Fukuikan

Today we woke up around 8 to catch a train to the beach in Fukui. I believe it's called sunset beach or something like that. It was one of the first small towns we've been to. The streets were nearly deserted as we wandered westward between the crowded houses. Standing guard on every corner are mirrors for seeing around the narrow hairpin turns that zigzag through the neighborhoods.
At the beach we ...

Grande partenza da Sosogi sotto il diluvio , non potevo fare meglio non c` era niente di interessante per fermarsi poi mi stava piacendo anche guidare con la pioggia pero` dopo 8 ore mi era arrivata ai maroni di detto e di fatto .Bellissimo il monastero Zen d Eihei-ji

At around 1 pm, in the year 2008, I entered the Japanese prefecture of Fukui which was the 47th prefecture that I have visited on journeys in Japan so now I have visited every prefecture of Japan. One of my life goals have been met. I wasn't planning to visit Fukui on January 2nd but an opportunity developed so I took it. I was returning from Tokyo and I was planning on meeting my old college friend, YN, in Osaka to catch up on each other ...

I was a Rotary Exchange Student for a year in 1985 and during that time attended Hokuriku Senior High School in Fukui, Japan. Visiting this time with the boys I found that there were still a number of teachers who were there in 1985 and who remembered me! I also met up with Aoki Ryota, a student in my class at that time who is now an English teacher in the Hokuriku Junior High School.

... but a few months later). Although the weather was muggy and humid, it was warm, and I love warm! Living 5 minutes from the beach I could easily cool down (that is until jellyfish season started in a couple of weeks). The rainfall was crazy, everyday it rained for at least an our or so. I heard that's just how mountain life is in general...who knows. But there were also some pretty cool shrines and festivals to keep me occupied- not to mention the gorgeous Mizushima beach ...

... el mio es una chica canadiense que se llama Laura, bueno, pues me invito para ir a ver Harry Potter (version original) en el unico cine que hay en el pueblo con unos amigos suyos que son los hablantes nativos de ingles de otros institutos de la zona, (una chica americana Dina, y un chico ingles Chris) muy majos los dos. Dina, trajo con sigo a una estudiante de 17a;os que aunque es japonesa ha ...

... y me empece a reir por la broma que el acababa de hacer... bueno, pues mas tarde, cuando se supone que era la hora de los Clubs yo me fui al club de arte, en el que basicamente miro los dibujos y digo -"Oh que bonito me encanta si si..." (todo menos arte), bueno, pues cuando se me ocurrio querer ir al ba;o y abrir la puerta de la clase de arte, veo que en el PASILLO si si en el pasillo estaban todos los Clubs ...

... comerciales con 5 pisos, aparentemente parecen muchos pisos pero en realidad 2 son parkings, la planta baja es supermercado (no me interesa), la segunda tiene tiendas de ropa, pero como no encontraba la seccion de jovenes, (solo la de embarazadas y viejecitas) me fui, (luego me dijeron que no habia seccion de embarazadas...curioso... espero que los jovenes no se compren esa ...

... significa que probablemente no lo hare, y pensare en correr al dia siguiente, pero tampoco ire y pensare en hacerlo otra vez al dia siguiente... y asi sucesivamente. "Frio Iglesias" es un cantante espanol muy famoso. Nosotros le llamamos "Julio", pero "Frio" es su verdadero nombre, que no os quepa la menor duda.

... hojita de cartulina pequena y luego la cuelga de una rama de bambu para que el deseo se cumpla. Por lo que la avenida principal del pueblo esta llena de ramas de bambu que cuelgan del techo, espero que alguien haya deseado que cada una de esas ramas resistan el peso de las cartulinas que tienen colgadas....