The kimono has come home. It is a wonderful thing of beauty. I'm almost afraid to touch it XD I had to hang it up last night because it got a little sweaty while I was trying it on in the shop, (it's awfully hot here still), so they told me to let it air before I put it away. This morning, as I was getting ready to fold it up, I had to scrub ( Read more... )

Aha! I am back in Japan, triumphant after my vacation in America. It was good to be home, but I am glad to be in my own apartment again! My search for all manner of Hi-Chew continues, though I think it's nearing the end... YuukiDuki said that he knows where there is a store that sells all sorts of flavors, so I'll see if I can get him to take me ( Read more... )

Phew... hard week ( Read more... )

I did it! I passed my shodan kendo test! Oh my god, I was so nervous! For shodan there are four different sections for the test. You pass one section and then move on to the next, and people fall off along the way. Every time I passed one section, I got more and more nervous that I would totally screw up the next one, but I made it through the ( Read more... )

As feared, I put up the wishes of only my Thursday students, and my little bamboo branch has disappeared in a mass of paper! You can't even see the leaves haha! Looks like I'll have to take the pictures a day at a time!

Woot! It's Star Festival time! A time when the streets, stations, department store, etc are filled with little bamboo trees all covered in fluttering wishes written on slips of paper and shiny decorations! And for the first time in four years, it's not cloudy, which means that the star lovers Orihime and Hikoboshi will be able to meet tonight! * ( Read more... )

The fabric has been dyed and is waiting for my approval! Yay ( Read more... )

Hot hot hot was all I could think at kendo practice today ( Read more... )

Driving home tonight was such a nice experience. My school on Thursdays is in the next town over, and to get there I have to drive through the outskirts of Okayama (Okayama isn't that big to start with, so the outskirts means country, big time). But they've flooded the rice fields, and all the little rice plants have been planted, and its just ( Read more... )

I went with a friend of mine to the Kinoshita Circus on Sunday! Kinoshita is Japan's longest running circus, and was actually founded in the town where I live, so they have come back to celebrate their 108th anniversary. I had a really good time. I wasn't sure how I would like it since I haven't been to the circus since I was very small, but I ( Read more... )