Jeff's Report

November 11, 1998
	Here, the girls send e-mail to "penpals" throughout the world.	They also learned how to make the web page from Keiko.
	Here we gaze at a view of the city from the halfway point of Mt. Gobu.	We wash our hands before our prayer at the temple.
	A race to the top. The slope is too steep to run.	Here is a gate of Komyoji Temple that was built over 1200 years ago.
	After a quick banging of the gong, we light incense and make a wish.	Picking up acorns from a tree. "Coro,coro" is a Japanese word for the sound an acorn makes when it rolls over and over on the ground. They sang a song about it as we picked them up.
	This is another view of the city from a small deck on the side of the mountain.	We stop at this beautiful temple and house on the way down the mountain. I was amazed the people actually live in such a magnificant place. Yeah, I think I will retire here.
	Every English teacher's most difficult task -teaching Japanese kids how to pronounce an "L" and "R".	These are two students working for "o-bento",or boxed lunches shop during Try-Yaru Week.
	Here we are on the stairs on the biggest park, per capita, in all of Japan.	Here we are at the top of the tower, five princesses and a prince from the US.
	I ask the girls how they liked their lunches.	A view from the tower that speaks for itself.
	Here we are in a rose garden right out of "Alice in Wonderland".	I had a chance to speak with one of the "cards".
	After a tour of the garden, we go inside to look at some rose exhibits.	Here we are in a race in modified, multi-passenger bikes.
	This bike is a modified as they get, move fun to look at than to ride.	This is the Toryunada, a famous view point of the Kakogawa river. I could hear it every night before I got to sleep.
	Here, we cross a small bridge over the river.	By the river, there is a statue of Yosuke Ae who made a small canal for the boats here 300 years ago.
	We found two more girls of Takino Junior High School working for "Tkijiso-Inn" next to the river during Try-Yaru Week.	The landlady of that inn is teaching how to make flower arrangements. Their clothes "kimono" are nearly as beautiful as the flowers.

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