Sorry about the radio silence, I haven't spent much time in my room in which I was not doing homework or sleeping. Much like the other IES kids, I spend most of my time in a building on my campus in which Japanese students will come and hang out with foreigners in order to practice their English. Last Saturday, we went to Chiba Park and saw some of the Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) which are in bloom for about two weeks.
Last Sunday was right in the middle of this for the Sakura around here. Recently they have started to fall off the trees, which kind of looks like snow if you get enough together. On this coming Sunday, I'm going to hanami, literally "flower watching" but it's what watching the cherry blossoms is called. I hope to get many more pictures there.
Today we are going to a Taiko Drum festival in Narita (where the international airport is located). I will probably have plenty of pictures from that as well. I also had a request for a picture of someone in a kimono, so I hope to find someone today who won't mind being photographed. That's all for now.
well, it eases my mind to know that you finally embraced your destiny as an english teacher, even if it is just for part-time foreign "students" in a party lounge.
ReplyDeleteAs for the J-pop incident... if there's no evidence, it didn't happen. Which was probably the plan all along, wasn't it? Being a closet J-pop fan is a dangerous place, El. You walk a fine line, and an admission like this concerns me. If there's no proof of your J-pop addiction, you shouldn't point out the lack of evidence... you should just let things slide.
Also, I hope that the drum festival is the most cacophanous, crestibulous, carcinogenic, cresplendent, cantankerous, credible, coudreoy, crysanthimum, cracked, and criminal experience in symphonic precussion that you have or ever will experience.
so how was hanami?
ReplyDeletegive us more, elliott ... how was the taiko festival?
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