After the culture discovery trip and a dinner in Kakegawa, I suggested go Paul’s place immediately so that Hiroshi could get home early. By 15mins driving, we arrived a building via a small town. 7pm sky was dark, Followed the car’s front lamps I just could see a mini bus parked in fron of the building. I had been told that’s the bus I would take soon. Hiroshi helped me to move my luggage onto the mini bus, and also grabbed a small foldable umbrella from his car [...]

Next day I did catch the Shinkansen to meet Hiroshi in Shizuoka, he would take me to join the first volunteer group in Kakegawa to Tohoku. As same as last time(2010), I met Python when arriving Shizuoka,  Hiroshi joking that was my “good luck”. 90mins driving from Shizuoka to Kakegawa, we had a pretty good talk about the life, spirit and also his stories of Tohoku on the way. As a main household income earner,  Hiroshi needs to work and take care his family [...]

After shooting in Redang Island, Malaysia, I got an email from my good Japanese friend Hiroshi who was in study trip with his 15 student I met on the airplane from Sydney to Melbourne in 2010. He told me something  he recently became a volunteer to work in Tohoku, Japan in the email. Most of week ends he went there for cooking meal and sometimes taking his student there and singing song for local people. Actually I couldn’t get any [...]