Here's (hopefully) enough photos to make up for these last few weeks of non-posting.
- Left: The last week of June, my friend Laura moved into the extra bedroom at the house where I am doing a homestay. I and another former coworker of mine, Kraavor, went to help out. In this picture, we're just getting ready to leave her old house. This was only half of her stuff. :)
- Right: Then, a few days after that, we had a sayonara-party for our friend Kim who returned to Canada at the beginning of July. This is one last shot of the three of us together. Kim was my first roommate in Japan, and a pretty spectacular one at that.
- Left: Guess which one of us has a broken foot? It's Laura! This is what the shoes look like near our front door and I thought how sad her one shoe looked, there all by itself while all of the others had mates. So I took a picture.
- Right: Laura's friend and I bought her the "Handicapped" sign at the local 100 yen store (the equivalent to a dollar store).
- Left: about two weeks ago, Laura's friend Heather came for a visit from Scotland. Laura's got a broken foot (see above) and shouldn't walk a lot, so Laura and I took turns bringing Heather to places around Tokyo. This photo is at Asakusa Kannon-do (Sensoji) where they were having a festival. I finally went to this ice cream place I'd always meant to try--they have something like 32 flavors. Everything from wasabi (horseradish) to lavender and anything in between. I tried the sweet potato, and yes, it tastes like sweet potato.
- Right: from the temple, we took the ferry ride back to Hamamatsucho where we took the train home.
- Left: Went to Chinatown once again. The gate in the background is at the entrance to one of the shrines.
- Right: Also in Chinatown, we found these handy instructions on how to use a toilet. I can honestly say that I genuinely did learn how *NOT* to use a toilet...
Ok, I guess that's about it for now. I have lots more to share, but will save them for the next post!
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