we spent this past weekend at a conference for best club students and staff.
on of the speakers, dick, and his translator, tomo. 
some fellow foreigners we have a lot in common with: they're from iowa and were junior high sweet hearts :) dick and linda spent 30 years in japan with our organization, they were a great encouragement to us!
the midtermers from around the country 
our tokyo crew: joanna, megumi, kie, jen, mary, mark, norio, kyle and stephen 
yukari, a new friend who studied at iowa state and now lives and works in tokyo!