well, here's our official first post...kind of a dry run. we just wanted to let everyone know we made it here and we still don't speak the language. there are other things to eat other than rice and raw fish, but we'll get to that soon enough. we won't be able to share pictures until october (when our furniture, etc. gets to us). until then you will just have to sit back and imagine what a few white people in a sea of hideki matsui's look like.