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went and saw a great show on sunday and that was definitely my favorite count-in of the night. the venue was awesome, the bands were great, and the scene was remarkably similar to the scene in every other city i've been in. the obligatory tall-guy-with-fedora was even there. it was a pretty great night minus a few pitfalls but hey, things are rarely perfect and it was a lot of fun.

saturday i went to the sport festivals at both of my JHS. there is nothing like this in the states and that is the truth. these kids get super intense about the competition (which is mostly relay races and gimmick races) and the losing team generally breaks into tears at the end of it... there's also a dance competition which is pretty fabulous. the music tends to span several genres and is never less than ridiculous- my favorite of the day was probably the vocal-less ska cover of Thriller, followed by what appeared to be the austin powers theme song.

got invited to a few enkais last minute, but couldn't go. also, steph and i failed epically at locating our taiko group in their new location... we really are trying to practice, i swear. really, really trying. after all, if we don't we get to fail horribly in front of hundreds of people on a main stage in a major festival. next month. oh god oh god what have i gotten myself into O_O

so i have a day off today (to make up for the sports day on saturday) and yesterday was a major holiday which is pretty awesome and thursday is ANOTHER major holiday so the long and short of it is that i only have two days of work this week. hurrayyyyyyy! gonna spend a bunch of today on lesson plans and props. i have some good ideas... i hope the other teachers like them.

i spent yesterday on an island drawing the ocean. it was pretty amazing with the exception of the lunch, which was both amazing and completely inedible due to being Creepy In The Extreme. as in, hey here's an octopus on a plate, cut it up with some scissors and eat it. gee, suddenly i'm really not hungry, you can have my share.

i'll add some photos later, when i get around to putting them on my computer.