Shalom, Rachel and Toda
So Rachel is gone. My apartment is so lonely. But we had a great last day at Kuroiwa Jr. High. I love those kids SO MUCH! Rachel did her usual self-introduction and then the kids made yamakas out of paper and Rachel explained Rosh Hosshana and we ate the traditional food: apples and honey. Rachel said a Jewish blessing over the apples before eating. It went so well! Afterward, the 2nd year girls came up to Rachel and said "toda!" which means "thank you" in Hebrew! We had taught them that during the lesson, but I about died. These kids never fail to impress me with how wonderfully wonderful they can be. KUROIWA FOREVER!
I'll get around to making a picture post someday soon. I have a whole day at the Board of Education Monday, so I'll probably do it then. I have just under a billion pictures, each one with a story behind it. I may not be able to finish this picture post even in a seven-hour work day, but try I shall!
The fall TV season has started and so I'm very busy once again keeping up with my favorite shows. I know I seem like a dork for watching so much American TV while I'm living in Japan, but I swear it's the only thing that keeps me sane sometimes. When I come home from work, the last thing I want to do is listen to anything in Japanese.
This year I'm watching the usual lot: House, Heroes, Supernatural, The Office, My Name is Earl, Battlestar Galactica, and Pushing Daisies (the last two of which are finally airing their new seasons staring Wednesday.) However I've added a few new shows this year two with: Stargate Atlantis (in it's last season--and rightly so because this season is sucking big-time), Terminator, Eureka, and, last and most certainly least, Knight Rider 2008.
Knight Rider is one of those shows I am watching because it is so incessantly idiotic that I burst out laughing at the horrible, horrible dialog. Also, the show obviously hates the government and there's a huge subplot having to do with the government experimenting or something on the main character. Then in the very last scene, the main character's death is staged by the agency he works for and what new name does the guy pick? Mike Knight. Mike... Knight. Now, how am I NOT supposed to laugh at that? In fact, I'm laughing right now!
What a stupid show. But I think it will prove very, very amusing.
I'll get around to making a picture post someday soon. I have a whole day at the Board of Education Monday, so I'll probably do it then. I have just under a billion pictures, each one with a story behind it. I may not be able to finish this picture post even in a seven-hour work day, but try I shall!
The fall TV season has started and so I'm very busy once again keeping up with my favorite shows. I know I seem like a dork for watching so much American TV while I'm living in Japan, but I swear it's the only thing that keeps me sane sometimes. When I come home from work, the last thing I want to do is listen to anything in Japanese.
This year I'm watching the usual lot: House, Heroes, Supernatural, The Office, My Name is Earl, Battlestar Galactica, and Pushing Daisies (the last two of which are finally airing their new seasons staring Wednesday.) However I've added a few new shows this year two with: Stargate Atlantis (in it's last season--and rightly so because this season is sucking big-time), Terminator, Eureka, and, last and most certainly least, Knight Rider 2008.
Knight Rider is one of those shows I am watching because it is so incessantly idiotic that I burst out laughing at the horrible, horrible dialog. Also, the show obviously hates the government and there's a huge subplot having to do with the government experimenting or something on the main character. Then in the very last scene, the main character's death is staged by the agency he works for and what new name does the guy pick? Mike Knight. Mike... Knight. Now, how am I NOT supposed to laugh at that? In fact, I'm laughing right now!
What a stupid show. But I think it will prove very, very amusing.