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Here are some new pictures of the past couple o' weeks :)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Life is good
I just wanna update telling the world that I love my life! :)
I'm so happy that I just break into song and love everything and everybody all the time always :D
I miss you guys.
<3
I'm so happy that I just break into song and love everything and everybody all the time always :D
I miss you guys.
<3
Saturday, May 16, 2009
i am ureshii
Hi all~
I am doing so wonderful here! Normally I have one entry for one topic, but in my head I have a jumble of happy thoughts floating around, so I want to explain a little about each one.
I just watched a Youtube video which made me smile and be happy just because I am a part of the same world as the maker of the video.
It is actually quite famous, but I had only discovered it today:
It is called 大きな箱とねこ (A Big Box and a Cat) and it has, rightfully, scored over a million views on Youtube.
And in case after the video you want to see more "Maru"; (the cat's name), it means "round" or "circle"; the owner has devoted an entire website to the going's on of Maru.
http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/blog-date-200904.html
It makes me SO bubbly and genki whenever I look at it. The creator is a Japanese person, but has English translations on the captions of all his or her pictures of Maru. He or she keeps us updated on all of their beloved cat's comings and goings. The site is very well set up and maintained and in case you have a free minute you really should check it out.
This is a new topic from now on:
I had the best day with Maria and Melissa this weekend! It actually was two days, not one, because it was a sleepover. After school on Friday I went up to Esojima which is where Melissa lives and met Maria and her at the station and then we walked to her house. The reason for the sleepover was the next morning we were going to wake up and go to this ghost town called Ashio and plant trees.
Do you guys know the story of Princess Mononoke? In that, there is a town name Irontown on the edge of a great and ancient forest, but because there is a stock of iron under the mountains of the forest, the people of Irontown are destroying the forest to get to the iron beneath it.
The reason I bring this up is that Irontown bears a strong resemblance to Ashio, (the town we went to plant trees.) Ashio used to be a...copper...bronze? mining city, but it turns out the waste it was producing and dumping into the river was poisonous, so it wiped out almost the entire forest and killed many people who drank and ate fish from the river. In 1907 the miners rioted and planted dynamite around the mine, blowing it to smithereens!!! Maybe not smithereens, I am not sure, but anyway it caused a significant amount of damage. The mine has been closed down for tens of years now, so our job is to go and plant saplings to try and bring the forest back to life again.
I only planted one and a half trees. (Me and Melissa planted the second together so I can not say I planted two whole trees.)
I really don't know if I made an impact with my one and a half trees, but maybe.
But anyway, at Melissa's house, we watched the 5th episode of Smile. I have been watching Smile for 5 weeks now, and usually I watch it with my host mom; but because of the sleepover I watched with Maria and Melissa and Melissa's host mom. And Ren-chan, the cat.
If you don't know Smile, it is a drama starring Matsumoto Jun as a Filippino/Japanese biracial 26 year old who is trying to have an honest existence in lieu of racism he receives for being not a pure Japanese. He falls in love with a girl, who for some reason (relating to the press always tormenting her because of her mysterious father), has become afraid to speak to the point that she can no longer use her voice. A lot of terrible things happen to Matsumoto Jun's character, and throughout it all he manages to smile.
Me and Maria cried at the ending of that episode.
Then later the next day, after planting trees, the three of us went and played at a park for an hour or so. We swung on the swingset and slid down the slide and acted like we were seven. Who knows?; maybe we are.
But I can't upload pictures because Blogspot sometimes has sporadic psycho baka spells and won't let me.
:)
I am doing so wonderful here! Normally I have one entry for one topic, but in my head I have a jumble of happy thoughts floating around, so I want to explain a little about each one.
I just watched a Youtube video which made me smile and be happy just because I am a part of the same world as the maker of the video.
It is actually quite famous, but I had only discovered it today:
It is called 大きな箱とねこ (A Big Box and a Cat) and it has, rightfully, scored over a million views on Youtube.
And in case after the video you want to see more "Maru"; (the cat's name), it means "round" or "circle"; the owner has devoted an entire website to the going's on of Maru.
http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/blog-date-200904.html
It makes me SO bubbly and genki whenever I look at it. The creator is a Japanese person, but has English translations on the captions of all his or her pictures of Maru. He or she keeps us updated on all of their beloved cat's comings and goings. The site is very well set up and maintained and in case you have a free minute you really should check it out.
This is a new topic from now on:
I had the best day with Maria and Melissa this weekend! It actually was two days, not one, because it was a sleepover. After school on Friday I went up to Esojima which is where Melissa lives and met Maria and her at the station and then we walked to her house. The reason for the sleepover was the next morning we were going to wake up and go to this ghost town called Ashio and plant trees.
Do you guys know the story of Princess Mononoke? In that, there is a town name Irontown on the edge of a great and ancient forest, but because there is a stock of iron under the mountains of the forest, the people of Irontown are destroying the forest to get to the iron beneath it.
The reason I bring this up is that Irontown bears a strong resemblance to Ashio, (the town we went to plant trees.) Ashio used to be a...copper...bronze? mining city, but it turns out the waste it was producing and dumping into the river was poisonous, so it wiped out almost the entire forest and killed many people who drank and ate fish from the river. In 1907 the miners rioted and planted dynamite around the mine, blowing it to smithereens!!! Maybe not smithereens, I am not sure, but anyway it caused a significant amount of damage. The mine has been closed down for tens of years now, so our job is to go and plant saplings to try and bring the forest back to life again.
I only planted one and a half trees. (Me and Melissa planted the second together so I can not say I planted two whole trees.)
I really don't know if I made an impact with my one and a half trees, but maybe.
But anyway, at Melissa's house, we watched the 5th episode of Smile. I have been watching Smile for 5 weeks now, and usually I watch it with my host mom; but because of the sleepover I watched with Maria and Melissa and Melissa's host mom. And Ren-chan, the cat.
If you don't know Smile, it is a drama starring Matsumoto Jun as a Filippino/Japanese biracial 26 year old who is trying to have an honest existence in lieu of racism he receives for being not a pure Japanese. He falls in love with a girl, who for some reason (relating to the press always tormenting her because of her mysterious father), has become afraid to speak to the point that she can no longer use her voice. A lot of terrible things happen to Matsumoto Jun's character, and throughout it all he manages to smile.
Me and Maria cried at the ending of that episode.
Then later the next day, after planting trees, the three of us went and played at a park for an hour or so. We swung on the swingset and slid down the slide and acted like we were seven. Who knows?; maybe we are.
But I can't upload pictures because Blogspot sometimes has sporadic psycho baka spells and won't let me.
:)
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Okinawa School Trip
From April 19th to the 22nd, my class of 177 boys and girls went on a field trip to Okinawa! We left school at 6:00 in the morning on the 19th, and took a bus to Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Then we flew to Okinawa, and spent the rest of the time touring and visiting the Peace Memorial, the giant Aquarium, and other really cool places.
Our hotel was called, "Moon Beach" because it was on Moon Beach. lol. It was really awesome because Moon Beach is privately owned by Hotel Moon Beach, so we all got to go and swim in the ocean!
I shared a room with Midori and Harumi, my two best friends here. Every day was so fun!
I will upload all of my favorite pictures from that trip.
It only rained in the mornings, and was about 75 or 80 degrees during the day. It would be wonderful to live in Okinawa for a few years. All of the natives are SUPER BROWN skinned because they have lived there for so long, and the weather is always hot and humid and sunny; and it is an island so there is ocean on all sides...
My favorite part of the trip was when we were all in the hotel. Midori was really hyper; and a photographer was coming to take pictures of us, and she didn't want her picture taken so she ran into the closet and slammed the door. The closet door had angular slats on it, so if you go down onto the floor and look up you can see inside, so I angled my camera upward and took a picture at random and it got Midori's eyes!!!
After seeing the picture I laughed so hard I started crying and had to pee. After the bathroom, Harumi and I, one by one, took the same pictures.
After that, we went to a Petting Zoo, and to the Aquarium. I was in the Aquarium and I saw a manta ray, and it had a face that makes it look like it smiles at you! I had no idea!
At the petting zoo, I petted a baby goat!
And then we went to the ocean, (my second time in my life) and I swam in it (for the first time in my life)
Anyway, I have a lot more stories but I will let the pictures speak for themselves because I don't want to type right now.
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Our hotel was called, "Moon Beach" because it was on Moon Beach. lol. It was really awesome because Moon Beach is privately owned by Hotel Moon Beach, so we all got to go and swim in the ocean!
I shared a room with Midori and Harumi, my two best friends here. Every day was so fun!
I will upload all of my favorite pictures from that trip.
It only rained in the mornings, and was about 75 or 80 degrees during the day. It would be wonderful to live in Okinawa for a few years. All of the natives are SUPER BROWN skinned because they have lived there for so long, and the weather is always hot and humid and sunny; and it is an island so there is ocean on all sides...
My favorite part of the trip was when we were all in the hotel. Midori was really hyper; and a photographer was coming to take pictures of us, and she didn't want her picture taken so she ran into the closet and slammed the door. The closet door had angular slats on it, so if you go down onto the floor and look up you can see inside, so I angled my camera upward and took a picture at random and it got Midori's eyes!!!
After seeing the picture I laughed so hard I started crying and had to pee. After the bathroom, Harumi and I, one by one, took the same pictures.
After that, we went to a Petting Zoo, and to the Aquarium. I was in the Aquarium and I saw a manta ray, and it had a face that makes it look like it smiles at you! I had no idea!
At the petting zoo, I petted a baby goat!
And then we went to the ocean, (my second time in my life) and I swam in it (for the first time in my life)
Anyway, I have a lot more stories but I will let the pictures speak for themselves because I don't want to type right now.
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