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| How often would you say it's appropriate to visit your home country? |
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14% |
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33% |
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| Once every 2 (or 3 or 4) years |
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23% |
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4% |
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| If they want to see me they can visit me HERE, Dangit! |
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JimDunlop2
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Posts: 2286
Location: Japan
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 Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:17 am Post subject: (Off-topic) Friday Silliness Thread -- Christmas! |
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Are you going to visit your country of origin for Christmas/New Years?
Another country?
Are you sending Christmas presents home?
If so, what kind of presents are you getting for your family & friends?
(I'm hoping for some good suggestions here as we are going to spend the holidays with the in-laws in Canada)... (UGH!) (I'd rather be surfing somewhere warm). |
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Sweetsee
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
Posts: 2302
Location: ) is everything
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| No, no, no and don't know yet. We will get a package together to send to my family in France, who knows what. |
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TK4Lakers
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
Posts: 159
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| I just booked my ticket back home to southern California a couple weeks ago. I've been here since March, and I can't wait to go home. I'm going to do it all in the limited 2 weeks that I can. I can't wait. |
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uticsperkins2004
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 30
Location: Moriya, Ibaraki-ken
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| This will be the first Christmas I will be spending in Japan since I first arrived in 2004. I was able to convince my parents to come here to visit me for the holidays! The will arrive on December 22 and leave on December 31. I am really looking forward to showing them around and having a unique Christmas experience here with them. I wont be sending home any presents for the rest of my family, but will instead send my parents back with presents..because really, isnt it great to get some gifts after Christmas has passed?! |
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Gordon
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Posts: 5309
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:13 am Post subject: |
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| This is my 5th Christmas in Japan. This will be the first year "family" is coming over. My mother-in-law will come on the 23rd since my wife is due around that time. Should be a very interesting Christmas. |
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Eva Pilot
Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 351
Location: Far West of the Far East
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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This will be the first Christmas in my 21 years of life I haven't celebrated in the same house with my family.
In a way, I am excited to be doing something different. In another way, it just won't feel the same. |
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markle
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Posts: 1316
Location: Out of Japan
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: (Off-topic) Friday Silliness Thread -- Christmas! |
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| JimDunlop2 wrote: |
| Are you going to visit your country of origin for Christmas/New Years? |
At the price they charge for airfares?? Noooooo.
As above
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| Are you sending Christmas presents home? |
Yes. With the money we saved by not going, everyones getting diamond encrusted Rolexs
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| If so, what kind of presents are you getting for your family & friends? |
Mixed bag really, some imported German Cristmas decorations, Some Japanese patterned clothing and some pottery (maybe)
Some suggestions
Battery operated electronics (no voltage issues)
ceramics (japanese patterns)
100yen shop kitsch
watches
brand label accessories (second hand) |
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Birdog3344
Joined: 28 Jun 2004
Posts: 126
Location: Osaka, Japan
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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We're compromising this year. I'm meeting my mom anｄ sister in China. From what I understand Xmas has increased in popularity there as the middle class has expanded, but much like Japan (and the West, it could be argued) its mainly a commercial holiday. Not that I have any interest in it, religious or secular.
Good question about the gifts. The girlfriend and I are framing some of our favorite artsy photos we've taken over the last year and a half and sending them home. |
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gaijinalways
Joined: 29 Nov 2005
Posts: 2279
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| Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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Gordan posted
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| My mother-in-law will come on the 23rd since my wife is due around that time. |
Is your wife away? Shouldn't she or you show up after our mother-in-law goes home  ?
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JimDunlop2 wrote:
Are you going to visit your country of origin for Christmas/New Years?
At the price they charge for airfares?? Noooooo.
Quote: Another country? As above |
Do you still have a passport? I know one teacher who doesn't have one, but he hasn't left Japan in 8 years  !
If you book early enough, it's sometimes not that expensive. Also depends on when you leave for the holidays and when you wish to return. |
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callmesim
Joined: 27 Oct 2005
Posts: 279
Location: London, UK
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Going back home? No way. I only left 9 months ago.
I'm staying in Osaka for Christmas but on the 27th I'm meeting some Australian friends in Beijing and we're travelling around China for 2 weeks. It was cheap but �70000 was easier to swallow than over twice that nearly everywhere else. |
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markle
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Posts: 1316
Location: Out of Japan
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| Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| gaijinalways wrote: |
Do you still have a passport? I know one teacher who doesn't have one, but he hasn't left Japan in 8 years !
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I mean at Xmas /New Year or any of the other peak periods |
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