hello! yoshi

For those of you who were lucky enough to be military brats (like me) and were stationed on Yokota AFB, I welcome you. :) If you weren’t, then I welcome you too!

One of the biggest things I remember about Yokota is something that is no longer there. Yokota Burger. I don’t know how many hours I’ve spent there, playing asteroids or just hanging out. I totally miss Yokota Burger. Does anyone have a picture left of it?

I know I’m weird, and let me tell you, it’s all true, but I often recall memories from smell. I know, it sounds weird, but just listen for a moment.

When I flew over to MCAS Iwakuni, my friend “L” and I (which is a funny story of which I’ll probably share later) flew into Yokota AFB on a 747. Now, Yokota was not a commercial airport (of course) and this was a military flight, so we didn’t get the deluxe package things like oh… a covered terminal. So when we got off the plane, I could smell the air, and let me tell you, it was nostalgic. I remembered so much about Japan and Yokota AFB, it was crazy.

Even just thinking about it, I’m pretty sure I was close to tears when I arrived. But I digress.

Yokota was a monumental part of my life while growing up. Aside from the fact that I spent a majority of my childhood there, it was definitely a place where I bonded with some lifelong friends. Yokota High School definitely contributed to that.

Wow. You know there’s so many memories I have of YHS. I remember for gym class, we had to square dance. OMG that was just crazy. I cannot say to this day that I ever benefited from learning how to square dance, and I’m still baffled why we had to do such a thing. For P.E. class. Come on. How many of you folk out there had to do this?

I’ll probably start flowing out more memories of YHS sooner or later, but not today. If you went to YHS, feel free to share some memories. :)

Dana started Memory Monday last year to honor her Grandfather, who suffered from Dementia/Alzheimer’s. This is cool. Feel free to participate. This is my way of not forgetting some of the life changing (and not so life changing) events in my life.

[tags]memories, Memory Monday, Yokota, YHS, Yokota Burger[/tags]