Two hours after I took this photo this morning (7:20: photo taken; 9:20: now) it's bright and sunny. But then it was heavy-aired humid, cool, gloomy. There are mornings like this, even in paradise. I wanted a quickie shot of the field and hardcourts with the fog behind. Only after I opened the photo on my laptop did I realize that all the campers and staff in the Tokyo camp (full name: Tokyo/Frost Valley Partnership Program) were out there, on the courts, as usual, stretching and getting ready for a 1/2-mile run around the main part of camp. Take a good look and see them there.This session, by the way, is what I might be called "Tokyo Plus." Among the usual Japanese-American campers, whose families lives in the U.S., are a group of a dozen or so who have come here directly from Tokyo for two weeks. Most of them know very little English. Christine Monahan (a former camper here years back) has been hired once again to do some ESL work with these kids. This is a twist on the usual Tokyo camp action: usually Americanized Japanese kids are immersing in lots of Japanese language and culture, to shore up what their families worry will be otherwise lost; but in this case the kids are being introduced to English language and a bit of the American scene (insofar as FV can be considered "the American scene"!).
