Turtle Power

We are staying in Hotel Seiryu, we have one room each. I am lucky to have gotten a double bedroom, hehe, because the hotel was out of single rooms. The hotel is very elegant yet inexpensive, compared to other hotels. It is located near Ishikiri station, three train stops away from the Nara station, which […]

My gosh it’s been less than two weeks and I already know how to read Hiragana and Katakana! Wow! My head is bursting with all the new information, all the memorization! I still find it a bit hard to read these characters. I can read, but slowly. It’s weird ‘coz I write faster than I […]

There aren’t any Sakura blooms yet in February, but thank goodness for plum blossoms, the earliest trees that signal spring. While we were in Osaka, my sister and I, with our friend Erlyn, visited the Osaka castle (or Osaka-jo, they call it). My most favorite part was walking through the Bairin plum garden and being […]