Three days without a post is much better than three weeks, don't you think? Even so, remembering three days' worth of happenings is no fun for my exhausted cranium.
So. Saturday I had planned to have a sort of picnic for my birthday at the park outside of Shinjo station, but I was worried the typhoon was going to make that rather difficult, so I cancelled that and instead made plans with Nishida-mama to go to Aya's school culture festival. Of course, come Saturday morning, the weather was bright and cheery--super windy and cloudy, but really no rain to speak of. The typhoon decided to change course last minute, it seems, so pretty much missed all of Tohoku (the northern region of Japan). But that was okay--at least it was nice for Aya's school festival. We went and had some lunch, and watched Aya take part in a crossdressing show (I guess that's normal for school festivals to do?), and then Nishida-mama dropped me off, and I napped, and then went and met up with Sarah at the station at 4. Then the two of us walked around and went to the bookstore, bought some cute folders, came back to my apartment for water and to get Ben, and then we three went to Bulldog because I don't think Sarah had ever been to one before and she needed to see the epicness. We spent a while browsing in there, and bought some cute things (well, Sarah and I did--Ben bought poo-shaped soap), and then we went to Nishida-mama's for dinner, meeting up with Alyssa too. After dinner we went to Yamazawa to get dessert, and then came back to my place to watch the King's Speech, which is a great movie!
Monday, September 5, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
August Rush
Seriously--where the eff did August go? Have I seriously been in Japan for over a month? How the hell did that happen? Not that I'm complaining--I love my job, I love the people I work with (Japanese and JETs alike), and of course I love Japan--but still, September snuck up on me before I even got used to August.
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been busy--not with work, of course, but with exploring and adventuring and pretty much just partying. The major things that have happened since last time is that I went to Fukushima with Ben, taught at Hagino, went to more matsuri, had prefectural orientation, went to Mount Zao, and taught at Meirin.
Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been busy--not with work, of course, but with exploring and adventuring and pretty much just partying. The major things that have happened since last time is that I went to Fukushima with Ben, taught at Hagino, went to more matsuri, had prefectural orientation, went to Mount Zao, and taught at Meirin.
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