Dear you,
The worst thing about writing a blog, is having to write the first line..... its like thinking of something witty or different to write inside a birthday card..... no matter how many times you write and erase your efforts, these attempts never seem to be funny, interesting, thoughtful or quirky enough....... and you end up just settling with some mindless generic drivel.... so happy birthday to all of you even if its not your birthday.
Now my adventures to date have not lessened by any extent - and this place, as most of you who read these rants will be aware, is just nuts.
I have shifted into my own apartment and am enjoying my own space - its larger than a shoebox but smaller than an Egyptian pyramid...... now hows that for a definitive description? Basically its all good and gives me time to get away from everyone and everyone has time to get away from me....
I went shopping the other day for groceries...... god what a trip!!! They have amazing fruit and vege here that tastes so fresh and clean......... don't mind the fact that you going to pay about $20 for a watermelon however!??!!? Yeah yeah - they do get some nice fresh stuff floating about over here (i heard they picked up a drifting whale the other day........ did a few experiments on it and ate the rest...... pff floating freshness!) but you are paying top dollar for that freshness.
I cannot begin to explain dining in Japan. Its like most things here - they haven't invented anything ground breaking or new for themselves - but god, give them an idea that someone else came up with and they can deconstruct it and re-invent it beautifully........... most of the time. They have a huge emphasis on bakeries here but alas no meat pies or baked potatoes....... maybe i could introduce these fine Kiwi/Brit delicacies and find some Asian lass who maybe able to recreate them inclusive of a built in desert of some sort........ or maybe i am just wishful thinking.
I have been back to cult city again (Tendi) - and i have decided i am going to return home to New Zealand at a later date and start my own religion............ There is so much money involved the deceptive arts of religious belief...... And so thus the church of Roperdium shall be born. I have previously discussed this with one person who i believe will enter into this venture with me, and like Scientology i am going to go down the path of "no questions will be answered until i receive monies" - but until then just know that your life is going to be sooo much better belonging to my church...... $5000 min payment.
Now sunsets...... i don't know what it is with this place, maybe it is its location on the globe or something - but the sunsets here are just wow - big, watchable, and reddy orange (funny that, the colour thing, being that it is a sun Kane you fool)........ now they should call this place "land of the setting sun" instead of "land of the rising sun" - i hate mornings and i assume so do most of you - so just think how much more inviting this place could sound if it was "land of the setting sun".......... I'm already thinking island music with Japanese/Hawaiian girls dancing in the foreground of a blissfully fading red hot circle of fire - oh how inviting..... but hey that's just the idea of one Gaijin (foreigner) abroad.
My language skills are building slowly - and i should be able to produce a full sentence understandably in English really soon! My Japanese is getting somewhat better also - but i still have that feeling of needing my hand held......... i cant help but think everything that comes out of my mouth in Japanese is being pronounced wrongly....... it reminds me a lot of speaking English in Britain ha ha
The school kids are a blast - and through self indulgence and by popular demand, I have attached a photo of two of the terrors who teach me more than i teach them....... Junpei and Shuto.
And with that i shall depart by saying, yet again - i have forgotten more than i remembered but it all adds to the tale to be told next time....
So from the Zespri silver in Japan i bid you all farewell till then.
Ja-ne folks :)
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