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| The rice patty I walk past daily |
Here it is, August, and summer is ending with the kids getting back to
school. It has not been that hot here
although it has been hot and quite humid.
After Bahrain, though this is a piece of cake. A little typhoon gave us
a glancing blow and a day off work last month, but overall it has been rather
uneventful.. I went to Okinawa to see Laura and Jordan Andrew (and their
parents) over the July 4th long weekend and that was very nice. The weather could have been better but I have
been there and done that so visiting with the family was the only thing really
on order.
Sasebo is a nice and fairly quiet little city with a long history full of
tales of Samurai, Portuguese missionaries, and many things typical of Japan,
like anpan, onigiri and sake. The Naval
Facilities here were once a strategic Naval Base of the Imperial Navy up until
around the end of WW2. Nagasaki is about an hour from here and really a very
pretty city now. I went there only to do battle with the Immigration Office
over my visa, but after a 5 hour skirmish I got it all settled. Their English
was a tad better than my Japanese, otherwise I might still be sitting there. I
plan to go back to actually visit the city when the weather cools off a
bit. Hiroshima is a 3 hour
commute by
train and I plan to visit there too (with cousin Sarah, who teaches in
Tokushima.) I really don’t have much to blog about right now, but I didn’t want
time to disappear without at least posting a few pictures to prove that I am
indeed, back in Japan.
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Samurai Shrine - Sasebo
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| A little temple I walk past daily |
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| The Macheskys in Okinawa |
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| Breaking the rules in Okinawa |
