Just a Memory

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Hello from Stockton, California. I did mean to write earlier during the summer, but I guess I kept putting it off (like a lot of other things) and never got around to it. Up to this point I had met up with Bobby for our journey through Japan, I returned home, started working with my mother, took a golf class, hung out with friends and family, studied for and took the GMAT, applied for an internship and got an interview, returned to Stockton, and successfully interviewed at AG Edwards.

You can tell I was busy. So basically, I'm writing to say my final words before yet another crazy semester begins. I also want to share with you my millions of pictures those final weeks in Japan.

1. Would I recommend visiting Japan?
~YES
2. Would I go back?
~YES
3. Did I learn a lot?
~YES
4. Did I already lose a lot of Japanese?
~YES
5. Did I gain 10 pounds from eating such wonderful and delicious Japanese cuisine?
~YES
6. Did I have fun?
~YES
7. Did Bobby have fun?
~YES (from what he told me)
8. If someone wanted to go to Japan and needed a "guide" would I be happy he/she asked me to do it?
~YES (*HINT HINT*)

Enjoy the pictures and thank you to EVERYONE for reading and supporting me while I was up there. Much love and many mahalos.

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Photos

Sanja Matsuri
Festival held in Akasuka, Japan

Ueno Zoo
p.s. that's a bear cub... and he was walking up that log...

Mr. Okapi
I think it was a giraffe and a zebra... don't ask me how that one happened.

Tokyo
The view was pretty... too bad you could feel the tower swaying with the wind.

Looking Down
Bobby on the left, me on the right.

D-Sea
Nope, not Disneyland... but Tokyo's Disney Sea. It was fun, but you don't need more than a day there. (yay for catching Hawaii in the background!)

Ueno Park
Saigo Takamori

Inari Shrine
Hundreds, possibly thousands of torii form a trail along the mountainside.

Memoirs of a Geisha
Ever saw the movie? Well, this was one place they filmed with little Chiyo-chan running through all the torii.

Endless
If you wanted to, you could hike the trail - though it is about 4km one way...

Tsuri
The crane I've been dreaming of since I was little watching Soko Ga Shiritai on KIKU and saw a man make edible candy out of hot sugar.

Kiyomizudera
Went there once before, but enjoyed going again with Bobby.

Deer at Nara Park
Bobby really had a blast feeding those deer.

Comments

[MOM]

DID YOU KNOW
Did you know that you were standing next to your great ancestor? Pretty cool huh. If you saw a picture of Ojichan, you would see the resemblance. miss you some love you, mom

[mom]

did you know
did you know that the picture with you and bobs, looks like he is wearing a sombrero (i think that is how you spell it)