Due to my seriously slow computer (It's an iBook G4 going on it's fifth year!) I haven't been able to promptly upload and post photos and therefore anything I took this summer and wanted to post will have to wait till after I get back from my vacation.
What vacation you ask? I leave tonight for Azerbaijan where I'll stay for 6 days then travel via Istanbul to Amsterdam where I take a train to Paris, stay two nights, fly to Ibiza via Barcelona and stay two nights, come back through Barcelona for a night and then head to Amsterdam again before going to Istanbul. What was going to be just Azerbaijan and Turkey turned into a whirlwind of a trip but I'm very excited. Finally done packing so I'm not as stressed. Just have to get ready (shower, dinner etc...). Then I'll take the airport bus and hop on a fairly long flight to Istanbul.
Some of these places I've never been too and others, well just Paris, I have so I'm looking forward to every leg of this trip. I'm excited about the food and fall is my favorite season so the fact that I'll be able to spend it in Paris is like a dream since I'm in love with Paris. Weather-wise Amsterdam and Paris will likely be damp and cool and Baku, Istanbul, Ibiza and Barcelona will be fairly warm so packing wasn't the easiest thing but I just kept in mind the most important thing: to pack light.
Will need a serious photo posting session when I return. That is, unless, I figure how to post from my phone which I tried once and sorely failed at :(
Hope everyone is having a wonderful week!
September 23, 2010
September 14, 2010
Summer coming to an end... But
I'm sorry I've been so bad at updating this. Summer is coming to an end. For me, at least here in Japan it's a huge relief because this summer has been the hotttest summer in like the last century or so. So basically the hottest EVER! As far as most people are concerned. It was pretty unbearable at times. But slowing the nights are getting cooler and my favorite season is approaching. Yes, the girl born in Hawaii is in love with fall.
Having gone to college in upstate New York I got my first taste of fall. It was amazing. The leaves of the trees on campus would slowly change and the supermarket would be full of many varieties of apples. I never did get to do a corn maze or go apple-picking (laziness on my part probably) but I enjoyed going to morning classes in the crisp weather and see the fashion students, at least the most stylish ones, would wear. Now that I'm living in Japan fall brings a greater variation of foods to the supermarket. Not only apples and pumpkin but also pears, chestnuts, persimmon, mackerel and other fish. The only thing about fall though is that I'm an island girl so it's always hard to let go of wearing slippers/flip flops. I used to wear them and then just wear a jacket to stay warm. My thing was that until there snow collected on the ground, I wouldn't wear shoes--->I feel a little suffocated in closed toed shoes.
But I'll get over that because women in Japan tend to dress nicely all the time and therefore dressing up in the city here is a lot easier than in a small town in Upstate New York. It's nice to unpack those clothes for the colder seasons and get ready. Part of my early fall will be spent on vacation so that'll add a new twist to things. Some places I'll go will be a little warmer than here, such as Istanbul, and others, like Paris, will resemble more of the weather of my falls in New York. I'm excited either way. A few new places and some re-visited such as Paris(visiting Paris in the fall has been a dream of mine). I'm very anxious. There's still lots to do and I need to start packing because as I've mentioned earlier I'll be in different environments and therefore I need to pack smartly as to avoid overpacking.
No pictures again. I haven't taken too many this summer which is sad. But I will post some of what I do have at another time.
Hope everyone has a lovely summer- and hopefully less hot than mine:P Until my next adventure;)
Having gone to college in upstate New York I got my first taste of fall. It was amazing. The leaves of the trees on campus would slowly change and the supermarket would be full of many varieties of apples. I never did get to do a corn maze or go apple-picking (laziness on my part probably) but I enjoyed going to morning classes in the crisp weather and see the fashion students, at least the most stylish ones, would wear. Now that I'm living in Japan fall brings a greater variation of foods to the supermarket. Not only apples and pumpkin but also pears, chestnuts, persimmon, mackerel and other fish. The only thing about fall though is that I'm an island girl so it's always hard to let go of wearing slippers/flip flops. I used to wear them and then just wear a jacket to stay warm. My thing was that until there snow collected on the ground, I wouldn't wear shoes--->I feel a little suffocated in closed toed shoes.
But I'll get over that because women in Japan tend to dress nicely all the time and therefore dressing up in the city here is a lot easier than in a small town in Upstate New York. It's nice to unpack those clothes for the colder seasons and get ready. Part of my early fall will be spent on vacation so that'll add a new twist to things. Some places I'll go will be a little warmer than here, such as Istanbul, and others, like Paris, will resemble more of the weather of my falls in New York. I'm excited either way. A few new places and some re-visited such as Paris(visiting Paris in the fall has been a dream of mine). I'm very anxious. There's still lots to do and I need to start packing because as I've mentioned earlier I'll be in different environments and therefore I need to pack smartly as to avoid overpacking.
No pictures again. I haven't taken too many this summer which is sad. But I will post some of what I do have at another time.
Hope everyone has a lovely summer- and hopefully less hot than mine:P Until my next adventure;)
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