Guess which one I am, guys?? LOL

Okay, so Japanese children's television is absolutely CRAZY! I can't even describe it. It's that crazy. It's something everyone has to watch before they die.

Pikachu wants you... to follow the Japanese Food Pyramid!!!

I'm not talking about Pokemon. What I was watching was far more severe. I was sitting down drinking ocha, (tea), when this...erm....outstanding citizen, popped up on the screen:

And as soon as he did, little Aki-kun came bolting in at full speed, and sat down right at the screen and started giggling. To be fair, he is really really funny. Just a little weird.

I saw my high school yesterday! Seirantaito Koko. There were kids there too, playing volleyball and other sports. Even Judo. I might join a sports team. It'd be a precedent for me!! Just kidding.

It's a beautiful school. I wish that I would have taken pictures, but Michica-chan had my camera. She wants to be a journalist, and ever since I showed her how has been videotaping every minute of everyday, with a little Michica commentary along with it. :)

We also went to her elementary school, and I tried unicycling! I failed.

Also, they have the most insane playground at Michica's elementary school. This climbing structure towered 20 feet above my head. Seriously. And they had about 10 unicycles for the kids to ride on, and this stepping-stone like set up for the kids to jump across, except that the stones were actually upright logs, like in Mulan.

After that, we walked home.I'm working on my first video blog, trying to make it less boring right now. It's hard. There's an awful lot of talking on it.

I live in such a beautiful area! Here's some pictures:

Those are some of the mountains that surround Sano City! I took this walking home from the dentist's.

More mountains!

My house!

I just got done making my first Japanese meal! Noriko-san is away at a PTA meeting, so I was charged with making breakfast!!! Todaharu-san left me instructions on how to make tamago-yaki, which is Japanese-style omelet. To make tamagoyaki, you put 2 eggs in a mixing bowl, then put in 3 spoonfuls of brown sugar. To finish it off, you add a little tiny amount of cooking alcohol! It was oishii!

Those two kids are so cute. Today, they were fake sleeping, waiting for me to wake them up! Todaharu told me; "diffeecurut for me to shpeak engrish, but- ahhhhh, akihira and michica....ahhhhh, pretendu, want you to, ahhhh, wake them up. they prray game-u." He actually speaks very very good English. Much better English than I speak Japanese. I shudder to think what my Japanese sounds like to them.

LOL

Michica and I just washed breakfast dishes. We had a routine down: when I needed to get to the left side of the sink, I would say, "Change-u" and we would switch spots. Then we she needed to get to the left side of the sink, she would say "Change-u" and we would switch spots again.

Aki-kun is practicing his hiragana.

He is copying from the Geinjin Matsuri Poster. That's the Geinjin Festival, that happens today!

Happy is well-trained. Michica takes billions of pictures of him, and as soon as I turned my camera on, he ran over and sat directly in front of it and cocked his head and froze!!! I was a little shocked, but he just posed like that for almost 30 seconds. Then I took a picture of him and then pet him! I mean her. Happy is a girl.

Oh yeah! I had my first earthquake yesterday! We were eating dinner, and then I heard a boom! And I just thought it was thunder, but we all had to get under the table. Interesting, though. Nothing was broken or even mildly disturbed. It was a little one. I was asked if I get many earthquakes in Minnesota. They were so suprised that we don't get any!

Well, I am gonna call it quits for this blog.

But whoever reads this should send me mail! And other stuff!

My address is on my Myspace.

I really need: money! American candy! A phone book from Monticello so I can send people stuff, and money!

I have 78 dollars in yen left. That should do me over for a while.

BYE!