a rather motley entry
Soon after returning to the Holy Land two months ago, I discovered I had three degrees of separation from Charlie.
Yesterday afternoon, I achieved three degrees of separation from... a random Yukigumisei. XDD
Where to begin with this story. It's summer break here in Japan, and while the other two teachers are doing summer school fun with the kids I've been mostly doing make-up classes. One of these make-up sessions was a 45-minute free-talk with a middle-aged woman who has possibly the best English of anyone at the school.
Five minutes in:
Me: "Have you ever been to America?"
Her: "Yes, I went to New York a few years ago."
Me: "Oh, what did you do there?"
Her: "I saw a lot of musicals..."
Me: "Oh, I LOVE musicals!" ...
Five more minutes of talking about various musicals we've seen, and then...
Her: "Have you ever seen the Takarazuka Revue?"
SHE ASKED. NOT ME. HOW COULD I RESIST, HONESTLY.
So we fangirled for half an hour. Or I talked at her a lot and she agreed with me and laughed and said "yoku shitteru ne!" even though we were supposed to be practicing English. (She really was impressed by my knowledge of past stars and shows and such. :3) She said that ten years ago she used to go to Takarazuka multiple times for each run of a show she liked; five years ago she went maybe once a month, but now not so often. Her first show was BeruBara sometime in the 80s, back when B-seki were only 100 YEN or something ridiculously cheap like that. Her favorite tops were Suzukaze Mayo and Maya Miki, but she doesn't like Miki now that she's playing a woman in dramas. ;_____; Her favorite Death is the original, Ichiro Maki, and she idolizes O-Hana almost as much as I do. <33333 She's never heard of Alice but that's not surprising seeing as her fan fervor has kind of waned, and she was more of a Hana/Tsuki fan than a Sora fan. But I really loved this part of our conversation.
Her: "Why do you love Takarazuka?"
Me: "..." *searches for words* "Well, I've always loved musicals, and in Takarazuka everyone and everything is so beautiful, and the costumes are so pretty and sparkly, and..."
*insert a minute or so of both of us giggling about sparkliness*
Her: "I like Takarazuka because when I'm watching it, I can forget about anything. I can forget everything. It really is a world of dreams."
<333333
What a shame that I don't have her as a regular student, honestly. Anyway, she told me that her friend's daughter was in Yukigumi, and she couldn't quite remember her stage name but it was something like "Minami Sora" and she was six or seven years in.
So, yes. Three degrees of separation from Manami Sora.
Fangirling with students at work = awesome. <333333
And now, a slightly random question:
Do baby otokoyaku come into Taka-an in the middle of the day wearing jeans and nice perfume and buy used I have a dream DVDs? Or was I just getting all dokidoki over an otokoyaku wannabe in the same store as me?
Lastly, a record of a few 'Zuka dreams I've had over the last few weeks.
7/14:
There was some kind of special irimachi going on in a place that didn't look like the Hana no Michi, where all these elementary school kids and other young fans had gathered. And I was at regular irimachi with Alice, wearing my pink sweatshirt-ish uniform tied around my neck (note: I actually don't have a uniform yet), and she wasn't sure if she was supposed to talk to the kids at irimachi or not so she ended up not acknowledging them. T___T;; But she was happy to see me, her one little duckling there that day, and she raised her hand to give me a high-five but I was like @___@ but I can't touch an angel and she laughed and encouraged me so I lightly touched her hand. (To think that this part of my dreams has come true... <3333333)
Sometime later, I working at the school and Alice came to visit and gave me a letter on the same pink stationary that I've written to her on. (This was obviously after arlecchinic had told me about her postcard from Akashi. <33333) The funny thing is, the letter wasn't in Japanese, nor was it even in English.
It was in Spanish. XDD;;;
7/19:
I dreamed I was at the daigekijou with Cate and my father, only it didn't look like the Grand Theater at all. And I kept running into all these people from my study abroad program, because apparently all of them had come back to Japan to see Takarazuka. But I got separated from everyone else when I went looking for my mother, who had taken the train past Takarazuka station and I had to go and find her. She was with an old friend of the family whom I would never have expected to show up in my dreams. ^^;; Anyway, we got back and we were in a very strange room that seemed to be connected to the back of the theater, but it was for people who weren't seeing the show to wait around in. So when the performance started - it was Adieu Marseille - they pulled down this partition and I could hear the music playing but I couldn't see anything. Then there was some kind of confusion with my laptop being lended out to various people I didn't know and my dream got less 'Zuka-related, but it seems like in that dream or a different one I also saw Ayane and noticed how her hair was black in cute little braids instead of red like it is now. ^^;;;
Last night (7/26):
Cate and I were going to the 94th class dance and acting recital (she'd been hoping to go to it while she was here, but apparently it's a bit exclusive). We went into the Music School and were walking down this long, partially-lit hallway, and people kept passing us because we were walking slow. And Cate was invisible. (Possibly the most bizarre feature of any 'Zuka dream I've had.) So we went to the little ticket counter thingy, and the two ladies there didn't seem very disturbed by Invisible Cate, but they did tell us that we didn't have tickets and you had to have tickets or some other Japanese-named-thing-my-subconscious-made-up in order to go in. So we kind of just stood craning our necks and peering into the tiny bit of the room we could see - it was very humble and looked rather like a high school auditorium with a small stage and folding chairs instead of proper seats. And then this stooped-over old lady started walking out with two programs (they were purple and looked like they had music in them), as if she had only come for the programs and was leaving again, and we were going to ask if we could have her ticket(s)...
And then I woke up. ^^;;
Oh, one more thing. I just want to point out that I finally changed my journal title / subtitle, which I'd meant to do when mon_bouche made me this new layout. <33333
And that is the end of my completely non-cohesive, trying-to-catch-up-on-things-I-didn't-post-before entry. ^^;;;
Yesterday afternoon, I achieved three degrees of separation from... a random Yukigumisei. XDD
Where to begin with this story. It's summer break here in Japan, and while the other two teachers are doing summer school fun with the kids I've been mostly doing make-up classes. One of these make-up sessions was a 45-minute free-talk with a middle-aged woman who has possibly the best English of anyone at the school.
Five minutes in:
Me: "Have you ever been to America?"
Her: "Yes, I went to New York a few years ago."
Me: "Oh, what did you do there?"
Her: "I saw a lot of musicals..."
Me: "Oh, I LOVE musicals!" ...
Five more minutes of talking about various musicals we've seen, and then...
Her: "Have you ever seen the Takarazuka Revue?"
SHE ASKED. NOT ME. HOW COULD I RESIST, HONESTLY.
So we fangirled for half an hour. Or I talked at her a lot and she agreed with me and laughed and said "yoku shitteru ne!" even though we were supposed to be practicing English. (She really was impressed by my knowledge of past stars and shows and such. :3) She said that ten years ago she used to go to Takarazuka multiple times for each run of a show she liked; five years ago she went maybe once a month, but now not so often. Her first show was BeruBara sometime in the 80s, back when B-seki were only 100 YEN or something ridiculously cheap like that. Her favorite tops were Suzukaze Mayo and Maya Miki, but she doesn't like Miki now that she's playing a woman in dramas. ;_____; Her favorite Death is the original, Ichiro Maki, and she idolizes O-Hana almost as much as I do. <33333 She's never heard of Alice but that's not surprising seeing as her fan fervor has kind of waned, and she was more of a Hana/Tsuki fan than a Sora fan. But I really loved this part of our conversation.
Her: "Why do you love Takarazuka?"
Me: "..." *searches for words* "Well, I've always loved musicals, and in Takarazuka everyone and everything is so beautiful, and the costumes are so pretty and sparkly, and..."
*insert a minute or so of both of us giggling about sparkliness*
Her: "I like Takarazuka because when I'm watching it, I can forget about anything. I can forget everything. It really is a world of dreams."
<333333
What a shame that I don't have her as a regular student, honestly. Anyway, she told me that her friend's daughter was in Yukigumi, and she couldn't quite remember her stage name but it was something like "Minami Sora" and she was six or seven years in.
So, yes. Three degrees of separation from Manami Sora.
Fangirling with students at work = awesome. <333333
And now, a slightly random question:
Do baby otokoyaku come into Taka-an in the middle of the day wearing jeans and nice perfume and buy used I have a dream DVDs? Or was I just getting all dokidoki over an otokoyaku wannabe in the same store as me?
Lastly, a record of a few 'Zuka dreams I've had over the last few weeks.
7/14:
There was some kind of special irimachi going on in a place that didn't look like the Hana no Michi, where all these elementary school kids and other young fans had gathered. And I was at regular irimachi with Alice, wearing my pink sweatshirt-ish uniform tied around my neck (note: I actually don't have a uniform yet), and she wasn't sure if she was supposed to talk to the kids at irimachi or not so she ended up not acknowledging them. T___T;; But she was happy to see me, her one little duckling there that day, and she raised her hand to give me a high-five but I was like @___@ but I can't touch an angel and she laughed and encouraged me so I lightly touched her hand. (To think that this part of my dreams has come true... <3333333)
Sometime later, I working at the school and Alice came to visit and gave me a letter on the same pink stationary that I've written to her on. (This was obviously after arlecchinic had told me about her postcard from Akashi. <33333) The funny thing is, the letter wasn't in Japanese, nor was it even in English.
It was in Spanish. XDD;;;
7/19:
I dreamed I was at the daigekijou with Cate and my father, only it didn't look like the Grand Theater at all. And I kept running into all these people from my study abroad program, because apparently all of them had come back to Japan to see Takarazuka. But I got separated from everyone else when I went looking for my mother, who had taken the train past Takarazuka station and I had to go and find her. She was with an old friend of the family whom I would never have expected to show up in my dreams. ^^;; Anyway, we got back and we were in a very strange room that seemed to be connected to the back of the theater, but it was for people who weren't seeing the show to wait around in. So when the performance started - it was Adieu Marseille - they pulled down this partition and I could hear the music playing but I couldn't see anything. Then there was some kind of confusion with my laptop being lended out to various people I didn't know and my dream got less 'Zuka-related, but it seems like in that dream or a different one I also saw Ayane and noticed how her hair was black in cute little braids instead of red like it is now. ^^;;;
Last night (7/26):
Cate and I were going to the 94th class dance and acting recital (she'd been hoping to go to it while she was here, but apparently it's a bit exclusive). We went into the Music School and were walking down this long, partially-lit hallway, and people kept passing us because we were walking slow. And Cate was invisible. (Possibly the most bizarre feature of any 'Zuka dream I've had.) So we went to the little ticket counter thingy, and the two ladies there didn't seem very disturbed by Invisible Cate, but they did tell us that we didn't have tickets and you had to have tickets or some other Japanese-named-thing-my-subconscious-made-up in order to go in. So we kind of just stood craning our necks and peering into the tiny bit of the room we could see - it was very humble and looked rather like a high school auditorium with a small stage and folding chairs instead of proper seats. And then this stooped-over old lady started walking out with two programs (they were purple and looked like they had music in them), as if she had only come for the programs and was leaving again, and we were going to ask if we could have her ticket(s)...
And then I woke up. ^^;;
Oh, one more thing. I just want to point out that I finally changed my journal title / subtitle, which I'd meant to do when mon_bouche made me this new layout. <33333
And that is the end of my completely non-cohesive, trying-to-catch-up-on-things-I-didn't-post-before entry. ^^;;;