mooooooo-ving this picture from Switzerland via Japan back to LA

For the next couple of days I will be staying at Sokendai University where I was living last year in Japan. Since I have gotten here, I have been finding all these old things that I left. It's really fun. For example, I wanted coffee this morning, so I went to the kitchen, and I found a container of instant coffee that I had left for other people to enjoy. Then later today I wanted a big glass of milk. Most glasses in Japan are about 1/3 the size of glasses that I am used to back in the US. So, you can imagine how happy I was when I found a big, old glass that I had bought just for these occassions (when I am craving gargantuan quantities of drink). The glass was waiting for me right where I had left it in the 3rd floor kitchen...

I've also been going through the computer I used to use when I was working on the oral history project here, and I just found this picture that I thought I had lost somehow. I don't have a copy of it anywhere on my computers at home, so I was so happy to find it here on this one. Since I really don't have a better way of getting the picture back to the States with me, I am posting it here for safe keeping until I get home to LA. The picture was taken in Switzerland last summer when I bought a ton of cow backpacks. I thought they were so cute that I bought one for all my favorite little cousins, nieces, and friends. At the time, I was so happy with my new purchases that my friends, Mia and Kenji, were laughing at me and took my picture. It really is a nice memory.