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living + teaching in rural hiroshima

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“Fuji Shibazakura Festival” at Hitsujiyama Park in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

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I walk into my new school in Brooklyn and notice rainbow paper cranes, folded together in two glass boxes in the entrance "Where'd you get those?" "Oh, a survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima visited our school. He left these for us." Hiroshima, with me still in Brooklyn

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anyone who’s spent some time in japan can attest that they play covers of this song INCESSANTLY in konbinis

and i finally heard it, the real monkees version of the song, blasting from a boat going by on the lake today

i nodded my head and hummed along before realizing i didn’t actually know the song. just the tinny 7-11 rendition i had grown so subconsciously familiar with. and there it is, following me in michigan

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Namba - Osaka, Japan

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making my way home first meal back mich is so flat

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hokkaido caldera vibes

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I'm in tokyoooooooooo

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An amazing last night in Toyosaka with lots of people I love. Eiko-san (in the red) is such an amazing friend to have. I am so lucky.

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A student and her mom came by my house yesterday to give me a fan and paper crane earrings Crying forever

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Today I said goodbye to my last school and honestly none of this feels real at all. Damn.

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feel like this drugs poster in the yakushima ferry terminal could be on like a band t-shirt or smth

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leaving kagoshima

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i love sunrises here

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packing is taking forever bc literally every little stub of paper has meaning to me and how can i throw anything out

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Toyosaka giant salamander cartoons

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my favorite japanese myth is the dogs with human faces because they dont even do anything and if you get close to them they say “please leave me alone”

thats it