2012年7月10日火曜日

HORNBY IN THE HOUSE!

Our good friends from Hornby High School in Christ Church New Zealand have been visiting Tokiwagi for the past week and taking in an overdose of Japanese culture. So far, everyone seems to be having a jolly old time with only some minor problems arising (lost socks and whatnot). Here's a montage of the Hornby High Schoolers getting their names adapted into kanji with the help of the 1st year Inter girls:



Yesterday I helped to chaperone the Hornby kids on an excursion to beautiful Matsushima. "ahh Matsushima" as a famous poet once said. But how exactly did he say it? What was the context? Was it "ahh Matsushima (your beauty is beyond words)!" or was it "ahh Matsushima (where my one true love broke my heart and stomped all over the pieces until it was pulp)!" or maybe it might have been "ahh Matsushima (where I narrowly avoided getting my brain eaten by a horde of zombies)!" Anyway, here's a rare non-montaged pic of the folks from New Zealand taking in this National treasure in all its splendor (also, they sell Coke in cartons there... weird).