So lets talk about another weekend! Had my first visit to an orphanage pretty near my house with Santa and Friends. They are moving from doing only one event at Xmas per year to monthly support and events for the orphans in 5 locations throughout Nagoya, as well as those in some locations in Tohoku. The place I will be working with is small, and all boys orphanage with about 20 children of varying ages between really young and high school.
Started the day off with a Nagoya tradition, the morning set. Great coffee at a shop near my house. Not a great place to hang out, but the coffee is good, as I mentioned!
Then I made it to the Orphanage with James and the others. After meeting the staff we had a tour of the facility, a charming little place that could be described as a fixer-upper. Comfortable enough though.
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| The Main Hallway, this is most of the orphanage here. Small place~ |
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| Bedrooms. 4 kids per room, I think they have more space than I do! |
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| Their school. Lotsa learnin going on in there; even that Saturday found students in there. |
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| Ball field, the staff asked for support playing sports with the kids. I hate sports, but oh well. |
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| The head guy took us to see a festival the kids would go to later that night. It was still being setup. |
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| Lunch at the Mexican spot |
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| James Hedden at the Mexican spot! |
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| We had plenty of tacos while we talked about what we could do for the orphanage. | | | | |
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After parting with the Santa and Friends crew it was on to the Meitetsu Beer Garden to drink on top of a department store. It was a surprise party for Kyle, who is like really old now. Great fun, and we found they had Bass Ale, much better than the draft they usually force feed us!
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| Kyle is the guy at the end in red. You will see him again. |
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| Bass Ale... beer is good. |
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| The gang; I was trying to tan... It did not work. |
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| Kyle is a nut. |
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| I am not sure what I was looking at... | |
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| My buddy Yoko and I. We always do shit like this so everyone thinks we are dating or married. Just friends, she is flippin awesome though. |
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| Super Kyle! Japan man! |
After this, it started to get messy as we drank from 3-9. No pictures exist but it was trashy fun! This was a really good day. Did some good work, had some fun, and went a bit nuts after sun down. Not like this last weekend. It sucked. If it was a person I would swear revenge and begin to actively seek its downfall-much I like always do when someone makes me mad. Keep it in mind people! I am petty and vindictive; its a hobby.
