"Tomorrow, tomorrow, he'll be here, tomorrow!" (thats me singing to you all to the tune of Annie, haha Bonnie this totally reminds me of when we would do this every time before I would come to visit) =) Anyways, I really could sing that to you if you wanted me to... seeing that I went to Karaoke the other night!!! Yep thats right, I went with my realtor Sanae. On Monday, I went down to her office to pay rent and she had said that she tried text messasing me the other day but it wouldnt send (my texting is messed up on my phone and I need to get it fixed) because she wanted to know if I wanted to go see a movie. She knew that I had a few days off because I worked the school festival over the weekend, so she wanted to know if I wanted to go to Karaoke the next night (Tuesday) and seeing that I had nothing better to do, I decided to go! It was a lot of fun. It was just her and I and you go into your own private room and just sing away. We were there for about 2 hours, taking turns singing songs. Them Japanese love their Karaoke, its very popular here! I cant wait to take Justin there when he gets here! It will be so much fun, and next time I will take pics! Well there is nothing really new here, just counting down the hours until my man gets home!!! Just like I thought I would, I spent my 3 days off preparing for Justin to come home and catching up on chores so I wouldnt have to do them on the weekend when we could be spending time together =) All I have left to do now is my ironing, which I shall get started on! Just think, next time I post, Ill be doing it with Justin by my side! Yay!!!!
Oh and I just wanted to give a shout out to Justins friends on the ship that found my blog! Thanks for reading and Im glad you are enjoying it! =)
Bye all! <3
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
I survived!
Well I survived my first typhoon! Didn't even know it came through, I was sleepin like a baby =) Needless to say the festival went on Saturday as planned, it just started an hour later once the typhoon warning was All Clear. On Saturday I wandered around by myself for a little bit, (god knows I'm not going to be seen with David) and then ran into a few of my students who took me under their wing for the day. They helped me order some yummy food, then we went and saw a play together and got some cotton candy afterwards. After that they wanted to go watch their friends band play, and I decided to go take a rest at my desk. My students are nice and all, but theres only so much I can take, afterall they are high school students =) We met up about half an hour later to go see the Snow White play, but by the time we got there the line was out the door, and the theatre was already full so we couldnt go in. We stayed in line and figured we'd watch the next show that was playing, which so happened to be a dance show! You know how excited I was!! So Snow White ends and the line starts moving, and I was so excited cuz we made it into the theatre and Im thinking "yes!!! we're gonna have seats, we're gonna see the show, this is going to be awesome!!" Boy was I wrong. Yes we got to see the show, and yes it was awesome... but did we have seats? No. We stood in the aisle. They crammed that theatre full of more people than I have ever seen in one building before in my life. If someone were to have yelled fire, well it probably would have been in Japanse so I wouldn't have realized it anyways, but if they had I dont know what everyone would have done! Being in this crowded room just reminded me that I am in Japan because I know this never would have happened in the states! I mean hey, there is actually a job at the train stations where you are the person that crams as many people as you can onto the train! Haha these Japanese are crazy sometimes.
And this was only half of the room!
Anyways, nothing exciting happened at school today, it was a Sunday for crying outloud. I chatted with my Dad for the majority of the day on Gmail and when it was finally time for him to get to bed I decided I better get to work. I created a few lesson plans for next week, all without the help of David, and when I felt like I'd done enough I just surfed the web. Finally around 3:40 (mind you we get off at 4:30)David says to me "So have you thought about any lesson plans for next week?" And I said "Yep I'm all done." And he says "Really? Can I see what you did?" So I showed him my worksheet, he looked it over, said thanks and went back to his desk. I could see him starting to get to work when one of the teachers comes in and says "Ok we can leave early today, you guys can go." So I packed up my things and laughed at David on the way out. Shouldn't have waited till the last minute to do your work!! I wonder what he does for 8 hours a day on that darn computer. It just bugs me because we are supposed to be teaching the same lesson plans and here I am doing all the work. Oh well, gotta take the hand Ive been dealt.
So now I have the next 3 days off. Not really sure what I am going to do with all that time. I have a lot to do before Justin gets here so I'm sure that will keep me preoccupied, and before I know it, Ill be going to work on Thursday, only to have him meet me at the train station when I get off!! Yay!
Alright well Im gonna watch me some Friends to help pass the time. Talk with you all soon!
And this was only half of the room!
Anyways, nothing exciting happened at school today, it was a Sunday for crying outloud. I chatted with my Dad for the majority of the day on Gmail and when it was finally time for him to get to bed I decided I better get to work. I created a few lesson plans for next week, all without the help of David, and when I felt like I'd done enough I just surfed the web. Finally around 3:40 (mind you we get off at 4:30)David says to me "So have you thought about any lesson plans for next week?" And I said "Yep I'm all done." And he says "Really? Can I see what you did?" So I showed him my worksheet, he looked it over, said thanks and went back to his desk. I could see him starting to get to work when one of the teachers comes in and says "Ok we can leave early today, you guys can go." So I packed up my things and laughed at David on the way out. Shouldn't have waited till the last minute to do your work!! I wonder what he does for 8 hours a day on that darn computer. It just bugs me because we are supposed to be teaching the same lesson plans and here I am doing all the work. Oh well, gotta take the hand Ive been dealt.
So now I have the next 3 days off. Not really sure what I am going to do with all that time. I have a lot to do before Justin gets here so I'm sure that will keep me preoccupied, and before I know it, Ill be going to work on Thursday, only to have him meet me at the train station when I get off!! Yay!
Alright well Im gonna watch me some Friends to help pass the time. Talk with you all soon!
Friday, September 19, 2008
The school festival!!!
The school festival was soooo awesome! It was basically like a huge carnival or fair, just minus the games and prizes! There was so much to do and see! A lot of my students were perfoming in different plays like Cinderella and Peter Pan. If they werent in a play then they were behind some kind of food booth, or walking around with signs trying to persue you towards their booth, or their play. I took a lot of pictures, and will post a few of them on here! David is in one of the pictures so you can see what he looks like. The festival is supposed to continue tomorrow, but like I said, there is a typhoon coming. At the moment, the festival is still on for tomorrow, I guess the worst of the typhoon is supposed to come during the night. If it doesnt or conditons are still bad in the morning, the festival will be postponed until Sunday, and clean up will be Monday. So as it stands now I am going in tomorrow, unless I get a phone call telling me otherwise. Anyways here are a few pics from today!!
Me and my students
Me and more of my students (plus someone...)
Me and a few more of my students
A yummy treat
Another treat
Some chicken kabob
I have no idea what that says
They were good!!
One of my students was Michael in Peter Pan (in the gray)
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell
Me and my students
Me and more of my students (plus someone...)
Me and a few more of my students
A yummy treat
Another treat
Some chicken kabob
I have no idea what that says
They were good!!
One of my students was Michael in Peter Pan (in the gray)
Peter Pan and Tinkerbell
Thursday, September 18, 2008
School Festival
Here is the poster I made for the school festival. Im no artist ok??? The festival is supposed to be tomorrow and Saturday, but I was just informed today that it might get cancelled because a typhoon is coming. I have no idea what that means, all I know is there will be lots of rain and wind. As if it doesnt rain enough here.... Justin said its nothing to be worried about, so Ill take his word for it!Anyways, as of 2 hours ago, I have officially been in Japan for one month! Yesterday morning (for you guys, the 17th) my parents drove me to the airport, and I landed in Japan at 4pm on the 18th (Japan time. So around close to midnight of the 17th). I cant believe its already been a month. That just means Im that much closer to Justin getting here! Speaking of which, on my walk home today, I was thinking that Ill be making this exact walk one week from today with Justin! How exciting! Well nothing else has really been going on. Oh- I did figure out a way you can chat with me at school. I cant download yahoo messenger or AIM or anything on my work computer, but if you make a gmail account (http://www.gmail.com/) on the left hand side it says contacts. You can add my email address kbruce0108@gmail.com and can chat with me! I will forever be signed in to gmail whenever I am at work now =) so if you want to, make an account so we can chat! OK ttfn! <3
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
An interesting day
So today was an interesting day. Its Tuesday here, the first day of the work week this week. Had yesterday off, it was a national Japanese holiday, Respect for the Aged Day. I really enjoyed the extra day off, it gave me more time to finish the errands that I didnt get done over the weekend because I was busy trying to figure out how to hook up my American washing machine to a Japanese system, which I managed to do by the way thank you very much! =)
Anyways so I get to school today thinking it was going to be a boring day. I was told last week, and I even have it written down "no classes 16th-19th, preparation for school festival." So I figured Id work on my poster for the school festival and then leave school around 2:00 because my company was having a meeting I had to attend at 3:00. As I was reminding one of the teachers that I was leaving early today for my company meeting, she says "Well you dont have a class 5th period today right?" And Im thinking um, no... there arent any classes today (even if there were I still didnt have one 5th period). So Im sitting at my desk trying to figure out whats going on when the same teacher who told me last week "no classes 16th-19th" and even watched me write it down, and confirmed with me a thousand times that I understood this weeks schedule is different because of the school festival says to me, "Today in my class, period 3 is on lesson 2 and period 4 is on lesson 3." So Im thinkin sweet, classes today that I had no idea about, good thing I planned ahead a few lessons so I was prepared!
So I get back to my desk after one of my classes and there is a cookie sitting on my desk. The teachers do that a lot, they leave little treats for everyone on their desk, but half the time I am skeptical about what it is because it is usually some funny looking foreign treat in a Japanese wrapper, so I can never tell what it is or what the ingredients are. Well today the treat looked edible. It looked like one of those cookies that you dip in coffee or tea. I decided to try it. I opened up my wrapper and took a bite of my cookie, it was really good!!! I said mmmm and the teacher next to me says is it good? And I said Yes! And he says Unagi. Ok right away I think of the friends episode where Ross tries teaching Rachel and Phoebe about how only by achieving "true Unagi" can you be prepared for any danger that may befall you, he calls it a state of total awareness. Rachel and Phoebe make fun of Ross and tell him that Unagi is fresh water eel. Anyways so Im trying to put two and two together here as Im sitting here making sounds about how delicious my cookie is and the man next to me says something about an eel. He goes on to tell me that the cookie I am eating is made out of eel powder and is pointing to the Japanese wrapper, as if I can understand what he is showing me as he reads me the ingredients and says eel powder while pointing to some strange Japanese characters. Im thinking no way am I eating eel, these guys no how much I hate fish and are just messing with me. So I decide to do a little research on the internet and this is what I find.... Unagi (ăăȘă) is the Japanese word for freshwater eels, especially the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica ...... A kind of sweet biscuit called unagi pie made with powdered unagi also exists. Unagi has a distinct taste and is quite expensive. (wikipedia.org) That sweet little unagi pie eel powdered biscuit is what I was eating!!! So now Im thinking great I have to finish this thing because I already said how good it was and that would be rude to throw it away, not to mention the internet article mentioned something about Unagi being expensive. I just couldnt believe it. I am keeping the wrapper for my scrapbook, and decided that I really need to start learning Japanese!
Well after my little cultural exerience, I had a few more classes and then my stupid company meeting which was a waste of my time. As of tomorrow, I can officially say that Justin gets here one week from tomorrow! Yay I cant wait! Alright well I have some chores to do before bed. That sounds so funny, me? Chores? Ha! Who knew!
Anyways so I get to school today thinking it was going to be a boring day. I was told last week, and I even have it written down "no classes 16th-19th, preparation for school festival." So I figured Id work on my poster for the school festival and then leave school around 2:00 because my company was having a meeting I had to attend at 3:00. As I was reminding one of the teachers that I was leaving early today for my company meeting, she says "Well you dont have a class 5th period today right?" And Im thinking um, no... there arent any classes today (even if there were I still didnt have one 5th period). So Im sitting at my desk trying to figure out whats going on when the same teacher who told me last week "no classes 16th-19th" and even watched me write it down, and confirmed with me a thousand times that I understood this weeks schedule is different because of the school festival says to me, "Today in my class, period 3 is on lesson 2 and period 4 is on lesson 3." So Im thinkin sweet, classes today that I had no idea about, good thing I planned ahead a few lessons so I was prepared!
So I get back to my desk after one of my classes and there is a cookie sitting on my desk. The teachers do that a lot, they leave little treats for everyone on their desk, but half the time I am skeptical about what it is because it is usually some funny looking foreign treat in a Japanese wrapper, so I can never tell what it is or what the ingredients are. Well today the treat looked edible. It looked like one of those cookies that you dip in coffee or tea. I decided to try it. I opened up my wrapper and took a bite of my cookie, it was really good!!! I said mmmm and the teacher next to me says is it good? And I said Yes! And he says Unagi. Ok right away I think of the friends episode where Ross tries teaching Rachel and Phoebe about how only by achieving "true Unagi" can you be prepared for any danger that may befall you, he calls it a state of total awareness. Rachel and Phoebe make fun of Ross and tell him that Unagi is fresh water eel. Anyways so Im trying to put two and two together here as Im sitting here making sounds about how delicious my cookie is and the man next to me says something about an eel. He goes on to tell me that the cookie I am eating is made out of eel powder and is pointing to the Japanese wrapper, as if I can understand what he is showing me as he reads me the ingredients and says eel powder while pointing to some strange Japanese characters. Im thinking no way am I eating eel, these guys no how much I hate fish and are just messing with me. So I decide to do a little research on the internet and this is what I find.... Unagi (ăăȘă) is the Japanese word for freshwater eels, especially the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica ...... A kind of sweet biscuit called unagi pie made with powdered unagi also exists. Unagi has a distinct taste and is quite expensive. (wikipedia.org) That sweet little unagi pie eel powdered biscuit is what I was eating!!! So now Im thinking great I have to finish this thing because I already said how good it was and that would be rude to throw it away, not to mention the internet article mentioned something about Unagi being expensive. I just couldnt believe it. I am keeping the wrapper for my scrapbook, and decided that I really need to start learning Japanese!
Well after my little cultural exerience, I had a few more classes and then my stupid company meeting which was a waste of my time. As of tomorrow, I can officially say that Justin gets here one week from tomorrow! Yay I cant wait! Alright well I have some chores to do before bed. That sounds so funny, me? Chores? Ha! Who knew!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Internet
Hi all, just wanted to let you know that I will have internet hooked up in my apartment tomorrow. So I will be able to post more, email more and call more! Sorry if I have been slacking on that, been busy trying to figure out my stupid washer =( Anyways just wanted to let you all know that!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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