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I saw a bear run under the lift at Houdaigi in Gumna. Came out of the trees in the middle of the resort! There were model plastic bears outside the restaurants on the slopes & bears in cages at a nearby onsen. Guess that area must be well known for bears then?
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Powda tele,
I rated you!
Nothing changed on the screen though. Maybe it will come up when you post again.
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The easiest was is to take your own CD or floppy to the docomo shop and you can just do it yourself by plugging into the computer in the showroom. Takes about 5 mins and it's all in English. I don't know about the other phone companies but it looked like you could back up au & vodaphone on the docomo computer (not too sure though).
You can buy software that lets you upload the data to your own computer but I don't know much about that.
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Sounds like a good idea. Not sure if I'll be able to make it though - off on Wednesdays so will hopefully be out somewhere.
Is that the time when most people are online? I would have thought a lot of people would be having lunch at that time?
Inviting guests is a good plan, too!
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Wow! Powda ski - thanks! That was some answer, otsukare sama! I'll check out that site.
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Have you got your numbers & addresses backed up to a disc? I backed up everything yesterday morning just because I was in the Docomo shop helping a friend and was bored while we waited. Lost my phone last night. What are the odds?
(Actually called the restaurant this morning and they had found my phone!)
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But didn't powder tele say that you could tele on anywhere?
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Looks good. Nice idea.
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None
and the 1st weekend in Feb
and the long weekend in Feb
Then off up to Hokkaido at the end of Feb
What can I say? I'm a late starter.
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Powda tele... you're right, I'm confused! What is the difference between tele & cross country and is Nordic cross country? So you can tele on anything but can't cross country on the regular ski/board runs?
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Everything you ever wanted to know about J-pizza with links to all the big delivery companies. This thread is making me hungry!!
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Thanks gamera, only got 11 cards so pretty slim chance but I'll check when I get home tonight. Did anyone win anything... or even know anyone who did?
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Wanted to go in Feb for the long weekend but all the JR hotel packs were sold out. Going to Hakuba instead now.
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I know this is going to sound like a stupid question but where do you do it?
I know some resorts have dedicated courses and that some people go off piste but I mean if you are just learning and there's no separate run do you use the normal ones?
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Not too worried about the amount of cheese but I'm against mayonnaise and/or cream sauce on pizzas. Got a Pizza Hut near my house
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How do we check if we've won? Is there a place online or do you have to go to the P.O.?
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Usually take my own. Perch myself by the halfpipe if its sunny, buy a drink & sit in the restaurant if it's not. At GALA you can sit in the old gondula cars at the bottom of the half pipe. Can't really recommend any resorts on the merits of their food. I do remember going to a nice place in Hiroshima quite a few years back. Was a Swiss restaurant with a big open log fire. Trouble was, there was hardly any snow.
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I don't think it says "lady" on the actual lift pass or train ticket. If you could just find a "lady" to go to the travel agent for you...
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no probs!
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Didn't really think about locking anything the first time I went in Japan but when I saw that most Japanese lock up their stuff I followed suit.
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Llangennith beach, South Wales.
Spent every summer camping here til I came to Japan.
Average day:
9am Wake up, find own tent, eat bacon & egg butty, go down to beach
11am Sleep in field/on beach
1pm Lunch
2pm Back to beach
4pm Sleep
5pm Dinner
6pm Shower, go to pub, drink beer
12am Back to beach, find a bonfire, drink more beer
2 or 3am Crash in nearest tent
That was the life...
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I use nifty .
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I'm using the Seiko SII (SR-T6700). There is an English page about it here I like it cos its got all the things listed below.
These are some things you need to look at when choosing
1. Jump（ジャンプ）Key
Can you use the jump key to highlight kanji and get the readings of them or to look them up in another dic in your e-dic. A lot of e-dics aimed at the Japanese market only let you highlight English words to look up.
2.Which English/English Dictionary it has.
Mine has the Concise Oxford English dic which is useful for sneakily looking up English words you don't understand when you know your student is just about to ask you the meaning! Some of the other dics only have advanced learners versions of English English dics which are not too helpful for native speakers.
3. English to Japanese Dictionary
Most e-dics have one or both combination of
リーダーズ (readers/leaders?) with or without リーダーズプラス (readers/leaders plus) and Genius. Generally Genius is aimed at high school & リーダーズ at university.
Probably not a good idea to get one with only Genius.
4. Japanese to English Dictionary
Most of the e-dics use Kenkyusha's New College dic. Check which Edition your getting when you buy. I think the latest is the 5th but it could be the 6th by now.
Thesaurus
Most have a Thesaurus. Useful if you do a lot of research paper proofreading or stuff like that.
Personal Katakata Dic
I never use it but I hear its good for studying - you can save the new words you learn here.
You'll have a Japanese-Japanese dic in there and I've got another Kanji one and a few Toeic test books in there too.
As you can tell I'm not too busy today...
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Powda ski,
I'm not sure what they mean either but thanks!