tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191322852011-11-20T21:24:12.005+09:00I'm going to Japan! To make it easy to keep everyone up to date on what's happening, I decided to blog the trip! I'll be here until March 28th!Emihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15655233382978207756noreply@blogger.comBlogger1171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19132285.post-1144445152229927762006-04-08T06:22:00.000+09:002006-04-08T06:25:52.230+09:00

Well, that's that. A week and a half after I'm home I finally have all my pictures posted and my blog is done. Thank you everyone for reading it... I've really enjoyed making this. I had such a great time in Japan, and am already looking forward to going back sometime. Thanks to everyone in Japan who made my trip awesome!If you want to keep up with me more, I have another blog started. It'll just

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Here are some pictures from the airplane! We were upgraded to business class for flight to Seattle. :)Me sitting (before many people got on)The appetizer, a salad, a roll, and some shrimp and meat stuff. Yum! Way better than economy class. :p Also, my headphones cord got kind of in the way.Me with the appetizer.My dinner... Steak, asparagus, and potatoes. YUM!!!!!My breakfast. A croissant, yogurt

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Time for another food post!Delivery tonkatsu in a box! (March 14)DELICIOUS soba! (March 18)My goodbye cake from the Sunday night Bible study (March 19)The before and after of an AMAZING ice cream! (March 21)Some really yummy ramen! (March 22)Pretty sushi! (March 23)Takoyaki decked out with all the sauce! (March 23)Mmm... Teramisu.... (March 24)Maguro! My favorite! (March 25)

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Here are some pictures from the amusement park my dad and I went to!That's me in front of the Tower Hacker!This is me in the ferris wheel.This is the Tower Hacker.Here is my dad in the ferris wheel.This is the Tower Hacker in action... Those little orange car things are basically free-falling.Me... Still in the ferris wheel.The top of Tokyo Dome, which I think looks like melonpan.This is a large

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Well, there's all sorts of "funny English" in Japan, but this takes the cake. It's not even really "funny English" but it is at the same time. I saw this and HAD to stop and take a picture.Disclaimer: I mean no offense. I am not endorsing the KKK. I just saw the humor in this.

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I think this could be heaven. A greenhouse FULL of strawberry plants! And better yet, Japanese strawberry plants!

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This is Yuutaro, hiding from the camera.This is Nanako.This is Sam-Chan again... My grandma's ancient cat. The second picture is Sam-Chan with the various stuffed animals I got in Japan.

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Here are a couple of pictures of the elementary school I went to. This is the front gate where we go in every day.This is some of the Japanese calligraphy I did there:

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Here are some of my pictures from the Kamogawa trip.Some of the buffet lunch.The koi at the hotel where we had lunch.A bit blurry, but those are big crabs!Ocean sunfish! Manbo (pronounced Mumbo)! The pictures aren't great, but there are two of them... One is really big. The glass and stuff made it hard to get a good picture.The first of my many walrus pictures.The sea lion show. :)Kento really

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Yes, I'm a procrastinator. I think I've covered that before, so on to the pictures. ;)Yes, I am home now. I still have pictures to post, so I'll be doing that. :)Mmm... Bacon!Big sheep are boring, but the little ones are so very cute. :)Rabbits!This is a piece of my panorama...Goats are funny. The second one had an itchy head. :pThese were the pigs that raced...Running of the pork!!!! And little

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We got home a while ago, but I fell asleep.... I'm still really tired. I didn't sleep for 25 hours, then only got 4 or 5 hours of sleep... Just wanted to let you all know that I'm back now.

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We're at Narita now, sitting in the United Red Carpet Club. I had ice tea.... In a beer glass, because beer glasses are bigger. :pGood news for us here.... We got upgraded! We were Economy Plus, but they put is in BUSINESS class! That's right, business class! I'm excited about it. :p My dad says the food is better, and that is always a plus.Well, we're headed down to our gate pretty quick, so I

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Mixed feelings... I love flying, so I'm looking forward to the flights. I'm looking forward to going home. I'm looking forward to seeing Ret-Ret.When I get home, what will it look like? The house is on the market again... My bed is already down in Creswell, in storage. I told my mom I didn't want my desk or dresser, so those might be gone too. Kento has moved out. Mistow is gone too. Ret is at

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I forgot about The 13 Doors. Probably because I hate getting startled, and haunted house things tend to thrive on startling. My dad went first, so he got startled first, so it was OK. Otherwise I would have probably freaked out several times. :p I have a terrible startle reflex. The thing wasn't really scary at all, but those things that startle...We did that after Wonder Drop.OK. Where did I

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My dad and I went to an amusement park!!!! :)It was in Tokyo Dome City.... It was so much fun! We had ride bracelets, so we did (almost) EVERYTHING! :)First we did the "Tower Hacker"! It was one of those free fall kind of things.... Something I always wanted to try, and was very happy about doing so. :) It brought us up really high, then dropped us, and it was SCARY! I thought for a second I

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Speaking of tamagochi, mine died a few days ago, because I forgot about it for a day and a half... Oops. So I had to start from first generation all over again... Oh well. Whatever. I've put off getting pictures up, because I have. Yeah.... So I'll get some up now, and I'm sure I'll put some more up after I get home.This was my first gochi in its kid form.... I think it looks like takoyaki.This

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Well, looks like the internet isn't going to cooperate. It wont let me post.Maybe it'll let me now...While I'm here I'll say I had sushi for dinner.... I had a bunch of maguro... My favorite! It was so yummy.Oh, and my last post was my 100th post! :)Well, it looks like the internet DID let me post earlier. I just couldn't tell because my blog wouldn't load. :p So I'll just delete that first part

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Hey. Sorry I didn't write yesterday. I actually could have, but I was battling with an unstable internet connection that I didn't think I'd even have. I'm in Kanda now, and I have not been able to get internet here before.... I have a connection now, but it's really weak and likes to give up on me a lot.Yesterday we got up, had breakfast (hot dogs), and watched TV for a bit before leaving. Yuko

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3/23/2006Less than five days now... Wow.I got up later today... I think it was 9:00. Had a doughnut and a couple omosubi for breakfast. Then I watched TV for a bit and wrote up that entry I wrote earlier (about yesterday).At about 11:00 we went to Nao's school. I watched Ako for a little bit there, then Nao came down. There were lots of byes and stuff going on... I guess spring break is starting

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3/23/2006Less than five days now... Wow.I got up later today... I think it was 9:00. Had a doughnut and a couple omosubi for breakfast. Then I watched TV for a bit and wrote up that entry I wrote earlier (about yesterday).At about 11:00 we went to Nao's school. I watched Ako for a little bit there, then Nao came down. There were lots of byes and stuff going on... I guess spring break is starting

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3/23/2006I forgot to write yesterday. I could have while I was stealing internet from the iMac, but I didn't.... And after that I got busy. So I didn't write. Oh well. It doesn't really matter, since I didn't have internet. ;)In a twist of events, I was up at 8:00 yesterday. I was followed by Yuko, and then Ako (who kept falling asleep again).I had a chocolate muffin for breakfast. Yum. Then we

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3/21/2006:I almost typed 2005.... Actually, I did, but I fixed it... Kind of the same thing.Anyway, big happenings today, even though they're not really big! :)I got up today, and ready to go for a few days. Like I said before, I'd be in Tokyo for a few days, so I had to finish getting ready for that. I grabbed some breakfast, got my stuff together (what I didn't do last night), and then headed

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Not much went on today. I got up pretty late.... Actually, I woke up around 9:00 or 9:30, but I used my computer for a while before going out... When I did my grandma wasn't there anyway. I don't know where she was. I decided that was a sign for me to continue using the computer.... So I did. I ended up talking to Kento.... Until lunch time. At about 12:30 I ate lunch.... My grandma left for

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Something about Thursday. I knew we did something else, but I couldn't remember what.... And I got mixed up.We watched the game while we ate lunch, but after lunch my dad and I left. The game wasn't over yet then.We walked to the school. My dad wanted to meet my teacher, and we brought my lunch money while we were at it. Everyone seemed surprised to see me.... ;) They thought I was gone for good

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Sorry about that. Not sure why I let it happen. Time to catch up.Thursday: My dad got me up a little before 8:00... I had hoped to sleep in, but with my dad here it wasn't happening. I had breakfast with him.... Yogurt! I love Japanese yogurt.... Mix in a little sugar, then dip fruit in it.... Oh, so good! I had apple slices with it, since we were out of strawberries. Absolutely delicious!After

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All in all it was mostly a typical day.... Up and off to school, of course. I did lots of kanji this morning. I'm up to about 85 now, and can write my full name. :)After the first lesson I had to do my little goodbye speech thing. I think it went well. Considering I hate doing speeches in English, I think I did alright.Then we had to go to the rehearsal! Dun dun dun. For the graduation, of course

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Oh well.Yesterday.... Did anything interesting happen? Well, let's see... Nothing special that I can remember. Pretty typical stuff. Up and to school, of course. Math, Japanese, etc. in the morning.... Then they practiced the graduation stuff.... AGAIN! This time I sat off to the side and worked on my Japanese.... Out of the way, and doing something productive.... It worked well, I think. Then it

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Well, I meant to get some pictures up today, but I got busy.I got up this morning and got ready to go.... I decided to go to the Japanese service at Hatazawa Christ Church today. :) It was nice. I got the general idea of what was going on.... And was able to join in the singing because it was mostly hiragana. :)After that we had lunch, and they had the general church meeting. I sat in because I

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I did get some pictures up, though not as many as I had hoped.... There's always tomorrow though!As for today.... I went to class in the morning, of course. That went well. I'm up to the counter section now, which is one of the last things, and probably the last thing I'll really have to work at to remember.... They're tough! :( But kind of funny to read.... I like "flat thin things".... :pAfter

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Here are some random pictures of food that I've taken throughout the past month or so.Here's the tonkatsu I had at Ishido-san's house... Yum! (February 11)Chicken Teriyaki pizza! (February 25)Seafood pizza!!!!!!! :) (February 25)This picture is kind of blurry, but I love it when ketchup is called "Fancy Sauce".... (February 25)Takoyaki! :) (February 29)Okonomiyak! :) If you can't guess which one

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OK. Where did I leave off? (see last post if you haven't read it already)Oh yeah, the underwater walrus pics. I got some underwater pics of the walruses, then we wandered around in that lower area for a bit....After that we went back up to ground level and went to a gift shop... I didn't see anything that REALLY stood out though, so we decided to look at another gift shop. On the way I got

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I was up and off as usual this morning, except not as usual.... Because I left at about 8:10, and I was not alone.... That, and I wasn't going to school......Ishido-san came and picked Grandma and me up. There was another person with her. Then we all together went to the place where the KEIS group (the place my Japanese classes are) was meeting.... To go to Kamogawa! :)We got there, boarded the

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Let's see... Not much to write about, which is good because I should head to bed soon.Up, to school, sweep the walk... Then I did some math and Japanese... We also got into groups and looked at cook books. :p Apparently we're making yummy food next week and had to decide what to make.Then it was to the gym for MORE practice.... For the graduation, of course. I sat and probably got in the way

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Nice job Emi (emphasis on the sarcasm)....Alright... I posted on Monday, but just my old pictures.... Nothing about Monday itself....So, Monday. Everything was pretty normal. Up, go to school, come home, waste time. A normal day. See?So, a bit more into what we did at school on Monday... It is our week to do volunteer stuff in the morning, so I helped sweep the walkway when I got there. I see a

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Yeah.... These are from February 3rd.... It's been a while. So procrastinator-ish of me.They're my dondonyaki pictures, so I tried to find a bit more about dondonyaki.... But Wikipedia didn't have it, and I didn't get much with Google either.... This is all I found:"DONDONYAKI is the bonfire currently performed more at the beginning of the year in ancient times, and burns New Year decoration

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Yes, the return of the cough.... Ugh.Anyway, yesterday..... Bad me, I didn't even go to bed after posting.... I couldn't sleep until 3:00 AM! I started getting really anxious, I'm not sure why.... So then I suddenly felt a desperate need to get in contact with someone in Oregon, preferably my mom.... I'm still not sure why. I e-mailed her, and she got back to me and told me that everything is

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We went to Mother Farm today.... So I have stuff to write about and pictures to post.... Later. Yes, Emi is procrastinating again. Shame on her. :pBut really, I'm exhausted.... I fell asleep when we got home, woke up a few hours later, Been up for 40 minutes, and I'm ready to sleep again......... I'm not entirely sure why I'm so tired. It might have something to do with the slight return of my

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This is likely to be a long post... Sorry. :pWhere to start? Morning, of course... :p Get up, breakfast, leave for school. Not terribly exciting. I watched my class practice jump rope for a bit (there's another competition on Monday... I think I wrote about it in a previous post), then we went in. Then some 1st graders came in and gave us little picture frames with our class picture in it. I

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Yes, it's true.... I forgot to post Tuesday AND Wednesday.... Catching up shouldn't take long though...Tuesday: Get up late... Something like 11:30. Ate lunch, went to class, came home, got online. That sums it up. I was chatting with Kento and playing boggle when I realized I forgot to post, but I also realized since I can say all I did in one sentence, maybe it wasn't terribly

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Not as simple as my sick days though. :p But no dodge ball tournaments or anything exciting like that.A typical morning.... Drag myself out of bed, get dressed, have breakfast.... Then go to school with the kids.School this morning started with music! We have to play our song on Friday, so it's time to practice practice practice! I'm on the tambourine, so I have it easy.... We (there's another

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I woke up today pretty late.... That's me. :p Maybe about 10:30, though I can't say for sure. I had a quick breakfast of fruit, then messed around on the internet for a while.Later, Nanako and Yuutaro came downstairs. They asked if I wanted to go shopping, so I said sure. We went (with the adults too, of course) to the... I have no idea how to spell it, but I'll give it a shot.... Jasco? It's a

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Ugh.... Still mad at myself for getting so behind....... But I will correct this!First off, I guess I do have something to write about for Thursday.... I wanted to watch the Olympics, specifically the figure skating. I wanted to watch the short program........ Which NHK (by the way, I was wrong... There are quite a few more news channels, but they aren't commercial free like NHK) was broadcasting

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Ugh...... Why am I so forgetful??? I forget to write, well, I guess it's yesterday now.... UGH!!!! and now I need sleep..... Bad bad Emi.I got caught up with some good games of Boggle, chatting with Kento.... And now I should head to bed. I WILL write tomorrow... Today? Whatever. I will! I have stuff to write about! Interesting stuffs! I will. I promise.

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I almost forgot to post two days in a row! Bad Emi!Sorry about that.... I guess yesterday I got caught up in finishing Movecast Episode 1, and the same happened today, because I didn't succeed yesterday. Plus I was back in school today, and I was getting Movecast 1 published, and I was listening to podcasts..... I don't know. Not much goes on, yet everything goes on. For some reason I remembered

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My new AC adapter arrived shortly before noon today... Now that's what I call express mail! :)Sorry about yesterdays post being put up today (though it is dated as yesterday). Blogger was automatically in Japanese, so I guess that was the draft button.... Oops.So, today.... Still nothing interesting. My cold is getting A LOT better, except at night when I go to bed.... For some reason when I go

Emihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15655233382978207756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19132285.post-1140424013405891442006-02-20T17:12:00.000+09:002006-02-21T23:30:12.083+09:00

Please excuse any typos I make... I am on my grandma's computer and I'm not a fan of Japanese keyboards. I mean, why is the apostraphey shift+7...　Seriously! And + is shift+;???? It's crazy!I also miss my spell check... You'll be able to tell when I'm off my Mac... Trust me.Today for the most part was dull. Another sick day at home. Getting better though. A lot better. Crazy demented cold... But

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I just felt like finishing these off.Bison are funny looking.Reindeer! :)That was a FAT camel.Goat things... Boys and girls!That's some crazy hair!How is this thing even real? It's too cute!Whatever that expression is, it's awesome!This elephant was crazy.Organic elephant!Awww.... It looks sad! :(I got lots of good giraffe pictures,Ostrich!I really don't know what this is....It looks

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I basically spent the whole day hanging out in my room..... My grandma works on Sundays, so I was on my own most of the day. My aunt made spaghetti for lunch and brought some down for me... Yum! She also told me Nanako is running a fever too.... So I guess there's two of us sickies now. Nothing really interesting happened today... So yeah.One thing, I guess, I can talk about.... Have I talked

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I woke up feeling pretty darn awful. At least my fever was down.... Still got a strong cough which terrorizes my throat, though. I'm thinking with the fever down in the 99ºF range it probably isn't the flu though. I'm hoping it isn't laryngitis.... My voice was going off and on today. That's not a good sign....The worst part is this awful Chinese medicine I have to take.... I thought the first

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Ugh.... If only I brought some dayquil. I might be able to escape the "what do we do?" stage.... Fever, cough, headache.... I'm not having a great day. I stayed home from school and slept.... Then got online. Skyped with one of my friends.... That was fun! :) The highlight of my day.... Because the rest of the day I was feeling pretty icky. I did get the audio for Movecast episode 1 made, though.

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Sorry about the double post yesterday... I fixed that.Today I struggled to wake up.... I'm not sure why. I got enough sleep.... But I was tired, I guess. I got up, had breakfast, got ready to go, and left. You probably have that whole routine memorized by now... It's the same every school day.Anyway, got to school and went upstairs. It was wet from the previous night's rain, so no dodge ball

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Today was a pretty good day. A bad thing or two mixed in, but it all averaged out in the end. I think the good prevailed, actually....Up early again for school. GROAN! That will NEVER be a good thing.... Anyway, up early, got dressed, ate breakfast (yet another croissant/pudding thing), got ready for school, then went upstairs to see if the kids were ready.We left, and I was happy to find that

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I'm headed to bed pretty quick... Another not very interesting day here. Got up, had breakfast, had lunch, went to Japanese class, walked home on my own (I feel so trusted :p), worked online a bit, ate dinner, watched some Olympics stuff..... That's about it. Sorry I'm so not interesting now. I have school tomorrow, so I need to direct myself towards bed. Wednesdays are long days, but I've been

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Sorry, Mom!I guess though she didn't send it to the address they WANTED her to... That is still true. Sorry. :p They still got where they needed to be, and the CAS scholarship application is fine.... Bleh to whoever sent me the e-mail saying otherwise.And while I'm on, I might as well say that my tamagochi transformed this morning.... It's cute. ;)

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That's cutting it close.Anyway, there really isn't anything to write about today. I got up, chatted with Kento, had brunch, chatted with Kento and my dad, then had dinner while chatting with Kento (my grandma was at a class)...... Today I just relaxed, chatted with people, played games, worked on my website.... It was all very nice, but not interesting for you... Sorry. ;)

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Yeah. School on Sunday was a weird experience..... It felt too much like Monday. Now my mind calendar is all confused.I didn't get to bed until late last night... I got my podcast set up and started submitting it places.... I went to bed around 1 but couldn't fall asleep for a while.........Then it was up at around 7:00, of course. A quick breakfast, and then I was off to school with Yuutaro.

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I'm SOOO sorry it's taken so long. I'm such a procrastinaterTonkatsu!!!!! Lunch... Mmmmm...Some monkeys... There were lots of them.More monkeys!Rafiki!!!!! :) Not really, but it's a natural association, right? ;)These guys are just funny looking... I like them!One of my many bad pictures of lemurs.... Unfortunately, it's the best I got.Some chimps.... Cute! If you can zoom in on the two cuddling

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A good day, a bad day. A stressful day, a relaxing day. Why is today full of contradictions? Oh well.... I'll talk it out here....So I get up today about 9:00.... That was nice. I actually woke up at 5 after a really weird almost nightmare-ish dream, but was able to go back to sleep.Anyway, I used my computer until about 10:00, then went out to see about getting something to eat. I had half an

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Sorry I didn't get the pictures posted today.... Tomorrow! And that's final!So... Today.... Today was a good day. Something about Fridays.... They just feel good!Up early, of course.... For school. I must have slept well last night, because it wasn't that bad getting up! Then I ate another of those brilliant chocolate pudding croissant things... So good...So then I finished getting ready for

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I meant to post the pictures today.... But I didn't.... Oh well. Tomorrow maybe, and if not, definitely Saturday... At least some will go up. Saturday is a holiday, so no class... Yay!So, today was kind of a struggle for me... Forced myself to get up, ate some breakfast, then rushed to get ready. No need to worry about being late, really, but oh well. Walked to school with Yuutaro as usual....

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How did I forget mentioning this??? It's like the biggest most important news of the day!I got an e-mail from my mom today. It said "I got the job!". Well, that means we're moving.... Again. Not that I have much to miss in Independence. I love the place, but that lack of friends was kind of sad. I am really going to miss the house though... And being so close to grandma... And we're going to be

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OK.. So it's Wednesday. Wednesdays are exhausting! And here's the inside scoop.......Wake up early, as usual on school days. Groan...... This morning I got up without a problem though. Although I was cold..... Anyway, got up, then went to have breakfast. Part of an apple and a croissant-like thing filled with chocolate pudding-like stuff. Yummm.... Got dressed, got stuff ready for school, then

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I forgot to post AGAIN! Grrr... Yesterday, of course. Then I've been putting it off today. Not sure why.Anyway, first off, Sunday. Since I didn't write much on Sunday. Sunday was a lazy day for me. I really just hung around the house all day. Slept late, got up and ate brunch, used the computer.... I think that's about all I did. Until the evening of course, when I went to the Bible study... That

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I didn't do much today, so I'll tack it on to tomorrow's post.... I know I've been lagging these past few days... Sorry! But I really need sleep now....

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I forgot to post yesterday!!!! I guess I got caught up in talking to Kento, submitting something to ATH, then planning my podcast.... But that's no excuse.Yesterday... Saturday! Got up, had some breakfast, then got ready to go to the potluck. The potluck was fun... They had it at a really nice place... It was kind of lodge-ish... I liked it. :p First we listened to some people speak (students...)

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Up at 7:00 this morning.... SEVEN! EEEEEK!!!!!! I am NOT a morning person... If you can't tell.Left at 7:30 for school. Grandma's friend who volunteers at the school (I think...) went with me. She stayed the whole day, which was both kind of weird and kind of nice. There's a group of girls, seems like a nice group, that accepted me in almost immediately. We played dodge ball together in PE... And

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Up at about 9:00 this morning, too the zoo at about 10:20!Met Kanda at Chiba station, then ate tonkatsu. Yummm... Then off to the zoo! :) We took the monorail, which I'm still debating whether to call a "flying train" or an "upside down train".When we got to the zoo, almost no one was there. Well, there was a big school group, but they were leaving. We wandered around, and came across the monkeys

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Well, it started out fairly ordinary.... Got up, ate some breakfast (half an apple), then went with my grandma to her English class. That's always interesting. Today we played a treasure game. I finished first, then helped the others... My "treasure" was a pile of newspaper ads.... :p Oh boy! I donated them to the "Sam-chan uses shredded newspaper as kitty litter sometimes" cause. A great cause,

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To post, that is....Well, there really isn't much to post, actually... Yuutaro has the flu.... Umm... So grandma was taking care of him this morning while Tomoko shopped. So I had an apple for breakfast. Then I used the computer for a bit.... Then I had KFC for lunch. Computer, Japanese class.... I was removed from the high class.... Sort of. The classes were all rearranged, so now I'm in a class

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I was tired... I unintentionally slept until noon... Yikes! That's going to have to stop.... Oh well.When I DID finally get up, not much was going on anyway.... So I went online. Mondays are lazy days.... Nothing scheduled. So I just hung around online all day.... Not very interesting, I know. I practiced kanji (to see what I need to review), and found that I could remember 56 characters. That's

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Here are some pictures of my presents.Here's the crab Yuutaro gave me (Sebastion), the daschund Nanako gave me, and the back of the red Labrador shirt Tomoko gave me.This is the front of the same shirt... Hard to tell from that picture. but it is a true red.Here's the Yahoo! coat... With a close-up on the Yahoo! :pAnd here is the awesome-rific card Kento sent me... Click it to see its full

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Man, today was so much fun! Sundays tend to be fun days for me... :p Ice skating was GREAT!!!!! I would like to be able to do that more.... I was pretty good! Didn't fall down much, although of course I fell down sometimes.... Ended in a fall, actually. :p But I had a BLAST!!!!! It was only my second time ice skating... Yuutaro and Nanako's first. Their dad (Tatsuya) brought us (not Tomoko... I

Emihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15655233382978207756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19132285.post-1138446041977544582006-01-28T19:41:00.000+09:002006-01-28T20:00:43.203+09:00

Today was my birthday! :) In Japan anyway. In the states my birthday has just begun... ;) Mwahaha.Anyway, it started out alright.. Wake up at 9:00 and catch a ride from a neighbor to my Japanese class (the 1-on-1 volunteer one). I didn't really want to go, but I did, and it went well.After that I caught a ride back to the house, and had lunch. Food... Always good. :p Then I got online for a while

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Here are the pictures from the 27th. :)Just getting started! The batter was spooned out, then time to add meat and shrimp!Mmm.. Soba. This is the part that went in the middle.....A finished product!An even more finished product! Decked out with sauce and stuffs.And the adorable pooch that wanted to eat our meat. This dog is the reason I've come to the conclusion that poodles are pretty cute if

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Why am I using the word backlogged so much? Because I like it! :p Anyway, I wrote this about 15 minutes ago, while blogger was being mean to me...1/27/2006 11:02 PM -I still might get this up on the 27th... If I'm lucky. Blogger is picking on me though. It wont let me upload my cheesecake in a cup pictures. So whether that works or not will decide if I get this up tonight or not.Anyway, today was

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1/26/2006 9:52 PM -The backlogging continues. I was feeling really sick today and just felt like chatting, so I didn't do any of the stuff today... And blogger is down anyway, so that doesn't matter much. It says 4-4:30 PM PST, which should be 9-9:30 AM JST... Well, 12 hours later it's still down! So I guess that works as a good excuse.This morning my dad left for the states.... I got up to have

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The number of food pictures I post is insane. I could make a blog simply full of food. I already have an iPhoto album devoted to food...Mmm... Sukiyaki. A random assortment of stuff being cooked at the table... Fun fun. :pStuff in raw egg... There's some mochi, some tofu, some meat, and some mushrooms... :)This just amused me.. cheesecake in a cup! And it was pretty good, considering it was

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1/25/2006 10:51 PM -Yes, I have internet again... But I'm still getting the backlogged stuff up, and I want it to be in chronological order.... So this one will be a backlogged post too. Backlogged might be a word I made up... Oh well.So today I got to sleep in. My dad had a doctors appointment, so I got to sleep.... Yay! When he got back we had lunch. Mmmm... Lunch! Then we went to "Electric

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1/25/2006 11:47 AM -I just got terrible, terrible news!!!! And I really hope I misunderstood.... Apple sold PIXAR???? To Disney, of all companies??? WHY??? Nooo!!!!!!!!!!! Not Pixar! That COULD give hope to Disney, but I see it more as dooming Pixar..... I love Pixar! How could they sell it to a dying company??? They were only supposed to do one more movie with Disney! Pixar had a future..... Why

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Maybe I posted about them a while back... I can't remember now. But I took these on the 24th, so figured I'd post them with the 24th posts. THese are what I call duck/pigeon/dove cookies. I used to think they were ducks, then thought they were pigeons, before finally figuring out they were supposed to be doves. This realization was made difficult by the fact that doves and pigeons are the same

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I've been told that even with large quantities of pictures, things are loading fine for at least one dial-up user... :) So I guess I can stop apologizing to dial-up users... Unless they have REALLY bad dial-up.Ramen... Mmm... With veggies and stuff! It was really good, but big... I could only eat about half of it.Place mats are awesome... Don't you just want to hug it??? :pThis is Nao and me at

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I think I'll finish the backlogged posts tomorrow....

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Dial up users probably hate my blog....Obento!!!!! Ate this on the train... Lots of stuff that I don't know what it is.... Man, that was bad grammar. Oh well.There on the right is my misokatsu, and on the left is my dad's giant misokatsu.A close up on my misokatsu (which by the way, if I didn't say it already, is tonkatsu with miso on it).He ate it! That was what was left of my dad's giant

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1/24/2006 11:08 PM -So I said I'd write about yesterday today, so I'm keeping my word. Even though today was tons more interesting.We stayed in Kanda night before last, and got up at about 8:30-9:00 to catch another train. It was BACK to Osaka for us! Took the train to Osaka (3 hours of sudoku fun... And obento!), then took the subway to the Mekiki office in Osaka, which was conveniently attached

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More apologizes to dial-up users.Lots of Osaka Castle pictures.... The second to last one is one of the golden koi near the top of the castle.These are pictures of Osaka taken from the 8th floor, the view point. I love the "invisible" building in the second one (of course it's really just a reflection, but it looks awesome).Osaka Castle again, from the bottom... Through trees.Rulers of the castle

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1/23/2006 2:17 PM -In Osaka again now. Just can't get enough of the place. ;) Actually, my dad had another meeting.... That's besides the point.So as for today so far, not much going on. Wake up, go to the station, ride a shinkansen to Osaka (lots of sudoku and looking at snow....), then taking the subway here. Not much.However, yesterday I didn't get to write much about what I did.... I was

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1/22/2006 10:45 PM -So tired.... I think I'll try to keep this short. I'll write more about it tomorrow.... I hope!!!! So... Quick summary of today.Up early, breakfast at the hotel. Yum! Caught a train to the Osaka Castle, and went there. Very cool. I'll post pics later, and hopefully write more about it.... Too tired right now. Almost sleep time. Then we caught a train to Kyoto, where we had

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Fugu pictures!!!!! This is puffer fish, poisonous if not prepared properly, but delicious.Fugu sashimi! This is the stuff you eat raw. Good stuff.... Chewy, kind of like octopus. But tastier.This is what we started with.... Lots of veggies my dad ate for me, some stuff I thought was spicy, and the yummy yummy sashimi.Fried fugu.... Good stuff! We had already eaten most of it when I remembered to

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I continue to apologize to dial-up users.Here is a bell at the entrance to the Golden Pavilion.Those are just a bunch of pictures of the pavilion, me at the pavilion, my dad at the pavilion.... Lots of pictures of the pavilion.Here is the outside of the 1001 statues place.... No photos allowed inside, so I took a couple outside instead.

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I'll get more of my backdated entries and pictures up later.... Sleepy time now. I'll post about today (the 23rd) later too, although today was fairly uneventful.Probably wont have internet again until the 25th.... So I'll post then.

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1/21/2006 10:44 PM-Another great day! Up early to find that it was SNOWING!!!!! :) In Kanda! We walked to the train station in the snow, then got on our train. On the train for 3 hours (lots of snacks, dozing off, and sudoku), then we got to Kyoto! We took the subway from the train station, and then took a taxi to Kyoto Hotel, where Mekiki (a group my dad is with) was having a meeting thing. We

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So so sorry to all you dial-up users.... This is going to take forever to load for you. I really apologize... But I got some great pictures, so it's worth it! ;)Let's start off with the red panda! I got a lot of pictures, trying the whole time to get a GOOD picture... But I failed, so I ended up with quite a few decent pictures. This being one of them.Elephant! Man, those things STINK! But...

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1/20/2006 8:16 PM-What a tiring but great day.First I had to get up at 8:00. So I got up and got ready to be away from Kimitsu for 5 days. I had done most of my getting ready the night before, so mostly I was good to go. Then I had a quick breakfast, and Tomoko drove my grandma and me to Kimitsu station. We waited in the cold for a few minutes until our shinkansen (bullet train) came. Then we

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I was ultimately confused today when I went to a Japanese Bible study with one of the people from my grandma's English class. And I was really tired. That didn't help. But it was all OK. I survived. I'm not entirely sure what was going on, but I survived.I'm going to a cemetery tomorrow. Visiting my granpa and aunt's graves.... And meeting up with my dad so we can go to Kyoto on Saturday. Not

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Here are a couple pictures of Sam-chan, my grandma's ancient cat.

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I was woken up at 8:30 today by the phone. It was my dad calling. Since I had to get up soon anyway, I decided not to go back to sleep, but get online and see what was going on. Well, big news for people like me.... Meaning the Westies. Luella Jane West was born! Yay! That made me happy. I couldn't stop grinning... :)Then at breakfast I was having my natto with egg and onion, the best way. I

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Well, after the class today I went to the grocery store with my grandma. I was walking through the aisles when I noticed something strange.........You know how a lot of stores play music over their speakers, right? While as I'm walking through the aisles I started listening to the music.... And I started realizing that every few aisles it was a new song. And I don't mean like a new song playing

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Just got back from another Japanese class. This one is more class-like. I was put in the high class, where I proceeded to have NO clue what anyone was saying.... Oh well. I'll live. Then after class they brought all of the classes together for ocha (green tea) and snacks... Where they made me and a few other people introduce ourselves. There was cheesecake though, so I didn't mind. Mmmm...

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I'm tired. And slightly confused.My dad had to leave for more work stuff.... I went to the station with him because he had to reserve tickets for us for when we go to Kyoto. Then we met my grandma. She was with a friend at the doctors office.... Which looked suspiciously familiar to me... It made sense when my dad announced that that was also where my grandpa had died. Nice to know....Anyway, I

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I think today has been the most fun day so far! Of course there's not much to compare it with, but OK! It started off typical.... Fairly. I had breakfast. Came on the internet for a bit. Then Tomoko came and asked if I wanted some lunch, so I went upstairs to have lunch with them up there, since Grandma is at a part time job. I stayed up there for a while goofing off with the kids. Then we went

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