Our sister city students - from Tsumagoi, Gunma prefecture - came for just 24 hours yesterday, their trip limited by earlier boat cancellations due to a passing tropical storm. We took them on a kayak trip yesterday afternoon.
I was planning to paddle along in my ongoing 'sit-in' kayak experiment, but there was one poor extra girl who didn't fit into a student pair. She ended up being awesome and handled the "uh-oh, I have to paddle out to that island with a foreign English teacher!?" experience well, even treating me to super polite Japanese.
The small island we paddled to has a sandy incline where people often spell out love messages or sign their names with flat, black rocks. I was dismayed to see that some proselytizing Christians had gotten ahold of the rocks. I think it had probably taken them a long time to put this message and huge cross together:
But it only took me four minutes to dismantle it:
Thursday, August 12, 2010
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Dave Sensei, arrives by boat, leaves only chaos behind.
Eco-friendly chaos, however, taking only photographs, leaving lots of footprints.
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