>> i wasn't really sure what was strange land. >> yes, yes. going on at first. >> was it a lonely feeling? >> after the shaking stopped, zach and his co-workers moved to >> yeah, it was. the top floor of city hall, a but it was made better by the fact that there crow easiness with a view of the foreign teachers in town. whole city and the coastline. >> along with the teachers, >> if something is going to happen, this is where you'd see there was one other person, a gn it? >> yes. teachers adjust, a local english >> then he saw it. speaking businessman named kenji something about the rivers that split the city and normally flow harayama. kenji, a pretty accomplished out to the sea. >> the river was beginning to guitarist found out that zach flow in the opposite direction. was, too. the water began to change color as well, began going from this >> i was amazed by his songs, bluish color to being very murky. his original songs, and also he >> even four stories up, zach played guitar very well. could hear the roaring river. >> it went from having small >> kenji pulled out an old gibson, handed it to zach. debris like trees and other >> he said consider it yours rubbish that was around the while you're here. >> zach took that guitar to harbor and stuff coming in to school trying to break the ice. boats and to vehicles -- to much >> i would play music for them. larger and much more substantial things. >> cars and things coming i think that helped break down along -- the barrier a bit. >> yeah, must have been picked >> just three weeks in, up along the coast. >> that is getting scary, right? overwhelmed by homesickness, hep called his parents. >> yes. he had had enough. >> of course, zach hadn't seen