One time for my 30th birthday my friends and I stepped out from dinner at the Fukuoka Hard Rock Café, which back then was across from Yahoo! Dome and next to Zepp Fukuoka and Hawks Town Mall, and saw a balloon artist with a sign that said he could make anything. A friend suggested I … Continue reading
数年前からもう更新しないブログに載せた「バチャタエン福岡」の和訳が突然に日本からよく訪れられるようになっていることに気づいて、何かヒット映画の主題歌として使われているとかと思って検索したら「Youは何しに日本へ」というテレビ番組を見つけました。この番組にゲラの話があったのでしょうか。 （番組のサイトにSFのGuileが載せているんじゃないですか？！） まあ、理由が詳しくわからなくても、今のこのブログに載せてある和訳がいいですから、こっちの方を読んでいただければ嬉しいです。英語のメッセージの下に原物のページを再投稿します。 ちなみに、私は英語を教えに福岡へ行きました。四年間の日本生活の後帰国して、今年の夏でもう六年となります。信じられません！そして、その間に日本語がおかしくなってしまって、変なことを書いてすみません。（汗） I noticed that my translation of “Bachata en Fukuoka” on my old blog was getting a lot of hits from Japan and wondered why. Apparently it has something to do with the show “You wa Nani shi ni Nihon he” (Why did you come to Japan?). Maybe they talked about Juan … Continue reading
May 25, 2003 Marine Messe Fukuoka Today’s venue, what with its wide field and capacity of almost 9,000, made you feel as if you were in Yokohama Arena. The ceiling was high, and the uppermost portions, on which the spotlights were set, had rope ladders hanging from them. These were so long they created the … Continue reading
As we draw nearer to the end of this tour, we find ourselves in Fukuoka. I wonder if Hirose himself is from there, considering how much he gets into the specific locales of the city. Because of all the mentions of specific places, I added glosses instead of doing footnotes to explain things like “this … Continue reading
If you haven’t read Chapter 1 yet, you can find it here. Chapter 2 is fairly long at 70+ pages. The book splits the chapter contents by date, but as that would create too many short posts, I’ve decided to instead create several parts that each cover two or three dates. This part will cover … Continue reading
