claudia and her sister lindsay visited. we hit kyoto friday, osaka saturday, kobe on sunday, all with fun results and some interesting finds.

monday morning, shinked it up to tokyo for orientation planning meeting. rocked that shit til tuesday afternoon. chilled with the visiting ladies again in tokyo.

headed back to hyogo late tuesday, the ladies stayed in tokyo. woke up early today (wednesday) to help my students one last time before the speech contest this afternoon. one of my kids took third place, which is apparently better than ichikawa did last year. our skit rocked the house, of course.

pictures of some things to follow, but i'm pretty tired out, so for now, i'll leave you with the teaser that some of them involve costumes i've worn in the last few days. just watch out for them if you're interested.