Monday is a holiday! It's our first holiday since Golden Week, and ooooooh do I need it. Things have sort of calmed down in my class a little bit, but some days are still really tough ( Read more... )

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Found a weird little matsuri thingie as I was wandering through Yagi last night, and followed the strung-up lanterns through the streets until I only had a vague clue of where I was anymore. Passed over a second set of train tracks (active) that I didn:t even know existed - where do they go? what other stations do they connect to? Took a few ( Read more... )

First of all, happy birthdays to darrick, jonsonite, and sharpelbows!

And now for the weekend report!

Friday, at work was our Tanabata party. The whole thing was pretty crazy - we had to do a lot of decorations and stuff for about an hour of party (for my kids at least - toddler and K1 both got about two hours in). I'd been making glittery stars to hang from the ceiling ( Read more... )

- SO did not do as much lesson-y type stuff as they (boss-people, FBI, and the mother) would like yesterday when I taught Moeka. We played hide and seek (numbers) and simon says (action words, listening, body parts) with the kindergarten, then two games of bingo (alphabet and phonics) and a workbook page (handwriting, R/r), and then we watched a ( Read more... )

This is pretty much a placeholder entry to prove to all of you who may be wondering that I am, in fact, not dead. The last week or so's been pretty busy with family and matsuri and other stuff which I'm sure I'll talk about later, when Laura's not waiting impatiently for her computer back. bitch For now, I shall leave you with a picture that my ( Read more... )

You know, Nara certainly has an unhealty obsession with fire for a city full of ANCIENT WOODEN BUILDINGS. There was the whole "let's burn down a mountain, yay!" thing in January, and the first two weeks of March are spent waving flaming torches from the balcony of Toudaiji's Nigatsudo, to the delight of the thousands of people watching below ( Read more... )

Things aren't too bad. The weather's starting to warm up, I have an ipod, there should be cds coming to me in the mail soon, as well as a hat.... yeah, things are ok ( Read more... )

I watched a mountain go up in flames tonight. Pretty.