Visiting important places

It only took me a month before I could find time to visit the Johnson Space Center. But with us came our friend Masa, whom is the father of one of Maia's students.

Masa lives in MaiaTown, (well, OldMaiaTown), and every Saturday Maia went to teach Masa's 4 year old and a cluster of other girls ranging from 2 years to 10 years English disguised as an Art class (the older girls were already tired of English, so they had to be tricked into it).

Masa's English is excellent, he works for an American company (In their Japanese branch), and therefore he often comes to the States to do work.

Ironically, the HQ of his company is in Dallas.

So, it turned out that just after we came back, he came over for a business meeting. He drove down from Dallas and we went to JSC.

It was surreal; just before we left Japan Masa, his wife and daughter, Maia and I went on a little trip to Fukashima Prefecture to visit a beautiful cave... and here we were in Houston on the tram tour in Mission Control...

I might add that both Masa and his daughter are fans of the space program (As in: We didn't abuse him by choosing this location).

How wierd, though... two worlds apart, Fukashima and Houston... yet within months we are in both places... the same people (Well, almost the same people), but in a totally different location.