent my afternoon running around, thinking I had lost...
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my passport, and so I had missed the window of time to book a room for the night. I was sitting in the train terminal, cursing my bad luck, when I was approached by a young japanese man. he had studied in canada in college and spoke good english; it turned out that he...
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and his friends rented property through Airbnb, which was what brought him to the train terminal - he had come to take a couple of foreigners to their place for the night. he told me that all their rooms were booked, but if I waited for his friends for a few hours, they would...
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get off work and pick me up, and I could stay with them for the evening. well, I had no other options but I made a cursory sweep of the various motels in the area and came up empty handed again. and eventually the friends did pick me up, asked if I was hungry and took me out...
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for ramen and beers. I had been in Japan for about 48 hours at that point and recovered a lot of my speaking ability so we had a fun conversation. we went to seven eleven and perused the manga and skin mags (the quintessential Japanese male experience) and I...pic.twitter.com/AoEz2qSRId
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was gifted this small model of tokyo tower. we went to seven eleven and perused the manga and skin mags (the quintessential Japanese male experience) and I learned they were developing an app, along the lines of Yelp but for tourists...pic.twitter.com/5DTVhzQbKc
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hmm boobie related glitch in the Matrix in this thread, wonder what the Archons changes
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