The weekend

In class today, I had to pretend I was entertaining visitors. Sandra, Shizuko, and Ryan came over to my "house," and we talked about "iroiro" things (many types of things.) They made me take a picture of them. Conversation class is really fun because we get to role play, but it's especially fun because these guys are in it.
Kit Kat in a jar? What?
We cleared maybe 75%of this field; just Laura, Alex, Koh-san, Grace, and myself.


Well, farmer Laura, what do you think?






Morning glory in Japanese is "morning face."
Crazy kid video games in a department store...weird.



Ok, so it's late, but this weekend was pretty fun. Well, mostly just Saturday. Saturday morning Laura and I went out and harvested rice! By hand! With a little sharp scythe thing called a kama! It was sweet, but also hard work. We couldn't really understand what was going on because it was all in Japanese, so by some twist of fate, the foreign students ended up being the only ones working in the end. We quit at around noon. We were bushed, so we took a nap. We woke up a couple hours later, hung out, started some homework (actually, I think that was just me,) and at around 5:30 we started getting ready for Thompson sensei's party. Unfortunately, by some divine error, I left my camera in the dorm, so the food we ate and the karaoke bar we went to afterward will have to just be imagined. We went to a Japanese style restaurant, and Laura and I, being vegetarians and the only non-drinkers of the group, had to sit at a separate table, but we still have to pay for the "all-you-can-drink." We ordered corn, french fries, and two types of toufu, but all of these, save the french fries, came with meat on top. As I'd like you to believe that I still have my vegetarian scruples, I'll tell you that we sent the dishes back and had them make new ones. After the restaurant, we all decided to go karaoke-ing. That was really awesome- we all sang along to every song. Let me tell you, some people are better singers than others. By the end, it got really loud, so we left and went to bed.

Monday was a holiday- I just studied. It was a glowgi day.

Tuesday we had class. I snuck a piece of bread from the dining hall and fed the koi. It was awesome.


I'm thankful for classes, they give me something to do with my time.

Well, anyway, until next time,
Jonathan