June 11th-June18th

Monday, June 11th: Japanese Flower arranging at IES.

Tuesday, June 12: Sensei flying the kites we made in Jissen class the day before.


Wednesday, June 13:Pictures of Roppongi while I am getting a Chinese Visa.


Thursday, June 14th: Chiba Marines game with my friends.


Friday, June 15th: After a long day of flights, driving into Beijing, China.


Saturday, June 16th: Climbing the Great Wall of China


Sunday, June 17th: A woman praying at the Temple of Heaven.


Monday, June 18th: Writing in my journal while waiting for a flight in the Seoul, Korea Airport.


very eventful week.

June 2nd to June 10th

So I came up with an idea for this website finally. Instead of just unloading randomness onto the internet, I am going to update once a week with one picture from every day of that week. This might mean that you folks get some boring pictures, but I don't really care. So for this week I'm actually going to start with Saturday the 2nd because I can.

Saturday, June 2nd.
Learning how to spin tops from Edo Tokyo.

The last month or so...

View from my window in Okinawa, Japan.

So.. clearly, I have not done a good job of updating this in a long time. A lot has happened since I last posted and I probably cant do a good job of bringing anyone who reads this up to speed, so I will just apologize and move on. As of this week, I only have a month and a half left of being in Japan and this has increasingly become the topic of my dreams (pseudo nightmares). Please don't misunderstand, I will be happy to see my friends and family when I get home, but to be honest, my personal life has gone to shit while I was gone. No more boyfriend, don't even KNOW whats going on with that, haven't talked to most of my friends since I got here, upheavals in my family, and the idea of being put back into my ho hum life, killing myself for two years in my master's program, and just continuing on without dreams or adventures, EGH. I am also moving to a new city where it looks like I might not have any friends, Oh yeah, and my computer has about 8 viruses, probably including the one that I hacked up on it because Ive been sick all week. I really need to see my best friend, Scott. Excuse the metaphor, but that kid is my lighthouse.

Anyways, onto pictures of my trip to Okinawa.

The view of Mount Fuji from the airplane.

Tunnel leading out of the Underground Naval Base.

Missing pieces of history at the Naval Base

Steps leading up to the entrance of the Shuri Castle.

My feet standing on the glass over the original foundation of the castle.

Glass making at the Glass House in Forest.

Enormous tank containing two whale sharks at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium.

One of the many sea turtles at the Aquarium.

On the way to the beautiful beach in the Okinawa Expo Park

Cave Dwelling in the Gyokusen Do at Okinawa World.

The dissent into the caves.

Attempting to make brown sugar at Okinawa World.

Not a great picture of the Manzamo Cliffs.

A friend at the Manzamo Cliffs.

Another friend somewhere in between.

The impossible task of getting back home.


Thats an abbreviated version of Okinawa. I need to go study for my midterms and stop purseforating over how much coming home is going to suck. Ill try to be better about updating this in the last weeks of my trip, but if not, wish me luck for the rest of my time in Japan.