Soo....after 6 months of not writing anything in my blog I`m back to complete it...and hopefully continue it...
Sooooo just a few points of interest.
During Golden Week April 28th-May 8th(a Japanese holidy that starts at the end of April until beginning of May) I went with Steph, Chingyi, and Keri to Fukuoka for 2 days, Nagasaki for 2 days, and Okinawa for 4 days (went to Naha the first day and then went to a beach resort area for the last 3 days) and lastly, Tokyo for 3 days. Good fun vacation with the girls and had many hilarious adventures with them. Ate lots of good food and bought waaaaaaaayyyyy too much Chinsuko cookies....lol Steph bought a trunk load of beni-imo tarts....=P
I remember we kept complaining about the lack of hot men anywhere except beautiful Fukuoka. I have to say that Fukuoka is now one of my favorite places to go and I intend to go there more often. The night life there is also amazing! Man, I already want to go back. We took some awesome pictures and had a wonderful conversation time sitting next to the Tenjin river and watching some guys doing tricks on their bikes. We went to the Fukuoka tower, Ohori Park, Hawks Dome, Canal city and just did alot of wandering. And we ate all the famous foods. We were just so in awe of a big city after living the Hokkaido life.
Nagasaki was just rainy allllll the time. And plus the men there were just....no....lol But we visited the important atomic bomb places there. It was my second time going to an a-bomb museum (the first being in Hiroshima) and it wasn`t any easier to get through. I cried again after that and we all needed ice cream afterwards. We then rode up a ropeway to get to the top of a mountain to take in the nightview of the city. Apparently, Nagasaki is one of the top 3 nightview spots in all of Japan; Hakodate being one of them. We also visited Megane-bashi and walked around alot.
Afterwards we hopped on over to Okinawa and went to check in to our "guesthouse" in Naha. Wow. It was just one huge room full of 3 tiered bunk beds. Enough for 15 girls...and there were probably 11 or so girls in the room that night. 1 toilet, 1 shower. For 15 girls. In a very hot and humid room with no wind passing through. Yeah, none of us really slept well that night or took a shower and just left early the next morning to get our rental car and head for our beautiful beach resort. The resort was wonderufl, our room was wonderful! I absolutely loved this resort and the beach!! The water was SSOOOOOO BLUE!! Too bad it was raining most of the time with only about 30 minutes of sunlight each day.
After a wonderful couple of days at the beach, we left for Tokyo. In Tokyo we stayed in Shin-Okubo which is the Korea town of Tokyo. HOT KOREAN BOYS EVERYWHERE!!! MAN!! Anyways, it was nice to stay there and go shopping and meet up with Kuma and Jun (my previous conversation partners/students at UCI from Doshisha) and Tyler! Good times.
Then I came back and went to work. Nothing really exciting happened between then and now. Just have become busier. OH! I started up my hip hop class! It`s once every twoo weeks for an hour each and Ihave about 10-15 students. It`s a lot of fun to teach and dance with them, but really hot in this summer weather.
Now it`s already August, and my old JET friends have left to start their new adventure back in the states or wherever they are going. I wish them the best of luck and that I`ll miss them very much!
But! There are new JETS!!! I just came back yesterday from presenting at Sapporo Orientation. And I met quite a lot of the new JETs. They were awesome and I look forward to meeting them again. I`m incredibly exhuasted today but had a wonderful time.
First night we got there we went to eat Shabushabu in Susukino and then went to Red Bar near the Sapporo station area. Awesome place. Second day was the Sapps orientation and then in the evening we went to eat at the new Kirin Beer garden which was beautiful and delicious! Next day was the beginning of my presentations which I was nervous for, but I was able to do my presentation well enough. I hope they found it useful, or will find it useful. Anyways, that`s the end of my post this time. But I hope to post more in the future.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Part 2 of Late Late Posts
December 27th Monday
Day out with my long time friend Iza. It`s been forever since I`ve seen her, so I was quite excited to hang out with her. She came to pick me up and we spent the day in Santa Monica pier and beach. Went shopping, ate good foods, and had tons of fun. One of the most relaxing days for me. I really missed the beach and everything that comes with it. Going home we were stuck in traffic. So we just boosted up the music and had a party in the car. lol Something I missed. haha. Thanks for a wonderful day Iza!
December 28th Tuesday
Spent the morning and afternoon with Chrissy! I missed this girl who`s helped through a lot online. Had a wonderful day with her at Victoria Gardens.
In the evening at around 8pm I met up with high school friends who I haven`t seen in a long time at the bowling alley. I was suprised at the turn up. ABout 10 people came and we all had so much fun bowling. I also magically got second place in bowling! I used to suck so bad and be in last place! Leveled up WOOT! I had a superb evening with my old high school peeps.
December 29th Wednesday
Spent the day in Irvine and had a great evening with Sawanya and Christina. It`s been a while ladies. I had some wonderful concoction of cocktail and spent the night at Christina`s amazing apt! Thank you so much Christina!!
December 30th Thursday
Spent the day in Irvine, again, shopping. Then in the evening went to Macoroni Grill in Claremont to eat with Ale and Chrissy. It was good to catch up with both of them again, especially after not seeing Ale after a while.
December 31st Friday
Sooooo, I went to Dad`s restaurant tonight to celebrate the New Year`s countdown. I invited Mel and Mollie along and my cousins were there as well. It was an awesome night of countdowns. And I wore my cute/sexy red dress! heheh.
January 1st Saturday
Woke up early in the morning to go to he airport to pick up Su and Tama-chan. But the flight ended up being 4 hours late because someone on their plane got sick and had to have an emergency landing in Anchorage Alaska....lol
So I picked them up and we went off to Hollywood. Then went to my house to drop off their stuff and then left for Victoria Gardens. I took them to eat Johnny Rocket`s.
January 2nd Sunday
Spent the day in Irvine chilling and shopping and then came back to Dad`s restaurant to eat dinner
January 3rd Monday
DISNEYLAND!! And it was all rainy. Plus this day was the beginning of classes for a lot of kids. So man it was empty compared to how it normally is. YES! We got to ride all the rides that we wanted without having to wait too long for anything. YES. Amazingly good day for Disney.
January 4th Tuesday
Took Su and Tama-chan to the airport the next morning. Was too tired afterwards so I just came home and slept the rest of the morning. Then in the afternoon/evening I went back to Irvine to have dinner with my ol guy roommates. SOOO MUCH FUN! I got to see Toast as well. It`s been forever. I hadn`t laughed like that in a long time...Love you boys, thanks for the amazing evening.
January 5th Wednesday
Lunch with Mel. Actually afternoon tea. Yummers. Natsukashii seriously. It`s been so long since I`ve had afternoon tea with scones and the whole set. It was a trip down memory lane in there.
In the evening I went clubbing with my ol high school friends. We went to Oasis which is a gay club in Upland. I was like "THERE`S A CLUB IN UPLAND!??!??!?!" But it was awesome! The music was great and the guys there were hot...albeit gay. Damn. But I got on the dance floor and within 5 seconds I was danced up upon...lol wow. I feel pretty good about myself. hehe. Incredibly fun evening.
January 6th Thursday
Spent my last evening with my family.
January 7th Friday
Spent my last day with my family, and went to my dad`s restaurant before heading out to the airport. I`m really hoping that my family will come visit me in Hokkaido this summer. I can`t wait to see them again.
January 9th Sunday
Arrived back in Japan early morning and Tama-chan came to pick me up at the train station. Mago-chan was there as well. We had a late lunch and then I was taken back home to unpack my crap. It`s interesting to be back in Japan, but I really will miss CA.
Day out with my long time friend Iza. It`s been forever since I`ve seen her, so I was quite excited to hang out with her. She came to pick me up and we spent the day in Santa Monica pier and beach. Went shopping, ate good foods, and had tons of fun. One of the most relaxing days for me. I really missed the beach and everything that comes with it. Going home we were stuck in traffic. So we just boosted up the music and had a party in the car. lol Something I missed. haha. Thanks for a wonderful day Iza!
December 28th Tuesday
Spent the morning and afternoon with Chrissy! I missed this girl who`s helped through a lot online. Had a wonderful day with her at Victoria Gardens.
In the evening at around 8pm I met up with high school friends who I haven`t seen in a long time at the bowling alley. I was suprised at the turn up. ABout 10 people came and we all had so much fun bowling. I also magically got second place in bowling! I used to suck so bad and be in last place! Leveled up WOOT! I had a superb evening with my old high school peeps.
December 29th Wednesday
Spent the day in Irvine and had a great evening with Sawanya and Christina. It`s been a while ladies. I had some wonderful concoction of cocktail and spent the night at Christina`s amazing apt! Thank you so much Christina!!
December 30th Thursday
Spent the day in Irvine, again, shopping. Then in the evening went to Macoroni Grill in Claremont to eat with Ale and Chrissy. It was good to catch up with both of them again, especially after not seeing Ale after a while.
December 31st Friday
Sooooo, I went to Dad`s restaurant tonight to celebrate the New Year`s countdown. I invited Mel and Mollie along and my cousins were there as well. It was an awesome night of countdowns. And I wore my cute/sexy red dress! heheh.
January 1st Saturday
Woke up early in the morning to go to he airport to pick up Su and Tama-chan. But the flight ended up being 4 hours late because someone on their plane got sick and had to have an emergency landing in Anchorage Alaska....lol
So I picked them up and we went off to Hollywood. Then went to my house to drop off their stuff and then left for Victoria Gardens. I took them to eat Johnny Rocket`s.
January 2nd Sunday
Spent the day in Irvine chilling and shopping and then came back to Dad`s restaurant to eat dinner
January 3rd Monday
DISNEYLAND!! And it was all rainy. Plus this day was the beginning of classes for a lot of kids. So man it was empty compared to how it normally is. YES! We got to ride all the rides that we wanted without having to wait too long for anything. YES. Amazingly good day for Disney.
January 4th Tuesday
Took Su and Tama-chan to the airport the next morning. Was too tired afterwards so I just came home and slept the rest of the morning. Then in the afternoon/evening I went back to Irvine to have dinner with my ol guy roommates. SOOO MUCH FUN! I got to see Toast as well. It`s been forever. I hadn`t laughed like that in a long time...Love you boys, thanks for the amazing evening.
January 5th Wednesday
Lunch with Mel. Actually afternoon tea. Yummers. Natsukashii seriously. It`s been so long since I`ve had afternoon tea with scones and the whole set. It was a trip down memory lane in there.
In the evening I went clubbing with my ol high school friends. We went to Oasis which is a gay club in Upland. I was like "THERE`S A CLUB IN UPLAND!??!??!?!" But it was awesome! The music was great and the guys there were hot...albeit gay. Damn. But I got on the dance floor and within 5 seconds I was danced up upon...lol wow. I feel pretty good about myself. hehe. Incredibly fun evening.
January 6th Thursday
Spent my last evening with my family.
January 7th Friday
Spent my last day with my family, and went to my dad`s restaurant before heading out to the airport. I`m really hoping that my family will come visit me in Hokkaido this summer. I can`t wait to see them again.
January 9th Sunday
Arrived back in Japan early morning and Tama-chan came to pick me up at the train station. Mago-chan was there as well. We had a late lunch and then I was taken back home to unpack my crap. It`s interesting to be back in Japan, but I really will miss CA.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
LATE LATE LATE POST!
Alright guys, so...it`s been over 2 months since I`ve last updated. Too much stuff happening and not enough time to sit down and just write about it. But now that I`ve sprained my ankle and don`t have a test to worry about anymore I have time! Wee! So everything`s going to be just simple tabs on everything from November till now. This is mainly for my reference.
November 5th Friday
Today the BOE, elementary, middle, high school teachers all came together and had a floor curling tournament. It was so much fun! Afterwards we all went to go eat at a relaxed banquet together and played games. Then I went drinking with the middle school teachers afterwards.
November 6th Saturday
Junco and Cheep concert at the elementary school
November 12th Friday
Volleyball tournament at the middle school. Afterwards all the teachers were supposed to go out together to have dinner, but ended up unable to. So Mr. Oshare took me out and we went to eat and stuff.
November 13th Saturday
BOE trip to Obihiro. Sadly, this is on the same day as Ayumi`s wedding. So I couldn`t attend the wedding. Congrats though Ayumi! But this trip was amazingly fun! I love the crazy BOE peoples. We went to the Wine Castle and Ryuugetsu to buy lots of sweets.
November 16th Tuesday
PTA bowling with the middle school teachers and parents. I was in last place. Okay, I suck at bowling...lol
November 19th Friday
Had an enkai at the Lakeside Sakuraoka with the young peoples crew. Delicious and fun.
November 20th Saturday
A fateful day of events. I decided to invite Mr. Oshare over for dinner and all was going so well until the end. And well, I guess he`s not the guy for me...the following weeks after this day were all pretty awkward with him. Well, I wasn`t awkward, but he was soooo awkward turtle. Thankfully the next day I was able to hang out with a friend and just felt better about everything. Whatever, I will get over this whole disaster.
November 23rd Tuesday
Went out with Genshuu`s family today. I love them! We had a delicious lunch made by Kaori-san and then went to go ice skating! I`m definitely spending more time with this family!
Genshuu and Jinyuu are my cutie babies!!
December 3rd Friday
I was supposed to have a party with my girlfriends in the town for Christmas, but Mr. Oshare asked if I wanted to go out with him that night. And so I went with him instead of going to the party. I know it sounds stupid of me to have done, but at the time I was in love with this guy, so love makes you do stupid things. Looking back at that now, I should`ve gone to the party instead....
December 5th Sunday
JLPT2 today!!! Ridiculous!!! But I got to see a lot of hot non-Japanese guys! Like KOREAN BOYS!! OH YEAH!!! The listening part of the test was easy, but the reading was damn hard! I`m not sure how exactly this test result is going to turn out, but I`m hoping for a pass.
December 8th Wednesday
Left to go to Sapporo today with Collin for the Mid year conference.
December 10th Friday
Partied with Heidi`s coworkers tonight! Her coworkers are hilarious as well as pretty high up there in the heirarchy of the goverment. Thanks Heidi for inviting me! It was very fun!
December 12th Sunday
WOOO!!!! Miura Daichi`s concert today with the wonderful Steph Palm!! It was held at Penny Lane in Sapporo. Seeing him in concert was amazing!! I love this man even more now! And then watching him do his one dance session was just soooo HAWT! He proves that you don`t have to be a Johnny`s boy to be amazing! HAH! Japan, you are improving! lol The fans were pretty funny as well. Aaahhhh amazing concert!
December 16th Thursday
Today was the young people`s group Christmas party. WEE!! I got a towel and shoe deodarant!! The presents are randomly received through a game of bingo. lol So some people got things that totally don`t match them. My present was a small blankie, slippers, incense, and cup and saucer. Totally the best present there because it had so much stuff and preps you for winter. Everyone was like "DUDE! That`s an awesome gift! All under 10 bucks??!" Hehehe. I can`t help it, I love buying gifts for people so I get a little over myself when I go shopping.
December 17th Friday
Soo...this evening I didn`t want to cook because I`m going back home to the US tomorrow. So I asked Mr.Oshare if he wanted to go eat with me tonight. Oh, btw, we`re back to semi-normal friends terms now after couple weeks of awkwardness. He drove that night and in the car I decided to share to him my grief of having only 5 minutes to transfer trains twice with all my luggage tomorrow and I don`t know how I`m going to do this. Then all of a sudden he was like "Why don`t I take you to the second station tomorrow so you don`t have to transfer twice?" I just looked at him all surprised but was like "OMG really? Is that really okay?! YES PLEASE!!" But at the same time I wasn`t sure what was going on because we were both having an unsure almost turbulent relationship during the past couple of weeks. I was shocked but pleased so I took him up on the offer.
December 18th Saturday
Mr. Oshare picked me up and took me to the airport. Along the way I wasn`t sure what he was trying to do, but he was being rude and somewhat obnoxious to me. But he was driving me so I didn`t want to say anything. Then when we were close to the station he suddenly said "Hey, Teari, when are you coming back?" "Jan. 9th" "Oh, I`ll still be in Okinawa. I was going to come pick you up." "Uh...what? Uh...no it`s alright, but thank you." And this was the nice part of the convo because after this he said, "But Teari, you wanted me to come pick you up didn`t you?" "?" "Yeah. That`s why you said that you only had 5 minutes to transfer trains and stuff was because you were trying to hint to me that you wanted a ride. You could`ve just asked me directly." "WHAT?! Okay, no. That`s not what I was trying to hint at. It was just for conversation. If I wanted a ride, I`d ask directly. I had no other meaning behind what I was saying." I was kind of a little angry at him for saying all that. I know he knows that I still like him, but that was all uncalled for. Anyways, that`s how we parted, but I did text him a thank you for driving. But I was still a little mad at him for all that. Anyways, forget all that and CA here I go!
December 18th Saturday US time
YAY CALI!!! I`VE MISSED YOU HARDCORE!! Yet why do you have to be pouring rain?! And then my Dad forgot to come pick me up cuz he messed up the times...lol S`ok, I knew it was going to happen. But I was so happy to be back in the states! Woo! Dad took me to eat Taiwanese food! MAN! I missed it so damn much! This is my comfort food yo! Hahh....good life..
December 19th Sunday
Went to have lunch with my grandparents. Just chilled with my family all day today. Then in the evening went to see Linda and Mel and had an awesome dinner and convo with them. Love you girls!
December 21st Tuesday
Went to Ontario to see Leslie and Stephanie H! Spent a whole day shopping with the ladies and went to eat at my dad`s restaurant.
December 22nd Wednesday
Irvine Day! Spent the afternoon with my girl Sawanya! She`s still as lovely as ever. Had Korean food!! HELL YEAH! Man, it`s been forever. Then in the evening I had Lucille`s BBQ with my old roommates and Mike and Lillian. BEST NIGHT EVER!! So much fun. It`s been a long time since I`ve laughed like that. Or had a real laughter come out of me.
December 23rd Thursday
Spent the day with Natalie Chen! My long lost high school other Asian friend! lol I`m so glad to be able to meet up with her because she came down from NorCal for Christmas. We ate Hong Kong food for lunch and then in the evening met up with her other cute chick friend from Berkely. I had an awesome time with this girl today!
December 24th Friday
Christmas Eve and MY B-DAY! Went to Disneyland with my family today! It was super crowded but lotsa fun! Good times!
December 25th Saturday Christmas
Merry Christmas! Went to my grandparents house and made Ban Coc (Cambodian style takoyaki, without tako and with shrimp and coconut juice instead). Samuel and Joey came over to hang with us as well.
December 26th Sunday
Went shopping at Victoria Gardens with my mom and Vivian and Lawrence. Damn crowded! But I got to eat Johnny Rocket`s. YESS REAL BURGERS!
Anyways, I will continue the rest of the week later on. This is already about 2 months worth, so I`ll let it finish here. Alrighties, thanks for reading. But really, this was for myself so that I could remember all that happened. Otsukare though! ^^
November 5th Friday
Today the BOE, elementary, middle, high school teachers all came together and had a floor curling tournament. It was so much fun! Afterwards we all went to go eat at a relaxed banquet together and played games. Then I went drinking with the middle school teachers afterwards.
November 6th Saturday
Junco and Cheep concert at the elementary school
November 12th Friday
Volleyball tournament at the middle school. Afterwards all the teachers were supposed to go out together to have dinner, but ended up unable to. So Mr. Oshare took me out and we went to eat and stuff.
November 13th Saturday
BOE trip to Obihiro. Sadly, this is on the same day as Ayumi`s wedding. So I couldn`t attend the wedding. Congrats though Ayumi! But this trip was amazingly fun! I love the crazy BOE peoples. We went to the Wine Castle and Ryuugetsu to buy lots of sweets.
November 16th Tuesday
PTA bowling with the middle school teachers and parents. I was in last place. Okay, I suck at bowling...lol
November 19th Friday
Had an enkai at the Lakeside Sakuraoka with the young peoples crew. Delicious and fun.
November 20th Saturday
A fateful day of events. I decided to invite Mr. Oshare over for dinner and all was going so well until the end. And well, I guess he`s not the guy for me...the following weeks after this day were all pretty awkward with him. Well, I wasn`t awkward, but he was soooo awkward turtle. Thankfully the next day I was able to hang out with a friend and just felt better about everything. Whatever, I will get over this whole disaster.
November 23rd Tuesday
Went out with Genshuu`s family today. I love them! We had a delicious lunch made by Kaori-san and then went to go ice skating! I`m definitely spending more time with this family!
Genshuu and Jinyuu are my cutie babies!!
December 3rd Friday
I was supposed to have a party with my girlfriends in the town for Christmas, but Mr. Oshare asked if I wanted to go out with him that night. And so I went with him instead of going to the party. I know it sounds stupid of me to have done, but at the time I was in love with this guy, so love makes you do stupid things. Looking back at that now, I should`ve gone to the party instead....
December 5th Sunday
JLPT2 today!!! Ridiculous!!! But I got to see a lot of hot non-Japanese guys! Like KOREAN BOYS!! OH YEAH!!! The listening part of the test was easy, but the reading was damn hard! I`m not sure how exactly this test result is going to turn out, but I`m hoping for a pass.
December 8th Wednesday
Left to go to Sapporo today with Collin for the Mid year conference.
December 10th Friday
Partied with Heidi`s coworkers tonight! Her coworkers are hilarious as well as pretty high up there in the heirarchy of the goverment. Thanks Heidi for inviting me! It was very fun!
December 12th Sunday
WOOO!!!! Miura Daichi`s concert today with the wonderful Steph Palm!! It was held at Penny Lane in Sapporo. Seeing him in concert was amazing!! I love this man even more now! And then watching him do his one dance session was just soooo HAWT! He proves that you don`t have to be a Johnny`s boy to be amazing! HAH! Japan, you are improving! lol The fans were pretty funny as well. Aaahhhh amazing concert!
December 16th Thursday
Today was the young people`s group Christmas party. WEE!! I got a towel and shoe deodarant!! The presents are randomly received through a game of bingo. lol So some people got things that totally don`t match them. My present was a small blankie, slippers, incense, and cup and saucer. Totally the best present there because it had so much stuff and preps you for winter. Everyone was like "DUDE! That`s an awesome gift! All under 10 bucks??!" Hehehe. I can`t help it, I love buying gifts for people so I get a little over myself when I go shopping.
December 17th Friday
Soo...this evening I didn`t want to cook because I`m going back home to the US tomorrow. So I asked Mr.Oshare if he wanted to go eat with me tonight. Oh, btw, we`re back to semi-normal friends terms now after couple weeks of awkwardness. He drove that night and in the car I decided to share to him my grief of having only 5 minutes to transfer trains twice with all my luggage tomorrow and I don`t know how I`m going to do this. Then all of a sudden he was like "Why don`t I take you to the second station tomorrow so you don`t have to transfer twice?" I just looked at him all surprised but was like "OMG really? Is that really okay?! YES PLEASE!!" But at the same time I wasn`t sure what was going on because we were both having an unsure almost turbulent relationship during the past couple of weeks. I was shocked but pleased so I took him up on the offer.
December 18th Saturday
Mr. Oshare picked me up and took me to the airport. Along the way I wasn`t sure what he was trying to do, but he was being rude and somewhat obnoxious to me. But he was driving me so I didn`t want to say anything. Then when we were close to the station he suddenly said "Hey, Teari, when are you coming back?" "Jan. 9th" "Oh, I`ll still be in Okinawa. I was going to come pick you up." "Uh...what? Uh...no it`s alright, but thank you." And this was the nice part of the convo because after this he said, "But Teari, you wanted me to come pick you up didn`t you?" "?" "Yeah. That`s why you said that you only had 5 minutes to transfer trains and stuff was because you were trying to hint to me that you wanted a ride. You could`ve just asked me directly." "WHAT?! Okay, no. That`s not what I was trying to hint at. It was just for conversation. If I wanted a ride, I`d ask directly. I had no other meaning behind what I was saying." I was kind of a little angry at him for saying all that. I know he knows that I still like him, but that was all uncalled for. Anyways, that`s how we parted, but I did text him a thank you for driving. But I was still a little mad at him for all that. Anyways, forget all that and CA here I go!
December 18th Saturday US time
YAY CALI!!! I`VE MISSED YOU HARDCORE!! Yet why do you have to be pouring rain?! And then my Dad forgot to come pick me up cuz he messed up the times...lol S`ok, I knew it was going to happen. But I was so happy to be back in the states! Woo! Dad took me to eat Taiwanese food! MAN! I missed it so damn much! This is my comfort food yo! Hahh....good life..
December 19th Sunday
Went to have lunch with my grandparents. Just chilled with my family all day today. Then in the evening went to see Linda and Mel and had an awesome dinner and convo with them. Love you girls!
December 21st Tuesday
Went to Ontario to see Leslie and Stephanie H! Spent a whole day shopping with the ladies and went to eat at my dad`s restaurant.
December 22nd Wednesday
Irvine Day! Spent the afternoon with my girl Sawanya! She`s still as lovely as ever. Had Korean food!! HELL YEAH! Man, it`s been forever. Then in the evening I had Lucille`s BBQ with my old roommates and Mike and Lillian. BEST NIGHT EVER!! So much fun. It`s been a long time since I`ve laughed like that. Or had a real laughter come out of me.
December 23rd Thursday
Spent the day with Natalie Chen! My long lost high school other Asian friend! lol I`m so glad to be able to meet up with her because she came down from NorCal for Christmas. We ate Hong Kong food for lunch and then in the evening met up with her other cute chick friend from Berkely. I had an awesome time with this girl today!
December 24th Friday
Christmas Eve and MY B-DAY! Went to Disneyland with my family today! It was super crowded but lotsa fun! Good times!
December 25th Saturday Christmas
Merry Christmas! Went to my grandparents house and made Ban Coc (Cambodian style takoyaki, without tako and with shrimp and coconut juice instead). Samuel and Joey came over to hang with us as well.
December 26th Sunday
Went shopping at Victoria Gardens with my mom and Vivian and Lawrence. Damn crowded! But I got to eat Johnny Rocket`s. YESS REAL BURGERS!
Anyways, I will continue the rest of the week later on. This is already about 2 months worth, so I`ll let it finish here. Alrighties, thanks for reading. But really, this was for myself so that I could remember all that happened. Otsukare though! ^^
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
The rest of October
WHOA. It`s kind of been more than a month since I`ve uploaded anything....sorry guys! Been ridiculous busy and preoccupied. But now I`ve got time to write a little before heading off for a business trip.
October 18th Monday
Had a Halloween party with my nursery babies. They had so much fun and I had fun watching them be cute. <3 Then went to help the middle school kids with their last practice before Tuesday`s speech contest.
October 19th Tuesday
English Speech and Performance Contest day in Shibetsu. This year`s kids were all very amazing. It was pretty high level, I have to say. I was a judge again this year along with two other ALTs, and since I have to be fair, my kids didn`t win anything this year. The kids from all the different schools did really well, so it was difficult to judge this year. But everyone still did extremely wonderfully regardless.
October 22 Friday
After school today was the Elementary teacher`s trip. And we went to Sounkyou Hot Springs village. Ayumi (the 23 year old assistant teacher) also went. Yay! The bus ride took 2 hours and on the way there the other teachers had organized Bingo games for us to play. lol That was fun.
When we got there, we checked into our amazing rooms, which were half western style and half japanese style, and then went to the hot springs. They were amazing!! They had outside routenburou ones and a huge roman style inside hot springs. AMAZING!! I took a quick dip into the hot springs then got ready with the other women to go to our enkai dinner. The dinner was delicious! It was traditional style ryoukan enkai food. You sit on the tatami with a mini table in front of you and on the table a tray of amazing delicious foods were laid upon it. Man, I ate so much. Then we went to the second party at the bar lounge and sang our hearts out at karaoke. My teachers got sooooo drunk....and still wanted to drink more... But after that, other people went to the third party to drink, but Ayumi and I went back one more time to the hot springs and then went to sleep.
Next morning, I got up and went to the hot springs one last time before heading out with the other teachers to ride the cable car up Mount Kurodake. That was a relaxing ride up. Once that finished and we came back down, we got back on the bus and headed on home.
October 24th Sunday
I invited the chem teacher out to hang out today, with nowhere in particular in mind. So he suggested to go to Nayoro to eat lunch and then eat at the dessert parlor there. I drove. So I was kinda sick so I couldn`t really think properly, let alone in Japanese, causing me to be kind of silent for a while. SOrry! >.< But we had a good time there, then afterwards we came back to Shibetsu for bowling and karaoke. He`s so damn good at bowling! Like it was ridiculous! Strikes each time! And I just had gutters each time...suck. lol Actually while we were there I ran into one of my high school girls. She was like "Oh, boyfriend?" And I wasn`t sure what to say to that because he was still there listening to us and I just said "Uhm...no, friend." "Oh..." lol Yeah. Then he asked me if my student asked if he was my boyfriend, and when I said yes, he was like "Man, junior high and high school students all seem to like to think those things..haha." Okay. lol
We then went to sing Karaoke. And he was also so damn good at it! I jokingly said to him sing Ayaka`s songs and he just looked at me and said "Really? You want me to sing her songs...? Uh...alright" And he really did and it was CRAZY GOOD! He`s got a high voice, but sung it beautifully. I was quite impressed. After all that, he paid for the whole thing for me. Actually he paid for everything for me that day. That got my heart beating. It was really sweet of him. We then went home after that. Wonderful day. <3 Actually, wonderful weekend. However, things will start to get...interesting from here on out with him...you`ll just have to stay tuned in to the next episode to find out what our relationship is now...ehe...>D
October 29th Friday
This evening was a congratulatory party for one of the substitute teachers at my school because she passed the test that officially makes you a teacher. Hooray! Only a couple of the teachers were able to make the party, but we all wished her congratulations. I`m very happy for her, but at the same time it means she won`t be at our school anymore. Boo...
October 30th Saturday
This mornign until afternoon was my nursery babies recital/show where they show off dances and plays to their families. So cute!!!! OMG It was seriously the cutest recital ever!! WAAAHH!! My babies were all very happy to see me there as well and the parents thanked me for coming out and staying until the very end to watch the whole thing. I love my babies, of course I`d stay for them. This made me very warm and fuzzy inside. hehe
Thanks all! And my next update will prolly be sometime next week.
October 18th Monday
Had a Halloween party with my nursery babies. They had so much fun and I had fun watching them be cute. <3 Then went to help the middle school kids with their last practice before Tuesday`s speech contest.
October 19th Tuesday
English Speech and Performance Contest day in Shibetsu. This year`s kids were all very amazing. It was pretty high level, I have to say. I was a judge again this year along with two other ALTs, and since I have to be fair, my kids didn`t win anything this year. The kids from all the different schools did really well, so it was difficult to judge this year. But everyone still did extremely wonderfully regardless.
October 22 Friday
After school today was the Elementary teacher`s trip. And we went to Sounkyou Hot Springs village. Ayumi (the 23 year old assistant teacher) also went. Yay! The bus ride took 2 hours and on the way there the other teachers had organized Bingo games for us to play. lol That was fun.
When we got there, we checked into our amazing rooms, which were half western style and half japanese style, and then went to the hot springs. They were amazing!! They had outside routenburou ones and a huge roman style inside hot springs. AMAZING!! I took a quick dip into the hot springs then got ready with the other women to go to our enkai dinner. The dinner was delicious! It was traditional style ryoukan enkai food. You sit on the tatami with a mini table in front of you and on the table a tray of amazing delicious foods were laid upon it. Man, I ate so much. Then we went to the second party at the bar lounge and sang our hearts out at karaoke. My teachers got sooooo drunk....and still wanted to drink more... But after that, other people went to the third party to drink, but Ayumi and I went back one more time to the hot springs and then went to sleep.
Next morning, I got up and went to the hot springs one last time before heading out with the other teachers to ride the cable car up Mount Kurodake. That was a relaxing ride up. Once that finished and we came back down, we got back on the bus and headed on home.
October 24th Sunday
I invited the chem teacher out to hang out today, with nowhere in particular in mind. So he suggested to go to Nayoro to eat lunch and then eat at the dessert parlor there. I drove. So I was kinda sick so I couldn`t really think properly, let alone in Japanese, causing me to be kind of silent for a while. SOrry! >.< But we had a good time there, then afterwards we came back to Shibetsu for bowling and karaoke. He`s so damn good at bowling! Like it was ridiculous! Strikes each time! And I just had gutters each time...suck. lol Actually while we were there I ran into one of my high school girls. She was like "Oh, boyfriend?" And I wasn`t sure what to say to that because he was still there listening to us and I just said "Uhm...no, friend." "Oh..." lol Yeah. Then he asked me if my student asked if he was my boyfriend, and when I said yes, he was like "Man, junior high and high school students all seem to like to think those things..haha." Okay. lol
We then went to sing Karaoke. And he was also so damn good at it! I jokingly said to him sing Ayaka`s songs and he just looked at me and said "Really? You want me to sing her songs...? Uh...alright" And he really did and it was CRAZY GOOD! He`s got a high voice, but sung it beautifully. I was quite impressed. After all that, he paid for the whole thing for me. Actually he paid for everything for me that day. That got my heart beating. It was really sweet of him. We then went home after that. Wonderful day. <3 Actually, wonderful weekend. However, things will start to get...interesting from here on out with him...you`ll just have to stay tuned in to the next episode to find out what our relationship is now...ehe...>D
October 29th Friday
This evening was a congratulatory party for one of the substitute teachers at my school because she passed the test that officially makes you a teacher. Hooray! Only a couple of the teachers were able to make the party, but we all wished her congratulations. I`m very happy for her, but at the same time it means she won`t be at our school anymore. Boo...
October 30th Saturday
This mornign until afternoon was my nursery babies recital/show where they show off dances and plays to their families. So cute!!!! OMG It was seriously the cutest recital ever!! WAAAHH!! My babies were all very happy to see me there as well and the parents thanked me for coming out and staying until the very end to watch the whole thing. I love my babies, of course I`d stay for them. This made me very warm and fuzzy inside. hehe
Thanks all! And my next update will prolly be sometime next week.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Frustration and Exhaultation
Hey all. I apologize from being way behind on my blog posting. But again, I`ve been ridiculous busy that I haven`t had the time. And at the moment I don`t remember what happened between the last blog until the beginning of October...so I`ll get back to writing that later. eheh. ^^;
October 8th Friday
Starting from today was the HAJET Fall Meeting held in Asahikawa. Yay for being close to me! I finished work and managed to head on over there right after. The meeting was held at the Washington Kankou Hotel. It was a pretty nice and fancy hotel and I got a room to myself. Upon checking into my room I got a phone call from *dum dum dum* Mr. Oshare!! He asked me if I`ve eaten dinner yet and if I wanted to go to dinner with him. The ONE time he asks me out to eat with him, I`m in a different city for a meeting. Of course. That`s how it always is. >.< But he just said, no worries. There`s always next time. Yay!
Anyways, I waited for Keri to arrive and we headed over to MOS Burger for dinner. Then we met up with other peoples and decided to go karaoke-ing and after that, clubbing. Yeah, the actual meeting and parties don`t start until tomorrow morning at 10am, but we were already partying it up until 5:30am. I didn`t actually get to sleep until 6am cuz I took a bath. Lotsa fun! But extremely tired.
October 9th Saturday
Woke up for breakfast, then went back to the room to sleep for an hour, then went to the HAJET meeting, then went to sleep until 2pm and went out with ppls at 3pm to walk around. Tabemarche was happening this weekend which is a festival where each town/city of Hokkaido has a booth selling their delicious foods. And for some reason, we all decided to eat a big meal before the enkai at 6pm. Smart of us. lol
The theme of the enkai was "Fall of the Roman Empire" so many of the ALTs were dressed in togas or costumes relating to that theme. And there was about 90 or so of us foreigners walking down the street in costumes to the izakaya. You can imagine the amount of staring we got from the confused Japanese people. Everyone in all the shops we passed by just stopped what they were doing and stared at us...lol I would too if I was Japanese...haha.
The enkai was a 7 course meal (right after our late lunch) and included a costume party. I met many new cool ALTs and had a lot of fun. During the enkai I received a text from one of my taiko mates, Ayako. She told me that she was going to go to her friend`s bar in Asahikawa and asked if I wanted to go as well. She has been wanting to go drinking with me for awhile and upon hearing that her friend had a bar, I was all for it. I invited other ALTs to go, but they already had plans after, so I went on my own to the station to get pickedup by Ayako.
Apparently, this bar is not in the heart of the city, but more in the outskirts in a residential area. And literally, it was all houses around this place and actually, this bar was a garage turned bar. The house that the owner lived in was right on top of it. And the owner is a 30year old cool dude who is friends with Ayako. And did I mention he`s rich?! This bar is only opened once a month because he gets enough money from his other job that he doesn`t need this bar to be opened all the time. He drives a Mercedes too, btw. And all the patrons of this bar are all friends with one another and know each other and are all hot young relatively wealthy people. Dude. I came to the right place and made an awesome decision by coming to this place. Ayako introduced me to the owner, Naoki-san, and I was surprised to find out he spoke a good relative amount of English. I was able to have a full on conversation with him in English. He`s been to the US 3 times and he travels ALOT. Actually, he`s going to go to Bali like next month or something. Anyways, he said he stayed at the Radisson hotel in Santa Monica before!!!! RADISSON HOTEL IN SANTA MONICA YO! He`s got moolah. Plus this man is a legit bartender. Like he makes real cocktails. None of this lame mixed with water crap that the Japanese like to do. No, it`s full on Martinis and straight mixed alcohol. No water. Thankfully.
I also met the other bartender. He`s 26 and damn hot! And makes delicious martinis. We all became fast friends...I think it`s because everyone`s interested in talking to me because I`m not Japanese...lol I also met some other hot guys who`re friends with Ayako as well as her wonderful girl friends.
The bar closed at around 2am and I was shown the inside of the owner`s house afterwards. It was AMAZING and screamed wealthy bachelor! Black shiny tile floors, marble walls, black leather sofas, beautiful mood lighting, a mini chandelier, and a giant surfboard displayed on the wall behind his mini-bar. And he had the cutest little happy dachsund. And yes, he actually does surf. COOL!
He told me afterwards that we should all go on trips together. Like travel around the place. I was all up for that. Afterwards, he took me and my new friends out to eat ramen and then my friend took me back to the hotel.
October 10th Sunday
Woke up today, checked out, and got ready to go to Sounkyou Hot Springs village for some hot springs chillin with 3 wonderful girls. Holly drove the 1 1/2 hours there which I am very thankful for. We went to check in to the room and had to wait in the lobby for a bit before we could go to our room, which was a pure stroke of luck. As we were waiting my friend (who`s from Hong Kong) suddenly nudged me and said "OMG, I think that`s (insert name here), the famous Hong Kong actor!" I looked over and lo and behold, it was him!! He`s a pretty famous actor in Hong Kong and has been in numerous dramas and movies and I`ve watched many of them, thanks to my mom. And his wife, who`s an actress, was also with him. We were ecstatic. And I`m pretty sure they were on to us giggling girls.
I finally went up to him to ask if we could take a picture with him and he said, "Sure!" I have the picture with him to be posted on facebook. So wait for it! You probably might recognize him if you watch a lot of Hong Kong stuff. Anyways, we checked into our wonderful hotel room after and went down to the hot springs. It was wonderful! After all the dance teaching I`ve been doing at the elementary for their festival my muscles were incredibly sore and I was beat. Btw, the school festival was on the 17th, which I`ll get into details later.
The trip was an awesomely wonderful experience. And I`ll be going again the weekend of the 23rd for the elementary school teacher`s faculty trip. Woot!
October 12th-15th
I`ve been working my ass off at school these last few days and going to 3 different schools a day. Why? Because the Shibetsu district Junior High English Speech and Performance contest was coming up on the 19th. Every day after I finish work and classes at the high school and/or elementary I head over to the middle school and stay there helping the kids rehearse and stuff until 6pm. Mind you that I don`t get paid after 4pm. I actually don`t mind because I really love helping the kids and being with them. But there came a point where I was just ridiculously exhausted and was maybe hoping for a day off from "working" at the school for so long. Actually, I would even settle for just half a day off.
I pitched the idea to my boss and supervisor of maybe getting a day off or half day off because of all the work I`ve been doing with these kids the last few days. But they just told me because I was doing this stuff off hours and my bosses were not the ones to appoint me to helping the kids, it`s all considered volunteer work where I technically don`t have to go. So, I won`t be able to get even a half day off. But on the papers at my middle school, I`m officially the appointed head teacher of all the English practices and was even appointed a proctor for the big national English test well after school hours. If I don`t go to these things I`m just making myself look like an ass. So in a way I was obligated to go and not at the same time. A wonderful situation to be in as an ALT, I have to say. Anyways, upon hearing that I was unable to get any compensation I was so frustrated I could`ve cried. It`s just a lot of built up stress and things that I was just so pissed at my bosses for a while. And then I have to also go to school on Saturday the 16th from 10am until 3pm (but it turned into being from 9am until 6pm, a freakin full day at work) and I`m not going to be compensated for any of that. True, I`m technically volunteering, but I just want a bit of a rest. *sigh* I just have to keep thinking that this is all for the kids. If it`s for them, I`ll shut up. Otherwise, I`m afraid my bosses won`t let me help the kids or work with them after school anymore.
Damn Japan and it`s strict unable to go around things ways.
Anyways, something wonderful happened on Friday the 15th however that made me feel a little better. I was at school until 6pm that night as well as the chem teacher. So, he knew I hadn`t eaten dinner yet so he texted me when I got home to ask if I wanted to go with him to Asahikawa for dinner and shopping. I was, of course, quite ecstatic to see his text and agreed to go with him.
It was raining hard that day so instead of picking me up by the street like he usually does, he backed his car up in front of my door to get me so that I wouldn`t have to run around in the rain. It was very sweet of him. His music player broke and that`s why he needed to go shopping for it. So we had a full hour of talking in the car. He looked so cute/hot that day. He wore a hat, scarf, grey zip-up hoodie over a white tank, olive green loose pants, tucked into his brown leather boots. Oshare. This was after work too. Thankfully I made myself look good as well.
We went to go eat Italian food and he paid for me. We actually had quite an awesome time talking with each other and it was really fun! Then we went shopping. At first on the escalators I would stand one step behind him, but as the night went on and as we got closer to each other he started to stand next to me on the escalators. When I was buying candy for a Halloween party he brought over a basket for me to hold and as I was about to grab the basket from him he told me that he`ll hold onto it for me. I`m a real sucker for these little gentlemanly moves. *sigh* At the end of the night I ended up falling a little for this guy. At first I just thought of him as just a friend. But the more I hang with him, the more I want to actually be with him. Ugh, I feel like a sap. I`ve also been glancing in his direction more often when I`m at the middle school.
Bleh, I just need to work things out here. >.<
October 17th Sunday
After Saturday`s ridiculous "work" hours from 9am-6pm helping my middle school kids at school with rehearsing and prop making with no compensation I get to jump right in to my elementary`s school festival. Man, so much things going on these last few weekends. Actually, I was suppose to have left yesterday with the town hall`s young people`s club to go on an awesome camping trip with them. But because of the ridiculous busy scheduling I`ve gotta stay here and work. I feel like a real freakin Japanese teacher and not just an ALT anymore, which is good and bad at the same time.
Anyways, my 5th graders, whom I taught my dancing to did a wonderful job at the festival! I was sooo proud of my kids. After that, the teachers had an enkai at an onsen restaurant and then we went to sing karaoke. I left early because I had work the next day because I`m not given a day off to rest from working on Sunday at the festival because it`s technically not part of my work schedule that my bosses set up for me. Usually, all the teachers who work during the school festival get a day off of work to recuperate, or basically, in compensation for them having worked. I would really like to have that, especially since I`ve been helping out at all the festivals. *sigh* Whatevs. Anyways, not a bad day.
And now, I`m up to date with what`s been goin on. I think. Otsukare for reading and I`ll post up pictures soon!
October 8th Friday
Starting from today was the HAJET Fall Meeting held in Asahikawa. Yay for being close to me! I finished work and managed to head on over there right after. The meeting was held at the Washington Kankou Hotel. It was a pretty nice and fancy hotel and I got a room to myself. Upon checking into my room I got a phone call from *dum dum dum* Mr. Oshare!! He asked me if I`ve eaten dinner yet and if I wanted to go to dinner with him. The ONE time he asks me out to eat with him, I`m in a different city for a meeting. Of course. That`s how it always is. >.< But he just said, no worries. There`s always next time. Yay!
Anyways, I waited for Keri to arrive and we headed over to MOS Burger for dinner. Then we met up with other peoples and decided to go karaoke-ing and after that, clubbing. Yeah, the actual meeting and parties don`t start until tomorrow morning at 10am, but we were already partying it up until 5:30am. I didn`t actually get to sleep until 6am cuz I took a bath. Lotsa fun! But extremely tired.
October 9th Saturday
Woke up for breakfast, then went back to the room to sleep for an hour, then went to the HAJET meeting, then went to sleep until 2pm and went out with ppls at 3pm to walk around. Tabemarche was happening this weekend which is a festival where each town/city of Hokkaido has a booth selling their delicious foods. And for some reason, we all decided to eat a big meal before the enkai at 6pm. Smart of us. lol
The theme of the enkai was "Fall of the Roman Empire" so many of the ALTs were dressed in togas or costumes relating to that theme. And there was about 90 or so of us foreigners walking down the street in costumes to the izakaya. You can imagine the amount of staring we got from the confused Japanese people. Everyone in all the shops we passed by just stopped what they were doing and stared at us...lol I would too if I was Japanese...haha.
The enkai was a 7 course meal (right after our late lunch) and included a costume party. I met many new cool ALTs and had a lot of fun. During the enkai I received a text from one of my taiko mates, Ayako. She told me that she was going to go to her friend`s bar in Asahikawa and asked if I wanted to go as well. She has been wanting to go drinking with me for awhile and upon hearing that her friend had a bar, I was all for it. I invited other ALTs to go, but they already had plans after, so I went on my own to the station to get pickedup by Ayako.
Apparently, this bar is not in the heart of the city, but more in the outskirts in a residential area. And literally, it was all houses around this place and actually, this bar was a garage turned bar. The house that the owner lived in was right on top of it. And the owner is a 30year old cool dude who is friends with Ayako. And did I mention he`s rich?! This bar is only opened once a month because he gets enough money from his other job that he doesn`t need this bar to be opened all the time. He drives a Mercedes too, btw. And all the patrons of this bar are all friends with one another and know each other and are all hot young relatively wealthy people. Dude. I came to the right place and made an awesome decision by coming to this place. Ayako introduced me to the owner, Naoki-san, and I was surprised to find out he spoke a good relative amount of English. I was able to have a full on conversation with him in English. He`s been to the US 3 times and he travels ALOT. Actually, he`s going to go to Bali like next month or something. Anyways, he said he stayed at the Radisson hotel in Santa Monica before!!!! RADISSON HOTEL IN SANTA MONICA YO! He`s got moolah. Plus this man is a legit bartender. Like he makes real cocktails. None of this lame mixed with water crap that the Japanese like to do. No, it`s full on Martinis and straight mixed alcohol. No water. Thankfully.
I also met the other bartender. He`s 26 and damn hot! And makes delicious martinis. We all became fast friends...I think it`s because everyone`s interested in talking to me because I`m not Japanese...lol I also met some other hot guys who`re friends with Ayako as well as her wonderful girl friends.
The bar closed at around 2am and I was shown the inside of the owner`s house afterwards. It was AMAZING and screamed wealthy bachelor! Black shiny tile floors, marble walls, black leather sofas, beautiful mood lighting, a mini chandelier, and a giant surfboard displayed on the wall behind his mini-bar. And he had the cutest little happy dachsund. And yes, he actually does surf. COOL!
He told me afterwards that we should all go on trips together. Like travel around the place. I was all up for that. Afterwards, he took me and my new friends out to eat ramen and then my friend took me back to the hotel.
October 10th Sunday
Woke up today, checked out, and got ready to go to Sounkyou Hot Springs village for some hot springs chillin with 3 wonderful girls. Holly drove the 1 1/2 hours there which I am very thankful for. We went to check in to the room and had to wait in the lobby for a bit before we could go to our room, which was a pure stroke of luck. As we were waiting my friend (who`s from Hong Kong) suddenly nudged me and said "OMG, I think that`s (insert name here), the famous Hong Kong actor!" I looked over and lo and behold, it was him!! He`s a pretty famous actor in Hong Kong and has been in numerous dramas and movies and I`ve watched many of them, thanks to my mom. And his wife, who`s an actress, was also with him. We were ecstatic. And I`m pretty sure they were on to us giggling girls.
I finally went up to him to ask if we could take a picture with him and he said, "Sure!" I have the picture with him to be posted on facebook. So wait for it! You probably might recognize him if you watch a lot of Hong Kong stuff. Anyways, we checked into our wonderful hotel room after and went down to the hot springs. It was wonderful! After all the dance teaching I`ve been doing at the elementary for their festival my muscles were incredibly sore and I was beat. Btw, the school festival was on the 17th, which I`ll get into details later.
The trip was an awesomely wonderful experience. And I`ll be going again the weekend of the 23rd for the elementary school teacher`s faculty trip. Woot!
October 12th-15th
I`ve been working my ass off at school these last few days and going to 3 different schools a day. Why? Because the Shibetsu district Junior High English Speech and Performance contest was coming up on the 19th. Every day after I finish work and classes at the high school and/or elementary I head over to the middle school and stay there helping the kids rehearse and stuff until 6pm. Mind you that I don`t get paid after 4pm. I actually don`t mind because I really love helping the kids and being with them. But there came a point where I was just ridiculously exhausted and was maybe hoping for a day off from "working" at the school for so long. Actually, I would even settle for just half a day off.
I pitched the idea to my boss and supervisor of maybe getting a day off or half day off because of all the work I`ve been doing with these kids the last few days. But they just told me because I was doing this stuff off hours and my bosses were not the ones to appoint me to helping the kids, it`s all considered volunteer work where I technically don`t have to go. So, I won`t be able to get even a half day off. But on the papers at my middle school, I`m officially the appointed head teacher of all the English practices and was even appointed a proctor for the big national English test well after school hours. If I don`t go to these things I`m just making myself look like an ass. So in a way I was obligated to go and not at the same time. A wonderful situation to be in as an ALT, I have to say. Anyways, upon hearing that I was unable to get any compensation I was so frustrated I could`ve cried. It`s just a lot of built up stress and things that I was just so pissed at my bosses for a while. And then I have to also go to school on Saturday the 16th from 10am until 3pm (but it turned into being from 9am until 6pm, a freakin full day at work) and I`m not going to be compensated for any of that. True, I`m technically volunteering, but I just want a bit of a rest. *sigh* I just have to keep thinking that this is all for the kids. If it`s for them, I`ll shut up. Otherwise, I`m afraid my bosses won`t let me help the kids or work with them after school anymore.
Damn Japan and it`s strict unable to go around things ways.
Anyways, something wonderful happened on Friday the 15th however that made me feel a little better. I was at school until 6pm that night as well as the chem teacher. So, he knew I hadn`t eaten dinner yet so he texted me when I got home to ask if I wanted to go with him to Asahikawa for dinner and shopping. I was, of course, quite ecstatic to see his text and agreed to go with him.
It was raining hard that day so instead of picking me up by the street like he usually does, he backed his car up in front of my door to get me so that I wouldn`t have to run around in the rain. It was very sweet of him. His music player broke and that`s why he needed to go shopping for it. So we had a full hour of talking in the car. He looked so cute/hot that day. He wore a hat, scarf, grey zip-up hoodie over a white tank, olive green loose pants, tucked into his brown leather boots. Oshare. This was after work too. Thankfully I made myself look good as well.
We went to go eat Italian food and he paid for me. We actually had quite an awesome time talking with each other and it was really fun! Then we went shopping. At first on the escalators I would stand one step behind him, but as the night went on and as we got closer to each other he started to stand next to me on the escalators. When I was buying candy for a Halloween party he brought over a basket for me to hold and as I was about to grab the basket from him he told me that he`ll hold onto it for me. I`m a real sucker for these little gentlemanly moves. *sigh* At the end of the night I ended up falling a little for this guy. At first I just thought of him as just a friend. But the more I hang with him, the more I want to actually be with him. Ugh, I feel like a sap. I`ve also been glancing in his direction more often when I`m at the middle school.
Bleh, I just need to work things out here. >.<
October 17th Sunday
After Saturday`s ridiculous "work" hours from 9am-6pm helping my middle school kids at school with rehearsing and prop making with no compensation I get to jump right in to my elementary`s school festival. Man, so much things going on these last few weekends. Actually, I was suppose to have left yesterday with the town hall`s young people`s club to go on an awesome camping trip with them. But because of the ridiculous busy scheduling I`ve gotta stay here and work. I feel like a real freakin Japanese teacher and not just an ALT anymore, which is good and bad at the same time.
Anyways, my 5th graders, whom I taught my dancing to did a wonderful job at the festival! I was sooo proud of my kids. After that, the teachers had an enkai at an onsen restaurant and then we went to sing karaoke. I left early because I had work the next day because I`m not given a day off to rest from working on Sunday at the festival because it`s technically not part of my work schedule that my bosses set up for me. Usually, all the teachers who work during the school festival get a day off of work to recuperate, or basically, in compensation for them having worked. I would really like to have that, especially since I`ve been helping out at all the festivals. *sigh* Whatevs. Anyways, not a bad day.
And now, I`m up to date with what`s been goin on. I think. Otsukare for reading and I`ll post up pictures soon!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
I had a date?
Hey all, sorry again for the super late update. Coming back from summer break and starting 2nd semester has been keeping me really busy as of late. I actually have a lot of work to do...so, unfortunately and fortunately, I`m not just a tape recorder. I`m to plan lessons for majority of my classes and then in the evenings I either have taiko or teach other classes. And I`ve been studying for the JLPT 2. At the end of the day, I`m usually too tired/lazy to write my blog. So I apologize for the late update. FYI, this update is hopefully going to contain up to the month of September without being too long...eheh. ^^;;
August 9th Monday
Last full day my family is with me. I taught at the nursery today and brought my family along. It was so cute because when I introduced my family to the babies, all the kids had questions for them like,"What color, aniimal, food, etc, do you like?" After teaching/playing with them we all had lunch together and this was the first time my kids got the oppurtunity to try communicating with my family who spoke and understood no Japanese. And I was quite amazed with what these kids could do in communication. They were very smart in finding out ways to "talk" with my family even though my family didn`t understand Japanese, but were able to understand the kids. I was so proud of them!! Yup those are my kids.(o^_^o)
In the evening, I cooked for my family. Our last meal together here.
August 10th Tuesday
Left early this morning with my family to catch the train to Chitose airport. At the airport my family started crying and I was about to tear up too but held on since it would be sad if we all were crying...>.< I saw them through security and waved goodbye. Hopefully, I`ll be able to see them again in December. (United airlines business class??!!)
After that I left and went into Sapporo to hang out on my own. I went into Daimaru department store and checked out the place and found an awesome afternoon tea cafe and sat there to eat and read my book. After a little while I went back to the station and went back to Asahikawa whereupon I met up with Collin who had just come back from Fukui and was crashing over at my place for the evenin before heading back to his place next morning. We had dinner and then went back home. Luckily, Linda was still here for one more week so I had someone to come home to. It`s always a nice feeling.
August 11th Wednesday
I slacked from going to work early in the morning because it`s still summer break for everyone and the teachers don`t get to school to "work" until later in the morning. So I waffled a bit until Collin had to leave to get on his train and then went to work.
August 12th Thursday
Went to the middle school today. Empty as usual. But in the afternoon the good looking chem teacher came back from baseball practice with the kids and I had something to look at. =P But get this, I had a slight inkling that he was somewhat interested in me. He`s 25, very oshare (fashionable), healthy tan, and not bad looking. Above all, he has a playful fun spirit. I found talking to him to be easy and uplifting. Btw, his hair always looks really really good. I think I will now dub him "Mr. Oshare (fashionable/trendy)". Anyways, he figured that I was around the same age as him and really likes talking to me. Whatever chance he gets, he`ll swivel his chair round and talk to me. And I`ve seen on many occasions that he`ll look back (he sits diagonal from me with his back facing me) when I`m talking with a student or when the teachers around me are talking with the students. At first I thought that he was just interested in the conversation but out of the corner of my eyes I could see that he would occasionally glance at me. He also had offered to help me drive my family around if I can`t fit everyone into my car which was super sweet of him.
So I decided to try something. I told the vice principal, who is sitting at the head of the room with Mr. Oshare sitting in front of him, that I was going to go practice my dancing in the empty multipurpose room. The vice principal already knew this habit of mine so thought nothing of it and was like "oh yeah yeah, sure." But I noticed the chem teacher perk his head up when I talked to the vp about it. There was few work to be done that day so there were only 4 teachers there including me. So I went to the room to practice dancing and after 10 minutes he came up to the room to watch me dance. I knew it. I kind of knew that he was going to come up. hehe. So we talked for a while and I finished dancing and then went back to the teacher`s lounge. After a little while I heard someone playing with a ball in the gym and went to see who it was. It was Mr. Oshare playing basketball. He saw me walk in and was like "Come play with me!" And so I spent the afternoon playing b-ball with him. When I left to go home and was in the entryway putting on my shoes with no one around, he came over and asked me for my number. =P teehee. I went home happy.
August 14th Saturday
Left for Sapporo today with Linda. Her flight was on Sunday so we decided to spend the day in Sapporo shopping and hanging out. Actually this day coincided with the Sapporo welcome party for JETs and the Sapporo Orientation for new JETs. I was able to meet up with Steph at the welcome party for a short time, but after that I went with Linda to go eat and all you can eat shabushabu, went shopping and did other stuff. hehe. Good day.
August 15th Sunday
Took Linda to the airport and said our goodbyes. I`m going to miss having people with me all the time. ;_; After this though, I went to hang out with Steph and Heidi. Yay for Heidi being here in Sapporo! I`m able to hang with her!! Hoorah!
We went to the Ghibli exhibit today, made makkurokurosukes, and took a picture on Totoro`s belly. Super cute! hehe~ Afterwards I chilled with Heidi as Steph went to go do preparations for the Sapporo orientation. Heidi made me an awesome dinner and then, after complications, I spent the night at Heidi`s.
August 16th Monday
Took this day off so was able to chill, get myself a chai latte, and then head back to Kembuchi to relax. Hahh..
August 20th Friday
The Hell Festival in Noboribetsu was this weekend and so I went down to spend the weekend at Steph`s and chill. I met Andy who is a new ALT in Tomakomai area. Awesome guy!
August 21st Saturday
Met two wonderful ladies who are also new ALTs, Teresa and Keri. We then all headed over to Noboribetsu for the hell festival. We met up with a bunch of other new and old ALTs and walked around the town. Then went to the jigoku dani (hell valley) and hiked around for a bit before returning to the festival area and buying alcohol and eating dinner. The hell festival was awesome. We all joined in to dance the oni dance. Then, when we returned to Muroran we did an all night Karaoke until we saw the sky getting brighter...lol 11pm until 4am....eheh Good times.
August 22nd Sunday
Bid goodbye to everyone and went to Sapporo to get my JLPT study books. Then chilled in the Kinokuniya cafe and read my book. I really wish there was a place like this near me to just chill and read in a cafe like this. Neways, later on, I met up with Keri to go home since she lives on the same train line as mine.
September 5th Sunday
Met up with the new Nayoro JET, Holly, and then later Vvn! These two were so awesome to hang out with and will definitely be hanging out with them again since they live so close to me. Whoo! And because of Holly, or thanks to Holly, I got up the courage to message Mr. Oshare about going to see a movie, particularly "Inception". He not only quickly responded back to me about going and what days he`s available, but he also called me. lol I told him that the best day for me would be the 23rd of September. So we set up everything up for that day. (o^_^o)
September 8th Wednesday
Mr. Oshare cut his hair again and looks really good. Again. *o* I complemented his hair and then he started talking to me about the movie thing. He told me that the movie was only showing until the 17th so we should go soon. And after trying to find a good day, we decided that tomorrow was best. Thursday. Oh man that was quick. And he got really close to me today when he came to stand over me as I was sitting pointing out the schedule of movies on a piece of paper on my desk. I could smell his cologne and he smelled good. =P
Originally he couldn`t do Thursdays as he has volleyball practice to go to, but he told me that he could take a break from his practice to come watch the movie with me. Wow. We texted each other that night about what time we were leaving. I thought he didn`t get back home until 6pm, but he said that we should leave at around 5pm so we could go do some "window shopping" and that he`ll come pick me up in his car. Is this...a date..?
Septemeber 9th Thursday
I was pretty nervous this afternoon. I got back home early to make myself all happy and cute looking before Mr. Oshare came to pick me up. When he got here he gave me a text saying he was outside. And man did he look GOOD in what he wore! He had on a plaid vest over a white half sleeve button up shirt and khaki pants (I`m weak against vests and blazers fyi). The inside of his car was also very oshare. I got in the car with him and off we went on a one hour drive to Asahikawa.
Our car ride was pretty nice. We had good conversations and when we got silent it never felt awkward. Upon arriving in Asahikawa he asked me if I`ve eaten yet and asked me to choose a place to eat since he doesn`t know the area well enough. The only place I could think of at the moment was soup curry. So I took him to the place and it was just full of couples and quiet. The food took forever to come and so we had a lot of silent times as we sat across from each other at the table because we weren`t sure of what to talk about. Plus with my limited amount of Japanese it`s difficult. After we finished our food we went down to pay and he paid for me. I was thinking, oh he`s just paying together right now so it won`t be troublesome to the cashier. I asked him after how much it cost and he just smiled and said "I forgot". I looked at him incredulously and was like "OMG, no. That`s very sly of you. Seriously, how much?" And he just answered the same thing. But then he was like "alright, if you really want to, you can get the movie tickets?" And on that I agreed. He then asked me "Don`t guys in America usually pay for a girl?" I didn`t want to say "It`s usually only if you guys are dating" which would be stating that this was a date. I`d rather this be left as an ambiguos situation. I just said "Well, sometimes. But yes, most guys do that in the states" "You mean like gentlemen?" "Haha, yes! A gentleman usually is wonderful enough to pay." "Well, then, I`m a gentleman!" At which we both chuckled/giggled a bit.
I`m not used to guys paying for me and so wasn`t sure what to make of it and usually feel in debt when ppl pay for me. So I was totally fine with getting the movie tickets. We had to wait a little bit before we could go in to see the movie so I went to the bathroom. When I came out he was sitting on a bench waiting for me looking at his cell. His posture plus his clothes and his hair as he sat there made him look so cool and gave me a butterfly in the stomach because of the fact that he was waiting for ME. And upon coming out he gave me a smile and said "let`s go in!" It`s just a fluttery feeling to know that someone like him is with you and waiting for you. I don`t know. It`s hard to explain, just a nice feeling.
So we went in to watch "Inception". And let me say that this movie is too complicated for majority of Japanese people I think because of all the nuances and the complexities of the movie. So naturally, he fell asleep. It`s actually my second time watching the movie and I admit there are parts where I was like "okay okay, get to the action" but that movie is still one of my all time favorites. I like deep movies. He told me he likes movies where he doesn`t fall asleep and where the plot is simple and easy to understand....well, total opposite of this movie. lol
Anyways, at the end I asked him if he knew what the contents were about. He said he got the gist of it. lol After that it was already 11:30pm so I was pretty tired after a day at the high school and elementary so I didn`t have as much energy to talk. So we spent majority of the ride back in silence listening to Kpop. I told him he could just drop me off at his place since it`s only a 1 minute walk to my apt from his. But he insisted on dropping me off in front of my apt. I told him "It was fun today. Thank you." The thank you I said in English and he replied in English "No, no thank you." lol
I have to say, there was no doki doki feeling or butterflies or exhilaration afterwards. Maybe I was just too tired to feel anything or I`m just getting used to these things...So it`s all good. I can continue my friend relationship with him, for now.
September 10th Friday
Today I went to the middle school so saw Mr. Oshare. And he didn`t have his hair styled today, but had it in a messy down look, which looked really sexy on him. Damn. It was kind of funny today because for some reason all the teachers kept asking him "So how was yesterday?" where they were referring to a meeting he had at another school yesterday morning. But I saw that both him and I kind of panicked for a bit thinking that it was about last night, and he was like "Uh, yesterday? What was yesterday?" And I was like "Uh, what!?" And the teachers just looked at him and were like "You know, yesterday." I was thinking in my head "Please no, please no." And finally he was like "....Do you mean...the meeting?" "Of course! What else? Why did you do something else?" "Huh? Oh, yeah, the meeting. It went well!" Whew...panic moment averted. lol I chuckled inside though because of this little conversation.
And then today Mr. Oshare put on Korean music in the school at lunch and it was awesome!! First time hearing Kpop in the school. I went around the hallways and danced. haha. Then talked to my kids who like Big Bang since they`re so big here in Japan now.
Otsukare for reading guys! Thanks for keeping up with my lack of posting!! Love ya all!
August 9th Monday
Last full day my family is with me. I taught at the nursery today and brought my family along. It was so cute because when I introduced my family to the babies, all the kids had questions for them like,"What color, aniimal, food, etc, do you like?" After teaching/playing with them we all had lunch together and this was the first time my kids got the oppurtunity to try communicating with my family who spoke and understood no Japanese. And I was quite amazed with what these kids could do in communication. They were very smart in finding out ways to "talk" with my family even though my family didn`t understand Japanese, but were able to understand the kids. I was so proud of them!! Yup those are my kids.(o^_^o)
In the evening, I cooked for my family. Our last meal together here.
August 10th Tuesday
Left early this morning with my family to catch the train to Chitose airport. At the airport my family started crying and I was about to tear up too but held on since it would be sad if we all were crying...>.< I saw them through security and waved goodbye. Hopefully, I`ll be able to see them again in December. (United airlines business class??!!)
After that I left and went into Sapporo to hang out on my own. I went into Daimaru department store and checked out the place and found an awesome afternoon tea cafe and sat there to eat and read my book. After a little while I went back to the station and went back to Asahikawa whereupon I met up with Collin who had just come back from Fukui and was crashing over at my place for the evenin before heading back to his place next morning. We had dinner and then went back home. Luckily, Linda was still here for one more week so I had someone to come home to. It`s always a nice feeling.
August 11th Wednesday
I slacked from going to work early in the morning because it`s still summer break for everyone and the teachers don`t get to school to "work" until later in the morning. So I waffled a bit until Collin had to leave to get on his train and then went to work.
August 12th Thursday
Went to the middle school today. Empty as usual. But in the afternoon the good looking chem teacher came back from baseball practice with the kids and I had something to look at. =P But get this, I had a slight inkling that he was somewhat interested in me. He`s 25, very oshare (fashionable), healthy tan, and not bad looking. Above all, he has a playful fun spirit. I found talking to him to be easy and uplifting. Btw, his hair always looks really really good. I think I will now dub him "Mr. Oshare (fashionable/trendy)". Anyways, he figured that I was around the same age as him and really likes talking to me. Whatever chance he gets, he`ll swivel his chair round and talk to me. And I`ve seen on many occasions that he`ll look back (he sits diagonal from me with his back facing me) when I`m talking with a student or when the teachers around me are talking with the students. At first I thought that he was just interested in the conversation but out of the corner of my eyes I could see that he would occasionally glance at me. He also had offered to help me drive my family around if I can`t fit everyone into my car which was super sweet of him.
So I decided to try something. I told the vice principal, who is sitting at the head of the room with Mr. Oshare sitting in front of him, that I was going to go practice my dancing in the empty multipurpose room. The vice principal already knew this habit of mine so thought nothing of it and was like "oh yeah yeah, sure." But I noticed the chem teacher perk his head up when I talked to the vp about it. There was few work to be done that day so there were only 4 teachers there including me. So I went to the room to practice dancing and after 10 minutes he came up to the room to watch me dance. I knew it. I kind of knew that he was going to come up. hehe. So we talked for a while and I finished dancing and then went back to the teacher`s lounge. After a little while I heard someone playing with a ball in the gym and went to see who it was. It was Mr. Oshare playing basketball. He saw me walk in and was like "Come play with me!" And so I spent the afternoon playing b-ball with him. When I left to go home and was in the entryway putting on my shoes with no one around, he came over and asked me for my number. =P teehee. I went home happy.
August 14th Saturday
Left for Sapporo today with Linda. Her flight was on Sunday so we decided to spend the day in Sapporo shopping and hanging out. Actually this day coincided with the Sapporo welcome party for JETs and the Sapporo Orientation for new JETs. I was able to meet up with Steph at the welcome party for a short time, but after that I went with Linda to go eat and all you can eat shabushabu, went shopping and did other stuff. hehe. Good day.
August 15th Sunday
Took Linda to the airport and said our goodbyes. I`m going to miss having people with me all the time. ;_; After this though, I went to hang out with Steph and Heidi. Yay for Heidi being here in Sapporo! I`m able to hang with her!! Hoorah!
We went to the Ghibli exhibit today, made makkurokurosukes, and took a picture on Totoro`s belly. Super cute! hehe~ Afterwards I chilled with Heidi as Steph went to go do preparations for the Sapporo orientation. Heidi made me an awesome dinner and then, after complications, I spent the night at Heidi`s.
August 16th Monday
Took this day off so was able to chill, get myself a chai latte, and then head back to Kembuchi to relax. Hahh..
August 20th Friday
The Hell Festival in Noboribetsu was this weekend and so I went down to spend the weekend at Steph`s and chill. I met Andy who is a new ALT in Tomakomai area. Awesome guy!
August 21st Saturday
Met two wonderful ladies who are also new ALTs, Teresa and Keri. We then all headed over to Noboribetsu for the hell festival. We met up with a bunch of other new and old ALTs and walked around the town. Then went to the jigoku dani (hell valley) and hiked around for a bit before returning to the festival area and buying alcohol and eating dinner. The hell festival was awesome. We all joined in to dance the oni dance. Then, when we returned to Muroran we did an all night Karaoke until we saw the sky getting brighter...lol 11pm until 4am....eheh Good times.
August 22nd Sunday
Bid goodbye to everyone and went to Sapporo to get my JLPT study books. Then chilled in the Kinokuniya cafe and read my book. I really wish there was a place like this near me to just chill and read in a cafe like this. Neways, later on, I met up with Keri to go home since she lives on the same train line as mine.
September 5th Sunday
Met up with the new Nayoro JET, Holly, and then later Vvn! These two were so awesome to hang out with and will definitely be hanging out with them again since they live so close to me. Whoo! And because of Holly, or thanks to Holly, I got up the courage to message Mr. Oshare about going to see a movie, particularly "Inception". He not only quickly responded back to me about going and what days he`s available, but he also called me. lol I told him that the best day for me would be the 23rd of September. So we set up everything up for that day. (o^_^o)
September 8th Wednesday
Mr. Oshare cut his hair again and looks really good. Again. *o* I complemented his hair and then he started talking to me about the movie thing. He told me that the movie was only showing until the 17th so we should go soon. And after trying to find a good day, we decided that tomorrow was best. Thursday. Oh man that was quick. And he got really close to me today when he came to stand over me as I was sitting pointing out the schedule of movies on a piece of paper on my desk. I could smell his cologne and he smelled good. =P
Originally he couldn`t do Thursdays as he has volleyball practice to go to, but he told me that he could take a break from his practice to come watch the movie with me. Wow. We texted each other that night about what time we were leaving. I thought he didn`t get back home until 6pm, but he said that we should leave at around 5pm so we could go do some "window shopping" and that he`ll come pick me up in his car. Is this...a date..?
Septemeber 9th Thursday
I was pretty nervous this afternoon. I got back home early to make myself all happy and cute looking before Mr. Oshare came to pick me up. When he got here he gave me a text saying he was outside. And man did he look GOOD in what he wore! He had on a plaid vest over a white half sleeve button up shirt and khaki pants (I`m weak against vests and blazers fyi). The inside of his car was also very oshare. I got in the car with him and off we went on a one hour drive to Asahikawa.
Our car ride was pretty nice. We had good conversations and when we got silent it never felt awkward. Upon arriving in Asahikawa he asked me if I`ve eaten yet and asked me to choose a place to eat since he doesn`t know the area well enough. The only place I could think of at the moment was soup curry. So I took him to the place and it was just full of couples and quiet. The food took forever to come and so we had a lot of silent times as we sat across from each other at the table because we weren`t sure of what to talk about. Plus with my limited amount of Japanese it`s difficult. After we finished our food we went down to pay and he paid for me. I was thinking, oh he`s just paying together right now so it won`t be troublesome to the cashier. I asked him after how much it cost and he just smiled and said "I forgot". I looked at him incredulously and was like "OMG, no. That`s very sly of you. Seriously, how much?" And he just answered the same thing. But then he was like "alright, if you really want to, you can get the movie tickets?" And on that I agreed. He then asked me "Don`t guys in America usually pay for a girl?" I didn`t want to say "It`s usually only if you guys are dating" which would be stating that this was a date. I`d rather this be left as an ambiguos situation. I just said "Well, sometimes. But yes, most guys do that in the states" "You mean like gentlemen?" "Haha, yes! A gentleman usually is wonderful enough to pay." "Well, then, I`m a gentleman!" At which we both chuckled/giggled a bit.
I`m not used to guys paying for me and so wasn`t sure what to make of it and usually feel in debt when ppl pay for me. So I was totally fine with getting the movie tickets. We had to wait a little bit before we could go in to see the movie so I went to the bathroom. When I came out he was sitting on a bench waiting for me looking at his cell. His posture plus his clothes and his hair as he sat there made him look so cool and gave me a butterfly in the stomach because of the fact that he was waiting for ME. And upon coming out he gave me a smile and said "let`s go in!" It`s just a fluttery feeling to know that someone like him is with you and waiting for you. I don`t know. It`s hard to explain, just a nice feeling.
So we went in to watch "Inception". And let me say that this movie is too complicated for majority of Japanese people I think because of all the nuances and the complexities of the movie. So naturally, he fell asleep. It`s actually my second time watching the movie and I admit there are parts where I was like "okay okay, get to the action" but that movie is still one of my all time favorites. I like deep movies. He told me he likes movies where he doesn`t fall asleep and where the plot is simple and easy to understand....well, total opposite of this movie. lol
Anyways, at the end I asked him if he knew what the contents were about. He said he got the gist of it. lol After that it was already 11:30pm so I was pretty tired after a day at the high school and elementary so I didn`t have as much energy to talk. So we spent majority of the ride back in silence listening to Kpop. I told him he could just drop me off at his place since it`s only a 1 minute walk to my apt from his. But he insisted on dropping me off in front of my apt. I told him "It was fun today. Thank you." The thank you I said in English and he replied in English "No, no thank you." lol
I have to say, there was no doki doki feeling or butterflies or exhilaration afterwards. Maybe I was just too tired to feel anything or I`m just getting used to these things...So it`s all good. I can continue my friend relationship with him, for now.
September 10th Friday
Today I went to the middle school so saw Mr. Oshare. And he didn`t have his hair styled today, but had it in a messy down look, which looked really sexy on him. Damn. It was kind of funny today because for some reason all the teachers kept asking him "So how was yesterday?" where they were referring to a meeting he had at another school yesterday morning. But I saw that both him and I kind of panicked for a bit thinking that it was about last night, and he was like "Uh, yesterday? What was yesterday?" And I was like "Uh, what!?" And the teachers just looked at him and were like "You know, yesterday." I was thinking in my head "Please no, please no." And finally he was like "....Do you mean...the meeting?" "Of course! What else? Why did you do something else?" "Huh? Oh, yeah, the meeting. It went well!" Whew...panic moment averted. lol I chuckled inside though because of this little conversation.
And then today Mr. Oshare put on Korean music in the school at lunch and it was awesome!! First time hearing Kpop in the school. I went around the hallways and danced. haha. Then talked to my kids who like Big Bang since they`re so big here in Japan now.
Otsukare for reading guys! Thanks for keeping up with my lack of posting!! Love ya all!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Days with my family o(^_^)o
July 29th Thursday
Today it was just pouring rain. But that didn`t stop us from going to the Shiroi-koibito Park/Ishiya Chocolate factory. We made our way over there in the rain and walked around the museum and everything and saw how the chocolate and the cookies came to be so delicious. We then went to eat at the cafe and I ordered some of their special hot chocolate. Sooo good and creamy. We also ate some rose soft cream which actually tasted pretty good! We also were able to see the special every hour show since we were there for so long. It was so cute and bubbly and magical. Just really rainy.
Actually, before we headed over to the chocolate factory, we went over to the Hokkaido Jingu (shrine). It was a lot of trekking through a wet soggy park and along a little hill. But I was glad to allow my family the shrine experience as all must see and do while in Japan or any of the Buddhist countries. Well, the shrine was Shinto….but, eh.
After the factroy we went to the Sapporo station and ate at one of the ramen shops. For my family it was the first time they`ve had Hokkaido ramen and were very surprised by the fattiness of it; all the oil and salt and deliciously yummy things that are so incredibly terrible for you. We shopped around the area for a bit buying Marimo (the algae ball that`s so famous here in Hokkaido) and then went on back to our hotel in the partying/red light district. Yup, that`s right, I got my family and I a room in the partying district. But the hotel is mainly for tourists and families, so it wasn`t bad. It`s just that when you get out of the subway to the surface streets there`s hosts and bars and club s everywhere. Eheh, which my friend and I totally didn`t mind because the host boys were pretty hot.
July 30th Friday
Today was Otaru day. We got over to Minami-Otaru and walked over to the music box museum. No one bought anything, though I was sorely tempted to get this cute giant Japanese cat kneeling on a zabuton. It cost about 8000yen though….>.< Blargh…maybe when I get a boyfriend, I`ll get him to buy it for me. >D
Afterwards we walked along the path looking at various things on our way to go eat at a sushi-ya-san since we`re right next to the ocean. We ate some wonderful sushi and extra other things and then went on our way to the Otaru canal area to find the Otaru beer factory to drink some German beer. Beer`s not my favorite thing to drink, but I figured that since we`re here, we should get some, especially since my mother really likes beer. I got this fruity herby dark green colored beer cocktail of sorts. It was okay, I still didn`t like the lingering taste of the hops.
We also got some bakudan-yaki which is a giant takoyaki ball of goodness. I ate majority of it…We got back to Sapporo and bought dinner at a Lawson`s conbini that night. Cheap, yes.
July 31st Saturday
Got up early, checked out of our hotel and went to Odori Koen. They were having their beer festival thing going on there that day and even though it was only 11am in the morning, I got myself a mojito. Eheh. I couldn`t resist! And it was so cheap and rare to see. There`s barely and mojitos here. Plus, it was a hot day well worth the drink. Ah, fresh, minty, and alcoholic.
We then went to get some yummy tonkatsu for lunch and then left for the train back to my town. At my town, after settling in to my apartment, I took my family and Linda out to eat superb Genghis khan (lamb bbq). They absolutely loved it and wanted to eat it one more time.
My apt, was barely big enough to fit everyone. Lol But, sleeping wise, the arrangement was good.
August 1st Sunday
This morning I took my family over to the next city for lunch at the hot springs hotel there and then took them to eat some awesome softcream at "The Hillside Box". At 4pm I had to head over to the activities hall to practice taiko because today was the Kembuchi festival. And my taiko group and I were going to play in it. I took my family along with me to practice and then over to the lakeside for the performance. I`m glad they were able to come at a good time to make it for the festival and see my perform.
We stayed at the festival meeting all my students and their parents there until 8pm when the fireworks started. This was actually my first time seeing the fireworks show at the lakeside because last year I didn`t stay long enough for it. You could go right up to the lake`s edge (where the steps descend into the water) and sit there and watch the fireworks being launched on the other side of the lake. The fireworks were absolutely beautiful and magical. And I`m very glad my family was there with me to see it.
August 2nd Monday
I drove to the Asahiyama zoo today. Since it`s the most famous in all of Japan, people flock from all over to go see it. And we`re one of the few zoos in Japan that has an Orangutan and Kapibara. My family thoroughly enjoyed the zoo. Afterwards we went to go eat soup curry. We then went home to go sing karaoke in Shibetsu. My family, being American, wanted to get their all-you-can-drink money`s worth so ended up drinking a lot of alcohol and drinks causing them to have to constantly go to the bathroom…lol It was quite funny actually. =P
August 3rd Tuesday
Was super tired this morning after all the activities in Tokyo, Sapporo, and the other days in Kembuchi. So, my mom told me that today, I don`t need to take them to Furano. I`ll take them on Saturday instead. So today we just hung around the house in the morning and then headed over to AEON JUSCO to go shopping. We got there, did some shopping, and then went to go eat okonomiyaki and monja. Yummers! Afterwards, we got some takoyaki and shaved ice to eat as well. Hehe
August 4th Wednesday
Went to work today…had absolutely nothing to do as I figured. But I left a little earlier today to pick up my family to bring them around the schools and stuff for people to meet. Then left to go home early. Yay! Mom cooked ba hoc! I missed Cambodian food hardcore, so my mom had said she would cook for me. Yes! Sooooo good!!!!!
August 5th Thursday
Work again. For dinner, Mom cooked Cambodian curry!!! Wee again!!
August 6th Friday.
Left work early today to go home and chill and do nothing. Took my family to Don Quixote in the evening after eating at Myu. Did lotsa shopping and then went home.
August 7th Saturday
Furano day! Went to Furano today on the Norokko train, but it was a rainy day today. Absolutely terrible. But we were still able to eat good foods, lotsa different flavored ice cream and see the Lavenders. I bought some nice smelling soap.
After Furano, we came back to eat at Kohrinboh, the really good miso ramen shop.
August 8th Sunday
We ate lunch at Ibushiya today. We got free drinks because the manager knows me and wanted to get something for my family. So free drinks it was. Yay! Then we went shopping and lazed around town.
Today it was just pouring rain. But that didn`t stop us from going to the Shiroi-koibito Park/Ishiya Chocolate factory. We made our way over there in the rain and walked around the museum and everything and saw how the chocolate and the cookies came to be so delicious. We then went to eat at the cafe and I ordered some of their special hot chocolate. Sooo good and creamy. We also ate some rose soft cream which actually tasted pretty good! We also were able to see the special every hour show since we were there for so long. It was so cute and bubbly and magical. Just really rainy.
Actually, before we headed over to the chocolate factory, we went over to the Hokkaido Jingu (shrine). It was a lot of trekking through a wet soggy park and along a little hill. But I was glad to allow my family the shrine experience as all must see and do while in Japan or any of the Buddhist countries. Well, the shrine was Shinto….but, eh.
After the factroy we went to the Sapporo station and ate at one of the ramen shops. For my family it was the first time they`ve had Hokkaido ramen and were very surprised by the fattiness of it; all the oil and salt and deliciously yummy things that are so incredibly terrible for you. We shopped around the area for a bit buying Marimo (the algae ball that`s so famous here in Hokkaido) and then went on back to our hotel in the partying/red light district. Yup, that`s right, I got my family and I a room in the partying district. But the hotel is mainly for tourists and families, so it wasn`t bad. It`s just that when you get out of the subway to the surface streets there`s hosts and bars and club s everywhere. Eheh, which my friend and I totally didn`t mind because the host boys were pretty hot.
July 30th Friday
Today was Otaru day. We got over to Minami-Otaru and walked over to the music box museum. No one bought anything, though I was sorely tempted to get this cute giant Japanese cat kneeling on a zabuton. It cost about 8000yen though….>.< Blargh…maybe when I get a boyfriend, I`ll get him to buy it for me. >D
Afterwards we walked along the path looking at various things on our way to go eat at a sushi-ya-san since we`re right next to the ocean. We ate some wonderful sushi and extra other things and then went on our way to the Otaru canal area to find the Otaru beer factory to drink some German beer. Beer`s not my favorite thing to drink, but I figured that since we`re here, we should get some, especially since my mother really likes beer. I got this fruity herby dark green colored beer cocktail of sorts. It was okay, I still didn`t like the lingering taste of the hops.
We also got some bakudan-yaki which is a giant takoyaki ball of goodness. I ate majority of it…We got back to Sapporo and bought dinner at a Lawson`s conbini that night. Cheap, yes.
July 31st Saturday
Got up early, checked out of our hotel and went to Odori Koen. They were having their beer festival thing going on there that day and even though it was only 11am in the morning, I got myself a mojito. Eheh. I couldn`t resist! And it was so cheap and rare to see. There`s barely and mojitos here. Plus, it was a hot day well worth the drink. Ah, fresh, minty, and alcoholic.
We then went to get some yummy tonkatsu for lunch and then left for the train back to my town. At my town, after settling in to my apartment, I took my family and Linda out to eat superb Genghis khan (lamb bbq). They absolutely loved it and wanted to eat it one more time.
My apt, was barely big enough to fit everyone. Lol But, sleeping wise, the arrangement was good.
August 1st Sunday
This morning I took my family over to the next city for lunch at the hot springs hotel there and then took them to eat some awesome softcream at "The Hillside Box". At 4pm I had to head over to the activities hall to practice taiko because today was the Kembuchi festival. And my taiko group and I were going to play in it. I took my family along with me to practice and then over to the lakeside for the performance. I`m glad they were able to come at a good time to make it for the festival and see my perform.
We stayed at the festival meeting all my students and their parents there until 8pm when the fireworks started. This was actually my first time seeing the fireworks show at the lakeside because last year I didn`t stay long enough for it. You could go right up to the lake`s edge (where the steps descend into the water) and sit there and watch the fireworks being launched on the other side of the lake. The fireworks were absolutely beautiful and magical. And I`m very glad my family was there with me to see it.
August 2nd Monday
I drove to the Asahiyama zoo today. Since it`s the most famous in all of Japan, people flock from all over to go see it. And we`re one of the few zoos in Japan that has an Orangutan and Kapibara. My family thoroughly enjoyed the zoo. Afterwards we went to go eat soup curry. We then went home to go sing karaoke in Shibetsu. My family, being American, wanted to get their all-you-can-drink money`s worth so ended up drinking a lot of alcohol and drinks causing them to have to constantly go to the bathroom…lol It was quite funny actually. =P
August 3rd Tuesday
Was super tired this morning after all the activities in Tokyo, Sapporo, and the other days in Kembuchi. So, my mom told me that today, I don`t need to take them to Furano. I`ll take them on Saturday instead. So today we just hung around the house in the morning and then headed over to AEON JUSCO to go shopping. We got there, did some shopping, and then went to go eat okonomiyaki and monja. Yummers! Afterwards, we got some takoyaki and shaved ice to eat as well. Hehe
August 4th Wednesday
Went to work today…had absolutely nothing to do as I figured. But I left a little earlier today to pick up my family to bring them around the schools and stuff for people to meet. Then left to go home early. Yay! Mom cooked ba hoc! I missed Cambodian food hardcore, so my mom had said she would cook for me. Yes! Sooooo good!!!!!
August 5th Thursday
Work again. For dinner, Mom cooked Cambodian curry!!! Wee again!!
August 6th Friday.
Left work early today to go home and chill and do nothing. Took my family to Don Quixote in the evening after eating at Myu. Did lotsa shopping and then went home.
August 7th Saturday
Furano day! Went to Furano today on the Norokko train, but it was a rainy day today. Absolutely terrible. But we were still able to eat good foods, lotsa different flavored ice cream and see the Lavenders. I bought some nice smelling soap.
After Furano, we came back to eat at Kohrinboh, the really good miso ramen shop.
August 8th Sunday
We ate lunch at Ibushiya today. We got free drinks because the manager knows me and wanted to get something for my family. So free drinks it was. Yay! Then we went shopping and lazed around town.
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