Monday's conference started at 2, so we got into Yokohama (MinatoMirai) around 12. We grabbed the materials for the conference and then Mark and I went to the hotel next door the Intercontinental, and tried to check in, though we were two hours early. They let us, woo! And we soon went up to our room on the 14th floor. Not super high, but high ( Read more... )

I hope everyone in the midwest is coping with the snow/ice/tornadoes or whatever. Mr. Meany wasn't wrong last week when he said it didn't seem like a very good place to live. Then again, we can't all live in Arizona, nor would we want to ( Read more... )

Well that was fast. Friday night was great, dinner with Mark and then out with the Irish for some craziness. We spent a few hours drinking beers and eating snacks at Gohei and then we did an hour of Karaoke up the road. I think we rolled in around 3am ( Read more... )

In my time zone, Valentine's day was yesterday, so Happy (late) Valentine's Day. Yea. I can't say V-Day is much fun at a Japanese JHS where the kids aren't allowed to bring in chocolates for people. They can do it all they want in High School, but not here apparently. So I didn't get anything at school, but being a girl, and at JHS, so what. ( Read more... )

The weekend was relatively uneventful. Friday night I even stayed home, alone! I know, shocking. I cleaned my apartment and watched my dvd's of 90210. Beautiful. Then on Saturday I roused myself from sleep around 10 (and that was DIFFICULT) then took some things to the resale shop around 11. I got 2500yen for house stuff and some shoes, then ( Read more... )

Well, I had a surprisingly fantastic weekend. Mark and I drove up to Hakuba on Friday night and arrived around 8pm. There was hardly any snow around, and none on the road, so the driving was easy. After another hour or so, the others started to arrive. We congregated in the biggest hotel room (it sleeps about 12) and had a bit of a pre-skiing ( Read more... )

I finally started writing yesterday, right before I got kicked off the computer and told to bring my own to school. Grr. Anyway:

Ok, so last friday I went home, changed, packed for the weekend, and then drove over to Mark's.

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Yesterday was awesome. In the morning it was so rainy. I had two classes, 2nd grade and then my special class, where we finished watching Curious George. Reiko canceled our third period class, so then I went over to Norin High school, Mark's agricultural school. They were having school festival and I wanted to see how it was different from ( Read more... )

Here's Mark and Takato, aren't they cute?

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