Talk:Super Brave!!

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Are these kids Japanese? That would explain the Engrish on that one kid's shirt.-- Benol, aka Coach B 23:38, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the children in the depicted class are Japanese. Hence "Ichiro", the Japanese baseball player. — Lapper (talk) 23:41, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Podeszwa

Can we get a source for this?

The photo was taken by John Podeszwa at Waiokeola English School in Osaka, Japan.

I found the following in a few quick searches:

• USA Today poem written by a John Podeszwa, Osaka, Japan; published 01 May 2003
• handicappedpets.com entry by a John Podeszwa from Osaka, Japan
• Blog entry comment from 21 March 2006 that mentions a John Podeszwa that moved to Japan to work at English school and operates seal-pool.org, but the domain info for the site is private and can't be confirmed.
• John then also comments on the entry on 16 October 2006, his name links to a MySpace account.

I sent him a message and am waiting to hear back. -- Tom 08:59, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Heh, and the User:Seal Pool that made the edit probably is John Podeszwa himself. -- Tom 09:11, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I got a reply, just as I suspected:

That's me. I was searching for other pictures that I took of that class that day, and had no luck. I think they are on an external drive in storage somewhere.
I no longer work for that school, but a few of the kids in the picture followed me to my new school.
This is the boy in the yellow shirt a few years ago.

I'll have a closer look tonight to see if I can dig the pics up. You can actually see the faces of the girls who were holding their drawings in front of their faces.
Good detective work finding me.
John

I replied and let him know that he was awesome and that we could continue discussing the article here. -- Tom 13:20, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I did manage to dig some things up. But I was wrong about being able to see the hidden girls' faces. SealPool