Videos of my time abroad
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July 2003
July 2003-04 Year 1 (Windows Media Player, 58 MB)
7/28 Claire rocks out to karaoke at Tokyo Orientation (2.3 MB)
Aug. 2003
8/13 Awa Odori:
Clip 1 (4.8 MB) |
Clip 2 (6.3 MB) |
Clip 3 (4.5 MB) |
Clip 4 (4.8 MB)
Clip 5 (3 MB) |
Clip 6 (4.6 MB) |
Clip 7 (8.5 MB) |
Clip 8 (4.4 MB)
8/14 The JETs try their hand at Awa Odori (4.1 MB)
8/17 English camp kids sing about Tokushima using
Country Roads (8.5 MB)
8/24 Izumi attaches herself to me (3.8 MB) | Shamisen performance (3.2 MB)
Sept. 2003
9/6 Waterboys: quite possibly the funniest thing you have ever seen (31.7 MB)
Oct. 2003
10/29 Tea ceremony: Kurohashi-sensei (12.4 MB) | Reika (13.6 MB) | Yoko (12 MB)
Nov. 2003
11/2 The lift at Mt. Tsurugi (3.4 MB)
11/10 Girls' badminton drills: Clip 1 (3.4MB) | Clip 2 (5.4 MB) | Clip 3 (1.1 MB)
11/29 Elementary school kids perform the Carpenters Sing a Song: Clip 1 (7.9 MB)
Clip 2 (6.4 MB)
Dec. 2003
12/7 Jane reads a book to pre-school kids (5.8 MB)
12/18/03 to 1/5/04 Vietnam (Windows Media Player, 40 MB)
Jan. 2004
1/24 JET musical rehearsal/Trainspotting (2 MB) | Burns Supper: Ode to haggis
(11.1 MB) | Craig recites Burns.
(4.6 MB) | Kanako reads a Japanese poem
(5.7 MB) | The Aussies sing Waltzing
Matilda (6.8 MB)
Feb. 2004
2/1 Bus-ride to the ski slopes of Nagano (6.2 MB)
2/21 Naked Man Festival: The temple (3.7 MB) |
Taiko drumming - Clip 1
(3.4 MB)
Clip 2 (4.6 MB) |
Naked men running (9.4 MB) | Greg (10.9 MB) |
James
(6.2 MB) | Lucky sticks (36.1 MB)
March 2004
3/6 JET musical rehearsal/Bad (18.3 MB)
3/7 Musical intro (11.2 MB)
3/13 Karl discusses how to put on makeup (24.4 MB)
3/14 More musical rehearsal: You killed my Neko-chan!
(3.4 MB)
I have no money. (20.5 MB)
April 2004
4/17 Rugby: Dallas gives a pep talk (7 MB) |
A rugby game (4.4 MB)
4/24 Awa Odori: Clip 1 (4.4 MB) | Clip 2 (10 MB)
4/29 Australia: A digeridoo performance (10 MB)
June 2004
6/9 After-school athletic practice: Basketball, clip 1 (7.2 MB) |
Clip 2 (6.3 MB)
Clip 3 (4.1 MB) |
Volleyball, clip 1 (3.5 MB) | Clip 2 (3.5)
6/23 Interviews with second-year students: Clip 1 (18.1 MB) |
Clip 2 (5.7 MB)
6/25 College students sing to a Mr. Big song at English Camp (6.4 MB)
6/29 Kamona Junior High School: Interview with Mizuki Abe
(24 MB)
Marching band rehearsal (3.2 MB) |
Kendo practice (4.1 MB)
July 2004
7/2 Open-Mic Night:
Ali (6.9 MB) | Stirling (4.6 MB)
7/24 The plane from Guam to Rota (6.9 MB)
7/28 Behind our hotel in Rota (14.4 MB)
7/29 Exploring Rota: The drive (14.4 MB) |
The beach at the base of the fruit farm
(8.2 MB) |
A sea cucumber (4.6 MB) |
A bird sanctuary
(7.2 MB)
A rocky pool (5.2 MB)
Aug. 2004
8/8 Open space
in a shrine at Miyajima Island (9.7 MB)
8/12 Nara: The first Vietnamese restaurant I found in Japan
(7 MB)
Making mochi (5.3 MB) | The light festival (4.4 MB)
Sept. 2004
9/4 The Kamona JHS culture festival: Third-year boys try to dance
(12 MB)
A dance you are guaranteed to see at every culture festival
(4.8 MB) MB
Class 7-8 performs a play (3.5 MB) |
Bingo in Japanese
(3.7 MB)
Dance Dance Revolution ... very anticlimactic
(2.2 MB)
Baseball practice after school (3.2 MB)
9/7 Typhoon No. 18
(6.8 MB)
9/12 The Kokufu JHS culture festival: Taiko drumming, clip 1
(5.7 MB)
Clip 2 (4.1 MB) |
Waterboys, clip 1 (10.7 MB) |
Clip 2 (24.5 MB)
Quite possibly the spider that bit Peter Parker
(11.7 MB)
Oct. 2004
10/10 In front of
Shibuya Station (9.3 MB) |
The freaks come out in Harajuku (4.6 MB)
A wedding at Meiji Shrine (5.7 MB)
10/11 Ginza (10.8
MB) |
Inside the Sony Building: Break those blocks!
(7.7 MB)
Nov. 2004
11/10 Picking Clementines (14.2 MB)
11/27 Making handmade paper (6.2 MB)
Dec. 2004
12/4 Shinmachi Elementary School English Day: Dancing ... (10 MB)
More dancing (this one should look familiar) (18.6 MB) |
Dragon dance! (16.1 MB)
12/10 Kamona's Class 7 and
8 (7.8 MB) | Kokufu's Class 7 and 8
(8.6 MB)
Feb. 2005
2/11 The Snow Festival in Sapporo, Hokkaido: The city
(3.6 MB)
The seaside, clip 1 (3.6 MB) |
Clip 2 (3.5 MB) |
The train to the slopes (4.8 MB)
2/12 Taiko drumming at the Snow Festival (8.9 MB)
2/22 A familiar dance (6.9 MB) |
A Chinese zither performance (3.2 MB)
March 2005
3/27 Palm trees in Tawau, Malaysia (3.5 MB) |
The beach in Semporna
(8.2 MB)
3/30 A sea
turtle lays her eggs (5.7 MB) |
The baby sea turtles (4.0 MB)
April 2005
4/23 The whale shark at Osaka Aquarium (7.0 MB) |
Tuna (6.1 MB)
A wedding procession at the aquarium (6.5 MB)
May 2005
5/3 Nagisa, clip 1 (1.1 MB) |
Clip 2 (3.3 MB) |
Tora, clip 1 (3.4 MB) |
Clip 2 (3.8 MB)
5/4 The Naruto whirlpools (2.3 MB)
5/5 Shodo done properly (11.6 MB) |
Boys doing tea ceremony - kawaiiii! (6.9 MB)
5/8 Sushi conveyor belt, clip 1 (6.8 MB) |
Clip 2 (6.9 MB)
5/28 Running races on Sports Day (4.3 MB)
June 2005
6/23 Lunch at Kamona Elementary (7.3 MB)
July 2005
7/12 Kokufu JHS boys (4.8 MB)