Archive for September, 2008
Japanese Life
We have been invited to attend a local sports day today for a Junior school local to Edwin’s house, by my Japanese friend kat. It is a real taste of life with the local people and their families, myself and Ulysses sat under a canopy on the floor cross legged with a complete family 4 generations all sat watching the Kids parade around the sandy [...]
Ulysses
While i was in Russia in Siberia at Lake Baikal i met a lone Backpacker called Ulysses, he is french and is traveling around the world with no fixed agenda, just randomly mooching about, he gets work where he can, sleeps in his tent or at train stations ect. We met at a backpackers hostel in Irkutsk and he decided to join me on a trek around the [...]
Life is for Living
Today i slept in a little due to the long day yesterday, i spent the day doing some computer work and reading, i got a phone call from Edwin at 16.10 p.m.. Edwin is the lad that i met through Itgen and Edwin has been fantastically kind to me letting me stay at his house and working hard at getting me into schools to be able to speak to the [...]
4×4 Racing “a smile say’s a lot”
A very early start this morning, i was up at 3.45 am to meet up with two brothers from a Mitsubishi 4x4 center not far from where i am staying at the moment near Yamoto Cho Japan. This garage is family owned and i met the older brother when i was at the launderette next door to the garage, turns out that the family own the launderette too. I [...]
Rough and the Smooth
When i left the Uk i asked a magazine Journalist what should i include in my blogs and he said the “the rough and the smooth” or “Warts and all” and i have had many ups and downs. This kind of overland trip is very demanding and traveling on your own managing logistics and promoting my passion streetKids sometimes can be stressful. Today [...]
Seiryou High School Japan
Seiryou high school in the heart of Kumamoto city on the southern island of Kyushu Japan, is a special school, as explained to me by inviting teacher Kuroak Tomoko her english was a challenge to understand, and when i asked how the school was special she told me that the students have phobia’s, this maybe partly true as i could believe anything [...]
Options
I’m sat in a Japanese garage because i have an electrical fault with my indicators, it looks like a bad earth to me, i have tried to fix the fault myself but really i need an electrical tester on the job. We have now been working on the job for the last 4 hours and it seems complex we cannot find why their is a bad earth on the car, the car has [...]
Soyo junior high school Japan
Today has to be the most rewarding day of my trip so far, i was asked to attend Soyo junior high school to do a presentation to two classes of children from ages 12 to 15. The presentation was an introduction to teach about charity and to give them an insight into the work of streetKids international. It was fantastic, i spent the previous day in [...]
Edwin Huits
I would never had met Edwin if i hadn’t met Itgen Hansen on the ship from Russia. It was the 30th of August a hot sunny day at Kumamoto train station and Itgen and i had just driven 2 and a half days down from Toyama to the island Kyushiu which is where Itgen’s friend Edwin lives. Edwin pulled into the station car park with his girlfriend [...]
Southern Japan
The above picture is taken in central Hiroshima at the peace memorial and to the top right of the picture just above my ear is the only surviving building said to be directly below where to first atomic bomb was dropped by the America in the second world war. I don’t really know what to say to you but it is a very emotional place to be and i [...]