Well, technically the choir is not all in Japan any more because many people headed home to wherever they're from after the final concert on the 29th. We are still in Japan touring with Phil and Pam Robb and Rick, Nancy, and Rolf Siverson. Rolf has been our guide since he was in Japan for a while as a teacher assistant teaching English. We'll go into further detail about our trip after the week of touring with the Alumni Choir in another post. Here are a few pictures from the week with the choir (more to come).
This is the Chiba family who were kind enough to let us stay in their home. They made us very comfortable and did way more than they needed to in order to make our stay pleasant. Gage now has a Japanese grandpa, grandma, and aunt in Takko Machi, Japan.
The Chiba family gave us yukatas (even Gage, but he'll have to grow into his) which are summer kimonos. We need to practice putting them on.
The choir spent a lot of time practicing together the last two days in preparation for their final concert (pictured at the top of the post). Our week was very busy with much more than just practicing, the choir performed in many places and we were able to tour and shop a few places also - we'll provide more detail in another post.
We'll eventually get video and more photos up, but that may wait until we are back home. Until then, these photos will have to do. You can also check out these two articles written by choir alumni that appeared in the Gilroy Dispatch:
Return to Takko: Reflections by Monica McAllister Cook
Return to Takko: Reflections by Carissa Heath
(This picture is for Tim and Kimberly, who were taking pictures of all the different cities' manhole covers in Germany - here is a Japanese manhole cover from Lake Towada.)
