Visit to Niimi / Friends Visit to Japan / Life Update

I'm back again!!! After over a month. And I guess after reading this news I need to start saving my pension elsewhere or have some kind of plan... hmmm

Life Update


Day 3047 (Oya Museum - Tochigi)
Tuesday, July 31, 2016

Took summer vacation from July 26, but no plans to do anything extra special except to visit Tochigi (My wife's hometown) and Niimi, Okayama (Where I lived when I just came to Japan).

Today I visited my in-laws up in Tochigi. We visited a museum called Oya Museum, famous for the stones that are there. The stones are very strong against heat, but weak against water.

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Day 3057 ( Visit back to Niimi and the Niimi Festival 2016 )
Friday-Sunday, August 5-7, 2016

My very good friend from Niimi (A principal and former head of the Board of Education there) came to pick up me and my wife at the airport in Okayama. It is a 1hr 30 mins drive from the airport to Niimi. I miss this level of kindness that the people of rural, western Japan tend to display.

I Spent 3 years working under the Yokohama BOE system and never even met one of the BOE members, much less the president. Here are some pics from that weekend in Niimi, Okayama.

My old Students, taller than me now

My Karate instructor

Camera man for my show when I was living in Niimi

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Day 3060/3066 ( Video Shoot 1/2 )
Monday/Sunday, August 8/14, 2016

Had a video shoot in Shibuya on Monday then in Yokohama on Sunday. So yes I will be on TV again sometime in October, to be announced. Hint, it will be on TBS and will be about Jamaican food and how I can get access to Jamaican food in Japan.

My wife's version of Jamaican food

 

My mom's Cooking of Ox-tail

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Very late news but yes Jamaica did quite well in the Olympics again. We came in 16th - top 20 baby!!!

We still surprise the world with our small size and dominance

My sister in Brazil

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Day 3072 ( Friend's Visit to Japan with Wife and Kids)
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Went Yokohama to pickup some friends coming to Japan for the first time.

Day 3073 ( Kamakura and Hayama Visit )
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Visited Kamakura today again to show my visitors the big budda and other areas in Kanagawa.

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Days 3079/3080 ( Jamaican Restaurant Visit + Asakusa-Sensoji and Sky Tree )
Saturday/Sunday, August 27/28, 2016


Went to Akihabara, Shibuya, Asakusa Temple and Sky tree these two days.

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