I haven't done a tea review in a while even though I've been lucky enough to receive several splendid teas as gifts.

The most recent of the teas I've received is Rainforest Vanilla Rooibos Tea coming from The Hawaiian Vanilla Company. I received a container of this tea after my father and his wife went to Hawaii in celebration of their six month ( Read more... )

I was walking home, and I saw a geisha fully dressed, and scooting around. I haven't seen one since I was in Japan. She was going to a high-class Japanese restaurant, but I found it rather interesting all the same.

Today was a day of life ( Read more... )

The last two days have been interesting. I forgot to take my seizure medicine because I was so tired the other day. I got really shaky midday as a result, but managed to avoid seizures as far as I know. Today however things were not so good. Several times throughout the day my hands started shaking at random intervals, particularly my left hand. I ( Read more... )

I think people don't understand why I'm here. A lot of my family seems to think I'm here on vacation, some friends too. When I talk to them instead of asking me how class is going they ask me why I haven't gone swimming at the beach yet. I did homework at the beach tonight, but the most I've done is wade in the water. I haven't had the time to do ( Read more... )

I arrived in Oahu today. It’s more beautiful than I expected. Everybody always says that Hawai’i is beautiful, but I guess I expected less. I’m not sure why. I didn’t want to expect it to be as extravagantly wonderful as everyone said because generally when everyone says something is wonderful I expect something fabulous and am disappointed. Hawai’ ( Read more... )

I have been accepted into the University of Hawaii's Cambridge CELTA program for ESL.