Summer 2004

Tokyo Orientation: A huge crowd at the Tokyo Orientation -- and this is only Group A. Group B came a week later.; Tokyo stetches out forever...; The Tokyo Tower; Mt. Fuji seen from the plane to Toyama

Settling into Takaoka: My desk as it looked on my first day; My apartment building; The enterance to my apartment; A crane flies over the drained rice fields of my school; Takaoka; My apartment and the highway as seen from the roof of Sati; My former Host Mother; Good advice; A river on the path to school; Rice fields by school; The train station near school; A tanooki welcomes you to the underpass by my apartment; George Washington invites you to take a free pamphlet

Visiting former host parents: Robin-kun and Jon-chan hanging out by my host parent's house; With my host mother, Ed, and Dan; Host father points out the mountain; The Bon-odori festival in Shikoku; With the Shikoku Host Cousins; Osaka-Kyoto line

: Shimano beach; Classic "feet in the ocean" shot; The withered moor of Mt. Taté; View from my balcony; Photos on my wall. (Note: the wall is NOT concrete. It's just a concrete patterned wallpaper. For Some Reason.); It looks sort of like a model train village; "Dream Facory" Calligraphy from a vendor in Yatsuo for the Awa-odori Festival; Tree frog near the school; The yellow ripening rice fields and the typhoon filled clouds; Misty Mountains; The Takaoka train yard; The Great Buddha of Takaoka