Kyohei Is here!

Carolina got me these for christmas :)

Took Kyohei to Nunobikinotaki!

We got to see many of the wild mountain cats...

And Kyohei stopped to talk to one...

And we saw this cool temple thing

Also went to Nankinmachi *China Town*

Am I dating a Vampire?!?

Juan Santiago Espaillat 5/26/1986-12/21/2009

Juan, nunca te vamos a olvidar!



Descanza en paz, amigo!

Te queremos mucho!

Plant Stuff!

Saw these cute little christmas peanuts decorating some plantings downtown Sannomiya. Kawaiiiii!

神戸ルミナリエ

Went to the Kobe Luminarie with Carlos, Hsin, Tony (from UGA!), Chris and Chris' friend. The Luminarie is a memorial to the 1995 Kobe Earthquake were I think some 6000 people died. It was way beautiful. I heard they import Italians to make this happen.



On a different note, in Japan, its okay to sleep anywhere and everywhere...

My classmates!

The view is always too beautiful to not photograph


My classmates! Teniger, Than, Me, Cho, Arimu


This is during my speech and conversation class. Check out the girl wearing the facemask!

After class we always walk down this enormous hill. Sometime this gray cat lets us pet him. These are two of me and Stevie's chinese classmates.


I climbed up this huge wall to take the following photo:


And for Carolina and Camille:

The Home Front

Since Stevie moved in, we decided to make some beautiful japanese style curtains to create some privacy between our two rooms:


This is what they look like from my room with the lights on in Stevies room:


Stevie also decorated a really ugly but comfy chair that we have:


Here Tets is playing with his brand new camera that he bought himself for his secret birthday. As you can see, he is on my lovely brand new purple carpet...

Picnic at the Nunobiki Falls!

Temple kitties!

Nara- Playing with the Bambis!

Stevie and I went to Nara Koen. Its a huge park with many temple/padogas and a huge shrine thing to Buddha. The coolest part though, by far, are the hundreds of friendly deer that walk around freely. It is said that the kamis (spirits) live in the deer. We bought deer cookies to feed the deer with, and if you bow to them, some of them bow back!

Sushi Party!

Stevie and I went to a Sushi Party hosted by a student group for international students.

This is my group:

We made a disgusting creative sushi roll with crab liver and chewy candy! We decorated the plate with cheese sprinkles and candy wrappers...

Stevie and I ride the trains with style!