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How I spent my day volunteering at ARK Animal Refuge Kansai

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Let me tell you about the time I went to Osaka's Animal Shelter. It was a warm Autumn day. I headed out around nine in the morning to get a bit of a headstart to my day, knowing I have quite a journey ahead. A few days before that day, I couldn't help but think about the dogs I have back home in the Philippines and how much I missed them. Back then, my family and I had three dogs and one cat. Two of the dogs were strays that we took into our home when they were a puppy. With that train of thought, it gave me an idea to volunteer at any local animal shelter I could find that had dogs or any animals I could maybe pet or play. So I went online and looked for the nearest animal shelter I could find. Unfortunately, the "nearest" animal shelter I found was a long way away in the countryside of Kansai where not a lot of people live. I still decided I would go. After doing more research on how to get there, taking notes of the names of the places in Kanji, I prepared fo

My Blogger Name

When I was younger, I would play video games with my brother. During high school until college, it progressed into PC games where I would play with my classmates after school outside at the internet cafes. For gamers, before playing most online games, we would start by creating a character name. I've gone by many in-game names. Back then it was a mix of letters in both upper and lower case, several X and numbers. We did that to be unique and creative. Sometimes, we were just lazy and couldn't think of a better name. Over time, we settled with a simpler name. I had two memorable ones. One was Larael, and the other was Myth Rynne. My brother gave both of those names. My brother's previous in-game name was Azrael, and one day when I wanted to make a character in iDate, I asked my brother if he could give me an in-game name. I told him that it could be Azrael's sister if he had any. He didn't so he made one up. He gave me the name, Larael. After using the name multipl