I'm sorry, Paul was it?

i:m here safe and sound, just in case you haven:t heard. (also : is a ' cause darn if i:m going to relearn how to type, again).

i met a guy on the train today whose name was paul. he said he had intended to stay in japan for 2 weeks, and is still here 11 years later. he was older and had studied at the Lebanon valley college.

everything is quite strange. i stayed in germany for a little while, and that was different but it was still similar. europe is the same, just old and in a different language. but japan is almost totally alien. the pricing of items, the tv, the foods (i forgot to get a picture of the tentacles at the supermarket), the street ways are different even. architecture is old and modern.

my hour is more than up, so i have to pay hugely for the extra time, so i have to run. pictures are up in flickr: ... i'd post the link, but flickr.com seems to be down right now.