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7 juillet Exchange Rates I have been following the exchange rate very closely, and ever since early June the rate has been dropping steadily. When I visited Japan last year I was able go get almost 100 Yen for 1 Canadian Dollar. Now, the rate is at 81 Yen per 1 Canadian Dollars. I'm not sure if I should exchange now, or wait until just before I leave - hoping for the rates to go up on short notice. Argh... !! I heard that Casino's give really good exchange rates, because there are many visitors from overseas who exchange money to gamble. Perhaps a day trip to Niagara is in order.  3 juillet 29 days to Japan!Recently I've been having a lot of second thoughts about going to Japan... in fact, there are times when I think to myself 'What the hell are you doing?'. But that usually goes away very quickly after I realize what an awesome opportunity this is - to do something so different and so challenging. So, in 29 days I'll be flying to Japan to complete my one-year contract with CLAIR on the JET Programme. My placement is in Gifu, which is centrally located in Japan - about 2 hours from Tokyo and 20 minutes north of Nagoya. Gifu is at the southern tip of the Japanese Alps, and it's about 30 minutes to the closest ski resort and about 1 hour to some really awesome ski / hot spring resorts. Other than Blue Mountains in Ontario, which have a miniature vertical drop of 600 feet (translation: 3 minutes from the top of the hill to the bottom), I haven't hit real slopes since I moved from Germany in the late 90's. So I am very very happy and excited to be skiing real mountains again this winter! I'll have an office at the Gifu Prefectural Board of Education, as well as an office at Kakamigahara Nishi Senior High School where I will be spending the better part of each week.  |
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