Autumn 2005

Fukuoka High School English Contest
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DSC05364.JPG The crowd is restless
DSC05368.JPG Hiroyuki had a good speech, but he didn't memorize it completely, which is a shame.
DSC05371.JPG The Judgement
DSC05373.JPG A Victor's Peace
 
Bric-a-brac
DSC05334.JPG Never let babies with bling have guns!
DSC05331.JPG Japan trips over the line between cute & self-patronizingly cute
DSC05384.JPG This is how Andy Pope spent the evening of his 29th birthday
 
Takaoka's Man'yô Festival
DSC05392.JPG The Man'yô Festival floating platform in Kojô Park
DSC05399.JPG People reading old poems from 'the Book of Ten Thousand Leaves'
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Autumny stuff
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DSC05445.JPG Cosmos flowers.
DSC05446.JPG Autumn-ish.
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DSC05452.JPG This continues my long running series "Inanimate things that look sort of interesting."
 
Toyama Foreigners Singing Japanese Karaoké
DSC05431.JPG Our MCs
DSC05433.JPG Luis went to Kansai Gaidai with me, coincidentally
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DSC05440.JPG Fashion show
 
Ball Game Day
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DSC05473.JPG Beachball Volleyball is how wars will be decided in the future.
 
Takaoka Deaf School Festival
DSC05515.JPG How better to kill time waiting for the show to start than saying, 'Guuto Morzinju,' to your teacher?
DSC05516.JPG Pictures cannot express the cuteness of this
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DSC05529.JPG How.
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Japan Robot Festival in Toyama
DSCF3734 Toyoma Robot Festival!
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DSCF3739 Robots train for their eventual uprising
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DSCF3757 Why was this robot made with angry eyebrows painted on?
DSCF3760 For $100,000 dollars couldn't you buy a vacuum cleaner?
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DSCF3784_1 Robot dogs in sweaters makes even less sense than real dogs in sweaters
 
More Autumn
DSC05545.JPG Mt. Taté is already snow capped
DSC05547.JPG The Jindzû River in Toyama City
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DSC05555.JPG Rainbow on the edge of visibility by my school
DSC05557.JPG S-s-snake skin!
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