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Anzac day 2007, I choose to spend it reading the newspapers and drinking coffee. Lest I forget.
It's an awfully foggy day up here, raining on and off. I had hoped to go outside and play some basketball but it doesn't seem likely. Apparently summertime up here is more of the same, cloud and a lot of rain. It just keeps getting better! I've been lucky enough to have a few trips off the mountain in the past fortnight, took a solo mission to Kōriyama last week hoping to buy myself some new shoes. Of course I had neglected to take into acount that I am a giant in this land and was (very politely) turned away. The worst part about it is that there are loads of really cool and reasonably priced shoes here, damn these gaijin feet of mine. Aside from the shopping I spent most of the day walking aimlessly, I don't think I saw another foriegner the whole day. Funnily enough the only person who spoke to me all day was trying to tell me about Jesus, i'm just lucky I suppose.
It's been nearly three months since we arrived in Japan, to say that time has flown would be an understatement. That's what happens when you live, work and exist within a 300m radius.
Ok, so i've read back on my post so far and it sounds a little negative. It's not all bad, last night I was lucky enough to meet one of the Japanese students staying here and had a great conversation about rock'n'roll, punk rock, garage rock and a bunch of Japanese bands like Teengenerate, Guitar Wolf, 5678's and Shonen Knife. It's been a while since i've been able to talk music with anyone aside from Marika so I got a little excited.
See you soon, suckers.
It's an awfully foggy day up here, raining on and off. I had hoped to go outside and play some basketball but it doesn't seem likely. Apparently summertime up here is more of the same, cloud and a lot of rain. It just keeps getting better! I've been lucky enough to have a few trips off the mountain in the past fortnight, took a solo mission to Kōriyama last week hoping to buy myself some new shoes. Of course I had neglected to take into acount that I am a giant in this land and was (very politely) turned away. The worst part about it is that there are loads of really cool and reasonably priced shoes here, damn these gaijin feet of mine. Aside from the shopping I spent most of the day walking aimlessly, I don't think I saw another foriegner the whole day. Funnily enough the only person who spoke to me all day was trying to tell me about Jesus, i'm just lucky I suppose.
It's been nearly three months since we arrived in Japan, to say that time has flown would be an understatement. That's what happens when you live, work and exist within a 300m radius.
Ok, so i've read back on my post so far and it sounds a little negative. It's not all bad, last night I was lucky enough to meet one of the Japanese students staying here and had a great conversation about rock'n'roll, punk rock, garage rock and a bunch of Japanese bands like Teengenerate, Guitar Wolf, 5678's and Shonen Knife. It's been a while since i've been able to talk music with anyone aside from Marika so I got a little excited.
See you soon, suckers.
posted by khan at
11:14 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Khan,
Your Anzac day entry really stirred upAnzac day abroad - in Khao San Rad Bangkok. Nothing could have made me feel less patriotic than seeing a bunch of drunk aussie dickheads hassling locals. It jusBut then i went for a massage and learnt about the 5th Thai king and just generally felt better about putting my footprint onto other peoples soil. And then there was the fotprint - your shoe shopping brought me back to when i was living in China. I would walk past the cheapest funkiest shoes and know there was no way i would ever fit into them. in the end i had t buy mens shes and next time you meet a group of chinese men have a lok at their shoes - they are never cool.
anyway i am thinking of you both. thank marika for the email, and fr reminding me to read your blog. talk to you again soon. tamara
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