日本

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I crashed here in Nippon (日本) about forty-two days ago. Since then I’m living & working in Nagoya.

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Lots of things have happened since I stepped out of the air plane and put my feet on this virgin soil. I had a terrible jetlag. I couldn’t sleep at all on the flight. After the fingerprint check up and a quick picture on the passport inspection one step away from the Japanese border I tried to realize that all this is actually happening … The company arranged a pick up for me and my luggage. They couldn’t believe what I brought with me … a fully packed 7’1ft surfboard bag including 3 boards, wetsuits, fins all the stuff you need; a huge traveller bag that almost exploded when I lifted it on the trolley and my ‘hand luggage’ a 65 liter bag pack. I always ask my self how I manage to convince the check in ladies that this little monster is my hand luggage. The main question was how to transport all this stuff??! Inomae my boss laughed at me, saying no problem at all. He didn’t pick me up in one of those mini k-cars … he came with a big van to solve the problem ...