Posted by Gringograss on Jul 8th, 2011 | 0 comments
Back in 2002, I joined a fifteen-day camp that, in a way, molded me into the person I am today. Before this program, I was naïve, somewhat shy, and should I say, a lot less interested with the world. After the camp, the world became bigger but ironically, also smaller; strangers became funnier and friendlier; and I saw the world as a better place with a whole lot of good people to know and to...
Posted by Gringograss on Jun 24th, 2011 | 0 comments
I don’t know how we got there… but we did. We just relied on Google maps and had some help from our Japanese friends for scoring us our train tickets and for translating to us some important information about where we were going. (We had a guidebook, in Japanese, and it was probably the only guidebook that gave information on how to get there.) My friend did most of the research as it...