OKI takes my camera.

One day after school (at Suetake) I was chillin' with my guitar and along came Oki and Kyoko, two adorable 9th graders, and they plunked themselves down beside me to listen to me noodle. I had my camera sitting beside me (I had been taking pics of bunkasai preperation that day) and Oki went ahead and took a picture of me playing at which point I told her to take as many as she liked, so she and Kyoko disappeared for a bit and came back with a few of the pics seen below. Actually, I think it's a great way of getting pics of students or teachers without being awkward... saves me the trouble.



These are 4 girls who stopped to chill with me. They are wearing their "gym clothes"; usually they wear these shorts and t-shirts (minus the blue jumper you see there) underneath their skirt and tunic(?), which must suck in the summertime.


This is a teacher, I don't know his name.


This is Masaya, a very musically gifted 9th grader, as well as being selfish and mischevious (so Yamashita sensei tells me). He plays percussion in the fabled Suetake brass band and plays the marimba, drum kit, timpani and bells with such skill and grace it's almost professional. He is one of my three "guitar club" members. When I asked at the start what they could play, he whipped out "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton and I nearly fell over.


Kaoruko, a cool 9th grader who is also Mizuki (speech champ girl)'s best friend. The three of us had a great chat one day after school while they told me how stupid boys are, how lame their school uniforms are, how tall my bike seat was, etc. Very fun.


This is the picture Oki took of me. The sun doth shininged bright upon my faceth.