Belly Dance, Scooters, and Mountains.
Whats the one thing that screams out, I HAVE to do this when I'm in Japan?
Why of course...its Belly Dance at a shopping mall in front of hundreds of people!
Yes... My life in Japan now includes dancing at shopping malls. In fact, I'm super suprised that my life includes...dancing! Its not really something I ever imagined myself doing. But I like it, and we should do the things we like yes? Within reason of course. So about 2 weeks ago, I was belly dancing at the local shopping mall at 3 in the afternoon in clear view of everyone.
Yes, That was me, dancing in front of alot of people. Some friends and some work colleagues. I was so nervous that I forgot to smile half of the time. But damn did I do a good job! I didnt stumble, fall or mess up at all! This is me...un co-ordinated girl here!
This is our dance group. I may appear large in this picture as true to form, Japanese people are tiny. Go me with my big fat foriegn body!
I had alot of fun, but it was so nerve wracking. The next dance is in August so I'm hoping to pick up a new dance for that. Its so much fun to dance and to learn new things. I really hope that I can get the hang of it fast and be an awesome dancer. It all takes time and effort I guess. Next month I may even buy some new belly dance outfits. But this is subject to money issues.
That night, we had Rin's birthday party! Well when I say party, it was more like a few friends round to celebrate. However Rin was very very fashionably late as he had work. First off, we made an awesome cake. In previous years I had made him some very strange cakes. One of the most famous being a green banana ufo type cake. This didnt go down too well, but it was memorable. So this year, going on the theme of erotic we made this;
A blue Icing cake with mushroom chocolate decorations, gummies, pudding chocolate and the crowning glory, A no skirt Evangelion Misato. :D
The back of which had a mario with snot :) Snot icing! This Mario lolipop is chocolate of course. All in all the cake outdone previous cakes which I'm happy about. I wonder what next years cake will be like!
Afterwards we headed to a yakiniku place (korean bbq) had some food and me and rin drink alot of beers to celebrate. Overall I think he had a nice birthday. I even got him a tracksuit for work which he desperatly needed. In Japan teachers wear tracksuits to work. Not normal clothes, tracksuits. Its like NED teachers. Honestly. I of course don't wear ned clothes!
Last Friday I finally got to see the new SATC2 movie, which I was happy about. It was ok, nothing special, but I'm glad I got to see it. We usually get movies about 4-10 months after they are released abroad...so its really annoying especially with facebook and twitter etc.
Although when I went to see it, everyone laughed at the different parts...because of the subtitles. Strange how some jokes just do not translate.
In other news, Lush Japan has been making my life bareable. Almost everything I own is Lush now. Mainly because I know it works well and it won't bleach my skin like most Japanese products do. Only problem is that its expensive here... Its nice to know that you can get some things from home here.
Even if Irn Bru is not available...or mars bars.
Last week I didnt feel to great though... I don't know why but I've just been secretly very very lonely. When Rin was down we bought a PS3 together (yey I own a PS3 now!) so we're sharing it and I'm taking it up to his when I go so we can play together as well in his current job even going outside isn't possible as he has so much work to do. Its really frustrating. You would think that having a boyfriend alone makes it less lonely. But nope, it makes it kind of worse. But the PS3 will ease the pain in Winter hopefully! The JET year however is coming to an end and alot of my friends are leaving to go home and on to other things. Its kind of sad in a way. Relationships here are simply temporary. Usually everyone you get close to leaves to go home. I'm not saying that I wont be friends with them in the future, but theres a time limit on the things you can do with your friends if they leave in July... :( Its really sad to think that in a few months I won't be able to see such and such as they won't be in Japan any longer. Thus is the life of a foriegn person in Japan I guess. I am so lucky however to have friends like Shimpei, Ikue, Akina, Minori etc a I do see them on a regular basis and I know that they won't exactly be running home as they are home! Its also nice to look forward to things with my international best friend Kylie :) We're planning on going to New York next year! Exciting! I must lose weight for that.
Becase I've been on my own alot more these past few months, I've been exploring the area on my scooter. Which I love! I'm planning on geting a licence for a car soon, so I'm enjoying the last few months with my beloved scooter. On Saturday I climbed a mountain on it. It was super fun!
This was taken at the top of Mount Kinka. Isn't my scooter beautiful? Its so nice and easy and feels great to ride (I am turning into my parents...).
Gifu...taken with my phone.
This weekend I'm planning on traveling to Rins by Scooter. Thats about 100km on a 50cc scooter. I'm sure I can manage somehow...but its pretty long distance. Maybe 4 hours? Fingers crossed it doesn't rain!
Anyway its lunch time...better get my lunch on before the next class. Other than that, life is normal. I go to the Gym alot as usual, I draw and I watch drama's and socialise when I should be saving money. Its now 30 degress most of the time, so I'm looking forward to a nice hot summer. Fun times! I do miss Scotland occasionally though. Man I would kill for some Irn Bru!