nagoya update 3
today is my last day at the jinushi's house, in fact i leave in a few hours. its been really fun actually, i have enjoyed hanging out with the family and especially the kids. the kids are so cute. although i didnt get any real good pictures of the kids, you'll just have to take my word for it. anyway i leave in week for america, i cant believe how fast time has gone. i am sad to leave but look foward to having my room, and not feeling like a freeloader all the time. anyway here some more pictures of nagoya
[ this is the jinushi's house ]
[ this is inside the gate, which is in front of their house ]
[ inside my room at the jinushi house ]
[ the hallway from my room straight to the kitchen ]
[ this is the family room ]
[ these are their two kids, fuuga (boy) and aria (girl) ]
[ sunday at the jinushi's church, mr. jinushi is on the far left playing gituar ]
[ the first at the jinushi's house we went over his pastors for a bar-b-que, he was the first american i had seen in a while. it was refreshing to be able to communicate clearly and easily with someone ]
[ near the jinushi's house, this is the only storm ive seen in japan the entire time here ]
[ this is also near by the jinushi house ]
[ sunday after NC3 church we had dinner at pastor yamashita's house ]
[ everybody cooks the food, prepares things, and cleans up together ]
[ arima san and me posing, ask mike why ^_^ ]
[ a typical public payphone ]
[ this is the crystal hiroba, a popular meeting place in the underground shopping district. i think its very odd and kinda guady ]
[ this is a new monorail being built mainly for the 2005 international expo being held here ]
[ this arima san's 2 man band playing in central park ]
[ the guy in the foreground is kenji, the obasan behind him was really getting into the music ]
[ nagoya castle ]
[ a view of nagoya from inside the castle ]
[ this a huge futuristic department store in downtown nagoya ]
[ this is oasis 21, an underground shopping mall thing, covered with this huge saucer thing that has like a foot of water on the top. really weird but cool too ]
[ terebito at night ]
[ tomoko haggled down the price of the izakaya resturant, to this guy, for us cuz we werent drinking ]
[ last night i went to tomoya's house for a bar-b-que, tomoya is going to be this year's exchange student at oakland (like akane was). tomoya is on the right and his parents are behind him. i hope you oakland people can get to know him and help him out. unfortunatley this photo caught him in the middle of a blink but it was the only one i had ]