Archive for September, 2005

Strange Days, Busy Bee

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

I have been insanely busy lately and I keep meaning to write in here, then forgetting. So here is a general update on the past couple weeks.

I expected things to kind of calm down after Sports Day weekend, and in some ways they did. But the end of the School Festival also meant the […]

Sports Day!

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

Hao! I had to work today, a Sunday, but no matter because it was fun. The middle school had their annual sports day. All the kids played these various games against eachother all day, it was hilarious most of the time and I joined in a few things like the Tug-o-War. I will just go […]

Caligraphy and Natsuki

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

First, I wanna talk about the fact that I have joined yet another club! No, three times a week at Karate was not enough for me, I am now doing Caligraphy twice a week as well! I hope I don’t burn myself out. But its good because both clubs are pretty lax about attendence. The […]

Empty Handed

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

I have started Karate lessons. Learning a Martial Art was one of the things I most wanted to do while in Japan, and what better than the most Japanese of the Martial Arts? My first lesson went really well. At first I was a little embarassed because I had no idea what was going on […]

iroirona

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Ok so its been an interesting couple days here. Yesterday I had my first day back at my favorite elementary school (the one up the mountain). It was nice, they were all really happy to see me and the kids were so cute, as always. I always feel like its the only school where they […]