-Looking at cherry blossoms and eating rice on a stick outside Nagoya Castle
-Dancing in the Owara Kaze no Bon festival
-Dancing all night in a Mexican restaurant in Tokyo with a family from Guatemala after spending the previous night climbing up Mt. Fuji to reach the summit at dawn
-Eating sea urchin sashimi in South Korea so fresh it's spines were still moving and then drinking beer with the propitiator who insisted on sitting with us (and had scooped the urchin's insides into our mouths with a tiny spoon when we first hesitated to eat it)
-Snowball fight in shorts while hiking the Tateyama Mountains
-Walking to the sea (a mere two hours!...after that, we opted for the 20-minute tram ride)
-Sunday morning water aerobics with the old ladies at my gym
-Coming into the classroom to find that one of my favorite students had not only written "I love Julianne" on the board but had drawn an awesome anime-style picture of me next to it
-Riding my bike along the river at night
-Going canyoning: a sport that involves jumping off waterfalls
-Experiencing a Buddhist ceremony in Kyoto - gongs and incense and chanting in an ancient wooden temple
-Petting tame deer in Nara, the old capitol of Japan. They've been there for a thousand years and according to Shinto tradition, they're the messengers of the Gods.
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