Wow. It's only been two weeks since I last posted, but it feels like a lot longer. I'm actually glad that I haven't had enough spare time to add to this blog--that means I'm too busy having the time of my life to sit down and write about it. Suffice it to say, I'm loving it here. The negatives are few and temporary, mostly related to the language barrier and interacting with fellow teachers. I've been teaching Halloween lessons for the past week (complete with candy for the students), I was able to play a piano for the first time in two months this week (and man, did it feel good), the JETs on my island got together and helped put on a trick-or-treating shindig with about 200 elementary students, and I'm going to Nagasaki this week for the prefectural mid-year conference (which means about 500x the anglophones I see around here). Oh, and I found a spectacularly nostalgic youtube video of the UGA Men's Glee Club from almost 20 years ago. The only serious differences I noticed were the former conductor (Arant instead of Crowell) and the auditorium (one of the PJ auditoria instead of the School of Music). Everything else--the clothes, the hairstyles, the good-natured foolishness--has changed very little, if at all.
However, all of this pales in comparison to two glorious parts of today. First, UGA beat the ever-loving snot out of Florida, for only the third time in 18 years. What trumps everything else, though, is that today I found out that my grandmother, who has been fighting liver cancer for two years, has been declared cancer-free. I know it's kind of awkward to mention that here, but in the spirit of keeping a journal for me to read as much as for everyone else, I think it's appropriate. Today rocked so hard that I still can't believe it.
Guitar Hero 3 came out today. Yet another reason to buy a Wii. Let's see how long I can resist...
Sunday, October 28, 2007
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What do the kids prefer to dress up as for Halloween? Is it the same as here (vampire, mummy, pop culture character, etc.) or have you seen some real curveballs?
I live in one of the poorer parts of Japan, so all the costumes I saw when we did trick-or-treating were made from trash bags. It sounds pitiful, but they sell trash bags in a bajillion different colors here, apparently just for this purpose. A lot of moms put some serious effort into the costumes, too--a group of girls were dressed up like Disney princesses, and they didn't look half bad in pink, blue, green, and red... trash bags.
Adam! I watched the UGA Glee Club video because, well, I like the Glee Club! And do you know what I noticed in the tags next to the video? The word "grundlock". Hmm, I thought. And then do you know what I found later in the video? A clip of my brother David talking to the camera when he was 21! (He's the one saying "he didn't want to gross out the general public.")
What a freaking weird coincidence... also, I've never seen video from him that young! Thanks! Totally sending this to all my family now. - Michael
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