52 Days

Hey! Happy June! Happy Anniversary to Mom and Dad. 29 years. That's a lot.

May was good. It's getting hot here, and humid. Real humid. My hair is just giant. I don't think anything special really happened this month. Just normal life. It's good.

Yesterday, I went to Kamakura and Enoshima. They are about an hour/hour and a half out of Tokyo and have both been on my list of things to see since I got here. Kamakura has shrines, temples, and a giant Buddha. Enoshima is an island. It was a good day. I went with Maiko, a language exchange partner. Her English has improved a lot and my Japanese is getting better. Here are some pictures of the weekend.

Kamakura is famous for Hydrangeas, but we were a bit early for the big festivals and such.

Gold crab in one of those zen rock garden things.

Dino in a bamboo forest.

Bamboo Forest

Tree

Big Buddha.

Maiko's Buddha pose.

That's me.

Buddha: we went inside him too. It was real humid in there.

Kamakura Day!

At the top of the "SEA CANDLE" in Enoshima.

Ocean.

Happy June!

I want to go to the beach: Watashiwa Umi ni ikitaii

Tree Dragon

At the beach. Sort of. It was rocks, not sand. Although there was a sand part.

This movie is not great, but I've never seen bamboo that bug before. Don't worry about sound, it's not me, its just background conversations.

 

Hey, May!

Happy May! Happy 25th to Travy. Congrats to Dad for winning the primary! Happy Graduation to Cheney!

Last week was Golden Week here, so I had some days off. I did some sight seeing with Japanese friends and spent a whole day with Wendy! She was here for business and visiting. It was a nice holiday from work. Back to normal schedule now, no more breaks until the end, July 18th.

I signed the China contract, so if all goes according to plan, I'm going back to China.

I got visa's sorted out for Cheney and myself to go to Vietnam and I've been working on some other plans for that Korea/Nam trip. I'm really looking forward to it.

Classes and things are going well here. The kids have been improving and we have fun together. They wear me out, but they're great. I'm still going to Japanese class once a week and I'm slowly increasing my vocab and grammar.

That's all that's new here. Just living. It's good.

Some Golden Week Pictures.

I went to a traditional village with my friend. This dude taught me how to play
a traditional Japanese game with a ball and stick.

Lily pads.

Nature.

Koi flags for Children's' Day

Me and Maiko.

Yokohama: Port City near Tokyo

Yokohama

Wendy eating a hedgehog custard treat