Vignettes

By Risako Beddie ‘23, JFOU Fellow

Home, at Last:

There I was, one overweight suitcase in each hand, stumbling into the Haneda Airport lobby on a hot July afternoon to find my mother, curiously sporting a stylish bucket hat, waiting patiently by a sign that read, Narita EXpress →. I was scheduled to fly a day earlier, but managed to miss my 8am flight out of Cleveland the first time due to a combination of my own stupidity and a hair dye emergency.