Tall man in a small town

I was trying to think of something clever to entitle this particular entry, but nothing came to mind, and since I'm not a big fish and I don't live in a small pond, I thought I'd change it to fit my circumstance. It's hard being famous, when there is actually no reasonable explanation for your popularity.

I've been meaning to make this entry for a while but being a foreigner, working at a Japanese fish market, I've apparently caused quite an uproar. And no, people aren't up in arms about the fact that I only get paid 800 yen an hour. They're just surprised when they look up and they don't see another Japanese person trying to sell them something.

The first time I realised my part-time job was turning me into a bit of a spectacle was when I heard from one of my friends that he knew where I was working before I told him. When I asked him why he told me that he'd seen me... on the internet.

The link is http://blog.livedoor.jp/darkm/archives/51305836.html . So if you follow that link and scroll down to number 21, there's a picture of me that a complete stranger took and captioned 'Big brother foreigner calling in customers LOLOLOLOL'

As if that wasn't enough to freak me out, I was interviewed by Asahi Newspaper the other day. So every now and then when I'm working at the fish markets, I get one of the few people who still read the newspaper telling me, I SAW YOUR ARTICLE!
YOU YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPER! KEEP AT IT!

The title of the article is, It's delicious at Karato! Mr. Jackson the 'Japanese Nerd' Australian Exchange student.

If there is enough interest, I'll translate the article but for now I'll leave you with the hilarious thought that I'm actually a little scared by how many people in this town know me and I don't know them. But I guess it's just like my Dad says, life's tough when you're a legend :D Now if only I could speak Japanese -_-"

(But seriously, don't worry, it's not going to my head, my ego's big enough as it is. Besides it was on page 31 of the Shimonoseki section of the paper, so of the 9 people who actually read it, 5 of them were probably the people I showed it to)