halloween

My monkeys had too much fun and had to go home at the end of the night. And I learned a valuable lesson: Don't ever trust Aonghus to hold your camera while you pee.

Yufu-dake

Yufu-dake almost owned us, but in the end, with the encouragement of fellow climbers("mo sukoshi ganbatte!" "FITO!") and the embarassment we felt when we saw an old lady scaling the peak, we triumphed. Yatta!

Friday Night Lights

Every Friday night, Aonghus meets me outside my office, waiting patiently on his bicycle, listening to techno or something else I would roll my eyes at on his iPod. I can always hear him from my second floor classroom, and I know that it is time to wrap up my class. I get my bike and we ride for a few minutes before we realize that we don't know where we're going yet.

yanagawa

In order to distract Lou from a broken heart, we took a train to Yanagawa, famous for its canal boat rides. We brought along a little friend.