Auxiliary Blog for RRJ

Hi everyone! At last some sign of life from me! Sorry, things have been crazy this first week. Plus, I was having trouble downloading my photos, so I had nothing to show you! :-(

Anyway, I'm staying at the JICA centre in Hachioji, a small city about an hour by train from the centre of Tokyo. During the week, I have class most of the day, plus Japanese class on the evenings, so other than taking a walk to the commercial centre of Hachioji (no mean feat, since the place we're staying is way up on really steep hills), I'm not able to explore much.

On the weekends, though, I'm free, so I'll be able to visit lots of places. This past weekend we did a Tokyo city tour on Saturday and on Sunday we went to Akihabara, which is where lots and lots of electronics stores are located... and I bought a laptop! I don't yet know what I'll do next weekend. Maybe a day trip to Yokohama, or to Shinjuku (some things, like visiting Ginza, I have to wait to do until next weekend, cause I promised one of the girls here I'd go with her and she's busy next weekend), I don't know. Nalini Singh sent me some great recs, some of which I've already followed, as you will see in the photos.


Oh, speaking of the photos! I've created a blog to upload the pictures. I tried to find a site that would let me upload them with comments underneath, but I didn't find any, so I just created another blog. It's at http://rosarioentokyo.blogspot.com/, and I've already uploaded a lot of pics from the first week. I'm afraid I wrote the captions in Spanish, but I'm sure you'll all be able to catch the gist of them!

Ok, bye for now! I'll post again when I upload more photos... probably next week, unless something really interesting happens this week! ;-)

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pride and prejudice, by jane austen 

the phoenix code, by catherine asaro 

street of the five moons, by elizabeth peters 

fever, by kimberly dean 

the serpent's shadow, by mercedes lackey 

the gates of sleep, by mercedes lackey 

special gifts, by anne stuart 

I can't even remember why I bought Silent Storm, a Harlequin Intrigue by new-to-me authorAmanda Stevens.

HE WAS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY MALE

The kind a small-town girl like Marly Jessop had rarely — if ever — seen in the flesh. Deacon Cage arrived in Mission Creek, Texas, like a specter in the night, stealthy and secretive. And his ability to stir Marly's feminine senses was like no other man's....

But she didn't have time for female fantasies. As local deputy, Marly had her hands full with a rash of suspicious suicides. Could there be a link between them and the killer Deacon came to catch? And would Marly survive her run-in with the desirable Deacon?

There seems to be an interesting idea behind these book, but I'm afraid the execution was so ho-hum that it didn't really succeed in engaging my attention. Very average book: a C.

bump in the night, by J.D. Robb / Mary Blayney / Ruth Ryan Langan / Mary Kay McComas 

bump in the night, by J.D. Robb / Mary Blayney / Ruth Ryan Langan / Mary Kay McComas