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Me neither, found some forum posts though.

My first time was age of 22 if I remember right. Kinda late start in Myoko Akakura. It was a ski tour from uni to get a credit lol... Terrible could not stop good, could not turn correct. I was getting pissed of at the end of the first day because could not do anything good only felt pain here and there coz fell down a lot but it was not others' fault so just stayed nice smiling a bit. But a 4 days' lesson worked good, I got addicted to this sport and saved some to come back each and every year until I graduated from the uni.

Kamoshika are found a lot often here when you are in a lift. Sometimes they have some kids in a party. They seldom make any noise. Has anyone ever heard their voice?

Yep, that is a movie - of 25 years ago or more?

Who me? No, not joking. Singing some songs helps to improve your speaking skill in the language and that's how I have improved my English pronounciation. Need to sing kinda fast for Chitty chitty bang bang. Slower songs help much better like Carpenter's songs and e.g. this.

Quote: Originally posted by Kintaro: I have a French friend that refuses to speak English and I can't speak French so we always speak in Japanese. Japanese people often look at us as strange. Kintaro, probably because they don't know your mother languages are different - English for you and French for your friend. Perhaps they feel like " why don't they speak English? Practising Japanese?" I usually speak Japanese but if needed, speak English - but guess probably sounds terrible lol.... Hard thing is when I speak English, it's hard to switch back to Japanese quickly if someone

Akibun if you have not tried it yet, just try it. Maybe you'll like it - who knows?

Torino - Italian name Turin - French name When people use different language, place names are also different which is confusing. Especially when you travel Europe, sometimes very hard to judge if you don't used to it. e.g. Wien(German)/Vienna(English) Ljubljana(Slovenian)/Lanbach(German) København(Danish)/Copenhagen(English) Alsas-Loraine(French)/Elsass-Lothringen(German)

Hummm... slow I guess perhaps powder is not what they like.

Yeah _spud I hear stone houses in Italy have 60cms thick walls which work really good - not hot in summer, warm enough in winter. Unfortunately wood houses don't work like that. fatchick - I guess perhaps houses might be also considered one of articles of consumption in Japan. Seldom hear some ( especially houses built recently ) would be maintained over 100 years. Every 20-50 year they were destroyed and built again.

Ah, dale#1. Houses nowadays have good insulation system, I guess. But traditional Japanese old houses usually don't. That's why I guess muikabochi has hard time.

Hummm primitive. Do you need to make fire by some stone, then?

Yep, I do scouser. I also like some lyrics of musical. Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Oh you pretty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang We love you, And our pretty Chitty Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang loves us too. High low anywhere we go On Chitty Chitty we depend. Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Our fine four fendered friend. Bang Bang Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Our fine four fendered friend. It's uncategorical A fuel burning oracle A fantasmagorica

Quote: Originally posted by muikabochi: I wonder why much of Japan puts up with this. Just my opinion. If people had entire house heating system, it would probably cost bloody much more than that because toyu is not cheap here. Maybe that's why. In old days some Japanese houses had some "irori" and others used "mametan" or "yutanpo" thing to get warm. So I think there was not the idea to heat up entire house all the time. Maybe it's also a kind of traditional thoughts to save energy ( not consuming too much ).　 Muikabochi, doesn't your stove have a timer?

thefunnkydrummer, I think people who have not tried it yet tend to think that crosscountry skiing is just tough, no fun at all. I just tried it yesterday for the first time and found it fun. Didn't know there's kinda uneven stuff at the back of crosscountry ski so you can never go backward even at some uphill which was discovery for me. You never know what you can do till you try!

Yeah, I hope so Toque. Here's some Movie of it. Don't laugh, it's me, not a heavy tank.

Age of 2!? I think I just started walking, then

Nice to meet you TJ_OZ. I didn't get scared off.

quattro, my problem is..... overweight!

Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing Thanks for all the joy they're bringing Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty What would life be Without a song or a dance what are we So I say thank you for the music For giving it to me ****ABBA Thank you for the music ****

The best fit translation for yaro for the truck-yaro is probably "dude". But frannyo asked *If someone calls someone "---yaro"*

Hahaha am not consious of it.

quattro, is the "snowplowing" a technique to how to turn, right? I did google to find it out but what I found is kinda commercial cars to shave the roads or push the snow out..... Humm... telemark turn... sounds my knees hurt!

DCMB, this is Sun-Alpine. http://www.snowjapanforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/6424.html?

Shinkansen and Narita express are both JR line, so if you take both, maybe JR-East pass might be cheaper than purchasing tickets trip by trip. http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/eastpass/prices.html JR-East flexible 4 day pass is 20,000 yen, so if Narita express plus Shinkansen Asama costs more than 10,000 yen for one way, you had better get a JR-East pass, I guess. But you need to get something like a voucher for it BEFORE you leave your country. People live in Japan can never get the pass. Only foreign tourists with the vouchers can.