| Sunday 30th November |
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Local Dancing Festival held at Iwate Numakunai Station building. Emily's school participated and danced. (HK) |
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Emily's getting Kimono dressed by well skilled friends' mothers. |
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Ukishima Sord Dancing Team(HK) |
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| Saturday 29th November, "Grand opening day " |
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At last Art Road project unvailed to public completed. We feel so happy and releafed after all jobs done.(HK) |
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kate polishing pillar on top of the crane being terrified of the hight. |
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"Watermark" |
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"Iwate Red Data Book", Sculpture made by kate Thomson. little animals red listed as in danger of extinct. |
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"Cinnamon" |
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"Japanese Serrow" |
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"Rabbit" |
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Happy faces?! |
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Kata's giving a talk about sculptures. |
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| Saturday 29th November, "Emily's Birthday Party" |
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Flow back from the opening of the project, Kate prepared Emily's birthday party at home in the afternoon. 16 kids are invited and came for fun.(HK) |
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Chocolate cake |
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Mrs. Saito from Morioka and Mrs.Saito from Numakunai. |
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Two fathers, mori and me. Atsushi, mori7s sun is also joining our grown-up serious conversations.
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| Friday 28th November, |
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Art Road again. But this must be almost the end. We set up the benches I designed and title plates for the pocket parks. Tomorrow is the grand opening day!(HK) |
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| Thursday 27th November, |
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Emily's birthday today. We celebrated her 11th birthday between family. Planned to have friend's party on Saturday. She loves her new jumper from Ann-chan and trousers from Sheena.(HK) |
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| Wednesday 26th November, |
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Cat and mouse. Bobby's enjoying playing with his temporary friend.(HK) |
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| Tuesday 25th November, |
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Clean up working site with more and more grables.(HK) |
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| Monday 24th November, |
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We went to Morioka to see "Spykids 3D"at the cinema. This is 3D film you must look at screen with blue/red glasses on. great fun! (HK) |
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Putting grasses back. |
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| Sunday 23rd November, |
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Kate made a carrot cake for Sunday aftrnoon tea. (HK) |
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Landscaping site today for new grass coming tomorow. |
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| Friday 21st November, |
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Setting wings today and the Art Road Project is now almost completed!!(HK) |
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Setting wing pieces to their own positions carefully. |
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Kate is doing a shape correction. |
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koke is putting "Cinnamon" onto base. |
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We have celebrated the completion of the project without missing anyboby of teamunder the stone. Sushi, Sake and Karaoke until morning!! (HK) |
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| Thursday 20th November, |
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Akechi's rabbit. |
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Sika deer. (HK) |
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Kate's little animals set into the wall. |
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| Wedensday 19th November, |
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We completed the main piller. 8m high and weigh 40 tons. (HK) |
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Stainless steel pins against japanese earthquakes. |
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| Tuessday 18th November, |
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Kanno is fixing the pins to the sculptures upside down.(HK) |
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Akechi's working on Sika deer. |
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| Monday 17th November, |
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Drilling for the pins. |
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| Thursday 13th November, |
| First dayof setting sculptures.(HK) |
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Foundation stone for the piller has setnow, which has all members' name caaaaaarved for underground side of the expensive Swedish black granite piece. After 6000 years someboby will excavate the monument and find it difficult to read my terrible writing.(HK) |
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This is our photographer's self portrate. |
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Loading stones on to trucks. |
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A Base set for the Sika deer. |
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A Base set for the rabbit and our super crane operator. |
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kate's basesetting. Hammering stainless steel pins into the stone against famous japanese earthquakes. |
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Tamaki is enjoying being traffic controller. |
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Dream team ; from left, Yasushi Kaano, Nobuyuki Akechi, kate thomson, Hironori Katagiri, Takaharu Tamaki, kenichi Mashita, two stone masons and Osamu Koke. |
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| Wedensday 12th November, |
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I'm giving a little introdustions and the explanation of the project to 24 students from Ukishima Primary School, who came to see the project under progress. |
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So many kids everywhere... |
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Bat is flying from kids to kids. Thy are having fun.(HK) |
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Mashita and Tamaki are drilling 50mm diameter 50cm deep pin holes. Can you see Kanno also sitting behind them to check if they are drilling straight. |
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Polishing all the time, Kanno |
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Studio view in the evening. |
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Mashita 's drillind little pin holes. |
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| Tuesday 11th November, |
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...The rain that fallin' on my head.... |
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..The rain that fallin' on my head.... still. (HK) |
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Koke cutting space for the nameplates . |
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Kate with her mole |
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| Monday 9th November, |
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Sika deer, Cinnamon and Emily, and Tamaki. |
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Tamaki, Kata and Kazue. |
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| Saturday 7th November, |
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My mother made sordfish hambergers for supper tonight, which is very popular dish around seaside town where we came from. It took her a whole day to cook all 40 fishes Kazue sent from fish market. |
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Kanpai! |
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kazue, Emily and Bobby |
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Tamaki's enjoying Shisya, a Lebanese water pipe. |
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| Thursday 5th November, |
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