Soccer practice and Japanese take-out

Photos:

• Top left: Take-out from a true Japanese restaurant: they bring it to you in real ceramic bowls, not styrofoam. And then when you're done...
• Top right: ...all you do is put them out in front of your house and someone from the shop picks up the tray later.
• Bottom left: this is from the youth soccer club that my host family helps coach every weekend. Yota and my friend Jake were having a lot of fun with the kids.
• Bottom right: the little ones are my favorite--they're so tiny!