i had a bloody great phone call this morning.
christian and i used to work at the zoo together. he moved to japan about 6 months before i did and took me on my first drinking tour of shinjuku (in kabukicho), introduced me to yoyogi park and showed me how to use the ticket machines and get around tokyo. he is, like me, totally solar powered and hated life in gloomy, cold tokyo [hard to imagine winter in this 2 month burst of heat]. he took a teaching job on the lovely subtropical ogasawara islands 1000 km's south of tokyo.
about a month or so before he moved (april/may 2003), he met yuiko. she is a really cool artist. he went all gooey in a bad way. the night before he left they spent their first night together, the next day at the boat there were tears. it's been hard work, but somehow, they have survived the massive distance and the expensive commute. chris is in tokyo for a few weeks, and he and yuiko headed off to the fuji rock festival last weekend.
he proposed to her at the festival, on friday. she said yes. woohoooooooo.
congratulations chris and yuiko! i'm madly happy for you! it's perfect.
i took the top photo at our new years eve party in nishi-shiroi, chiba. the second pic was the day after.... the recovery lounge party at amanda's place in chiba.
frangipani wrote this on August 5, 2004 02:23 AM