Lovely Sonya, dressed in a traditional Thai outfit, jubilant about being released from high school.
In July 2003, my mom, stepdad and youngest sister moved to a hill station in the foothills of the Himalayas. A year later, my middle sister joined them. Before coming to Japan, I visited them and had some interesting experiences, saw some one-of-a-kind sights and took a lot of pictures.
And now it's all over.
Last week Sonya graduated from high school and this week my mom and stepdad are visiting me on their way back to the U.S. Sonya is currently traveling around Thailand with our dad and his new wife, Joanna is spending her last two weeks in India trekking around with her friends, and my mom, stepdad and I just returned from three days in Kyoto.
It's hard to believe we are the same family who spent over twenty years in the sleepy San Gabriel Valley, dreaming of adventures in far-off places. Now my mom mostly gets excited about public toilets with toilet paper and hand dryers. I guess that's what three years in India does to you.
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Comments (8)
What an incredible and adventurous family you have!
Posted by Mariko | June 18, 2006 6:33 AM
yay for sonya!!!
Posted by Capt. Tenderheart | June 18, 2006 7:14 AM
Thanks! I hope our adventures continue, even after we all move back to the U.S.
Posted by Anjali | June 18, 2006 11:13 PM
jubilant indeed.
with that picture posted, i feel like i just won some award for "most fake gold worn at once" or something. and of course our adventures will continue. i mean, mom and i are going to washington...that's a mighty dangerous place...
Posted by sonya | June 19, 2006 1:28 AM
Is Sonya a Thai princess? She definitely looks it.
And can I be a wee bit defensive and object to the last two lines of ur post. Three years of living in India can also do u a lot of good... if ur ready to let it.
Posted by Maharajadhiraj | June 19, 2006 11:01 PM
Oh, of course. It has been a great experience for everyone, especially my sisters, and I think the things they gained outweighed the bad parts by far.
But I still think anyone who has used a public toilet in India would feel awfully excited about the toilets in Japan.
Posted by Anjali | June 19, 2006 11:10 PM
K will grant you that, even if we're talking about two extremes here...
Wud like you to read this poem of mine, wrote it after some of my own travels outside India...
http://bodhishop.blogspot.com/2006/01/small-world.html
Posted by Maharajadhiraj | June 20, 2006 1:15 PM
wow, congratulations to your dad too! You have quite an amazing family.
Posted by Robert | June 20, 2006 2:19 PM