Wednesday, November 4, 2009

RIGHT!

Okay, okay, I admit, I suck at keeping things updated.

This is why I don’t own fish, I forget things unless they’re constantly bugging me (i.e. cats meowing and following me begging for food)

Whoops, it’s been almost  a month >.>

Just start smacking me every time you want me to update, that’ll work faster.

 

Sooo, yeah.

There was the school festival a while back, which was pretty fun. I’d always read about school festivals in manga, so it was pretty cool to visit one for the first time. It was mostly food stalls and very, very pushy sales people. I think all Japanese are practically born salesmen, they can shout loudly for long periods of time without getting bored out of their skulls.

I decided to explore the library about two weeks ago, and I was very happy to find a whole slew of mythology/folklore books that were out of print in America. Not only was almost the entirety of the color Fairy Books by Andrew Lang, but I found a very small book of Ainu myths (the Ainu are the native people of Hokkaido that have since almost all merged into regular Japanese), regrettably in Japanese, but that just gives me a mini project to work on.

There was also Tokyo Disneyland a week before Halloween. Wow was it crowded. There was a three hour wait for Haunted Mansion and the Winnie the Pooh ride along with a slew of other rides. Pirates, by contrast, was 40 minutes and Star Tours was about half an hour. Huh. I’m used to more fast/tall roller coasters, so even Space Mountain was a little tame. Star Tours was quite fun though, since the last time I went on that ride, I hadn’t seen the movies yet. Also, C-3PO spoke in Japanese. O_o yeah… quite amusing. It didn’t sound much like Anthony Daniels though.

Basically all I’ve been doing is class and homework and some extra projects on the side, so not much time/money for really fun stuff. Also, exams are coming up >.> so that’s more time cooped up.

If there’s something you want to hear about in particular (class, living, rent, cheese, whatever), just drop me a line and I can mention it. (BTW, Tammy, thanks for the bay leaves, though I haven’t had a cockroach problem since, I think the one just wanted to get out of the typhoon, though why it picked my room in particular, I don’t know)

Yeah, just digitally poke me if you think it’s been too long since I’ve updated. XD I become a lazy bum if I think no one’s paying attention.

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