vernal equinox

Friday was a holiday to celebrate the spring equinox. Kyoko was kind enough to invite me to her house (or maybe I invited myself?)... and we spent the day bowling, taking purikura, going to a sand dune, touching the pacific ocean, and looking for four-leaf clovers in a park. As you can see, we each found one!

picture by kyoko

in my neighborhood

oh these are the things in my neighborhood, in my neighborhood, in my neighborhood... oh these are the things in my neighborhood, the things that I found today....

Hotel BS

Happiness Part I


Domi Super Center (which has a 100yen shop, supermarket and a secondhand shop!)

If you couldn't tell, I was most excited about the Domi Supercenter.

it's all about the triangles

I started learning Ikebana with a couple of other gals from church today. Sorry the picture isn't the greatest quality... my camera isn't charged at the moment so I used iphoto and held my computer to take the picture. So it's kind of blurry.



This is also the recreated arrangement... First we do it in class, then Mimi, my teacher, fixes it (it's amazing what a little turn/twist/bend can do), and then we take a picture and sketch it. After that we take it apart and bring all the materials home to recreate it again (as my dad always says, "practice makes better"). It's kind of nice to have flowers in my room.

(on a side note: I think Japan is making me more girly.)

peanuts

The cutest Woodstock ever.

charlie brown, snoopy, woodstock, sally

This was drawn today for me by my friend, Emily (4 years old). :)

Children's letters to God

My friend lent me a book that has letters written to God by children with Japanese translations to help me practice my Japanese. Here are a few of my favorites:

Dear God, When you wrote the bible you made up all the words and spelled them the way you like. That is great. Most of the time I do it like that, but I am not doing so good. Ron

Dear God, Do Plastic flowers make you mad? I would be if I made the real ones. Lucy

Dear God, I didn't think orange went very good with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tue. That was cooL. Eugene