Okay, had my first day in the Shoulinji Kenpo club yesterday. It was an experience... a good one, but interesting. First of all, learning all the japanese word for kick, punch, chest, solar plexus, groin, etc wasn`t easy. Second... while it resembles the Shaolin Kenpo I did in the US, everything is just different enough to be really frustrating. My ( Read more... )

I woke up at like 5 AM this morning, and then proceeded to toss and turn for the next 2 hours trying to go back to sleep. It didn`t work and now I`m just sleepy, not tired, exactly, but wanting to sleep. Sorta the opposite of the mudd phenomenon where I don`t want to sleep, but have a full-body weariness. It`s a long day yet, as I have Calligraphy ( Read more... )

Balance is key in all aspects of life... but most particularly those pertaining to riding a biking while holding an umbrella. I can ride with one hand no problem, so I thought it`d be okay. But was that was when I underestimated the Nagoyan winds, which`ll come and yank you one direction or the other at random. I`m suprised I got to school in one ( Read more... )

Heh, I find it ironic that the first song on the CD I borrowed from my roomie is "Blurry Eyes", and I hear it first as I go to school... but the reason it`s fitting is that the cold wind cuts my eyes and makes them water. Kinda annoying as I`m trying to ride against the tides of Chuu-Kou Gakusei ( Read more... )

Had my palm read by a machine (?) the other day at a temple. The printout was hard to read as it was all in katakana, blah- but I`ll post up a rough trans, not `cuz I`m particularly proud of it (and hopefully everything but the first sentence is wrong...) >.> but it`s funny ( Read more... )

(tenki yohou ni tsuite - concerning the weather report ( Read more... )

*moo* skip- *moo* skip- *moo* skip ( Read more... )

Okay, I agreed to volunteer along with a few others American students for an elementary school in Inazawa and help teach english to some 6th graders... I get there, have tea with the principal and chat about american vs. japanese elementary school systems and it`s very pleasant, then a representative from my class comes down to drag me away to 6-2 ( Read more... )

There`s a company around the corner of a block from me called "Hikkoshi SAKAI" (I don`t know what SAKAI means, but their logo is a panda, so I nicknamed the place "Panda Moving") I always walk by in the afternoon as they`re bringing trucks in and out, doing their daily business, and I`ve been known to raid their vending machine for warm milk tea. ( Read more... )

Rainy day today, but I was determined to be to school on time, I always have lab first on Mondays, and am always late... but I left early today to be on time. Thanks to the rain I decided to walk to the subway instead of trying to ride my bike and holding an umbrella. Anyways, as I was walking down the hill, a girl chuugakusei (jr. high school ( Read more... )