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Monday, October 27, 2003
shizukanaa...
it`s really quiet in the shokuin right now... because everyone has LEFT ME... well except for the principal. he is probably reading the box scores from the latest PGA tournament anyways ;) oh, wait maki sensei just walked in... and has now left again. blink. everyone is practicing for the bunkasai (cultural festival) and i`m pretty excited to see it, this friday!! and a free bento lunch to boot! so today was the start of the halloween lessons. i got dressed up in the school uniform, complete with the socks that i figured out how to (sort of) rock last night. i actually kind of like nankominami`s uniform, because the girls get to wear a light blue tie, which sets of the deeper blue of their uniform; yay ties! i freaked a couple of teachers out, hearing multiple exclamations of `bikkurishimashita!!!!!!` and apparently i look like okagi in san-nen when i`m in uniform. hopefully the halloween lessons at joyo will be okay... some of those kids though, models for obnoxiousness.
this weekend was really fun... i got to visit with the matsumotos and hang out in kameoka and kyoto from friday to saturday night. the matsumotos are so great, i love them! pops is a picture maniac and moms is the most genki person i have ever met... not just the most genki woman, but person EVER... if only i had like, half of her energy! akiko is so super cute, and her sisters are really sweet too. and i finally got to go festivalling! woohoooooo! in this one, they pulled hokkos, which are basically really tall altars, and old tapestries from Persia/Iran and China are draped down the back and sides. at night they light up the streets with lanterns in front of each house, which is really pretty. and the food stalls... aahhh the food stalls. there were a couple of things i was thinking about trying, like tako senbei (????), but just loaded up on sugar instead. anyways, moms matsumoto made sure i was fed really well (my miso shiru had MATSUTAKE in it...). Before we left for kyoto, she went and raided the supermarket and gave a big ol` bag of food, which included TWO boxes of corn soup!! woohoooooooo! but one of the best parts of the matsumoto household is their delightful golden retriever Lucky. I am so in love. And he looks kind of like Remy too which kills me... Lucky, aishiteruyo! Saturday afternoon, we had a couple of extra hours since Matt and Brian weren`t going to be in Kyoto till 430, genki moms matsumoto convinced us to put on kimonos. it was pretty cool to be wrapped and bound in a kimono and to flit about on zoris. but moms and pops went a little crazy with the pictures... 46 pictures in twenty minutes, no lie. sigh =)
after akiko and i were unbound from our kimonos, we headed off to kyoto to get cultured. i`ve been to kyoto before but haven`t really gone gangbusters in the temple/festival department, the last time mostly consisting of weird baroque coffee and 28 ten-yen coins. akiko found a night sight we could go to, so up first was the mission to find rukku (sp) socks, to wear for nankominami`s halloween lesson (today). we met up with matt and brian, and when i met brian, to my complete surprise/delight, he pulls out THREE boxes of KD!!!!! and not just the normal stuff... one lucious box of white cheddar KD!!!! (scream)... matteus the magnificent placed the order with brian for me even though i had balked at the last second. socks mission was a fait accompli, and then after failing miserably when trying to locate halloween music for joyo, we met up with kris. he reccommended a 100 yen sushi place, which was super nice. it was nice to see him and kanai again, esp since he couldn`t make it last time. kris is still kris =) after dinner we headed out to a temple, which was so worth the 600 yen... the bamboo forest alone was worth price of admission... but i still don`t get the superpsychadelic multi-coloured plastic teepee display in the middle of a zen garden... whaaaaat? i know japan is all about neo-fusion and everything but.... yeah.
but was a good weekend... and nomoto`s okonmiyaki party was really fun too... i didn`t have to make lunch today! victory!!!!!!!!
mama-san vball tonight... Lord, please sustain me ;)
it`s really quiet in the shokuin right now... because everyone has LEFT ME... well except for the principal. he is probably reading the box scores from the latest PGA tournament anyways ;) oh, wait maki sensei just walked in... and has now left again. blink. everyone is practicing for the bunkasai (cultural festival) and i`m pretty excited to see it, this friday!! and a free bento lunch to boot! so today was the start of the halloween lessons. i got dressed up in the school uniform, complete with the socks that i figured out how to (sort of) rock last night. i actually kind of like nankominami`s uniform, because the girls get to wear a light blue tie, which sets of the deeper blue of their uniform; yay ties! i freaked a couple of teachers out, hearing multiple exclamations of `bikkurishimashita!!!!!!` and apparently i look like okagi in san-nen when i`m in uniform. hopefully the halloween lessons at joyo will be okay... some of those kids though, models for obnoxiousness.
this weekend was really fun... i got to visit with the matsumotos and hang out in kameoka and kyoto from friday to saturday night. the matsumotos are so great, i love them! pops is a picture maniac and moms is the most genki person i have ever met... not just the most genki woman, but person EVER... if only i had like, half of her energy! akiko is so super cute, and her sisters are really sweet too. and i finally got to go festivalling! woohoooooo! in this one, they pulled hokkos, which are basically really tall altars, and old tapestries from Persia/Iran and China are draped down the back and sides. at night they light up the streets with lanterns in front of each house, which is really pretty. and the food stalls... aahhh the food stalls. there were a couple of things i was thinking about trying, like tako senbei (????), but just loaded up on sugar instead. anyways, moms matsumoto made sure i was fed really well (my miso shiru had MATSUTAKE in it...). Before we left for kyoto, she went and raided the supermarket and gave a big ol` bag of food, which included TWO boxes of corn soup!! woohoooooooo! but one of the best parts of the matsumoto household is their delightful golden retriever Lucky. I am so in love. And he looks kind of like Remy too which kills me... Lucky, aishiteruyo! Saturday afternoon, we had a couple of extra hours since Matt and Brian weren`t going to be in Kyoto till 430, genki moms matsumoto convinced us to put on kimonos. it was pretty cool to be wrapped and bound in a kimono and to flit about on zoris. but moms and pops went a little crazy with the pictures... 46 pictures in twenty minutes, no lie. sigh =)
after akiko and i were unbound from our kimonos, we headed off to kyoto to get cultured. i`ve been to kyoto before but haven`t really gone gangbusters in the temple/festival department, the last time mostly consisting of weird baroque coffee and 28 ten-yen coins. akiko found a night sight we could go to, so up first was the mission to find rukku (sp) socks, to wear for nankominami`s halloween lesson (today). we met up with matt and brian, and when i met brian, to my complete surprise/delight, he pulls out THREE boxes of KD!!!!! and not just the normal stuff... one lucious box of white cheddar KD!!!! (scream)... matteus the magnificent placed the order with brian for me even though i had balked at the last second. socks mission was a fait accompli, and then after failing miserably when trying to locate halloween music for joyo, we met up with kris. he reccommended a 100 yen sushi place, which was super nice. it was nice to see him and kanai again, esp since he couldn`t make it last time. kris is still kris =) after dinner we headed out to a temple, which was so worth the 600 yen... the bamboo forest alone was worth price of admission... but i still don`t get the superpsychadelic multi-coloured plastic teepee display in the middle of a zen garden... whaaaaat? i know japan is all about neo-fusion and everything but.... yeah.
but was a good weekend... and nomoto`s okonmiyaki party was really fun too... i didn`t have to make lunch today! victory!!!!!!!!
mama-san vball tonight... Lord, please sustain me ;)
// posted by naomi @ 1:48 a.m. 
