I admit it, I'm weird when it comes to Japanese people, especially ones I see in the U.S. I want to have some sort of excuse to go and meet them. Especially college age Japanese girls. I just love 'em. They are so much fun!! Genki and happy and full of life--always ready for a joke or a good time. Mardel and I went up to the Mt. Vernon/Burlington/La Conner area recently for a weekend trip. We kept seeing these cute Japanese college girls up there. Skagit College must have a big ESL program that specializes in Japanese students, like Green River and Bellevue College do. Anyway, I wanted to meet them all, and adopt them all. I told Mardel my big dream is to someday have one of the girls I've hosted come back to the U.S. to study and maybe live nearby so that I can have a Japanese family with grandkids and everything. I'm pathetic. o_OAnyway, this picture was taken in Nara on the last day of our trip in 2003. It was of a group of junior high girls (think Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon) that was part of a larger school group that had come to visit the temples for their school trip. I could have scooped them all up and taken them home. Really, they must've thought I was a weird, foreign stalker, the way I kept staring. Still--don't they look cute in their uniforms? All public and most private junior and senior high schools in Japan make students wear uniforms. They vary from school to school. They also change a bit from summer to winter. These are pretty basic summer uniforms.
One thing I've noticed about Japanese junior high girls is that they often are pretty chunky. They seem to gain a bunch of baby fat in junior high and then either lose it or diet it off by high school. Which is funny considering the way the manga always seems to show them as scrawny little things when they're in junior high. Wishful thinking, I guess.
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