Tokyo!

I'm finally in Japan! My, what a long plane ride! I was on the plane for over ten hours, with a window seat... needless to say, my legs were quite sore! The flight was made more enjoyable by the gentleman sitting next to me, Greg from Chicago. He is a photography teacher at a school with about 2700 students! For comparisons sake, two of his schools would be larger than the entire population of Brookline!

After some more orientation meetings & introductions, we met Fulbright Scholars, and went to nearby restaurants with one of them. I and two other JFMF participants had the pleasure of dining with Satomi Iwasaki, who studyied at Columbia University 10 years ago as a Fulbright Scholar. We had shabu-shabu, which is a style of cusine where raw food is brought to your table and you cook it for only a few seconds by swiching it around in a pot of boiling water which is right on the table. It was mighty tastey!