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About 26 of us gathered in a rented  kitchen at a hotel adjacent to JR Nara.<\/p>\n<p>Side Story about the  Kitchen: The kitchen in this hotel was originally built to provide an  environment to improve relations between partners in relationships.  Maybe the wife can show her husband how to cook and they can work  together to make a meal. Does this sound ridiculous? It is. Nara AJET  exploited this information and reserved the kitchen under the guise of  improving relations between men and women.  We had to make sure guys and  girls were both cooking and cleaning just to keep up appearances.  This  is how we booked the kitchen for freeeeeeeeee.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was told  to bring their own plates, cups, and silverware (unnecessarily, I might  add). No one knew that the kitchen was already stocked with EVERYTHING&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"> <\/a>to read the rest of the post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/snorlax87.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Small is a First Year JET currently living in Ikaruga-cho, Nara-ken and has been chronicling his experience on his blog Snorlax87. The Nara JET community recently celebrated Diwali, the Indian &#8220;Festival of Lights.&#8221; We have one JET who was born in India and she wanted to share her culture with Nara ALTs. 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