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The other day was 火祭り (fire festival). I'm not certain what the origins of this one are, but what I do know is that it involves a bunch of guys building a big bonfire, and then running around in diapers while hitting each other with flaming torches. Looks juvenile, but fun. I only know about it what I saw on the nightly news.
I also figured out what was wrong with my rice cooker. See, I thought that there was a setting on it for fried rice, and a setting for steamed rice. I only gathered this from sorta understanding the kanji on it, and that was just a guess all along too. Well, the other day I was gearing up for another 3 hours of waiting for the rice to cook, and only come out semi-edible, when I decided that for once I'd actually look up those kanji in my kanji dictionary. Turned out the kanji that I thought said "fried", actually just said "cook", and the ones I thought said "steamed" just said "keep warm." So all this time I had been cooking rice simply on the warm setting. That explains a lot. I feel really dumb about that.
This afternoon I was walking over to the mall to look for the Rurouni Kenshin piano scores for richmond (because I didn't feel like doing anything else really), when I bumped into Marco. He invited me over for dinner and I was glad because that meant free food (of course eventually I'll have to extend the same offer, but not right now). He was having spaghetti which is exactly what I was planning to have anyways. Except he put meat in his spaghetti, a commodity I would not have had. I'd never been to Marco's apartment yet. Turned out his roomate is Keshon. I didn't even know. I had wondered how they knew each other. We watched that anime with the hairy cop. I really like that one because it's funny as hell and the Japanese in it is really clear and I can understand a good deal of it, so it's good practice. Then he showed me all the sweet video games he bought. We played FF4, FF6, and Front Mission all on an original Super Famicom. It was so sweet. I would've kissed the FF4 box if it didn't belong to someone else. Then he showed me the Rurouni Kenshin PSX game he just bought this weekend and I freaked because I had been looking all over for that game. And it comes with stickers too! Kenshin stickers!! He said it doesn't work on his particular PSX model, so he lent it to me to try on my PS2. Sweeeeet.
Here's some pictures (I promise to try not to crash people's computers this time):
First is of my current class.
(Update [07/06/05]: *sigh* More missing pictures. That's what I get for linking off site. Then again, linking to my own pictures doesn't seem to have done any good either.)
The old guy in the back left is Fred who I have to thank for these pictures. He's really nice. That goblin looking thing in the middle is Senile Martian Ukai-sensei. She's nice and all, but I really can't stand her.
This is Suzuki-sensei, my favorite:
And this is a (really bad ('cause I'm making a weird face)) picture of me reading to the class from the Kimagure Orange Road manga:
I also figured out what was wrong with my rice cooker. See, I thought that there was a setting on it for fried rice, and a setting for steamed rice. I only gathered this from sorta understanding the kanji on it, and that was just a guess all along too. Well, the other day I was gearing up for another 3 hours of waiting for the rice to cook, and only come out semi-edible, when I decided that for once I'd actually look up those kanji in my kanji dictionary. Turned out the kanji that I thought said "fried", actually just said "cook", and the ones I thought said "steamed" just said "keep warm." So all this time I had been cooking rice simply on the warm setting. That explains a lot. I feel really dumb about that.
This afternoon I was walking over to the mall to look for the Rurouni Kenshin piano scores for richmond (because I didn't feel like doing anything else really), when I bumped into Marco. He invited me over for dinner and I was glad because that meant free food (of course eventually I'll have to extend the same offer, but not right now). He was having spaghetti which is exactly what I was planning to have anyways. Except he put meat in his spaghetti, a commodity I would not have had. I'd never been to Marco's apartment yet. Turned out his roomate is Keshon. I didn't even know. I had wondered how they knew each other. We watched that anime with the hairy cop. I really like that one because it's funny as hell and the Japanese in it is really clear and I can understand a good deal of it, so it's good practice. Then he showed me all the sweet video games he bought. We played FF4, FF6, and Front Mission all on an original Super Famicom. It was so sweet. I would've kissed the FF4 box if it didn't belong to someone else. Then he showed me the Rurouni Kenshin PSX game he just bought this weekend and I freaked because I had been looking all over for that game. And it comes with stickers too! Kenshin stickers!! He said it doesn't work on his particular PSX model, so he lent it to me to try on my PS2. Sweeeeet.
Here's some pictures (I promise to try not to crash people's computers this time):
First is of my current class.
(Update [07/06/05]: *sigh* More missing pictures. That's what I get for linking off site. Then again, linking to my own pictures doesn't seem to have done any good either.)
The old guy in the back left is Fred who I have to thank for these pictures. He's really nice. That goblin looking thing in the middle is Senile Martian Ukai-sensei. She's nice and all, but I really can't stand her.
This is Suzuki-sensei, my favorite:
And this is a (really bad ('cause I'm making a weird face)) picture of me reading to the class from the Kimagure Orange Road manga: