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May 03, 2005
Golden Week Part 1
Lazy days have begun! Golden Week has a few holidays stacked right in a row so many Japanese travel or go visit family. Well actually I’m keeping pretty occupied looking for jobs back in the states and cursing my city for cutting my pay these past few months. I’ll get the money back when I leave (which makes for a convenient savings plan) but I’d rather have it while I was in Japan! Nonetheless, the weather is amazing, the sun is up and I’m not the only one hanging around home base for the holidays. Also my friend Kenichi is back in town visiting family. We met right before he moved to Tokyo at the beginning of this year. He’s an interesting fellow; the only Japanese person I know with a thick British accent.
Perhaps I should have shown a picture like this a long time ago? This is my “mansion”. It literly says MANSHON on the front of the building. I’ve actually got a really awesome little flat, when it’s cleaner I’ll take more pictures of the inside.
This is a view down one side of the street that my mansion overlooks. I’m not sure if street is the proper word, perhaps alleyway is closer. It always feels like two passing bikes will scrap handlebars.
An evening of beach-ness and fireworkin’.
We both like taking photos so passing the camera around and bouncing off each other’s ideas is to fun!
This one is Kenichi’s photo! Word! Nice shot yo!
This is my favorite firework, Once it gets going a small ball of orange flaming goo forms on the end and then it starts sparking with little flower like explosions, if you shake it to much the show ends early and ball drops off the line.
I was kept occupied last weekend when I discovered a kitten in a parking lot last week. Only one, so I can’t fathom what happened to the others. In the end this little guy didn’t make it either, but along the way we got some really kind help. Kenichi took us to the vet’s office where they checked up on him, got him feeding, and gave me some more supplies all for no charge. I was hoping not to see the infamously poor treatment of animals in Japan that I’ve heard about. Unfortunately I have seen a few cases, but thankfully they were fairly isolated and most people are very kind. I don’t think animal treatment is so much worse in Japan compared to other places. It is more an issue that people won’t interfere in other people’s lives to stop these sorts of things when they start.
We returned to the beach during the day because the view needed to go on film.
Just to show a little scale. Well, and because climbing on things is ALWAYS fun!
This one is for me to laugh at, again and again! I’m so evil sometimes!
A golf range that drops off into a lake! I like to think of the bottom of the lake filled with algae coated golf balls, or maybe they use balls that float, and they skim them from the pond once a week?!
A small island of trees floating in the golf range lake.
An “American style” store selling jeans and cowboy hats and full of American nick-naks. According to this store America is the land of James Dean, Lee and Levis, cowboys and Indians with everyone carrying a knife or a gun to shot all those pesky buffalo.
Posted by theinfonaut at May 3, 2005 11:05 AM