back to dublin

It s over. I m back since the other day. If anybody knows about jobs please tell me!!!!! Urgent!!!! ah ah. It ll be nice to see you all again.

ooop same pict teice.. sorry
rainbow bridge

capsule hotel!!!!! my capsule was the one at the right bottom end. Its actually grand for one night!

In the pension with our Hosts and the other wwoofers
Fu-chan and me
In Roppongi Hills
monorail to Odaiba, no drivers involved, everything automatic!!!!yu uuh
from odaiba u can see great Tokyo skyline so i staid for sunset..

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A traditional archery festival in Morioka
Then pachinko...
and thanks to pachinko, paraglind jump
kawai ne..

passion for fish. this is sanma, an overwhelmingly delicious fish

Mijajima

The tide here was low.

Hiroshima

A-Bomb Dome. The only piece of building left in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.
The white bit at the bottom is one of the cranes (origami-like cranes) around the area, is a symbol of the children who survived (or died) to the bomb.
In the Peace Memorial park. The monument on the waters hold an eternal flame that will be estinghuished only when the last nuclear weapon on heart will be destroyed. Which is more likely it won't because since 1945 there have been thousands of nuclear bombs experiments around the world. The 6th of August of each year the mayor of Hiroshima sends a letter of protest to the leaders of those countries who still test nuclear bombs. So to US, France, China, North Korea, Iraq, England and Russia.
A monument dedicated to the children. A little girl who survived the bomb developed leuchemia after a few years and she gave herself the goal to fold 1000 origami cranes which she thought it could heal her illness. But she couldnt finish cause she died before reaching the number so her schoolmates continued folding cranes for her. And then all the childrem from the schools in japan folded thousands of cranes, and they still do it today.
River view near Peace Memorial Park.

And the skyline of the big city.

In the forest during a quiet rainy day. This forest is reallt old!!! And there are beaaaaaaaarssss

Hiroshima station
(Hiroshima) Going into the Peace Memorial Park.

Fu-chan.
Sea in Hachinohe.
Sky in Hachimantai.
Kayoko san and me.
Iwate san, another volcano.

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Hi! Just saying hello cause the connection is too slow to post pictures today. I am very comfortable in the new place, it s alittle pension on the mountains (somewhere called Appi kogen). It s kind of Austrian style pension village, and it s very quiet cause it s not skiing season. We have little work to do so I had time for sightseeing and playing tennis. And most important the temperature is much more reasonable than in Kansai. Although it s raining almost everyday, but still warm. I met nice wwoofers here and I get along so I m thinking about staying as my last wwoofing place, unless the next host gets angry for breaking my promise.... decisions.... aaaah . At this stage I wish could stay in one place for longer and relax. I think I did most of the travelling I wanted to. Ah we ll see. A big hello!!
Laura+Grainne+Tim: good stuff , can t wait to get some of that bread when I come back!!
I miss bread and especially cheese!!!!!!! Not cakes, cause here they have amazing french style pastries so no panic ah ah ah. Missing cheese though....
Grainne when u going to Canada?
Mick: everybody is telling you to go cause it s a good opportunity, spanner! It s hard to get that kind of deal! As for me, i ll have to be pleased with any job in Dublin, but also I think I m ready to get back to animation now, so at least I don t have to be scared of that ah ah. Keep us posted, ok? Hug
Tim: I think I will be ok when I come back, I got the emotions overdose I needed and now I am exhausted ah ah!!!! So I m ready for a Dublin autumn and winter. I m just glad I didn t waste another summer in the rain of course. But I have the feeling Ill be happy when I come back. And broke ah ah ah ah. Huggg

Tomorrow I m heading north again, to near Morioka, so I dont know when ill be able to write again. Hope everybody is fine. Will ther be anybody left in Dublin when I come back? At least Tim, right? Tim wait for meeeee..... Big kissessssss

I forgot to mention the little crabs from the stream , they all a bigger claw than the other, so funny!
Nara is a small city, but beautiful. Loads of temple in a big park.
There are deer wandering around and walking along with people. Look at this poser!
Daibutsu. The picture doesnt tell how huge it is. The temple was amazing.
Largest wooden temple in the world and Julie, a Montreal girl I met at the hostel.

I wanted to introduce the Sensei (blue top) amazing person. He s a pottery maker now an dan incredible one, I saw the art gallery. Before was a chef (in fact he came at the camp to cook us deer meat that he hunted himself). And now he s mastering bread making, with an oven he built himself. So he brought us bread in the morning for breakfast (he lived just outside the wood). No wonder everybody call him Sensei (teacher/master). great inspiration. When we met he told me "You italian? Come her, Ill show you Italy!!" and he took me where he kept a 25 years old Ducati motorbike that he obviously polished very often.
The trees of the forest. Sometimes you could here cracks but fortunately no tree fell.
Playing djembe at night etc
Back at the house with other wwoofers.

This is in Hyogo (not too far from Kyoto, where I went to the eco-camp. Rough I can tell. But very interesting, met cool people and lived in the woods for 3 days. I also saw snakes, but harmless. The frogs are tiny tiny (like an inch long) so cute!!!!! We had also some workshops, like an expert came to explain some concept of Chinese medicine and showed us some acupuncture too. Back at the host s house we had our fireworks.