Resuming Regular Broadcast!

Hey people of the internet it's me, just interjecting that I will be back in Japan and blogging regularilly as of Wednesday, March 30th. Look forward to it and if you've got any questions I can help you find an answer for comment away!

Back in Canada

I'm going to be back in Canada until the end of March, more details as they arrive and hopefully this'll change back to my coverage of my trip to Japan to study and not remain a chronicle of me wishing I was back there.

An Amazing Story About an Amazing Tree

So I went to the incredible and ancient city of Nara. While I plan on putting up some of the great and in many cases funny images of my hyjinks there this was a story I wanted to share with all you folks on the internet.

This tree is known as Garyu no Ichiigashi, which is a a collossal tree which collapsed during an enormous windstorm some time around 500 years ago. This massive 5.3 meter in diameter tree appeared to have died but miraculously managed to retake root and sprout branches from the exposed roots. Through it's incredible spirit and will to live this mighty tree still lives today, 500 years after its collapse and has flourished into an incredible landmark set into the botanical garden at Nara.

Fundraising in Umeda

I spent about 3 hours yesterday helping local students and teachers affiliated Osaka Gakuin University. We were raising money for the victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami, it was a lot of fun and really amazing to see so many people open their hearts and wallets to help their fellow men. Unrelated to that it was also amazing to see so many different kinds of people and fashion, Umeda is a pretty incredible place.

Making up for lost time...part 1

It's been a while since I uploaded any real snaps to my blog so here's a real photo storm light on the words for those of you fond of the photographic arts (or what I can pull off with my samsung.)

so starting with Shibuya!


Pakuchi Burger (still in Shibuya)


Kansai pictures in the next post.

Earthquake

As I'm sure everyone who follows this blog knows, Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake yesterday afternoon. I'm posting to let people who I don't have on facebook and are curious know that I'm totally fine, I was in Osaka when it happened.

I'd like to post 2 things really quick, the first one is that this isn't going to effect the frequency of my posts and I'm not going to try and foccus on this horrible disaster through them, this is a country of fighters and I'm not going to join the media storm of people tunnel visioning at the destruction. My hearts and thoughts go out to the dead, the injured and the lost but at this time I will make it my goal to strive forth and continue to live and experience Japan as a visitor and eager learner.

Lastly I'd like to call a great tweet I read to the world's attention...
http://i.imgur.com/eGSKJ.jpg

see you all in the next post!

Harajuku

Harajuku and Shibuya are kind of the youth districts of Tokyo, technically speaking Harajuku is part of Shibuya although it's also kind of way crazier than the rest of Shibuya. Harajuku plays host to the Meiji Shrine in Yoyogi Park; an urban park with a large Shinto shrine in the dead center.

Pictures bellow...

It's kind of Interesting to see how much of the plant life in Yogi park is evergreen compared to other parks in Tokyo like Shinjuku-cho park.

Also took me by surprise how few crazy people I saw this trip to Harajuku, last time it was a real Gong Show.