Saturday, April 28, 2007

ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 (Gegege no Kitaro) and my Return from Okinawa

Hello hello!
おひさしぶりだね? It's been so long since I posted! The trip to Okinawa was alot of fun, and a great learning experiance. I got to talk to some of the students freely, thus improving my japanese a bit, and I learned alot about the war between Japan and the USA. We also went to the beach, and I got to swim in the ocean for the first time ever! I don't have anypictures to put on yet though, because I never was able to give my camera to Jen because it was buried in my backpack under all my shopping. ONe bad thing about the trip was that on the last day, outside the hotel (a 5 star btw) I tripped over the curb, and fell, hitting my knee very hard. It hurt the rest of the day to sit/stand/walk or anything else. Yesterday it wasn't as bad but still hurt alot to go down stairs, or sit up quickly. OH yes. Yesterday I freaking accomplished a mission I had set out to do a couple months back. I went to see the Gegege no Kitaro movie. It was amazing. The best thing I've seen in a very long time. The guy that played Kitaro (Wentz something-or-other) was really hot, and so adorable you just wanted to hug him! The ending of the movie however was kinda sad, because the human girl (he's a youkai) he liked had to forget about him, and he was sad. Oh right! Also yesterday before I went into the movie, there was a sale. What kind of sale? A sale on real converse shoes. They went from about $60 to $20 sale. I bought them. I love them. Im so happy! Nothing much has happened today though, I got up late (after having dinner at 10 o'clock last night) and after breakfast, I helped my host mother brush Chura outside, as she is now shedding her winter coat of fur. After however I had to catch her, as in a hyper state she was running around the yard. Luckily it was very narrow, so once I stood on the ground infront of her, she couldn't get past, and we brought her into the bathroom to clean off her feet. then Akiyuki and I watched the anime of Gegege no Kitaro(on every sunday at 9 am...yes, I am obsessed)...uh..that's about all I can think of for now...*sigh* I wanna go see Kitaro again!! This is Kitaro and behind him is Nezumi otoko (rat boy)

bye bye,
Clarissa

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Ghibli Museum, Shopping, and Upcoming Okinawa

He~llo,
So a few days ago, during the end of spring vacation, Jennifer and I went to the studio Ghibli museum. This is the Studio that creates most of the anime movies that I love by Haiyou Miyazaki. It had really interesting exhibits, plus on the roof was a life size version of the robot from Castle in the Sky (Laputa). We went shopping after that and I bought 4 necklaces and a pair of earrings. I also this week got a jacket, hat, and sandals for Okinawa. Im so excited for the Okinawa trip!! In a few days my school will be going to Okinawa which has the sea right near it. We can going snoprkeling, and sun tanning ^_^. It should be fun. So I shall now put some more random pictures on here. Enjoy.

This is jen and I strawberry picking.


Sakura blossoms!!!
that's all for now, Jen and I are trying to get me all the pictures

ttfn
Clarissa

Sunday, April 08, 2007

PICTURES-THEY WORK

Hello, I have pictures peoples! Thank-you Jen for helping me figure it out!


This would be me in Jen's host mom's kimono.


This is Amanda and I at my school when the Tour group came to visit


Lunch with Yamaoka-sensei, Andrew and My host families, and Yamaoka's wife and..er...sister maybe? not really sure...


This is me helping my host mom set up for Hina-Matsuri (Doll's festival)


This is the whole group of us before we went Strawberry Picking ^_~


My Host mom and I having okonomiyaki

That's all for now, I'll put more on later now that I've figured it out