Aya Yokouchi's Farm Chores, October 8, 2009
  
 
farm_chores_october_2009_01.JPG (371000 bytes) Morning at Microsoft Camp Commons...
 
Aya was an International Student at Bellevue College. I met Aya (and Kanako) through Ai-chan earlier in the year. Aya moved in with a host family on the eastern outskirts of Redmond and became a part-time farm girl. I teased Aya about living with goats! Aya had a long commute each school day - she would ride her bike from the farm to the Starbucks at Redmond Ridge, lock the bike up there, get on the bus to the Microsoft Transit Center, then another bus to Bellevue College.  Some days I gave her a ride home, from the Microsoft Transit Center to the farm...
 
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farm_chores_october_2009_19.JPG (368391 bytes) Friday, October 9
Late afternoon sun at Camp Commons...
 
 
More Aya...
 
2009-03-31_ai_aya.JPG (378721 bytes) March 31, 2009
Ai, Aya and Red Robin... in Bellevue...
 
2010-03-08_ai-kanoko-steve-aya1.JPG (414165 bytes) March 8, 2010
Ai, Kanako, Bigfoot, and Aya. These gals lured me to a sushi shop in Redmond for a surprise "farewell" dinner, as Aya and Kanako were about to return to Japan...