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Sorry I know I haven’t blogged in a long time but things have just been really busy around here. I have a really big blog about Korea that I haven’t finished writing but it should be up soon. But I thought you guys might want to what’s going on since then.
After we got back from Korea my parents went home. After they left Krystal and I were talking about how weird it felt after they had been there for two weeks. I guess we just missed the apartment being filled. Of course after they left we did some cleaning up trying to get our lives back on track but it wasn’t as easy as we thought it might be. First of all Krystal got sick. She got sick on the way home from Korea and it wasn’t really getting better. But luckily I brought some “American” medicines from back home that seems to work a lot better than the stuff here. Anyway she was taking some medicine and the cold seemed to be getting better but she was starting to lose her voice. She had been coughing a lot which made her voice scratchy but her teachers still made her do lessons and talk louder than she had to so her voice has been shot for the past week or so. She went to the doctor and she gave her a sick note for a week. I think she’s fine health-wise but her voice is still kind of messed up. How can one teach if one can’t use the voice?
Well it just so happens that we had a presentation to give last week during Krystal’s non-verbal ability week. We were asked to give a presentation of Hawaiian Culture to teachers in the Kyoto city area to broaden then understanding of “Hawaii”. We talked about Hawaiian Monarchy, plantation period, and even WWII and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I was expecting to get a reaction when we talked about Pearl Harbor but the biggest reaction came when we talked about pidgin and where it came from. We did a small activity where we gave them definitions and they had to guess which pidgin word fit the definition. They were really surprised and eager to learn more pidgin. Good thing we had a local girl from Kalihi to give us the pidgin breakdown.
We’ve been waiting to play kickball for the past three weeks but the weather is not really agreeing with us. Three times we have scheduled it but it never happened. And it’s the rain. Why the hell is it raining so much?! The messed up thing is that it only rains on THE DAY we deicide to play. All the other days are at least cloudy if not sunny. Plus the autumn passed in like three days and its really cold here. When my parents were in town the weather was nice. Bright sunny days in the high 70’s, totally manageable. But as soon as they left the temperature dropped and we’re looking at 65 degrees high in the mid day and in the low 50’s at night. WTF!? It got cold too fast. I can already see my breath in the morning on the way to school.
Well on Saturday we decided to go to the Jiraya Festival here in Kyoto. They have three really big festivals here in Kyoto and Jiraya is on of them. It’s the festivals of Ages. They have this huge parade that goes from the Old Palace grounds to a temple and everyone is dressed as people of the past. So you have your shoguns, samurais, geisha, and etc. It was pretty cool except we decided to go just before it started so we were on the side of the street where they were re-directing traffic. So we got a nice look at the parade but when I was taking pictures I had to time it between the moped riders and buses. We almost didn’t go to the festival because we wanted to sleep in after the really stressful week planning that presentation I talked about earlier. But we decided that we should do as much as we can this year since it is the “last of everything”.
I’ve ignoring blogging for two reasons:
A: I haven’t found time to do it in school like I usually do.
B: I have been totally stuck on Lumines. (PSP game)
Oh yeah if you didn’t know I got a PSP a month or so ago. Anyway the game is knd of like Tetris but in a club. The music in that game is really cool. Not to mention cool visuals and of course the age old dilemma of trying to clear away as many rows as possible. If you haven’t got a PSP you should get one and Lumines should be your first game. Every time you get to a certain level you get a new skin/background/music. This is what has me playing PSP from after dinner until I have to go to sleep. The game is so addicting. It was so addicting that Krystal went out and bought a PSP too! She got the white one. She seems to be in a white/Apple mood recently. All the gadgets she’s bought have been Apple or white. Anyway the PSP is cool and its wireless so you can browse the internet if you wanted too. And another cool pro is that the hackers of the world as finding ways to hack into the PSP and therefore games can be downloaded as well as movies. I even hear you can play Nintendo Game Boy games off the PSP. Pretty cool huh? If you don’t have one, get one! ‘Cause Dooku Said SO!
Break it Down
After we got back from Korea my parents went home. After they left Krystal and I were talking about how weird it felt after they had been there for two weeks. I guess we just missed the apartment being filled. Of course after they left we did some cleaning up trying to get our lives back on track but it wasn’t as easy as we thought it might be. First of all Krystal got sick. She got sick on the way home from Korea and it wasn’t really getting better. But luckily I brought some “American” medicines from back home that seems to work a lot better than the stuff here. Anyway she was taking some medicine and the cold seemed to be getting better but she was starting to lose her voice. She had been coughing a lot which made her voice scratchy but her teachers still made her do lessons and talk louder than she had to so her voice has been shot for the past week or so. She went to the doctor and she gave her a sick note for a week. I think she’s fine health-wise but her voice is still kind of messed up. How can one teach if one can’t use the voice?
Well it just so happens that we had a presentation to give last week during Krystal’s non-verbal ability week. We were asked to give a presentation of Hawaiian Culture to teachers in the Kyoto city area to broaden then understanding of “Hawaii”. We talked about Hawaiian Monarchy, plantation period, and even WWII and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I was expecting to get a reaction when we talked about Pearl Harbor but the biggest reaction came when we talked about pidgin and where it came from. We did a small activity where we gave them definitions and they had to guess which pidgin word fit the definition. They were really surprised and eager to learn more pidgin. Good thing we had a local girl from Kalihi to give us the pidgin breakdown.
We’ve been waiting to play kickball for the past three weeks but the weather is not really agreeing with us. Three times we have scheduled it but it never happened. And it’s the rain. Why the hell is it raining so much?! The messed up thing is that it only rains on THE DAY we deicide to play. All the other days are at least cloudy if not sunny. Plus the autumn passed in like three days and its really cold here. When my parents were in town the weather was nice. Bright sunny days in the high 70’s, totally manageable. But as soon as they left the temperature dropped and we’re looking at 65 degrees high in the mid day and in the low 50’s at night. WTF!? It got cold too fast. I can already see my breath in the morning on the way to school.
Well on Saturday we decided to go to the Jiraya Festival here in Kyoto. They have three really big festivals here in Kyoto and Jiraya is on of them. It’s the festivals of Ages. They have this huge parade that goes from the Old Palace grounds to a temple and everyone is dressed as people of the past. So you have your shoguns, samurais, geisha, and etc. It was pretty cool except we decided to go just before it started so we were on the side of the street where they were re-directing traffic. So we got a nice look at the parade but when I was taking pictures I had to time it between the moped riders and buses. We almost didn’t go to the festival because we wanted to sleep in after the really stressful week planning that presentation I talked about earlier. But we decided that we should do as much as we can this year since it is the “last of everything”.
I’ve ignoring blogging for two reasons:
A: I haven’t found time to do it in school like I usually do.
B: I have been totally stuck on Lumines. (PSP game)
Oh yeah if you didn’t know I got a PSP a month or so ago. Anyway the game is knd of like Tetris but in a club. The music in that game is really cool. Not to mention cool visuals and of course the age old dilemma of trying to clear away as many rows as possible. If you haven’t got a PSP you should get one and Lumines should be your first game. Every time you get to a certain level you get a new skin/background/music. This is what has me playing PSP from after dinner until I have to go to sleep. The game is so addicting. It was so addicting that Krystal went out and bought a PSP too! She got the white one. She seems to be in a white/Apple mood recently. All the gadgets she’s bought have been Apple or white. Anyway the PSP is cool and its wireless so you can browse the internet if you wanted too. And another cool pro is that the hackers of the world as finding ways to hack into the PSP and therefore games can be downloaded as well as movies. I even hear you can play Nintendo Game Boy games off the PSP. Pretty cool huh? If you don’t have one, get one! ‘Cause Dooku Said SO!
Break it Down
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