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Sightseeing in Nagasaki: Mt. Inasa and the Confucian Shrine

Since my trip to Korea, the past couple of weeks have been kind of boring. I’m sorry to say this, but it’s true. I’ve been focusing on school and doing a little bit of sightseeing around Nagasaki in my free time. One of the first things I heard about when I got here, was the
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Golden Week (Nagasaki Ship Festival and Seoul, Korea)

I’m actually the worst at updating this thing because I keep meaning to update but then I always land up forgetting. So here’s a post, so I can catch you guys up on the last couple of weeks. So the spring semester in Japan is from April until August. So while everyone else is done
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Nagasaki (with a little bit of food, too)!

I’ve lived on Long Island for most of my life, and in New York for all of it. I’ve been to other places, but not really outside of America or even off the east coast for that matter. So when I first arrived in Japan, I wasn’t really aware of how much of a different
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Hello from Nagasaki, Japan!

First of all, I’d like to formally apologize for not posting sooner. I unfortunately forgot to bring a charger converter with me, and I only recently got one. So I guess that means I’ve got to catch you guys up on a lot of things. I’ve been here for a little more than three weeks
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