On the only time I could go to Hakone the weather was terrible. Gone were my hopes of enjoying some of the best views of Fujisan. Hell, I have...

This time in Ueno Park, the most popular place in Tokyo for the Hanami. I enjoy the whole Ueno area very much. It became one of my favourite places...

Spring comes very late in Tohoku, so if you want to see the sakura blossoms in March you must go further south. I was supposed to go to China in my...

One more AIU bus trip. This time to the snowy ski resort peaks of Tazawako (Lake Tazawa). The weather was really really bad, so that you could't se...

In one more trip organized by Ashmore we were taken to Sakata once again, this time for a festival with Kagura performances in the Koromori temple....

Ebeotsu is this small town 40 minutes away from Asahikawa by train. Since we woke up early we decided to explore it a little bit before going to th...

OK, so this time I let Liz organize the trip to Hokkaido. The party consisted of me, Liz and her boyfriend Adam. We took a ferryboat from Akita to ...

I've been very busy, so I'll try and update later.

Does anybody know who Minamoto Yoshitsune is? Or Benkei? If you don't, I'm not gonna tell you! LOL! Go and find it for yourself! But they are very ...

One more time in Happo Town, only Ikebana instead of Tofu.

E mais um programa de voluntariado, desta vez para um infantário em Akita onde fizemos parte da 20ª cerimónia de intercâmbio internacional. Par...

Esta foi uma festa que ficou pá História! Tudo começou por volta das 22:00 no quarto da Natasha na Global Village, depois de ela ter "escurraça...

Bem, chegou-me ao mail um convite para participar num jantar-convívio de estudantes estrangeiros das 3 universidades de Akita: AIU, Akita Universi...

Pois pois, festa de Natal a 7 de Dezembro? Só mesmo aqui na AIU. Não a quiseram fazer mais tarde pois a última semana tava reservada para exames...

Assim de repente tava enfiada no shinkansen para Sendai. De repente porque à dois dias atrás nem sabia bem o que queria fazer este fim de semana,...

Hoje é mais um normal dia de aulas, uma segunda-feira que à partida seria como qualquer outra. Mas o que a torna especial é o facto que fin...

Vou abrir ao estilo Inziga: "Konnichiwa bitches." Nota: a Inziga é americana de Washington D.C. e alvo de chacota da maior parte dos seus compatri...

Os professores Doulin (Rússia) e Ashmore (UK) são uns queridos e tratam os alunos como florzinhas, mesmo eu, que oficialmente nem sou aluna deles...

This is AIU bus trip nº2!! Waking up early once again. Some people came still with last night's hangover. Some of them didn't even manage to get u...

Depois de uma festa que me deixou alguns parafusos fora do sítio podem imaginar como foi difícil para mim acordar às 8 da matina neste sábado f...

What can you do at AIU on a normal friday evening? Not much, I can assure you. But this friday was different, we had the Auditorium reserved for so...

And now for something completelly different! I shall now show you my room here in the Komachi Hall Dormitory, and for all of those that imply all ...

Well, well... What can I say about the AIU Festival? Really, I'm at a lack of proper words. Como já todos devem saber, a minha modesta contribuiÃ...

Bem, tenho aqui mais uma coisita para fazer alguns de vós espumar de raiva: tivemos aqui na AIU o fundador e CEO da editora norte-americana Tokyop...

Hoje apetece-me escrever no nosso velho portuga, que o meu blog não anda a ter muitos visitantes internacionais (mas vai tendo alguns). Algumas pe...

This time, the AIU provided a bus so that students could go to the oppening concert of the National Sports Competition, wich is being now held in A...

So it is sunday, tomorrow is a holiday (Autumn Equinox Day) and the weather is really great. Me and Brennon had planned to go and see the ocean and...

This week we have again a 3 day weekend, this time there's Autumn Equinox celebration next monday, last week it was Respect for the Elder day. Anyw...

Last week I finally went to meet my academic adiser, Abe sensei, because there were some papers (in portuguese) to be signed and sent back to ...

My whole body was screaming pain due to the intensive hours of tennis and kendo practice, but even still I was feeling energetic enough to go for a...

The typhoon came and went but no one really noticed. To the rice crops that is good, but the rain threatened to ruin the proposed saturday tri...

This time we had a dinner party to welcome new students. In this party we had special food and drinks, and a bingo game with some weird prizes. As ...

Everyone should consider spending a saturday night in the dorm as bad taste. It seems as if  the complete student body of AIU thinks...

After a really hot day on thursday the temperature suddenly droped and today is rather chilly. This is the final and most boring day of Orientation...

So, to welcome the new students we had an icecream party, with vanilla icecream for everyone, snacks and music from the university's gospel choir (...

It took me 30 hours to get here. How else could I feel? Took one bus, two airplanes, two trains and one taxi. And after filling in some forms and s...

This is pretty much all I've seen from Tokyo since I arrived.

Today I decided to oficially start the countdown for my trip to Japan. There are only 3 days left. All the paperwork and burocracy are finally...