Saying Good Bye

As most of you know, I will soon be leaving Japan. I have truely loved living in Japan. It has been quite an adventure. I have learned a lot about myself and about other people. The people who survived Shimane with me will always be close to my heart. The way I feel about Shimane is difficult to express. Most of the time I have liked our rural prefecture and the abundance of old people and rice fields. But there are some days I just wanted to jump up and down and scream my lungs out. Shimane is like a bad child (or Kitty if you will), most of the time it is sooo cute and other times it destroys your house! That is a deep, deep metaphor! :)

So, I thought there was no better way to commerate my tenure in Japan than posting pictures of Todd, Kitty, and I repapering the screens at my house. It was a stress reliever for both Todd and Kitty. If you have never just put your fist through a square of paper that you have tirelessly tired to keep whole, then you have not lived!