On Saturday we woke up and got our bags together. Yoyo and Cindi (The people that were renting the apartment out to us) picked us up and our luggage to […]

The majority of today was spent packing. We bought an extra suitcase from the second hand store, and we had to use a cardboard box for the miscellaneous extras that […]

Konnichiwa family and friends, This Thursday (the 26th) we went to Hiromi’s house to visit her daughter and have pizza. We hadn’t been able to see her daughter any of […]

We had not seen Nozomi or Riari for a couple of weeks at this point, so we decided to invite them over for tea and snacks. Because it is so […]

We were all exhausted from our Tokyo trip, so Mom let us sleep in (YES!). Our friend, Miho, picked Mom up at our apartment, and they went on a girls […]

On Monday we were still in Tokyo. When we woke up we ate, packed up and left our apartment. First we went to a museum called Miraikan. But on the […]

Konnichiwa family and friends, On Friday (the 20th) and Saturday (the 21st) we did not do much, just some school. Sunday, however, was really exciting! We started by jumping on […]

Konnichiwa family and friends, These past few days have been uneventful so I am combining multiple days to keep it interesting. First Tuesday, the seventeenth, we had been doing a […]

On Monday we woke up, got ready, and got picked up by Miho because she had a car and it was pouring rain, for a tea ceremony class she signed […]

This Sunday was our last Sunday attending Takamori Church. Because of our Japanese studies, we were able to sing out the hymns with the rest of the congregation. We didn’t […]