Ah, the rainy season. Fortunately, Starbucks is this year presenting us with a baked cheesecake frappuccino, which sounds intriguing and with the potential to be incredible. Keep those waterproof accoutrements around you yet (for frappuccinos spillages, and the rain, I guess)!<\/p>\n
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My first June in Japan, I jetted off back to Portland for a torrential downpour of important family events. These included my brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s high school graduation, my grandparents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 55th wedding anniversary, and my aunt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 50th birthday (this year she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be celebrating in style\u00e2\u20ac\u201c right here in Kansai! Those of you on the 1pm Nada Sake Tour will be graced with her presence). Between these, trying to visit all of my friends, and an impromptu visit to New York with my father, I was stretched rather thin and had little downtime, or the chance to spend quality time with my mother. Nevertheless, it was a great whirlwind of a trip and helped me avoid the slow pace of June at my school.<\/p>\n
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Got downtime? We have articles you can read! On offer this month are musings on the arbitrariness of most educational systems, Captain America: Civil War<\/em>, a Final Fantasy <\/em>concert, Busan, and yet another on Taipei (seriously; there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much to do and eat there!). Mandy brings us book series recommendations, a poem entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153away\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a recipe on tomato rice. In the refuge is a sweet tale featuring Mount Rokko. Our alumni this month is Christine Chase.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As we head into the final months of this contract year (and for some of us, our final months of JET), make sure you get out and do what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s left on your list. Make the most of this experience! At the same time, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget the necessities. Like a car needs oil changes, new tires, and to not overheat, we need breaks (even from the fun!), boxes shipped off for those leaving, and to not overheat (the muggy heat is nigh upon us). Take care of yourselves out there!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brittany Teodorski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ah, the rainy season. Fortunately, Starbucks is this year presenting us with a baked cheesecake frappuccino, which sounds intriguing and with the potential to be incredible. Keep those waterproof accoutrements around you yet (for frappuccinos spillages, and the rain, I guess)! My first June in Japan, I jetted off back to Portland for a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":5736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[278,445],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FromRyanHertel-Copy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyogoajet.net\/hyogotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}