Aya's Life in Boone, North Carolina

the marching band
saturday was homecoming and there was a parade in the morning and a football game in the afternoon. i joined the parade and i got on the float wearing yukata! but Boone was freaking cold and my legs were freezing... their colors were really weird... but anyway it was fun!!! we were like masako-sama (we kept waving our hands to the people on both sides of the road)


Yosef (Appalachian's main character or something like that...)

this year's theme was "Aloha Appalachian." so everyone was wearing something hawaiian. we were wearing lei, which made me wanna go to hawaii again :)

me with a surfboard... i really wanna try surfing someday maybe next year!! at first sight it looks really warm but look at my hands! im wearing gloves!!! i was frozen. but im pretty much sure that this is gonna be one of my great experiences in the states!!!

The White House

i had a fall break and went on a DC trip with some other internationals. it was awesome!!!!! the weather was horrible but i had a lot of fun!!! i actually didn't want to come back to Boone, NC because it is such a small town(><) i'm gonna live in DC after i graduate from college! :)

The Monument

group picture

this is my old apartment and i lived there from age 3 to 6. it's in Maryland and it's like 30 min far from DC. i hadn't been there for about 14 years!!! i was so so happy when i found my apartment because i thought it would not be there. but it was there :) i went there with my friend who studied at Kansai Gaidai last semester. and now he lives like 5 min far from my old apartment! that's amazing!!!! anyway i had a really great time in DC★ i wanna go back again before i come back to japan!