126/365: Nov 17 2008. Such a gorgeous day! Autumn days here can be startlingly magnificent - clear, crisp blue skies and warm sunshine. Every house has their washing and futons hanging outside.

127/365: Nov 18 2008. Busy teaching day. I usually try to walk into Kichijoji through the park for my morning classes, so I can catch the gorgeous light thrown on the trees by the waters reflections. Magical.

128/365: Nov 19 2008. I met up with Guy Perryman, local radio celeb and all-round nice fella. He did an interview with me for his online radio show, That Guy In Tokyo, to help promote my exhibition and the Dr Sketchy's Exhibition party.

129/365: Nov 20 2008. This is the UK band Brigade. Nice guys. I just noticed that they are using this pic as their new myspace profile pic. Yay. They've been touring Japan with the support of the UK Embassy and I met up with them while photographing a networking event in Shibuya. The Troubadours were there too, and I took pictures of them as well. But the Brigade fellas were a much nicer, down to earth bunch of people. It was hella smoky that night, I hate that Japan still hasn't banned smoking in restaurants and bars.



130/365: Nov 21 2008. Prepping for my exhibition tomorrow night. Had ordered canvas prints from the US but they never arrived, so I ended up going to my local Yodabashi and doing my prints there. They did come up well but not as gorgeous as the canvas prints would have been.

131/365: Nov 22. Another beautiful day. But actually, I am cheating here, I took this pic a few days ago (it was an equally gorgeous day), coz I didn't actually take a single photo all day. Why? ....... because it was.....

DR SKETCHYS EXHIBITION PARTY DAY!

Such a great party!! Well-worth all our hard work (and so much frikken work, I tell you!) in terms of quality and fun. We only sold one art piece all night though, and didn't quite get the numbers were were hoping for. But never mind, it was so much fun. Wish I could stick around and help out with the next one next year..... You can see some pic's here and here (there are plenty more on facebook too). Oh and wow - I just found that Erochica Bamboo has a flickr page! Awesome! She is soooo amazing!

132/365: Nov 23. After 3 hours sleep, I headed out to Seikei University for the annual Uni festival. A bunch of my old high school students (now studying at Uni) are in the dance club and invited me to their performance. If there is one thing young Japanese can do well, it's dance. They are all into it. Big group hip-hop/modern dance shows. A lot of fun, and my kids did me proud.

I couldn't stay long as I had signed up for my first ever hoop class with Deanne. 2 hours of occasionally exasperating fun as I learned the cowgirl, orbiting, hand hooping and flunked the corkscrew over and over again. Check out this hilarious Tokyo Hoop Stars video. Anyway, the class was a lot of fun and I came away feeling enthusiastic about practising my new moves in the yard.

Then... I met up with Tracey & Ashley back at my place and we did a photo shoot to celebrate their engagement. I'm pretty happy with the results, hope they are too.... I do love the upside-down-cheek-to-cheek pose (and have been know to do it before, I know...) , but they came up with this one, this time and it looks so pretty I had to share.

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