Daily life
Campus life
Dorm routines, meals, friendships, homesickness, weather, weekend plans, rules, small rituals, and the ordinary texture of living at TMG.
Open this roomRooms
Choose a place to begin.
The rooms are broad on purpose. Pick the one closest to what you remember, or use them simply as prompts. A memory can belong to more than one room.
Teams and movement
Sports
Practices, games, PE, teams, coaches, uniforms, trips, wins, losses, injuries, and the friendships made through moving together.
Open this roomFamilies and Sweetwater
Homestays
Host families, visits into town, meals, churches, holidays, errands, translation moments, misunderstandings, kindnesses, and Tennessee family life.
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Class
Classrooms, teachers, homework, English, Japanese, tests, notebooks, translation, confusion, effort, and the moments when something finally made sense.
Open this roomFestival
Bunkasai
Festival preparation, performances, booths, music, food, visitors, costumes, rehearsals, cleanup, and the energy of showing the school to others.
Open this roomLeaving and carrying forward
Graduation
Ceremonies, speeches, diplomas, last nights, photos, goodbyes, returns to Japan, staying in touch, and what TMG came to mean afterward.
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