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| Sapporo on Business! | (Entered Nov. 20, 2008) |
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Why would an English teacher need to take a business trip? That's the first question I would ask upon reading the above title. Has my company gotten so powerful that I'm now flying around the country just to teach? Well yes and no. Or no and yes if you want me to answer the questions in order. My company isn't that powerful yet, but yes, I recently took a plane up to Sapporo in Hokkaido not exactly to teach, but to test the English ability of some employees working at Mitsubishi Denki. Why it was necessary for me to fly up there instead of having the students take the test by phone is beyond me, but when my company asked me if I wanted to do it, I was like 'Business trip? Cool. Hokkaido? Great! Get of of Tokyo for a bit? Awesome'.
I tried hard not to think about the fact that I'd have to be at Haneda airport before 8 am, which meant I had to wake up at 5am. And when 5 am dawned pitch black and cold, let me tell you, it wasn't pretty...
Having to work didn't give me much time to walk around and actually see the city, but my company arranged the ticket times so that I'd have a couple hours of free time after I was done to do whatever.
Unfortunately for me, it started to get dark just as I finished (around 4pm), the days are shorter in November after all. It also began to rain lightly. Super.
Still walking down Odori Park. This is a nice stretch of park! Every block has a section, and each section has something different in it, and it stretches on for a loooong way.
Another shot from Odori park, probably the best shot I took today. Managed to get a little fall colour action before the daylight faded.
Went to city hall, but it was too dark to get a decent shot, and I didn't have my tripod so... off to the Clock Tower! Everyone talks about the Clock Tower in Sapporo, but don't ask me why. I mean, it's just a clock tower. Anyway the blue light made it kind of cool, and I guess other people thought so too as there were trigger happy people all over the place.
Then, after buying a few Sapporo goodies like corn chocolate, I headed back to the airport and a packed, uncomfortable flight to Tokyo where I arrived home late, and dead tired.
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