It was summer in Oceanview, and the day of the big fireworks show was fast approaching. I was pretty excited actually. When I lived in Japan, we always used to go to see the fireworks show on Zaimokuza beach near my house or Katase Shirahama near my Aunt Sachi's place. It's a big thing, and tons of people come down from Tokyo just to watch. Fireworks make it...
I guess this started when my friend Asuna invited Satomi and me to come sleep over at her condo. Asuna is a sparky lass, a year younger than us, smart enough, but she has this sort of wide-eyed innocence about her. She looks very Japanese, sleek creamy skin, narrow eyes with mysterious wisps of hair almost like antennae floating at her temples. Satomi is mor...
At the beginning of term in Oceanview U., California, my best friend Satomi told me she was planning to take an anthropology course. I went to the first few classes with her to see what it was like. It was kind of interesting. In one class, the prof talked about how anthropologists tell the difference between people from different parts of the world, using t...
This is the third letter that I have written. The first one was called "In the woods with my boyfriend." The second one was "On my university campus." If you have trouble finding them I guess you can send me an email. Since we started getting more serious, Ryosuke and I have been spending a lot of time alone together, but actually I guess I first met him be...
So there was this one night when Futoshi took the whole group of us to a real dance club. Futoshi and Kenta were my boyfriend Ryosuke's friends. Asuna was Ryosuke's girl cousin, and Satomi our friend. The six of us were Japanese exchange students all studying at Oceanview U. on the coast in southern California. In Japan, they don't have high school dances o...
Last fall, Oceanview University's Japanese Student Union organized a barbecue on this grassy field on campus near the cliffs. I think Ayumi was probably the one who first suggested it. She's a cute girl, bright and cheerful. I knew her a little bit from playing drums together at Orientation. She kind of has her own circle of friends, but I invited my boyfrie...
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My host mom, Loretta, has been dating this guy, Hank, for the last little while. I first met Hank a couple of years ago. Loretta's kids and I all kind of knew she was seeing someone, and then one day, he turned up at the house. I was a bit surprised because he was so handsome. I mean not that Loretta isn't good-looking or anything, but I've always pictured h...
As I glance into the large oval bronze-gilded mirror that is decorating my room, I notice the cute facial features of someone you would probably describe as innocent and naive, with my almost round cheekbones and slightly upturned nose. Together with my pouty lips it is almost making it too hard for me not to look flirty, even when I don't intend to do so. S...
I guess the first time I ever saw or heard about 'paddy whacks' was at Brandon's birthday party a year or two ago. Brandon is the son in the host family I'm staying with here in Oceanview, California. He was maybe 19 years old, brown hair, freckles, around the same age as me, shy around other people, but for some reason, more forward with me. I don't know wh...