Hi everyone ニコニコ,

My name's Laurence and I joined English Avenue at the beginning of Mayキラキラ.

Since joining I've had the pleasure to meet some of the students and staff at the school 学校.

I come from a small city in England イギリス called Bath. 

It's a beautiful, historic city and is famous for its hot springs おんせん。。, Roman period baths and Georgian architecture. 

Many tourists come to visit the Roman baths and the Thermae Spa that opened to the public in August 2006, ending a 28-year period during which the waters remained unavailable for bathing.  

However, the style of bathing おんせん。。 is different from Japan as users are required to wear swimming costumes ビキニ in a mixed environment.

If you ever visit the U.K., I highly recommend a visit to the historic Roman baths and the modern Thermae spa!!

The location is also close to Stonehenge and the beautiful Cotswolds キラキラ.

I moved to London in 1997 to study Sociology at the University of London and, later, accounting. 

I lived in London for about 12 years and, during that time, met my wife who is Japanese ラブラブ

We then decided to move to Tokyo and I changed my career path to teaching English 鉛筆.

I've been living in Tokyo for almost 8 years now - firstly in Musashikoyama and then Shibuya. 

My hobbies are photography カメラ, watching films, listening to musicカラオケ, playing futsal サッカー and travel 飛行機

When I moved to Shibuya in 2011, I started to get more interested in photography using the iPhone camera スマホ

What I loved ラブ about Shibuya was how beautiful it looked in the rain 傘 at night 星空 with all the neon reflecting.

Over the last few years I've become more obsessed with photography and I was lucky last year when I was contacted by Apple about working on their new campaign for the iPhone7スマホ

The campaign launched internationally in February this year and it was great to see my photos on billboards all over the worldキラキラ

Some of the video footage was also put together into a commercial on Japanese tv!!

For the time being I plan to continue living in Japan 日本 as I have an eight month daughter 赤ちゃん and one of the things I really like about Japan is how safe it is.

There are many places I want to visit in Japan and, hopefully next year, I can start visiting a few of them!

Thanks,

 

by Laurence

 

One of my photos for the Apple iPhone 7 campaign :

 

A photo I took in Roppongi in March this year :