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Birthday
• 1979-05-10
Gender
• Female
Location
• Shizuoka, Japan
Member Since
• 2004-03-06
Occupation
• English Teacher
Real Name
• Katy

Personal

Achievements
• stayed alive for 28+ years
Anime Fan Since
• 1997
Favorite Anime
• Sailor Moon, Naruto, Spirited Away, all things CLAMP, all things Gundam
Goals
• to not freeze during my first Japanese winter!
Hobbies
• Rollerblading, Writing, Drawing, Reading, Karate
Talents
• Pretty much the same as those *points upwards*

myOtaku.com: sailor firestar

Monday, September 17, 2007

They're flying faster than mushrooms! - Okazaki Shinichi, NANA

Ahahaha! And then Nobu yells "Mushrooms don't fly!" Ah......but it would be cool if they did, ne? Sorry I haven't made a post in almost a week. Things have been REALLY busy around here! If this post is a bit disjointed I apologize, but I'm typing it while I talk to my little "Bakura-chan". He's nine years old today!

Today was a holiday in Japan, Respect for the Aged Day, so I finally got a little free time to come by here. Ever since last Wednesday I've been running around like crazy. That day I stayed late at school to help my student practice for the speech contest. Then that night I went to an oden restaurant with all the other teachers (all 10 of them.......it's such a small school!) for a party. I spent the night up there too since there weren't any more buses going back down the mountain. Then on Thursday it was the speech contest. My student didn't win, but I didn't really expect her to. All of us ALTs had to stand up and introduce ourselves and then write comments for the kids. I didn't realize it was such a big deal that we were there, but everyone was really happy. There was even one kid who talked about how he was "otaku" in his speech! He said he thought that after English, anime would become a second international language because people could learn to understand each other from watching it. I was so proud even though I didn't know him! I went to talk to him at the break, but I didn't get much time. We just talked about watching Lucky Star!

On Friday I missed the bus back home because I was so into watching the kids practice for Sports Day! Luckily I got a ride with my English teacher since the Board of Education was having a party for all the ALTs. After that a bunch of us went out and then the girls had a sleepover at Stacey's apartment which was really fun. Then Saturday Jasmine and I went to Fujieda (about 20 min by train) to meet some other ALTs who speak French and watched a French movie at one of their teachers' houses. I was sitting there thinking "wow......." the whole time. There I was, in Japan, in a Japanese lady's house, watching a French movie, eating French desserts, and speaking French with three Canadian girls! It was pretty surreal.

Yesterday we were supposed to have Sports Day, but it was raining so it's been moved back to next Sunday. I watched some of an international dance festival with the other girls. Some of the Japanese ones kind of reminded me of karate. It was so cool, it made me want to join in! Their costumes were really cool too! Today Shirley and I went to eat at the Kappa Zushi (a kaiten sushi place where the food goes around on a conveyor belt - it's really good and cheap!) and did a little shopping. I'm going to try to go to bed early tonight so I guess I should stop now and show some picutres!

The mountains around my school. Hopefully after Sports Day I'll have pics of the people I work with.

Lanterns from the last obon festival we went to in August.

The temple entrance way all lit up for obon.

The first model I've finished since I've been here, Evangelion 03!

What?
Yes.........that is what you think. I got a new bike today.........in a department store, and then rode it 10km to get home!

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