The early days in Japan

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March 15th 2004

Published: March 15th 2004

Arrival in August: humidity, typhoons, Atomic bombs and fireworks A fellow ALT, Assistant language teacher, who greeted us first years at Hiroshima airport, having just flown in from an initial 3 day seminar in a 5 star hotel in Shinjuku, told us we were lucky to be posted to Kure. Why then did the young man at customs in Tokyo, seeing where I was headed to, laugh and say, "oooh, countryside". I... Read Full Entry

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Watanabe Sensei, elementary school teacher

Sports Day, Shimokamagari Island

elementary school

elementary school band

the baton twirler was the best part

Culture Day, a celebration of School life

students at Kure Municipal High School celebrate the mild weather of September

culture day, Kure

festival heroes

Kamiyama Jinja Matsuri, Kure

Shannon & I, Ehime-ken festival

best festival in Japan: beer for breakfast, spinning mikoshis, 3yr old boys charging on horses, more parading and float wrestling matches

festival in Ehime-ken, early October

the mikoshi behind me, is used to house and transport the local deity

My frinds & I advertising Internationalism on the local news channel

I'm wearing a sombrero, a lesser known traditional Canadian costume

International Day Japanese Speech

I couldn't yet read hiragana and had no idea how to intonate or stress - it was very embarrassing and televised

the karaoke bar

Tomiko & I

both of us attempting snowboarding for our first time, on the slopes of Geihoku Kokusai

Celebrating Laurie's B-Day

In my first year, we were a very tight bunch, all ex-pats, save for Tomoko, a local who'd studied in the US

Purikura, Patrick & I in Tokyo

Patrick & I, Tawarayama ONsen, Yamaguchi

a good friend from my college days in Belgium, Trikske spent a week in Japan with me in late March

Patrick & I, Miyajima

Kure Harbour

home to IHI, an international ship building company. Kure is famed for the birthplace of the Yamato, the world's largest ever battle ship, destroyed in WW2

Goddess, answering prayers above the din of Kure harbour

Kure shipyard

27th March 2007

anonymous
non-member comment

Hi there, Kevin. I enjoyed reading this as it brought back lots of memories of being in Japan, JET and all the cool people we met there. I must say that I love your drawings as much as your photos - wonderful stuff. Hope you are keeping well. ~Martin

24th February 2008

Aries and Rinka
Aristeo Rinka Lucea

I really enjoyed your blog and your drawings are great. I moved to Japan 7 months ago from the US with my family. I love Japan but have to agree with what you said, citizens from the wealthiest nations are the loneliest people, and the Japanese take that a notch higher.

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