Miyazaki - Thumbs Up Or Thumbs Down?

Thumbs up! Way up!
Lori had an interview in Miyazaki prefecture and wanted some company on her trip over there, so I agreed to go with her. After a boat ride to Nagasaki and a five-hour bus ride to Miyazaki, we had a chance to check the scene out.
We met Hugh at a Jazz club. Hugh is a professor in Miyazaki. He's been in Japan for 23 years. We were feeling random and didn't want to tell Hugh that we were there for an interview, so we came up with a story about collecting "sweat rags" for a design label based out of NYC. Luckily, or not, Hugh was drunk so he didn't really see through our story. He did introduce us to a kinda cool bar, though.

Lori on interview day. She'll be working in Miyakonojyo, which is about an hour outside of Miyazaki. We rode the train to Miyakonojyo where her soon-to-be supervisor picked us up and started our day of errands.

Night number two should have ended way earlier than it did. If we hadn't been hanging out with Katsu and Joe, two of the bar tenders, until the wee hours of the morning we may have actually woke up to catch our bus. As it turns out, we over slept and wasted some cold, hard yen on a bus ticket that went unused. We're still smarting from the experience, but I'm sure it'll be a funny story in a few years.