Kokoro Tomatsuri

The above picture is Kokoro Tomatsuri before he completed his Mcdonalds Challenge a few weeks back. Kokoro is one of our best friends. Damn, I'm not even sure how long we have known each other. I believe our friendship began back when I was a really short fat kid who rode a blue doyle while wearing a white gath helmet and when Kokoro was an even skinnier Asian kid just learning how to catch waves. His dad Toma was a good surfer and kind of awkwardly introduced us. They would always speak Japanese to each other and I wasn't even sure if Kokoro spoke English at the time. We began to converse occasionally out surfing and before we knew it we were surfing every day after school together. Kokoro got good at surfing surprisingly fast and we used to flounder back and fourth at NSSA contests every weekend. Kokoro has always been an amazing student and I don't believe he has ever had under something crazy like a 4.2 GPA. For this reason, two years ago he decided to deport himself off to college in Sand Diego. UCSD to be exact. It was a hard day for Parker and I when we no longer had Kokoro around. We missed his Slayer dance offs, burrito eating contests at Corales, and many other things that should probably remain unnamed. Through all of our good times Kokoro has accumulated hoards of nicknames. A few, but definitely not the extent of them, include Tomatsushi, Megaladon, Kokoho, and Kokrio.

Kokoro lives in a house with several other college students in San Diego right next to the beach in Del Mar. He started a blog called Delmarsupials where they document their college experience. Many people associate college with fist pumping and all that weird junk, but Kokoro will surely come up with some very entertaining material. Trust us. Click HERE  to check out the marsupials. We plan to visit Kokoro this spring and document some time spent in and around his house as well as the college... We're just waiting for some warmer weather, if you know what we mean.

Ceester.