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I have four different YahooPhoto folders for my Japan photos. To see each kind, click on a photo below. Also, the slideshow option is a really easy way to view the photos, so be sure to try it out.

1. To see my pictures from school, click on the kids below:

This 3rd grade class at Fusoki Elementary was so excited that I was coming to have lunch with them that they decorated the whole room for me with paper flowers and posters. And they made a desk nameplate for me out of pink construction paper with "Jinifaa sensei" written in a rainbow of crayons. Aren't they the cutest?

2. To see photos from my family's trip around Japan, click on the smiling faces below:

My Mom, younger sister and cousin/aunt came to visit me in July and we travelled around Japan to Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima and to this famous sight -- Miyajima -- one of the top three most beautiful views in Japan... complete with a totally random Japanese man who just wanted to be in the picture with the foreigners.

3. To see other random photos from Japan, click this photo:

Trying on Kimonos!!

One great thing about Japan is that I have had a chance to hang out with an amazing crew of globetrotters who understand the insanity of trying to adapt to this crazy country. We find ourselves doing funny Japanese things together like taking trips for the sole purpose of "leaf viewing" or "cherry blossom viewing". Japanese people volunteer to dress us up in kimonos and attempt to teach us traditional tea ceremony and flower arranging... and in the winter, we're the tallest and loudest crew tearing down the Niigata ski slopes.

So this photo is of me with two of the crazy foreign crew in Niigata prefecture: Megan in the middle from New Zealand and Kirsten on the right from England. Our tea ceremony teachers dressed us up in their old kimonos.