Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

It's guy Fawkes Day which is apparently something they celebrate in Britain. If you have seen V for Vendetta, maybe you've heard of it. I dunno. We may go do some fireworks and fire dancing with out British friends tonight. Who knows! I will let you know sometime!

I have Halloween party pictures! So I thought I would post a few so you can see how it went.



This is all the people that were there. Only 7 students showed up! Can you find them all? One is not wearing a uniform so it might be tricky! From left to right, starting in the back. Miymi is the witch in the back row. Then comes Takashi and Kazuki. Jason is the tall dude next to Chris in the green. They didn't wear costumes. Half of my head is next to Chris. Rusty is a red demon. Mark, in the blue shirt next to Rusty was a pirate but gave his eye patch away. And Eric N. is next to mark in the wizard's hat. Middle Row: Ang is the red devil. Hannah is the pirate lass. Kanako K is the Japanese girl with the tiara. Front row: Shy Yusuke is on the far left, then comes smart Noriyuki (who we call Nori), and next to him is Akira with Mark's eye patch on. Next to Akira is Angelo who was Dracula but took his costume off. Miho is next to him with the pink fluffy thing on her head and Satoko is the Reagan Dracula next to her. Satoko is Rusty's girlfriend, for those playing at home and was quite comical in her outfit. So that is everyone and here are just more pictures to look at.







So that's the party. In case you are wondering, I was dressed as Sailor Moon, a popular Japanese character. It's a terrible costume but it's the first one I have ever made so hooray for me! This is what I was supposed to look like:


But whatever. It was still kinda fun to make.

This week has been pretty normal. Actual Halloween day was kinda slow. My highschool kids were only a little interested in Halloween and my 6th grade kids just wanted candy. What can ya do? I just wore a tiara there, no big costume. I was cute though!!

Wednesday was a bit of a disaster though. You see, when I went out to my car to go to Kisuki for the English school, I found that the battery was dead (I didn't close the stupid door all the way and the little overhead light stayed on until the car burned out). Crap. So I ran back upstairs and traded keys with Chris so I could take his car to Kisuki. I drove my 30 minute drive and got to Kisuki at 5:45. Class starts at 6:30, but I wanted to be early so I could plan the lesson and have some time to relax from my drive. I got to the door and realized that the key to the school was sitting at home on the key ring I left with Chris. CRAP! There was no way I could make it in time if I went back to Izumo to get the keys and then came back to Kisuki. I had 45 minutes to go 60 minutes. But, what else could I do? I tried my best. And...I didn't make it. However, the parents of my students were understanding and just let me do the class late and we got out late. It wasn't so bad, but it still kinda sucked a bit. Oh well...everything turned out in the end.

Thursday was just a blah day. I had a pretty good class with my highschool students (no seniors, which explains it!) and my 6th grade class was ok (if a little boring). Other than that, I didn't do anything.

Friday was a holiday. Culture day! So we slept in and then went to Matsue to go shopping. Chris bought a hat. It's a cute hat and will keep his head warm in the winter. I bought some candy because it made me giggle. We were looking at this big candy display in the middle of the mall. It's right in the middle of the children's section, because it's candy...right? So we walked around the corner and we saw these:



Yes...yes they are what you think they are! Small white chocolate boobies, right above the chocolate truffles. How could I NOT buy them? It's just too funny. Because remember, they are smack dab in the middle of the kid's toys section.




I bought for of them, plus a bag full of other candies. We got truffles, boobies, tiny hearts, hamburger-shaped chocolate, and yogurt raisins (which are totally for Chris).

Now, I hope no one is embarrassed by my chocolate, I wasn't going to post them because I thought it might embarrass people or be uncouth, but I decided I would. You see, in Japan, they are not as sensitive to breasts. They just aren't always sexual. This chocolate is a funny chocolate, but it's not sexy. It's a gag. You can go to any convenience store or movie rental place and see pictures of naked breasts just sitting out. Now, when I see the magazines or videos I tend to giggle and turn red. Japanese people don't even notice it unless they are there to buy it. In America, nudity is almost always turned into a sexual thing, but in Japan it's not a big deal unless it's made to be sexual...THEN they censor the crap out of it. Heh. So anyways...I thought my candies were funny and wanted to share. They are tasty, too! I love white chocolate!

On Saturday, I had class in the morning and then in the afternoon we just spent the day relaxing. In the evening we bought new futon! Ours were so flat that I was getting non-stop back aches because of it. Unfortunately, these new futons are kinda thin to begin with, so we now stack out futons. It's really tall and feels soooo comfortable. I sleep like a little baby.

Today is another day of relaxing. We finally, after a year, bought a wireless router so we can have both computers on the internet at the same time! Fascinating! We were planning on buying a router, but then Chris's computer died and there was no longer a need for one. But since he has it back now, all find and dandy, we got one today. So yay! Also, we just jumped started my Kisuki car. Aren't we boring!?

If anything interesting ever happens again, I will try to let you know! Until then, you keep getting boring posts! I love you all!

Good luck, David, on your upcoming elections!