Back Into The Foreign Country
September 13, 2003
Good evening all you crazy people. We got back around an hour ago and boy are we tired. The second we stepped out of the airport, we felt the 29 degrees that made me shudder in fear. You see, Hokkaido was a cool 18-24 degrees all three days and I loved it. Even the rain was cool and made me think of sweet Vancouver rain as it drenched my t-shirt with a lot of jibbery English on the back.
Our little trip was excellent. I am now sick of seafood and also sick of the pricey bills that were attached. There was a major heartbreak on the trip and I’ll tell you about it in the next update. Also today around 2pm, while strolling around in Sapporo, we saw a big crowd and naturally we ventured to see what was going on. Well as luck would have it, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was just about to make an appearance and a presentation. We saw the PM dressed in an ugly olive green suit while his compatriots were dressed in smart looking navy blue. He is definitely the most famous person I’ve seen live. I took a lot of pictures but I’ll only be able to see some (this is part of the heartbreak).
A couple of things –
A big DOMO ARIGATOU goes to Dennis for his most excellent updates here while I was out. He has definitely done the page proud and will have to drop in from time to time and write something (you have access now dude). While I was in Hokkaido, I could see my page on my phone but I was only able to read about two or three paragraphs before I get the ever happy, “The size of this page is not supported” warning. Screw Docomo. I had a strong feeling you’d be bringing back Dragon and I was dead on haha. One thing though, Wangmon was never a mascot – he was interviewed by Dragon in the Interviewing Pokemon section or something like that. And Dragon, we all know the mascot now on this page is the little Blogger icon that sits on the bottom left of this page. Anyway, thanks again Dennis!
One more thing –
“JVision to be a great haven for discussing some heavy issues which can affect the world”
I’ve been deviating a lot from this ever since coming to Japan and I feel part of this is because Japan, while a very developed first world country, is very detached and isolated from the rest of the world. I read English news daily but don’t feel the same sort of emotional attachment I did back in Vancouver. I should rant more I guess.
Alright, the woman is waiting for me to feed her, so, seeya.
