Back to my hometown-Tatsuno

I didn't plan to go back to my hometown but since I kinda lost my job and I don't need to work, I have day off everyday. It is sudden holiday.

So, I went back to my hometown.
I actually wanted to go home long time but I could not because I was really busy working and I was very tired to go home. so I didn't go back there like 2 months or maybe 3.

My cousin drove me home. nice.

Oh my god Its very nice to eat my mom's dinner. I love it. It is the best.
nice to see my family, cousins, my dog.
My dog is now 14 or 15 years old. I was happy to see him but at the same time, I was very sad because now he can t see, smell and hear well. He walks funny, He didn't recognize me.

Life is life.

I did almost nothing, just sleep, eat, watching TV, movies.
I could enjoy reading novels which I really wanted to read.
I have not had this relax time long time. I was really refreshed.

and I finally had haircut and said good bye to my long hair.

I love my family. I m glad I am the member of the Itagaki. haha.

KAISAN!!!!!

CRAZY.

Crazy long day.

my company is totally fucked.
I maybe lost my job.

Osaka jyo outside party

After I enjoyed Kyoto with chihiro, I went to Osaka castle for farewell/whatever party.
It was supposed to be Naomi(BT) s farewell. it was actually many people s farewell.

Jessica, the cool AAM ever, said Its gonna be the biggest, and probably the last my company party. anyway, whatever the reason, its always nice to hang out with friends.

We were all broke so we had party outside of Osaka castle.
of course convenience store beers.

We didn't know how many people were coming. Because we just put flayer on some Branch's wall.

but actually many people came. maybe not so many but at least it was more than i expected. which is good.
I was really drunk.
I remembered that Murray called me Gokiburi as usual and kicked him.
but thats all.

I had really fun but actually thats all i remember..... '' fun''.... thats all.

well, Its good. Its all good. Life is beautiful.

Arashiyama- Saiku gyoretu & Gion Maiko Day

I went to Arashiyama with Chihiro.

There was a special event called Saiku- Gyoretsu. (parade)

very traditional. little kids in Kimono were cute. The parade looks really good with Arashiyama's nature and beautiful Togetukyou(Bridge) .

After we enjoyed Arashiyama and Saiku Gyoretsu, we went to Gion, Shijyo.

Chihiro booked Maiko show there.

Going to Maiko or Geisya show was one of my dreams, so I was very excited!!!

Maiko san was 17years old, very cute, her traditional dance was beautiful.

It was 1 hour show but We really enjoyed!

We asked so many questions to her.

then, we ate Kyoto food which was lovely.

X day

Its a X day.

I need someone to talk to so bad.

I love friends.

I don t wanna lose them.

I feel very alone.

I feel like i m in a middle of ocean at night. no lighthouseto guide me, no people.

I need someone to share this time

I need someone to lean on right now.

I don t wanna hear any negative things or shit.

but at the same time, I wanna talk shit.

I don t like myself right now.

very negative and stressfull.

I wish I could think positive way in this situation.

Thats gonna be awesome!

Learn from Yesterday

Live for Today

Hope for Tomorrow

Fushimi Inari Taisha

Day Trip to Fushimi inari taisha with Michiko and Shizuki.

Fushimi Inari Taisha is the head shrine of Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines.
The Inari is worshipped popularly among merchants and industries for wealth. Donated toriis lined footpaths are the scenic.

Today was the Last trip with Shizuki. He will go back to Odawara, Kanagawa tomorrow morning.

It was really nice weather today kinda hot but at Fushimi Inari, Its in a mountain and its dark because of trees and Toriis. deep forest and dark shade of trees made there a bit cold.

It s the perfect day for mountain climb. Yes we have to climb. We don't usually do exercise so thousand of stairs were really hard obstacle for us.

Soon we were tired climbing, getting hot. Its really long way but thousand of triis were just magnificent!

half way to the top of the mountain, We had nice lunch. We could see whole Kyoto city from that restaurant. nice air and nice lunch.

Perfect.

Nice day, Nice friend, happy.

It was so hard to say good bye to Shizuki....

Mission Possible : Save Walker & Naomi's Bye bye small get together

My friend Walker is now broke because of our F company.
He can t eat because they didn't pay for us.
not only teachers, also Japanese staff didn't get paid 3weeks now.

So, I m almost broke but I m still OK. I have some saved money plus my parents helped me for money.
Anyway, I delivered some food to him.

I hope that was enough for him for a while. maybe it lasts only few days though.
I didn't know what spice or seasoning he has so i bought something that can cook without spice or anything.
I hope all teachers will be OK, teachers are more fucked up than Japanese staff. Because Japanese staff can live without VISA and we have family in same country even they live really far away from us like my family.
I feel very very sorry to teachers who has to leave Japan even they really want to stay in Japan...

I m so sad to see them leaving...

and yes, Naomi of course. She is the one of them who has to leave Japan.
Today, after i met Walker, I went to Kyobashi 380 Izakaya for her small farewell. Today was her last day for work.

Naomi, Murray, Vince(oh my god i haven t seen him ages!), Mark and Peter were there.
all Kyobashi teachers and one Japanese from other branch. kinda strange. haha.

Everybody finished eating when i arrived so I just had one beer and small rice.

So sad she is leaving. I hope i can see her someday in Japan or Australia.
Good luck.

Michiko and Shizuki

I met Michiko and Shizuki for dinner at Kyobashi after work.

These days I feel like I can pass out any time, I am exhausted everyday.
I think this is because I have so much stress from work.
I can't sleep, It's very hard to wake up. these days I was almost late to work many times.

and today too. I felt asleep on the train back to Kyobashi and I hit my head to the window really bad and woke up.
I was really embarrassed.
some people were trying to hide laughing faces from me.... I felt my face turned to red.

Anyway I was very tired but I went that Izakaya to see them.
I am broke but really need to drink..

I can't believe Shizuki will leave in 3 days. crazy. I can't believe it.....

It was always fun to have dinner with them.

Fucked up situation

Today, Shiomi san came to my branch.

He works in the embassy in Moscow and he just came back to Japan 1 week to see his family. He looks like gang or yakuza. maybe he is.

i don t know.

but he is a very nice guy and He remembered I wanted Matroska for souvenir. That USA president Matroska is so cool.
I was joking about souveir and I forgot i said that but he remembered!

Even today was the 2nd day i met him though. crazy. nice guy.

It was a long day today. other branch s manager mistook schedule and I was supposed to have help staff working with me but he forgot and I had to work 10am to 9pm alone. very angry. he didnt even say sorry.

and I had to yell at my boss today. because I heard he was talking shit about staff behind us. what an asshole.

he was upset and angry at me now.

i m sure i m 100% right. whatever.

i almost lost my pacience. maybe i already lost it today.

Our company is now totally fucked.

I am very sorry to students and teachers.

I hope everyone can survive.

Many students are upset and angry but also

many students worried and brought cake, chocolate, manjyu etc. ARIGATOU.

James→I hope you ll be ok and can find a good job.

Kevin, Dave→you made a right decision!

Hirakata teachers→be pacient! Jeremy isn t that bad.

Walker→Furikake is not so healty. I will bring some food. good people!

Kuzuha teachers→Thank you so much for your help.I love you guys.

All japanese staff i like→Ganbarou ne!

and Tomoko( japanese staff who works with me)→I am SO happy to work with you. I can t survive this situation without you.

Hirakata & Kuzuha s New teacher welcome party

New teacher s Welcome party!!!! yaaay!!! yaay...??? wait a minute. welcome?

even we got fax from our President that we won t get paid on time?! and now our company is fucked up!?!

forget it. We are good friends and Its of course welcome.

We need to drink. worry about money tho.

But don't worry. that's why we choose 280 (cheap Izakaya) to drink.

It was a Beau and Michelle s welcome. They are boyfriend girlfriend and they came to japan together. Beau s funny nice guy and Michelle is very cute!

Hirakata ROCK! Dan, Chris and Sam are crazy. i love them. We did ABC game( i don t know what that game is called..) eg. '' Country name'' →A: Argentina B:Bulgaria C: Cuba. like that.

Its very hard !! but fun.

We enjoyed but there was a little argument at the end. ha.

Today's member→Me, Dan, Muzz, Chris, Sam, Yoshioka san, Mami, Tom, Angus, Jeremy, Kayo, Beau, Michelle and Tomoko.

Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park

Michiko, Yosshi, Sizuki, Fukumi and I went to tsurumi ryokuchi park.

It was a nice weather and We were supposed to enjoy soccer, but Tsurumi ryokuchi park is HUGE and there are many good things to see, so we didn't have time to enjoy sports much.

I went there few times but today was the first day to went World Garden in the park.

There are each country s traditional things and we all didn't expect that good.

I mean we thought World garden and other optional things are all crappy but they were not.

We really enjoyed. lunch was nice, hiking was fun, sunset was just beautiful.

Brownie

Brownie is the bar i often go, but i didn't go there around 1 month.

That is because i am almost broke. Why? because I didn't get paid yet. Payday is every 27th, but now, Its 9Th and i still didn't get paid. I had to borrow some money from my mom.

Well, the owner of this bar, Tamon knew my situation from TV news and newspaper. and he worried about me and emailed me that he can help me for money.But if i won t get paid forever,( i don t wanna think about that way...and I know its impossible though)i can t pay back his money. so i of course said no.

he said '' anyway, come to my bar! one drink is free for you!'' so, i went.

Its always nice to see him and his dog Matsugorou. he is a claver dog and he is always happy to see me. he makes me happy too. so cute.

Tamon's girlfriend and other my bar friends were worried too and they were so nice to me , offered me some help.

everyone was very nice to me. i m glad.

I really hope my company's all staff will be ok soon. especially teachers.

Michiko and Shizuki's farewell

always very sad to see my friends leaving. Michiko and Shizuki were NOVA staff i used to work with in Kyobashi branch.

Kyobashi branch is the one TOUGH school with bitch manager, but we survived. i don t know if i could survive without them! i guess not!

We went to many places togerther, Amanohashidate trip was the best one.

Michiko is the sweetest girl i ve ever met. Shizuki is very nice, good guy. everybody likes them.

now she s going back to Kyushu, and he s going back to Tokyo.

I m happy for them but i m still sad i can t see them often anymore.

but i m sure i will see you someday somewhere!!! love you guys!!!!!

Tama chan, Michiko, and Shizuki

Akashi, 1 Day trip

I went to Akashi 1 Day trip today with my friend.
it was a perfect weather. we went to Akashi castle and then accidentally found there was a High school baseball game semi-final match. That was fun to watch. very powerful. we didn't watch until the game set but i hope Himeji high school won(Himeji is my hometown).

then we rode the ferryboat from Akashi to Awaji Island.
Its always nice to feel breeze of ocean. and smell of ocean.
I was excited to when the ferryboat passed by under the Akashi-kaikyo bridge. It was just awesome!!

Akashi kaikyo bridge is also known as Pearl Bridge in japan was completed in 1998 and is the world's longest
suspension bridge.


At Awaji Island, we went to visit very beautiful small Island, it was made with sand. and we went to down to the small beach just chilling looking at fishing people.

one funny thing is you can see right picture, Wicket. It was supposed to say Ticket. so easy word mistake. well, it sounds like Wicked so maybe it is right , whatever.

the way back to main Island Akashi, sunset was beautiful.

Kirin

Kirin=Giraffe

this is the drawing i did at work. since my company went really bad, i ve been so tired listening complaining every single day , all the time, 24/7.

so , while i was on the phone listening complaining from customer, i was scribbling.

i don t know why but i started thinking how strange giraffe is and drawing among non consciousness. It is actually really good giraffe without seeing it.

i am really impressed myself.

after work, i took my first English lesson at Kyobashi. Walker, kyobashi teacher and my friend, emailed me to tell my teacher today is Glenn. but when i went there, my teacher was changed. it was my friend Murray. actually he changed it. Abuse of office. He is titled instructor.
It was fun first lesson but we both felt really weired... haha.

280

280, its the Izakaya( japanese style bar).
the actual name is Torikizoku, but all menu is 280 yen, so all my friends call it ''280''.

Yachna, the brand new teacher, gathered all Kuzuha members to drink.
She is young, cute, really powerful girl.
recently, we only talk about our company. because our company faces to a big problem which was caused by stupid president.
and one of my branch s teacher quit today without saying good-bye . no respect. he actually lied to me and i was very upset. i wasn't angry but really sad because i worked with him almost 1 year together and i thought he is my friend.
Its really OK to quit , i understand that. everybody is very worried. i didn't get paid yet.
but at least i wanted him not to lie to me.

anyway life is life.
sometime it sucks.

Gabriel

Gabriel is my friend from Switzerland.
i met him in Florida.

I talked with him on MSN about many things (complicated thing) . all i wanna say now to him is CHEER UP! i like him he is really cool.

I hope good luck. you are very nice and i know you deserve a good life.
life goes on. be yourself. don t worry. we love you.