Mrs. Oka

I got an email from Mrs. Oka today. She retired last year and is now living in Long Beach, CA. She'd love to hear from any former students; I was surprised she actually remembered who I was since the last time we saw each other was in '85. Her address is lindaoka45@yahoo.com. Weird, I never knew her first name was Linda.

Fil-Am Dancers

Hey, Warren, remember this?

yearbook or newspaper staff?

Look, Hannah, I found one of you!

Happy Holidays from the Suzukis!

The Schramms in 2005

Britt , Brady, Teresa & Chloe

Nags Head 2005

Who's who in the picture...

Picture taken October 1, 2005 at my bbq party. From left to right: Tommy Phillips, Hideki Noro, Chris Beason, Warren Valbuena and myself, Dave Odegaard.

Vacation

Hi all! I'm official on vacation. If you need any help regarding the blog, if you know of someone who wants to be invited or was referred to this blog by another Yohian and want to be invited, please send me an email via the email provided on the blog. I will try to log on once in awhile if time and connection permits. For all other questions that need to be answered right away, please email Cindie. Everyone has Cindie's email address right? I'm sure you do :-)

So until then, if I don't hear from you, and everything is running smoothly, have A MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Wishing you all the best and the brightest year to come!!!

Since I posted a picture of Mark...

...you KNOW who else I had to post! (Sorry, Hannah!)

To all that has been invited

Some of you have blogged and some haven't. So this post is geared to all who have not. You all have been invited to share your YoHi stories, past and present pictures, upcoming news and events.

To do this,
-Click on the upper left hand corner where it says Blogger
-there it'll ask you to log in with the username and password you used earlier to sign up.
-From there go to "YoHi Red Devils" and click on it...once you're there, it should automatically take you to:
-Posting
-Edit Post,
-Create a Post
If you'd like to add a picture
-click on the little picture beside the ABC
-click Choose File
-locate picture on your harddrive and select it
-choose layout format (options are available)
-click on "done"

If you need any more help please contact me! HTH!

Sweetheart Dance 1985

The Boys

Me with Jody Husser in Roppongi

Fashion Plate Britt Schramm (pg. 176)
Originally uploaded by brittschramm.com.

Yeah, I can't believe they paid me either.

(Still sorry, Mark!)

(my above link didn't work...)

Remember when...

Whenever we had half days at school, we used to go to Shakeys for their 500 yen all you can eat pizza & potatoes. Where else could you find pizza topped with octopus & corn?

Or what about the Yakitori stand? 50 yen for a stick of chicken, pork, beef or liver and they would grill it on the little hibachi grill and dip them in a big “vat” of Yakitori sauce. I could just stand there all day!

Or what about the little store that had a window where you can watch them make Ohbanyaki. Yum!

Or what about getting fried rice and tacos at the Teen Club for like $1.10 a plate! The infamous Teen Club dances.

Thew Gym

Or what about watching movies at the Benny Decker Theater for $1.35 where they always played the National Anthem before each movie.

Or what about when the Class of 1988 Juniors beat the Class of 1987 Seniors in all Spirit competitions! Spirit week consisted of Red & White Day, Punk Rock Day, Nerd Day, Hippie Day, Pajama Day

Or what about Spanish class when you walked into class and saw that all the windows were darkened, you knew it was time to watch slides of Seniorita Haseley’s trip to some Latin country. Any one remember her and the “burro”?

Or what about Mrs. Yamamoto and her over head slides? Seeing her solve math problems on that thing gave me a headaches.

Snack Break
Ms. Sattre's donuts (which consisted of Pillsbury biscuit and using a thimble to make the whole , frying it up and rolling it in sugar).
Yo-Hi Day....Denwa pass....(I can't remember other games)
The Bowling Alley...canadian burgers
Katsu Burgers from the O Club. I would say Taksan sauce to get more sauce on the katsu.

Hayaku Inn & taco pie

Welcome!

Hey all! For the last few days, I've been thinking of Japan and how much I miss being there and the friends that I have made. I miss every thing about Yokosuka, the shopping, food, friends, the schools (yes, I said the schools!) freedom and the carefree life we had then. I hope that all you that I have invited join the blog, talk about our life there, share photos of past and present. Update us on what's been going on in our lives now and hopefully be able to use this forum as a place to keep in touch and to get info on upcoming events. So for all that have joined, welcome and can't wait to read your post and see those pictures! If you lived in Yokosuka, Japan and would like to join or know of someone who lived there, please send me their email addresses so I can invite them. Domo arigato!