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2006-06-14T08:13:00.000+09:00

Well i am back home and adjusted to life! back riding with the usual suspects and loved the entire season...japan and canada...but its over.. so who knows when the next update will be! i had an amazing time and i love and miss everyone from japan and a big congrats goes to seth and hannah as marriage is in there near future...did someone say REUNION? thanks to everyone who check out this blog and left comments..God bless! cheers!
Patrick

THE GERMANS ARE COMING and other fun stuff

2006-03-24T20:44:00.000+09:00

this is a big week, i leave soon i have to say good byes and worse yet...THE GERMANS ARE COMING...i mean best yet....so i got a haircut from michie who is now doing DTS with ywam in the most trying lands ever...hawaii

this is sebastian aka BUDDY and me and JP

this is my "best buddy but worst enemy" buddy and i poseing

Seiya`s Face in my hands

Seiya`s face in my hands

don`t ask but JP the german made me do it

Jp and i are mad....he likes punk i think thats why

Tim and i had to take 4 pics to get a good one

Derek seiya and i capture a moment of love

But overall it was an awesome week i will miss this place and all my friends
Here are some Good bye photos as well:

sad Goodbyes to our local riders and lifties

2006-03-24T20:30:00.000+09:00

We played games with the locals that came to our goodbye party, well they played..i filmed as they had to eat raw onions eggs and such...

a group of us huddle to capture a moment

seth isn`t so tall if you stand on your tippy toes. Congrats to seth and hanna who are now engaged

me and kaiyo embrace as tyler feels uncomfortable

hide and i bare it all as i say goodbye to one of the happiest kids i know, welcome to the family kiddo

the new japanese picture craze....NIPPLE BEAMS

HEARTS for 2 rad girls

this is chica shes BAKA

sniff i will miss them all!

a weekend with the SFC crew

2006-02-28T11:11:00.000+09:00

So SFC finally got to northstar and we had an awesome week with them
(Randall, Travis, Seiya, Me, Andy, Tim, Derek, Makoto, Willy, Bruce, Jesse annnnnd Moni)

The SFC team came to the junkers house for a lil worship night and no i dunno how to play the guitar. but i sure tried.

During the SFC camp randall and many guests went as low as they could go

We are NINJAS as we prepare for the comp (jesse anthony randall me mikey travis (free) willy)

Randall myself and bruce are reminded through this picture that we are soo white

Tim said it best when he said "some competitors checking out the competition"

Seth and i look over the park from the rail drop in

The comp set up was finished and ready to be shredded thanks to the sponsors
Snowboarders For Christ Japan
Snowboarders For Christ Canada
Snowboard.com
Northstar
Murasaki Sports
and Blue Line skate and snowboard shop

This is me in the comp doing a front board i might have caught my back edge on this one though whip lash is fun early on in a comp

The comp was pretty sweet minus the power shutting down here and there but we made the best out of it this is me doing a gap front board but in the end Moni from switzerland came first in girls and i tied with a SEECK RYDA named Masa for first in mens but took second b/c i was staff haha all the riders were awesome and so fun.

Day after the Comp we all relaxed at a free massage parlor/denki (electronics) shop

THEN: SFC and NS are now pro horse race gamblers at a place where u cant cash out b/c it was`nt a casino (shoulda seen jesse`s face when he found out his bucket FULL of coins could`nt cash out)

We then went out for dinner together for our last night together

We all went to eat at VIKING again and you would have thought i learnt my lesson from the last time i went but after 12 full bowls of ice cream and more then 10 plates of food i felt sick again

it was an awesome weekend, the snowboarders for christ team are awesome. Youll be missed boys and girl

The Last week of fun

2006-02-21T12:48:00.000+09:00

This is me getting a pie thrown in my face thanks to my actions earlier that morning (throwing snow at the kitchen staff)

also rode the park a lil heres a back lip

Randall Tim Tyler Makoto Derek Me and Seiya squeeze onto a chair awaiting our sushi

myself and tim like dark photos we feel emo

This is Myself and tim watching the sushi on the rotating belt ready to be gobbled up

This is tyler and myself in motsumoto, we are totaly friends he likes me

this is me and michie in motsumoto ... shes almost as tall as me

Randall and I make a mad dash for the video games and horse races at the arcade.

ME, TYLER, SETH eating at a japanese restaurant, shortly after this i prolly got a leg cramp

later that evening Makochan got a valentines gift from a pretty lady and was very happy, we bug him alot

TOKYO

2006-01-31T11:33:00.000+09:00

SO we went to tokyo for three days, it was a 3-4 hour drive of sleep, the never ending song and arguements about whose better canada or the states. It was all worth it once we arrived to our destination.

This is not the first site we saw but this is tokyo, shinbuya to be exact this is the world famous intersection where for like a minute pedestrians have a 6 way crossing where all cars are stopped, where billboards and flashing lights keep it eternally daytime. This however was one of my first sites in japan, Premade Hotdogs on the shelf. can you say yummy? cause i cant. than again i didnt try it.
This is the first landmark we visited was in asakusa it was a HUGE budist temple and this is a water fountain with gold cups where u wash your hands and mouth before entering the temple.
On the way to the temple there were venders after venders of foods clothes and other things that were flashy and nothing to do with the religion.
This is me at the enterance of the temple, behing me are booths where you can pay money to have your prayers heard by buddah or pay bigger money to sit in the prayer service which i heard when i went up to the temple and it was crazy eerie sounding.
The next day we all went to harujuku where the infamous gwen stefani harujuku girls came from, The fashion on some girls and boys was crazy, they make a day out of dressing in CRAZY outfits and hang out on the street where again venders and stores are loud and open for business some are agressive and pull you into their shops mostly the hip hop stores. a block or 2 up from the street is a lil park where the fashion freaks come out to play.... I was scared of these two but even they were no match for the girls with WHITE contacts we didnt wanna take pics of.So randall and i hopped in in there craziness they werent as excited as we were.

But this lovely girl loved coastal riders....and cake
Then we found out randall tyler and my priorities in life...i went for the safer out of the 2
It was time to head back home from a long day and tyler wore a dress on the train while we pretended not to know him.
Then i decided to wear the dress....the train took off without me and my long legs
But we arrived back at Kayo's parents house to say goodbye and thank you for the feasts fit for kings and went home on another 3-4 hour drive of sleep and sleep and a costco stop.

hiking the waterfall

2006-01-27T20:18:00.000+09:00

Today was a healthy day, a crew of us staff decided to hike into the woods to find a well known waterfall, needless to say, i am not a hiker.

This is Randall and me hiking up and aproaching the waterfall.

Seth takes my picture as i walk over a HIGH brigde covered in like 6 ft of snow.
im a model calvin klien will discover me one day.

So i decided that more scenic pictures were due considering it was gorgeous. so i climbed out onto this overhanging tree.

I also decided to climb up an waterfall with snow covering it to enter a snow cave, it was comfortable "you dream of mountains but sometimes a hole is more comfortable"-bright eyes

so then i decided it was time for back flips into the abyss of beauty.

on the way back to the slopes we took a group pic on the bridg, look at all that snow.

we then went to dinner at a neighbouring pention in norikura and made and ate mochi which is cooked rice beat with a hammer untill its like sticky and really chewy bread dough, u then put spices on it and chew away and hope it doesnt play with your gag reflex, its good, just tires out the jaw and is VERY filling, a ball that size is prolly the equivilant to a big bowl of rice. its a delicacy here in japan.
we are finally getting lots of snow in japan unfortuneatly we are also gettin tonnes of wind, but it should start dying soon. cheerio

some stories

2006-01-22T17:06:00.000+09:00

as i lived in japan i heard about monkeys in the area all the camps that drove up there saw them but everytime i drove the road i never saw them and i was gettin choked, truely believeing the world was playing a prank on me, untill the other day....the biggest gang of monkeys greeted us on the road....they ran away when i wanted to play.

So people are asking about the haunted house so here is the story, so before i even arrived in japan the staff in the house heard wierd noises in the house and such so i arrived and was told about this, and there is one door on the second floor that has staris going the the attic as seen lit up in the picture above. so for a good month we would prank eachother by cracking open that door ... doesnt sound scary but if u saw it it was creepy and when we would explore the room that we deamed evil we would try to turn on the lights that didnt work, so we got bored of it all and just tried to push it out of our heads and dreams. One night after i had finished listening to my disc man i had put it neatly on the floor by the head of my bed face up and looked over at randall to say goodnight in a manly way...and i glanced at my flash light that was on the night stand and it was standing up as usual, the next morning i woke up, my disc man had ben flipped and all mangled up the flash light knocked over and randalls disc man that was on the floor was on his bed, we both didnt say a word till i had to ask him if he got up, he then revealed he didnt....we freaked out... so a couple nights went by when at 2 am randall and i awoke to some staff walking around upstairs like the insomniacs they are, we asked them the next morning why they were up at that hour tylers face went cold as he said that he awoke to his japanese style sliding door closeing and he thought it was derek going to the washroom, but looked over to see derek sleeping. we all freaked out again. a few days went bytyler came home from teaching english in the city with news to tell us, he had talked to a girl who found out we lived in this house, she went on to explaining how every family that ever lived in the house went bankrupt and said that no murder happened there or anythin but she did say more things that tyler didnt understand but he did understand her asking him if we had seen a female figure, and that the house is known for a polterguist that lives there (explaining why we can live there for free) so we all were freaking out ...we didnt want to go home but we decided it would be ok. but on the drive there someone said...if that upstairs light that doesnt work is on im not going in, we pull up start up the path to the house and sure enough the third tory light is on, we get our bearings and go to the evil rooms door....it is still shut and table pushed infront of it as we left it...so with all that said thats the full story no lies at all i promise its creepy, but true. we are thinking the owner replaced a fuse in the fuse box and upon fooling around up there one day we left the light switch on the on position...so we hope.

here we go again

2006-01-21T09:16:00.000+09:00

SO us staff all decided we would go to a resteraunt called THE VIKING (or sumthing) an all you can eat japanese food resteraunt, for a $20 buy in to get in for sure that to make it worth your while you had to puke. so the story begins...

We left your humble estate where one story up from my room hangs a tsuzumabachi (killer bee) nest...empty

we get on the road for the hour long drive through all the tunnels where semi trucks must come to a complete stop to pass eachother.

We get to the resteraunt and my eyes looked on in disbelief at all the 'all you can eat' sushi, tempura and ICE CREAM, among other foods i ignored

We sit down at our respected tables with grills to cook raw meat and veggies

by the end of the meal we all made a mess with most of our plates

tyler and i felt very sick

but a trip to SEGA WORLD would change the sickness to joy for these bears, natives and queens.

who got killed by randall and i ...when we took this game too serious

But other than that japan has been great so far, upon playing a stupid game where i acted out how a parakeeet (however you spell the birds name) i ended up breaking my ringy finger and spraining i dont think broke my middle finger by kicking my own hand, so if you are religious please pray for fast healing if your not religious then you may continue to keep laughing at me.

2006-01-09T10:40:00.000+09:00

These are some everyday scenes from my eyes to my camera to your computer screen.....i love stuff:

This is a picture from one of the many chairlifts looking over norikura

This is Randall and I's bedroom ... pretty traditional....and small...and cold

This is one of the 3 or something dams i live above, they are huge and make you feel very small and humbled. I was scared of them..still am

Randall and i went into the city of motsumoto for our day off, yes they drive on the other side of road...90% of the cars are brand new and the streets are spotless.

Just outside the mall is the parking lot for the healthy at heart

2006-01-08T20:56:00.000+09:00

So i have arrived in japan the people the food the culture, everything is awesome minus the wakeing up at 7 30 shoveling our walk way to the car is up to negative 17 weather to drive 5 minutes to the camp everything is uber fun here are a few photos of some of the staff:

In Japan we have some crowded van rides to buy ice cream which is something we take for granted back home

This is me and pastor joshua and the beautiful norikura behind us

tyler(in the red) hates love so we show him love

Ramen is a favourite dinner of ours so we await it patiently at a ramen resteraunt in norikura
(me, randall, derek, makoto)

Our new years bash was a party and a half...i may look drunk but that is not the case in fact i dont know what look i was going for there at all (derek me randall)

the new years bash called for danceing and so we danced or tried to (me and seths back)

The End

hello all

2006-01-06T19:12:00.000+09:00

i think im turning japanese i think im turning japanese i realy think soooo. Norikura is my new home here in japan. I am here snowboarding and teaching snowboarding as well as serving the sorounding community anyway i can and poluteing japan with snowboard.com and coastal Riders stickers.
P.S. I LOVE IT