Monday, November 12, 2007

Friday Night Lights

Every Friday night, Aonghus meets me outside my office, waiting patiently on his bicycle, listening to techno or something else I would roll my eyes at on his iPod. I can always hear him from my second floor classroom, and I know that it is time to wrap up my class. I get my bike and we ride for a few minutes before we realize that we don't know where we're going yet.





Saturday, November 3, 2007

yanagawa

In order to distract Lou from a broken heart, we took a train to Yanagawa, famous for its canal boat rides. We brought along a little friend.



























































Thursday, October 25, 2007


All that glitters...

Kikumi's event was a great success. A glam-rockin' good time was had by all.























Sunday, October 14, 2007

Welcome to Nature

We spent the public holiday on the hunt for nature in KitaKyushu. At first we found a theme park with someone dressed up like a dog, dancing and singing over a loud speaker. Then we searched harder.















Sunday, October 7, 2007

Bring in the noise...

We went to an old railroad warehouse in Mojiko to meet Rob and Na-chan at a noise festival. Artsy. Fartsy.









Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Tawarayama

Louise and the Mitsukos and I went to Tawarayama, a small onsen town in Yamaguchi-ken, to say Bon Voyage to Mitsuko number 2. Mitsuko number 1 had a great time leading her yukata clad pet gaijin through the streets of Tawarayama, up the hill to our secret destination. It turned out to be a penis shrine which delighted us and Mitsuko seemed very pleased with our reaction. It should not have surprised us though as Mitsuko number 1, despite her age (65), has possibly the filthiest mouth in all of Japan. Check out the video below. God bless her!