April 1998 – email9

Subject: Fam time contd. contd. contd. D15  4/19         From what I remember we went shopping in Ikebukuro for anything and everything. Tree had fun with allllll the plates and other lacquer things in Tobu Department. The rest of us kinda browsed around...

April 1998 – email8

Subject: Fam time contd. contd. D13  4/17         Welcome to Nara. We found ourselves outside of a train station, ready and willing to go, but with no idea where to go.  Mark and ma asked for help in the ‘eki’ and after that, we were on our way. A...

April 1998 – email7

Subject: Fam time contd. D9  4/12         Sunshine City in Ikebukuro. The families first true experience in the Tokyo area. They liked it a lot. One of the main things that stood out to them was the size of the cell phones. Can you say TINY? I mean, CAN YOU...

April 1998 – email5

From: Gary Ploski 4/11/98 9:55 Subject: B.S.#2 To: Ucsc2n2 yes we all arived here in Japan of  Flight WAS LOOOOOONNNGGG (long !!) took 27 hrs from home to gary’s apt.  but so far everything is real cool  we are traveling to Tokyo today and also going to...

April 1998 – email6

Subject: Fam time.         It all began about 22 years ago in the city of Waterbury. I was asked a question by my mom, she said “When are you gonna pick me up?” I thought, “dofukaj dunaovja .,v ar navnorg ai…” for the reason that I...

April 1998 – email3

   Things are going well over here for me. I am now shodan (1st dan {dahn} first rank) I’m quite pleased with what’s going on with Iaido. Life can be fun sometimes. Good luck with school and all the fun involved. live it, be it, feel it…. cause...