Takamastu weekend

first it was "play with kids" time at the community gym. they had these clown/uni students perform and then we played games. the kid on the right was one of the preschoolers i had taught last school year.
here's hiromi with her adorable grandson. >_< he's so cute!
then ange and i took a scenic drive through the mountains so takamatsu.

these are so beautiful, what are they called?

look at that hair and skin! she's like a michelangelo angel.


once we got to takamatsu we went to bagel and bagel (haven't had one of those for a year!) and took our food to the docks to eat. here is a wandering band of skateboarding photographers.

and a happy couple taking advantage of the beauty of nature.
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during the end of the sunsent, smitha joined us and we went to the little restaurant on the docks for a drink and some edamame.
this is from a back road that i like to bike on quite frequently.

here's takigawa sensei (music teacher) and the part time home economics teacher having a chat at school.
this is the pep rally for the sports teams for the upcoming city-wide sports playoffs to see who gets to go to the prefectural tournaments. this is tennis.
first table tennis team.

second table tennis team.
volleyball.
baseball.
soccer. the one in the middle with his hands in front is kiku, the kid i'd been having trouble with a while back, now i just kick him out of my class most of the time.

basketball. bob's third closest to the camera, but he's leaning back so you can't really see him. he's such a nice kid.
here's the post-pep-rally-motivational-drinking party. the teacher in the middle is yoshioka sensei, the 3rd year english teacher, he's really good.
hello uemura sensei, school's secretary. he's really nice and is always happy to help me with things. we had a good time drinking sake that night. and later, i was getting ready to walk home, and he had his wife drop me off. she was really nice too with a cute dog, and he said "this is my wife, i love her very much!" which is very sweet and rather rare in japanese society.
and here's sakamoto doing his impression of tae-bo, which is just now becoming popular here (so ten years ago in the US!!). underneath him is the vice principal.