maxiewawa

I wrote the following post last Thursday, on the 10th. We weren’t able to find an internet connection in Shikoku, so I’m only able to post it today.

I write this on the bus to Shikoku, for those not familiar with Japan’s geography, Shikoku is one of the main islands of Japan. It’s about 13 hours from Tokyo, where we are setting out from. I have a long journey ahead!

Today was a lot of fun, we were up early and visited the Chinese Embassy. Aika handed over the relevant documents, and we left. It was easier than we thought. But her visa hasn’t been approved yet, let’s cross our fingers and hope that we don’t have any further complications!

After that we went to the Innovative Languages International Headquarters in Akihabara. I was really excited to go there, and rapt that everyone seemed to know who I was (from my youtube exploits I think!). I met such on air personalities as Peter先生、マーキー先生、ひろこ先生, 桜先生、ゆき先生 키스선셍님 and のり先生.  桜先生s reaction to meeting me was 「あの有名なの？？！」(The famous maxiewawa?) and after realising who I was seemed as nervous to meet me as I was to met her! Something that I will always keep with me.

I’ve been working for Innovative Languages from a lonely desk in Shanghai for so long, and it was great to finally put faces to all those names.