Host Family and My Birthday

From the left is me, my Okaasan, my Otousan, in the back is Mamoru (the son-in-law) and finally, Toshi (a friend of the family).

This picture was taken at the high school culture festival. The girl on the left is Sophia, a family friend who teaches English at the high school as part of the JET program. I like Otousan's expression as we pretend to eat Toshi's cotton candy..

This is one of the performances at the culture festival. I actually recognized one of the songs they played. It was from Initial D. It might have been "Night of Fire." I can't remember.
Here is my Okaasan, me, and Kiyoe (my host sister) as we volunteer at a river clean up. On a side note, I found a plastic shopping bag full of empty cat food cans and two different boots.

Here is a shot of me on my 21st birthday. My Okaasan's birthday is on the seventh so we celebrated together.