Le Port Mizuho Akita

So these are the photos from me and Diana's going away parties over the last 2 days in Akita before we went to Tokyo and then went home. I posted them to facebook but I guess I never put them on here. It was a great party where we had yummy Korean food and lots of laughs and then lots of crying. Everyone cried even the boys, they tried to hide it but we could still tell.

These are just a bunch of old photos from a night of drinking in the laundry room.

And photos from the day I had to go to Karaoke for about 5 hours with my roommate and our friends...sober. It was an interesting experience and I actually sang some songs towards the end.

Ok I'm trying to go through old photos I never posted and here are some from when Diana and I make muffins one night with her easybake oven aka her microwave/toaster oven. and some photos of when I burned my leg, you can't really tell the size it though sorry.

... to visit the same rock we were sitting on when John proposed, and stayed at the same hotel. It was a wonderful capstone to an incredible vacation. Hopefully, we won't have to wait another 5 years for our 10th anniversary for another vacation like this! We're already talking about doing the grand tour of South America: Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina...

Ok so on tuesday night, this is postdated I went to a Kimono workshop. They showed us the 3 different types of kimonos and how to put them on. These are the schools pictures but I will get more from a friend since I didn't think to bring my camera.

The first one they showed is a formal kimono for graduation and wedding parties, it has the long sleeves for unmarried girls and 2-3 layers depending on the season. It was ...

... weather permitting.  It rained all day today but it's suppose to be ok tomorrow.  I hope so.  

 Sorry there haven't been any blogs but the papers and tests are piling up, I have to study for a Japanese quiz now, I am so sick of it since I only dream in Japanese these days but still don't know what is being said. :(  I will try to finish up some blogs this weekend if I can.

... The evil witch was delightfully nefarious, the princesses were lovely singers, and there was a chipmunk for some reason -- and when they all visited New York, the city was full of Japanese-speakers. The last act entailed blue jeans and the pink shirts, and was full of jazzy tunes including flute solos that were curiously loud enough to hear. I didn't ...

... booze, and attractive women. The witch relayed the popular theory that Akita women have a gene that no one else in Japan shares, one they have in common with people of Russian and Scandinavian descent. The other theory I've heard is that the weather here is so ****** that all the women have pale skin, which fits some old-fashioned aesthetic that lingers today. If this weather keeps up, I too will become beautiful.

... place. While the words they used were, roughly, "Do your best, Yellow!" I felt that the formal pretense of encouragement should be done away with and the announcers should instead say what everybody's actually thinking: "Hey, Yellow: you're slow, probably overweight, and I don't hold out much hope for your academic performance either. Next time you race, bring a horse." That I always was on the yellow team in sporting events means that I ...

... And so, when a crack head tells me I have pink eye, I should be reticent to agree. But being reticent isn't always easy. It's not like I have a source of authority that isn't a part of the big crack brain. I'm on crack too. You're on crack. Even doctors are on crack. This deficient, collective mind is made of everybody and the whole thing is contaminated with crack.