Note: These are galleries that cover the entire course of the summer. Most of the photos were taken by me, but some were taken by our pastor & translator. Due to the 3 different sources, photos in each gallery are unavoidably grouped into 3 sections - each section being in chronological order (with the exception of times that I switched memory sticks and messed up the filename numbering), but the sections themselves not exactly listed in chronological order. Pictures taken by me are usually before pictures taken by our pastor, and pictures by our translator are usually scattered all over as she named the files herself instead of leaving the original filenames. Onward!
(Click the thumbnails for larger, full photos)
Another self-portrait in a street mirror
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The team and our friends Noriko and Keiko (bottom row, left and 2nd from left) and their friends
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Most of our "core" group at our house
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Something you'll never see in America - Brad Pitt in an ad!
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Learning to draw calligraphy
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Ryoko-sensei (the pastor's wife) with Court's class at the daycare
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Outside a restaurant (we put a Bible on his book)
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Laurel giving her testimony
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Courtney's testimony
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About half of our adult English classes
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Court and Jeri's 4th-6th grade English class
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Our shy Jr. high English classes
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Peeking out of the door in Court & Jeri's room
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3 of the 4 abandoned kittens we found behind our house (SO CUTE!)
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The team and our coordinator, Reiko, in LAX
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All of the 6-week summer teams before departure
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On a bus shortly after touching down in Japan
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Automatic seat cover at the push of a button!!
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Lunch with the church body of Kaminoyama
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Court and Jeri in front of Kaminoyama Castle
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A Christian grave in a sea of Buddhist ones - it's embossed with John 3:16
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Picking cherries, a local delicacy, with church members
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Jeri and her "Diet Water"
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They took us to make pottery, another local specialty
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Participating in a tea ceremony with our first taste of sweetbean desserts
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Attempting to make our own tea
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At a "hot spring for the foot"
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View from the top of the castle (circle shows our house)
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With a life-size statue of a sumo wrestler o_o
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After the clothesbag game at our coffeehouse
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At a BBQ for English classes
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Jeri trying fish eggs
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Fireworks on the 4th of July
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The church's fire escape.... no foolin'!
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At the senior citizen meeting
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Pastor Ito leads the church in "Happy Birthday" for Maureen
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Jeri giving her testimony
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Wearing "yukata" (summer kimonos)
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Reflection in one of the cool street mirrors (to help one see around corners!)
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