Happy Weekend

What a nice weekend we had! You know why? We didn't do anything! How great! Actually, we did do things, now that I think of it.

Saturday was a 'lie around the apartment' sort of day. We slept late. I didn't have Saturday English class this weekend. So I got to sleep until 11:00! Unfortunately, this left us kinda drowsy for the rest of the day. So we got up and biked over to this tasty little restaurant in the mall. It was yummy! I love the restaurant. Chris isn't a huge fan, but I think he mentioned it because he knows I really like it. There was some sort of festival going on at the mall. Their 25th aniversary or something. It was really annoying and loud though.

So we got done around 1:30 and biked home. Because it was one of those lazy days, we just lied down (laid down? lay down?) and chatted about books, movies, and games until it was time to get ready to go.

Go where you ask? Why, a yakisoba/okonomiyaki party that our japanese tutor was hosting, of course!! It was a lot of fun. A lot of the other JETs who are also getting tutored came to the party as well. Mishima-san (tutor) also has some English classes for Japanese people, so they were there. There were a LOT of Japanese kidlets running out. It was SUCH a loud party because of it. Kids are insane! Anyways, Chris made up a big pile of Yakisoba (I had been bagging about his yakisoba skills so Mishima-san had him help cook) (there were other cooks there, too) and I watched as some guy was making Okonomiyaki (grilled stuff you like).

It was all very tasty. Mishima-san had us talking to the Japanese people in Japanese and they were talking to us in English (well, in theory!). I was sitting next to Meagan (one of the married JETs on the third floor) and Tyler (the other half) was sitting across from her. It was very interesting to talk to them. It's always interesting to talk to another married couple. Because they get the same weirdness that we do when it comes to being married. Heh. She was also a really funny person. She reminds me of Audrey (my cousin). Really pretty, really funny, and just excited about everything. Heh, there are a lot of people here that remind me of various people I miss. It's weird.

Anyways, that was the soba party. It was buckets of fun. Mishima-san showed me some comics they have in the local libray about the myths that were supposed to have taken place around this area. Im very keen to get those. Or at least check them out if I can't find any place to buy some copies. They are just so interesting! Japanese people tend to find me interesting because I love their myths so much and am so interested in shinto and stuff. They like to talk to me about it. We left around 6:00 because Chris was getting eaten by bugs. The party started at 4:00. We weren't that hungry because we had eaten lunch at 1:00. But whatever. The food was still good and it was a fun party.

Later that night, at 9:00, there was the Friendship House welcome party. It's basically just a party for people to come together and meet the new JETs and drink or whatever. It was a really fun. We got there at the start so we could meet people before the drinking really got underway and before it got too loud. During the party, 3 people went out into a nearby park and did some Maori fire dancing. It was so cool. It's called 'poi' and it's that thing where people have weights on the end of long ropes and spin them around really fast and in pretty patterns. At night it was gorgeous because they lit the weights on fire! Oooo! So pretty!

We left around 11:00. It was a good time. After that we just came home and went to bed. What party people we are.

On Sunday (yesterday), we got up around 10:00 and Chris called his parents like a good son. We are in the process of getting his computer fixed and his parents are the ones taking care of it for us. It's such a huge help. This whole computer thing is so stressful for us. We want to get Chris's application to school off, but we cant until we know wether or not we can get his writing sample off. Boo! It's really annoying.

After that, we had a simple lunch, I had gratin and Chris had corn dogs. Then...well...we did nothing. It was great! Just lazing around the house and what not. We watched a lot of TV I believe. We also watched my favorite show ever, "The West Wing". I made fried rice for dinner, but it sucked. Oh well. Then we went to bed. We are just packed full of excitement, aren't we?

So that was our weekend. I hope you guys had a great weekend. I also hope that the Ice Cream social went well!