So, we've been really busy the last couple of days, and I've have been doing a looooooooot of close up magic (with that many o's it has to be alot).  Now obviously in Japan I've been doing them all in Japanese.  Well, last night there were some foreigners and I had to do it in English.  I almost couldn't!  I forgot all my routines in my native ( Read more... )

So I had to go to 7 11 this morning for some much needed supplies.  There's one on every corner and they have international atms ( Read more... )

Two times before they've asked me to change my show for the repeat customers that come to watch...and even though before I left the states, no one told me I had to change my show, I did. (I had brought extra effects with me in case something broke ( Read more... )

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I had no hot water last night and I'm not sure why.  I haven't ventured to test it this morning...probably because it will still not be working and then I'll have to make a long call to someone who probably won't understand what I'm saying anyway ( Read more... )

One of the problems with living in a country where you are still learning the language is that at times you don't always get the whole story. We were expecting a very large group of Chinese people, so they asked me to stay late since everyone's sets would be shorter because none of us spoke Chinese. They were set to arrive at 9:30, but they were ( Read more... )

I had forgotten what it's like living in another country. One minute, you feel like you understand everything that's going on around you and really feel apart of it, then the next minute you don't understand anything that's said, and when you do, you don't even know what they mean by it. Ups and downs, minute to minute ( Read more... )

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After yesterday's extremely sucky day, today was a good one ( Read more... )

They asked me (after I got here) to change a trick every couple of weeks as sometimes they have repeat customers. However, when I asked them if I could put something different in the show, they became all put upon and said they needed to schedule rehearsal times and things. Then, when I gave them the CD with new music on it, they said they couldn ( Read more... )