I started July being sick (my annual bronchitis) and somehow spread it around me... I'm a walking pest...

Indonesian week was superb... Especially the Saman Dance...

Puti Chitara-sama, la reina del swing....

Latinos...Joy's kids... Our dear Muti-chan...

Dinner at Joy's...

Happy dinner at home with Kiro-chan...

Muti (sempai) birthday...

Resurrection of Jonathan...

Habitbi and me at Roots, hopefully my last visit to this place...Yuki to Gifto...Studio of Kiro-chan...

Jania and Reynon...

Midnight ramen... Ecuador-like transportation...

Yet another happy dinner (do we do anything but eat???)...

Red, menacing sky over Beppu...

Prelude to Thai week... Austrian happiness...Vietnamese-Taiwanese-Japanese koto performance... Candlesticks...

With Christina's parents... Kind snack girl... La Carnalita's birthday!!!! Hit Parade: 60's live music and all guys are called Johnny (plus all you can eat and drink, which is a lot)...The hair!!!!Carnalita borrachita y Audrey... I cannot stop juggling in any place!!!

Poison + Muti sempai...

Meeting for Latino week: Puti and Ayumi...

IMAT ladies...

Rare pictyure of Parsilah at home...

Crowded Thai week...

Interesting performance concept...

Cumple de mi ñañash!!!!

Joy's celebration gang at Simon's...

Good fun until the police arrived (by Japanese standards we were too noisy)...

Had to hit the streets... The power of Austrian wine :P

Somehow we ended up by the beach... Hot weather, almost undearable... feels like home...Bad girl... Muti-chan... Rafa's little secret... Philosophers...Ladies...

Introducing Chrissy to the magic of CoCo Ichibanya...

Twisted combination: tofu, pork, okra (quimbombo) and cheese...Girls posing for their yearbook picture: Poison, Vidya, and Ekatherina and Habibi... Joy in the red light district... Farewell dinner with Heck, at Hit Parade (in the world of sustainable development, Heck is God and Knaus is His prophet)...

My first round of food...Young Frankie... Backstreet boy... Ay Jalisco, no te rajes! Du hass mich! At least someone sings worst than me :P But dances better (not hard to achieve, tho)... Inspired singer...

Open air performance at APU... TU-Mie presentation...

Korean week, so bad I missed it... Matisyahu...New Coachsurfing guests: The Austrian Bunch (OK, Coco is German)... Enlarged German speaking community... I was afraid of deamons coming out from the forest... Matisyahu likes cup noodle...

Last stopover in Kannawa...

Farewell BBQ/party...

Don Fredo...

Ami, who?Gift and the concept...Jania hecha la pícara and Rebecca... Bad girl...Germans...

Ilonytte, buen viaje...Que calor!!!!Aiste...

Simon, Kuma and Kuma's wife...

Uyanga...Matthias, Matisyahu and Artur...

Ñaños...Kyi-chan...

Habitbi...

El Hristo...

Vidya-chan...

Mylene...

Puti-chan the firestarter...

Jania mas borrachita...

At 68...Yuki...

DJ and his friend...

Jania, confused :PLast survivors...

The power of salsa...

Attracts friends...

Ikebana artists also help...

And garnish gurus as well...

Devilish Austrians und Germans...

Vatos locos...

Aisute...

Poisongift...

Blurry everybody...

And so on... From now just waiting for Mongolia and thinking about my research...

Yes, last quarter in APU and I'm eager to hit the roads of the world again...

Some things changed after Tokyo... for instance:
My shoeware...
My opinion regarding curry...
(now I like curry so much that became a curry monster)
Also became a member of BOSCO... Want to know what is BOSCO? Search it in www.couchsurfing.com...
Rafa's new house...

Apparently made of dead boxes, but hospitalable...
UNO time...
Some things never change, like my tendence to eat cup noodle at any given time, in the streets...

Needed some change, so went back to my origins: Ricky Martin wanna-be haircut...

Here with my cooking sensei, crafting the green care (thanks Maammy)...
Dinner and UNO night, better than hit the bars...
Thai Green Curry, I'm kind of slightly improving my skills...

Interesting lecture: profe Schoen and his participatory tools... Uhmm, how to use this for MFA???
IMATos on a sunny day...

Korean guys with a misunderstanding of the word "formal", and their beautiful ladies...
Christina and hot unknown Indonesian girl, winners of the Biz Plan competition... congrats!

My laptop died, 3 days recovering my data and I'm still mourning her after 3 weeks...

Did I mention I like curry??
But I'm not the only one, at least...
Viva CoCo Curry, damn it!!!

The cook master demonstrated again why he is the master and I am the small grasshopper...
I meditated a lot, being my enlightenment disrupted by another fundamental question of life: what the hell is an "Univercity"???
Nevertheless, the silence of the lambs showed me the way...
And the light striked me! Lamb and beans....
Or even better: friends, It, lamb and beans...
Carnalita viciosa...
Christina unleashed yet another vice in me: the ancient art of juggling...

Sui Ten, the best sushi ever...
But what in the world is this??? fish? horse? lamb? human flesh?

Rainy season strikes Beppu, and this is our (almost) everyday weather at APU...
But the rain gives us some moments of truce.... Ricardo uses such moments to remember very old times...
And Boon to unleash the Boonishnesshood...
Dinner squad with professor Wwkkxxyyzz (let's better call him The Alchemist)...
Sari-san, gomen nasai... who would imagine that the beef salad has bacon?

After publically declaring my hatred for the stupidly consumist American way of life, the same afternoon I ate KFC shit...

Birthday boy: Pipo...
Sleepy non-birthday boy: Takashi...
Pipo's b-day gathering... Ricardo and Naka... Haha, yo entre diciendo cabronerias en espaniol y la muchacha lo habla casi perfecto...
B-day kid...
Celebration Taskforce...
Tortolitos...
UNO Taskforce...

By the way, did I mention I like curry?
I recruited to new members to the CoCo Curry Fanclub...

Lab class! Objective: distill lavender...
Lab scenes...
Viet Nam lover lab boy...
Et voilà... l'huile de lavande... I felt almost like Jean-Baptiste Grenouille... Unluckily, professor told me is NOT possible to steal the fragance of women by perfumistic/alchemical/mechanical means...

Ozoda in the outer world...
Ozoda's hospitality, thank you very much....
Another outerworld image...

Vietnamese Week images... Those áo dài are sublime....

Next weeks will happen Indonesian and Thai events... Unluckily I missed the Chinese one...

Labels: curry

Some quality time with Mizuho.... But the call of the streets prevailed...Finally met again my dear Yoshita!!!!!!! (in the same old good Copacabana)Yoshita and Sarita, or the clock moved back 2 summers...Party time!!!
ReRe...Miyuki...Iku-chan...Adrian the Pimpy Bolivian and Mizu...Mahita & Mizu...Dinner...Lucky bastardo...Birthday girl... Unbelievable, randomly met an Ecuadorian!!!!!People, featuring Ecuadorian sisters Alexa and Johana...Second dinner...Yoshita and sister in Cafe Latino (notice the Yoshita Smile)...Roppongi eki at 5 AM...Koiwa eki... 99 en is always better than 100 en... Vintage keitai... Tokyo from the heights...Finally I met my dear Maamy!!!!!!!!!!!! Okaerinasai, Maam-chan...Hungry Maammy...Maam and kink building...Good luck in Japan!!!Piggy...Shazam!A pink room: girl's fantasy(not Maha's but Sabriya's)/man's nightmare...Alexandra, bday girl...Peruvian food (pero las papas a la Huancaina no tan buenas como las de Yoshita, por supuesto)...Alexa and Johana crazy friends...Tabete kudasai...Tabemasu... arf!Maha and kimono ladies...Panda girl...Freaking big hamburger...Vintage Japanese ad...My new love/hate motif: kare (curry)...A mix o' cocaine avec marihuana...Sushicentric...This ad is scaring or I have serious issues... Takehiko Inoue's display!!!!!!Hitchcockian bird...Ueno Zoo visit:
Elefantitos...Elephant lovers...Prairie doggies...Playfull bears...Japanese bear...Lion...Leftover...Cute animal whose name I don't remember (but for sure is not either aardvark nor anteater)... Pangolin...Ueno Zoo fan...A lake in the middle of Tokyo!?!?! A wetland in the middle of Tokyo!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?Okinawan sister...Good bye Iku-chan...When a man goes shopping with a lady, this is the adequate expression to feature: resignation...Ghost train...Ghost airport...Homeless in Kitakyushu at 2 AM...The best internet cafe ever!Ghost eki somewhere...Familiar landscape; approaching our village...
Conclusion: was a good trip; met old and new friends, and met new people... That's the goal of traveling, isn't it?

Labels: Iku-chan, Maam, Mizuho, Yoshi

2 weeks off: time to see friends from good old IUJ times... but also friends from new good APU times...

Good-bye Beppu-shi...Ferry to Osaka...Hisao-san, Sakura-donou and Haru-chan...Haru-chan with uncle Angelo...Okaasan with Haru-chan...Creatures in Okaasan's garden...Okaasan to otoosan no bye-bye... Thank you very much!
Later, Mibu... my backpack advisor... Approaching Osaka-jo... Gaijin ninja...Green Osaka...Red whale???Dinnertime...Thank you Mibu-chan, tanoshikatta desu...

Overnight bus and you are in Tokyo... Tokyo stamps as seen by a solitary backpacker...Finally met the PIMP duo of Tokyo: Hung and ReRe...And dri