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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What adventure from 2025 will be forever etched upon your memory? It would be super simple sitting here less than a month after spending most of November in Japan to just write… Japan! with a huge exclamation mark and move on to the next post (heck knows these days leading in the holidays are busy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[What was the best anything that you read in 2025? Japanese signage.&#160; I’ve never been a great student of language.&#160; In grade school, having started elementary in a town that was apparently not following the provincial French language requirements for the curriculum, we moved and my new school dropped me into learning our second national [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Did you travel in 2025? In 1998 I went to Europe for the first time.&#160; Until that moment of stepping off the plane and riding the train into London’s Victoria Station with my giant backpack over my shoulder, Europe was an abstraction in my head. It was this place I had heard about over and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[What excited you most in 2025? It turns out there are two subtly different terms for non-Asian people who find themselves with an interest in Japan: one can be a japanophile &#8230;or one can be a weeaboo (or weeb). Both are similar terms, but like anything we do in this crazy culture of ours one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[November has ended, and on the last weekend of the month I time travelled across sixteen timezones, arriving back home before I left Tokyo. Weird, huh? Our flight left Narita airport at 18:30 on Saturday evening and we arrived in Edmonton at 16:20 the same day. International travel can mess with your mind&#8230; and your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lucky. All good things begin with the number thirteen, right? The race kinda wrapped our season, however you look at it, and as an autumn overseas vacation looms I’ve been contemplating things besides long distance training. That said, I’ve been trying to get in some physical activity amid dealing with a minor health issue this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sayonara, but not forever.&#160; My class is done. My flash cards have just one more flash or so left in them. And I’ve definitely got Google Translate loaded up on my phone. As it is looking, forty-eight hours or so after writing this I’ll be sound asleep in Tokyo… y’know with the math on time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m nearly three-quarters of the way through my October sketching challenge as I write this and I have yet to miss a day. Two things have emerged from that effort: First, I think my drawing has legitimately improved. Doing anything daily is inevitably going to contribute to the effort of general practice and growth, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am approaching fifty, but attending an introductory language class kinda makes me feel like I’m in kindergarten again. We count in unison, ask each other our names and ages, play games identifying colours, and get stickers for good work.&#160; I also have the least interesting origin story of the bunch, I’ve concluded. Everyone else [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have written here previously about a couple of my self-study efforts to start learning Japanese, in part for our upcoming trip to Tokyo, but also just as—well—something interesting to pursue. Skills, languages, all that stuff—it broadens the mind, right? I figured I would make my updates a bit more formal because as of last [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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