Celebrating Creativity

There it came and there it went: Soukisai, Takaoka Campus' school festival. And with it the visit of three friends from Finland, who are at the moment as exchange students in Tokyo. With it also my last dance. The thing that maybe shocks me most is that it seems just such a short time ago that I saw TNC dancing on the school yard in my second week here and decided to join. Now it's been almost seven months and only three left. I catch myself at counting 'last times'

Bliss in Red and Gold

Oh the Japanese autumn... the last weeks have been brilliant! I would even go as far as to say this might turn out to be the happiest time for me here in Japan. Right after the Jazz Street weekend in Kanazawa - which was great, by the way; lot's of great music and a short trip to the city's old Geisha quarter as well – a taifun from the south touched on Toyama-prefecture as well, and after that the heat of summer finally broke for good. In the last three weeks