Adjustment

I was born in Bangor Maine. To Jennifer, and Seiji Shinozuka. My mother grew up on Gilpin Rd and my father grew up in Japan. We lived in a tiny 1 bed room apartment ( of course going off of pictures. like I would be able to remember that). However the paint keep chipping.. I would go around the house eating the paint off the ground. It was led paint. Now if any of you know my dad.. he is very anal.. everything has to be just so. When he found out that my lead count was up, and the reason being was because of the paint chipping, he decided to move. My grandparents have given us land on the Gilpin Rd to build on when ever we wanted to. SO my dad took this opportunity to build a nice big house.

As soon as the house was finished the house i was 2. I loved that house. I had my own room. It was awesome! I also loved it because my cousin was the next house over. By the time I was 5 I was ready for kindergarten i went to Orland Consolidated School. i liked it well as far as i can remember.

When i was 7 my dad got a flying job for japan airlines in Hawaii. so we packed up and moved away. it was sad leaving our family behind, but my dad told me that it would only be for 3 years. I was excited. we had a apartment right on the beach. I would go to the beach everyday. When I told my friends i didn't know how to swim they looked at me like I was cray or something. but then I thought about it I was from Maine, where if your lucky you can swim 3 months out of the year. people in Hawaii could swim all year long.  It didn't take me that long to learn how to swim.

Then we moved in to a house. we had a huge back yard and a huge avocado, banana tree, lychee tree, and a mountain apple tree! we would come back and visit once a year back to Maine and i always liked it here. but I liked it better in Hawaii, I could go to the beach everyday after school. I loved it. expect after 8 years passed by.. I started to get sick of it. you couldn't go anywhere. you would drive 20 minutes and thats it.. you would hit beach could go anywhere else.

My parents started to talk about moving back to Mine and I was all for it! I was ready to be back. the school that I went to was a tiny private school with only 13 kinds in the high school. I knew that it would be a huge adjustment going to Bucksport high school. But i was up for adjustment and change.

and I'm glad i was.

photo taken in waikiki 

photo of beach and turtle taken at north shore beach