JAPANESE ALIENS AND FOREIGN Japanese (ending part 3) The city of Kagoshima, which is located on the southern island of Kyushu, the next item on my way after Hiroshima, is situated far away from tourist routes than any other city I to then visited. This fact is immediately evident. I noticed from my conversations with gaijin (as Japanese call foreigners, approx. Perevi.) Whom I met in Japan that I have stayed here longer than all of them. And I thought before coming here that five weeks in Japan - not such a long time. Most tourists come to the country on vacation for two or three weeks, and follow the usual route of Tokyo - Kyoto - Osaka - Hiroshima, possibly adding to the list of all Mount Fuji and the city of Nagoya. Japan - too expensive country to the tourists come here for the long term, such, what I have often met in India. Because of such "long-playing" tourist, I felt free enough during his travels, and in fact some of them come back for 16 months or more. Aside from the Kinki region (central region of Honshu with the center in Kyoto, approx. Perevi.) And the entire island of Honshu as a whole number of gaijin falls sharply, and with it, and the number of locals who speak English. But ... This is another reason why I went on this trip garden near the temple on the island of Miyajima, of course, the lack of tourists could be due to the fact that Kagoshima is built on the slope of a very active volcano, which scatters ashes on the town almost every week. Everyone knows that once the city going into the air, but since no one do anything about it can not all just live with it. I confess I was a little uneasy when, during a walk under my feet ground winds streamed ashes of Japanese beaches Andrea, my new mistress, was much calmer Adam, which caused minor problems. Adam, maybe it would not let me say a word, but at least we have not encountered an awkward pause in conversation. We left my belongings in her apartment and went to eat sushi, where we were greeted by friends and Paula Andrea Kenni. Paul, incidentally, was very friendly. She - doctoral student from Colombia, besides, the girl is very confident to say in English, which also helped us to communicate. Andrea warned me beforehand that she had a small apartment, and I certainly was absolutely still, where and what to sleep, but ... hey! Bathroom she had no more than the toilet in an airplane. Seriously. I still could not understand why she was not in the living room furniture, until she began to lay out my sleeping bag on the floor. Then I realized that the bedroom she is not there. English teachers in Japan are paid very well, but housing prices in the city - it's the price of housing in the city, and you're nothing can be done by Andrea and Paula to say hello to the next day an Englishman, a bar owner, in which she worked, Andrea, has organized a trip to bus to the beach for all employees, key employees or part-time, in short, all who wanted to go, so Andrea and I wrote down. When at 10 am, we started off, some have already had finished second can of beer. I suddenly felt at ease, and the rest of the trip only reinforced that impression. The company has received a friendly and noisy: Europeans, Americans, Africans and Japanese, all about my age, most of whom were taught English in Japan as a foreign language. It was great to get into a big company after a long journey alone. In the end we got to the beautiful beach with a bar, where there was none other than our group, who could prevent our high jinks. We had a couple of personal watercraft, inflatable banana, which was pulling a boat already mentioned the bar owner. The weather was hot, the water surprisingly warm and the beer cold. It is as it should be! Andrea, a bar owner and the company was fun watching how Japanese girls sat in the shade under an umbrella with long gloves on their hands, to the best possible way to hide from the sun and not tan while everyone else settled down in the sun, hoping to just the opposite result. One girl from our group - Alma - brought equipment for snorkeling, and asked if I wanted to dive. It was amazing! I have not even dreamed that on a normal beach will be something to see underwater, but there were sea urchins, some other establishment, or ramps, or someone else, jellyfish, sea cucumbers, and whole flocks of different fish ... I done exactly, just try to dive again. Not without my usual minor troubles. I fell asleep in the shade, though inflicted on the skin sunscreen. I woke up after a few hours under the scorching sun, my skin became a "punk" tone, reminiscent of lobster color. I also became the only person who stung a poisonous jellyfish, although I was in the midst of the crowd (it was painful for several hours and left a scar, and everything is normal.) In general, turned out to be a wonderful day! Even despite the fact that I failed to properly look at Kagoshima (although we passed through town to the apartment of Andrea), I'm glad that the trip to the beach held on the day. It was not only a wonderful vacation after several weeks of continuous sightseeing, but also a great way to avoid awkwardness in communicating with Andrea (even such a chatterbox like me, can begin no more than 75 calls, you know). The golden sand and warm sea Furthermore, I am perfectly distracted, before heading further south to the island of Yakushima Start material:
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