There's been a lot of stuff going on around here, things are good and I still don't really understand what's going on around me. I just got back from one of the schools I will be teaching at, the walls of the principal's office are lined with photographic portraits of all the past principals, the oldest is a photo from 1902. I'm just going to put up some photos today. With any luck at all, this will be the last post from the board of ed. A street from Takehara's "old town" - buildings and streets that are pretty much unchanged since the Edo period. A temple, right in the middle of the city, near the old town.
Getting on the ferry to go home. The next evening, I went down to the harbor on my bike to see the sunset.
I ran into Mori for the second time. He is my age, his father is a fisherman. When they get back from fishing, he and his friends hang out at the docks where they have built what amounts to a small skate park. We started talking about fishing, and we went over to his boat to see what he had caught that day. He told me I should come fishing with him, but when I asked him how much it would cost, he told me it was free, so long as I taught him some English.

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