One of my best friends, Sarina, is from Osaka, Japan. She lives in London now because she married a man she met while on vacation and they have two little kids, a girl and a boy. I got to visit her for a week and stay with her at her parents' house long before she met her husband and moved to the UK. While I was there she took me all over the country, literally. We went to Kobe and Kyoto, which are short train rides from Osaka, and we got on a plane and went to Hokkaido. When I look at a map, it seems like going from Arizona to Wyoming, it seems like a similar distance. I met Sarina when I was at Arizona State University. I was taking photography classes mostly, but I also took Japanese language classes. I signed up to be a conversation partner and Sarina was assigned to be my partner. These are some photos I took with my film camera when I went to see her when she still lived in Japan.
