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7/9
well, I don't know what to write, I mean I have sooooooo many things to write about so I just can't decide which one of them should be written first^^; well, of course, I should be talking about jamie and megan, their trip to japan. ok they arrived here on 27th friday, I was so excited to see them, and that was going to be first meeting in JAPAN, they haven't changed at all(since last time we met which is just month ago^^;) and looked good even though after loooong damn flight, I just wanted to see them so didn't think about what we should do after meeting, so we went to manga shop to get the books they wanted to get, I was little bit surprised cuz I have never been to the place like that, but wasn't scary or anything like that that people might imagine like that place might be, it was fun, and if I was girl, I would love to go there^^ after that, we went some place to get something to eat, we went to underground shopping arcade(?^^;) at Nagoya station and get some fresh juice and ice cream if I'm correct^^; and megan loved stuff she ordered, it could have looked as if she was advertizing that juce*lol* I still remember the look she made:> after that, we had to part cuz I had to practice. ok let me talk about the practice and basketball just little bit, I'm the youngest in the team, and 2nd youngest is my great friend "Kondo" who is great ball player, at that night, I wanated to teach him some move which is pick and roll(right spell?), since we don't have any formation play, I knew we had to have at least something, and that made great contribution to team, that works perfectly well, and game 1, we scored almost 50points together out of 70 something team's score(that's great isn't it?:P). and we won the frist game, and game 2 which was actually final, against "Club Taste"(I don't know how it sounds to you guys:p) they are tall, starting 5 are 5'11, 6'4, 6'4, 6'6, 6'7. and we lost by 15 points or so, that was good game though, and even though I only scored few points, but our pick and roll worked well, that will be incentive for us, and after the game, my coach went to party kinda stuff and many people asked him about us 2, and people who knows me before were so surprised how differently I play now which is good, I think^^v anyways, jamie and meg came to see the game 2, sacrificing their precious time, that was nice of them, I wish I could have won tho:p oh well^^ oh! at the end of the game, my leg got a cramp, and it lasted kinda long, I tried to stand up, but I couldn't, that was first time my leg got that tired, I wanna thank them, I all ways think how fotunate I am to be able to move and play basketball, helth is important obviousely, you have to realize that it's not eternal, so you can do stuff really hard.
after that, we tried to go to Atsuta Shrine, but since it 's getting kinda dark, we figured that we wouldn't be able to see stuff there well, so we decided to go somewhere else instead, we went,,,,,,,well, I'm trying to remember where we went to first,,, arcade? is that place we went to first? well, whatever, yeah, we went to there and played some taiko game which they love, and I don't wanna tell you this but jamie kicked my ass:p but it was fun so that evens up^^ and we took "purikura", what surprised me is that if you are guy and not with girl, you are not allowed to be the place where bounch of purikura machines are. so you have to have girl to be there, fortunately, they were with me at that time*lol* we went to PALCO in Sakae where is supposed to be best or 2nd best happening place for young people, and we went to book store of course*lol* and got ice cream, and they found something written on the trash can that says "dust box", I haven't really paid attention to it and I wouldn't have even notice that doesn't make sanse, but after they told me that it makes no sense to them, I kinda could understand^^; dust box,,,, let's move on to monday, we went to Nara, and we took the bus leaves 7:05 in the morning, and we arrived at Kyoto and met their friend Levi, he is nice guy, and funny, especially when he was talking about somebody who was trying to get hamburger at the store but since the person is not proficient in language, person has to describe what the guy wants by action and that's sooo funny, you have to have Levi to do it, that's hilarious. anyways, we went to Nara to see big buddha and it was big*lol* and there is pillar that has hole that brings fortune to the people who could get through, I have tried when I was kid, but not anymore, but jamie and meg could, and they did it, I now think we got very fine weather when we went to Gifu and Nagashima spa rand in spite of being supposed to rain, because of that they got through, hehe^^ ok after that, we parted cuz I was meeting my friend "charley" in Osaka, who is 120%japanese*lol* it's his nickname, so I have never called his real name, strange huh? well, that's my first time to visit to Osaka, and it was fun, we went to many places I have seen on TV, and I was totally tourist or worse, I was taping while we were walking down the street and talking and talking, so my friend even got embarrassed by being with me, cuz, you know, it's his town, but it was fun so I could not help it:P but it wasn't as big as I expected, so that was kinda surprising to me, and "takoyaki" didn't taste any differently from the one we eat here in gifu or nagoya, little bit disappointing -____- I was kinda pointed by my friend about how I talk japanese, he thinks I need more practice talking japanese*lol* well, but he might be right, I think I need to know more how to talk formal, so that I can teach people japanese better. I bought some stuff for jamie and meg and their mom jamie and meg liked stuff I got for them, but I haven't given stuff for jenilee who is jamie and meg's mom yet, and have no idea what she is gonna think about it, it'll be interesting to find it out. don't tell her what I got yet jamie, meg -x- Ok on the july 1st, we were supposed to get together at Kyoto station again and take the bus back to Nagoya, and it was fun just riding on the bus, we made home safely. but I left my dictionary and camera in the bus-_- but they kept them so I could have them back, now I like this country much more*lol* we didn't do anything together on Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday was sooooo nice, I mean weather, so I was like "shit, we should have gone Gifu today", cuz it's rainy season so you can't expect good weather, and I was worried about weather all the time while they were here. it would have sucked if it rained on Friday and Saturday, but miraculously, they brought fine weather both days! it did rain little bit, but 95% of time was fine, I still can't believe that. well, here is Friday and Saturday's part where I think was most fun part of this trip, for me and for them too. We went to Gifu where I'm from, and I was supposed to take them around the places, and I came up with almost perfect idea to entertain them, this is one of them,
I took them to the place where we can make teacup or rice bowl kinda stuff, I looked up the word and my dictionary says "ceramics" and potter's wheel or lathe, I don't know if they sound right to you, anyways we made rice bowl and I made a vase, that was so much fun and very interesting even to me, you don't get to experience it often, and of course they are clay, so that reminded me of when I was kid where we used to use clay in some creation class, and jamie and meg thought same kinda thing, and jamie must have been having fun to grab my wrist with hands that have clay on it:p it takes 3months to be finished, so I'm looking forward to getting them and sending them to jamie and meg. after that we went to eat something, we decided to eat at "banrai" which is chinese restrant in my neighbor. nothing special to be written happened when we were there,but I took pic of them and it's my cell's main screen, in case you were interested:p after that,we went to "tanigumisan(tanigumi mountain where they have bounch of shrines, although each of them have their names, still it's called tanigumisan)", I wanted to take them there because there is some distinctive stuff you can't see at other places, that is called "kaidan meguri", there is basement below the where they enshrine image of Buddha and it's completely dark, you can't see anything, and you are supposed to be able to be happy if you could find a lock placed somewhere, I've gone 3times before and couldn't find it, but get this, we did find it!! that was great, and what greater was that jamie lit her flashlight up*Imao* I don't know if she was supposed to do that, but it's all good, and we saw the lock, not many people actually SAW it*lol* and I took pic of it so if god gets mad, only me should be cursed on:P after that we tried to get "okuno in" for some reason*lol*. it was looooooong way, I wasn't tired but, hot and sweating, but it was totally worth going, we spent 1 and half hour to climb and come down, and got leech on leg(yuck! XoX) what there was just small shabby shrine, but that was good. we bought charm that you can only get at there, 3of us got same sharm, and it makes sound*lol* ok after that we went to my house and saw my lunatic insane dog, and went my grand parent's house to meet them, they liked jamie and meg, and jamie and meg liked them too, it was really nice to show my grandparents my wonderful friends, and vice versa, J/M brought nice present for them and they really liked it, and they gave some present to J/M too, and there is no doubt if they liked it*lol* you might wanna read jamie or meg's blog to find out what I mean^^ we went to "ikedayama(Mt.ikeda)" to see nice scenery, but I was kinda worried about weather, but thank got we saw great view from top of mountain, I made them to close their eyes till we get on top, and I was right to do that.it is not describable! even though I videotaped it to their mom, I don't know if she can see it as what we saw, it's just incredibly beautiful!! one thing though, they didn't like the way I drove down from top*lol* here is funny and stupid thing we did when we were at convenience store, after we bought stuff, I tried to unlock the door of my car by remote key, and I got in it, and meg realized something is wrong with the car, and we found out that car was somebody else's car!! so we(practically I might have been the only one who got in the car), immediately got out of the car and got in our car, but that was funny and that cracked me up. well, we stayed some place at night to have experience for them:p but I'm not talking about it, so read jamie or meg's blog if you want to know. next day, unfortunately they had to see my mom, and as I expected, she kinda pissed me off by doing nothing*lol*(sounds I'm just rebellious kid, but I'm sorry it's not just because of that.) but jamie was indicating to take it easy by tapping my shoulder, I should thank her for it, arigato jamie that helped a lot^^v after dropping her off, we headed to Nagashima spa land, theme park that has former No1 roller coaster in the world, I think it's No2 now. and it's really something! first drop, I felt like I was just falling, well, I'm not good at describing how awesome that is, so you should check jamie's blog, she loved it as much as or more than I did, we got on it 4 times^^; megan didn't like much though, so she only got on it once, we should make her ride more next time^^ and other stuff we got on were fun too, check jamie's*lol* actually I didn't know what stuff they have, and didn't expect we could have fun that much. that was totally "itteyokatta----" ^^v only one thing I regret about is that jamie lost her necklace somewhere in the park, that sucks, but, you know. I hope she didn't care much about it,,,, I drove them back to where they are staying, and jamie's hostmom invited me for dinner, that was nice of her, we were at the restaurant, so we left at restaurant right away althoguh we were already seated*lol*
and next day, I went to there again cuz I felt that I want to, they were leaving next day and how could I not see them when I can? that's what I thought:p and I went there and stayed late, after I got back where I was staying(my coach's house in Nagoya), I needed to write letters for them, and it took all night to do so, literally(still can't pronounce^^;) all night, so I didn't sleep at all, but they liked my letter(I guess) so my efforts paid off^^ but parting was sad for sure, more than last time,,,, I still miss them and will continue to miss, I think I'm gonna hate airport*lol* it was really like a dream, I'm so sure they were here with me but now they are completely gone, I can't even hear their voice, (well, I could, but, it's just hard) 2days ago, they were here in japan were even in gifu, where I grew up, I have never thoguht about spending the time with someone who's from different country(no offence) in Gifu, and it's just wonderful to think we did that and could do that even more, and I'm so glad people who I spent time with were jamie and meg, I know we haven't spent much time with together, it's like just 12days or so? but, it doesn't matter I think. this trip makes me think more about myself and them and will affect my view of life, I'm not exaggerating, I always think same way when I part from people, you know, I meet lots of people and that means I part from lots of people too, and this time, I just think it's gonna affect me much more than I usually would be affected because that's them I had to part from this time. ok lastly I need to say this, jamie, megan, thanks for being my wounderful friends, I know being apart sucks, and we are really apart, don't you think we would be able to have sooooo much fun if we are together? I'm 100% positive we would, but this is the fact, I just can't be depressed and lament over the fact we are apart now, I'll always think about you, and I'm rather happy we were born in this age so I could find you and still be able to talk to you,I'm so glad we met(I always write this don't I?*lol*but it's true:P),please take care. you make my life
brighter:p thanks you guys now have to worry about my friends cuz they gonna have to listen to me talking about you guys for,,,,, I don't even know how long I'd be talking about it*lol* I didn't know 6/23
there is good TV program about larning english in japan, but today, I happened to see one show which was on NHK called "eigo de shabera naito"(it's kinda pun, shaberanaito, night^^;), anyways, that show is sooo good, on that show, languages are used almost equally english and japanese, and contents are sooooooo good and impressive, today they had subtitle translator as a guest, and she talked about translation that answered all my questions I used to have for long time, that is why they translate the way they do? I mean, sometimes there is quite unnatural translation so it doesn't sound right to me, but thing is, you have to compress the sentences, to make it readable before the picture goes next one, if you do literal translation, screen would be filled up with subtitles, so people wouldn't be able to read all of them. here is the exapmle they demonstrated.
"no one come here looks through the grass sees people, they see the crime"(there must have been more sentences, but this is the one I think they said^^;) that is said on the movie called "life of.......David gale(^^;)" I don't know whole story of it, but I think the main guy got arrested on charge of murder and was pronounced death penalty, I think he is innocent, anyways, when he is talking with lady who I thing is suppose to prove his innosence, he said that.
if I translate into japanese, I would have said,
"daremo kokoni hitowo minikiteinai, tsumiwo minikiterunnda"
buuuuut that's toooooo long, this is hers, "hito wa hito dewanaku tsumiwo minikurunda" much shorter, still, there must be some words I forget in the sentences^^; I now admire translators and wounder who does the translation into english from japanese movie, americans? or japanese? I'm looking forward to seeing it next time^^ you guys should check it out too,especially you, makocchan,antadayo---*lol* you don't wanna forget english do you?:p well, my friend is here now, so I should go 6/22
me and my friend went to drive, and we I wanted to go to the place I have never been around my town, so we went into mountain, at first we were ok, we talked about many funny things, but once he mentioned about horror movie, things started to go creepy, there was no light, and no cars, only us, we kept driving up mountain, and my friend told me he saw something like "white object" appeared from nowhere, he was so creeped out, but still, we kept driving, and we ended up at deadend, I thought it was, but there was more way to go up, and we braved to go, it was steep so I couldn't see what's up there, after we went up that slope, there's gravel road, very rough, so we couldn't go any further, but that was creepy enough to terrify my friend, and he started to say all bad things*lol* and that terrified me*lol* we came down and were so reliefed. but I still wonder what's there over the gravel road, that'd be interesting to find it out tomorrow, with him*lol* we went to bowl too, he thought he could beat me so that he wanted make a bet that loser has to buy soft drink, but I kicked his ass so bad(just because he didn't play well but I did:p), and he ended up buying me dinner tomorrow,yay^^v my sister cut my hair tonight, she is the one who I think is very kind and understanding about my opinion, and I respect what she is doing, how much she is engaged in her job, thank you ne-san m^^m next week would be important week for me, so, do my best on them.^^ 6/20
I found the CD I had wanted to listen to when I was in the states. It's enya's and I couldn't possibly find it in the states so that I thought it's on sale only in Japan or something, this is also the one I can play with piano^^v but as I listen to it, I noticed I didn't copy it perfectly, of course, I completed it AFTER I went to the states so I didn't get to listen to that CD at all, but since I thought I copied it perfectly, it's kinda surprised me, and original is 1000000 times better^^; it's sooooooo soothing, you should check it out, it's called "ORIEL WINDOW" this music always makes me feel empty or sad, but it's good empty and sad*lol* maybe you just should listen it, this song is my recomendation^^
6/19
my grandma is so funny^^ I was talking to her when I was getting ready for my lunch, I asked her if she can speak any english, and she goes,"well, I don't know english, but I know at least something like "thank you"", and that surprised hell out of me, cuz english word from my grand mom, I mean, I know japanese tend to name english name on goods, so people sees a lot, and english is now getting more populer so that people are willing to learn. but grand mom, who I think is typical old japanese who has no immunity to other culture, used to be like xenophobia(this is not derogatory is it?), she said "thank you" sounded so natural(maybe it didn't, but I was so impressed as I hallucinated that my grand mom spoke perfect english*lol*), and she even said she knows "rule" I was saying (that's what you do grand mom*lol*we don't have exact word that means same as "rule"tho, ) that's just great and weird to here english words from my g-ma, I think she still knows some english words. I have to find it out^^ well, it's time to play basketball, state of floor of gym in japan is much better than the ones in the states, I think it's because of humidity. just be carful to my back and ankle, just go easy. tuzuki of trip
ok, I hope you guys remember, I should have written this first-.- anyways, we were playing"hanabi" and meg said sweet thing to the camera(I'll show you when you came here^^), after that, we played basketball, 2 on 1, jason and jamie against me,and jason and meg against me too, it's not about winning at all, it was so much fun, I can't describe enough how it was fun for me, just playing the game with who I like a lot^^ I wanted jamie's mom to play tho*lol* it didn't happen. after that, we ate strawberry something(can't think of the name X_X), it was gooooooood, so that I'm getting more hungry right now*lol* oh I have to talk about the tradition of jamie's family, that to eat strawberry cake with milk, I mean pour it over the cake, it was kinda good, even though I need to try more to be sure. after that I had my suit on and so did jamie and meg(dress) and they looked pretty, I mean they usually are pretty, but with those dresses, looked good, I don't think I know how to say it witout using the word "better", they are they anyway no matter what they wear, I think I just should say nice dresses^^ we talked a lot that night did some games, and jamie let us try to blow the flute, it was difficult, I don't think I can play it. that's admirable. speaking of admirable, meg also has awesome talent, unfortunately, she didn't let me tape that talent, but it's still in my memory so clearly*lol* I'm gonna ask her to show me again. that night was something I can not express, I mean, I liked it soooo much and atmosphere, not only laidback,(told you I can't express it well), but that might be what I want from family, I want that kind of atmosphere all the time when I get to have a family in future. too bad I can't have that kind of feeling with my family. oh well.
nextday, I said good bye to jamie's dad and mom, they said I'm always welcome to come back, I was so pleased by that, I hope they get along, or just not make their kids worry about them, maybe I shouldn't be talking about this, cuz it's a family thing. I've wondered that if people relationship would be better off when 2people have little bit of distance, I mean, too close might not be good for somepeople, I know there are so many people who has good relationship with other even they are always close to each other, I don't know, I just hit on that question. well, after I said good bye to them, we headed to airport, and we had some time before I had to go, so they stayed almost 2hours with me(they didn't have to, but they did anyway) we wrote something on my finger tape and put it on our stuff, they wrote nice things, I still have it, I have to think of where I store them now, otherwise my sweat shirt won't be able to be washed*lol* we tood pics and said see you again to each other, I didn't cry(of course:p) but it was sad for sure, I still miss them, I know I'm so fortunate that I'm living in this time that I could meet them, and other my friends, but if you let me be greedy, I wish I could live in the time someone already has invented something to get anywhere in the world in a twinkle. they gave me the card and studying stuff, I wasn't expecting that so that I was surprised, I read the cards over and over again, all of them say so nice things that inspire or encourage me to try hard on going back there, and jenille's card who is jamie's mom, I couldn't read it well*lol* now I know what the card says tho^^; anyways they are so nice and nice, I left card to them too, to everyone, so I wonder what jon, jamie's brother thought about it. by this trip, I learned so many things about so many things I hadn't paid attention, or hadn't care, I hope I will meet them again soon(except jamie and meg, they are coming to japan soon), and dogs and cats, specialy gryfin(don't know how it's spelled) who was scared of me whole the time I was there, I want to get along with him^^ well, today, I think I should stop here, I'm sick of looking at computer X___X but lastly, I have to say this to them,
arigato----^^ everythings you've done to me were pleasant and precious, I'll never forget it, I'll always,literally always wish you going to have more fun, going to be more happy,staying in health etc,with your lifes, only 6days out of thousands of days in my life, but it meant to me more than other hundred of days I vaguely spent, thank you again^^ and jamie, thank you for replying to me when first I wrote an e-mail to you*lol* seriousely, I'm so glad I sent it to you^^ 6/16
Japan, it's country of humidity*lol* I know it's "tsuyu" now, but still, this is crazy!! I feel like I'm in steam bath, well, I guess I'm exaggerating a little*lol* what I'm saying is that it doesn't feel good*lol* I wonder it's gonna be better when rainy season is gone. I might wanna talk about meeting the people again, it's kinda awkward when I gave my grandfather a hug, he had no idea why I was doing that so all he did was just keep standing very still*lol* same thing happened to may grandmother^^ they are so lovely, I think who I missed most in the family were them, so I'm glad to see them again!! I've met few friends I somehow I could get hold of, and they looked happy seeing me^^ that's good, I want to meet all friends in japan, but it's just hard, man, I could, and I should, but right now, I can not go for somereason, I hope I'll eventually be able to meet them. speaking japanese all the time is not what I want to do, and I noticed I talk differently from the way I used to talk, choosing the words,etc my friend evern notived that. well, I hope I don't sound like stupid:P I saw something very interesting on TV, they were talking about problem with international marriage, and took one case for example, here is the case they told, one japanese girl got married with american guy, and he promised her to stay in Japan, to help housework,etc, but he broke those promises,and he wants to go back to the state, there is contradiction, that she said she had longing for life in the US, if so, why wouldn't she be happy about going there? why would you want to stay in Japan? commentator of that TV program said"japanese girls have longing for american guys and american life" I admit that, but he also said"in the state, it's natural thing that men open the door of CAR for her all the time!" is that true? cuz I have hardly seen it, I know some people still do, but it's not for all people, at least not for me,
I might wanna do that sometimes tho:P anyways, it was interesting or rather funny because they say thing from just preconception. and one more thing, don't get married if you just want to have "cool" partner to brag about or to be complacent, you have to know their bad point too, you just can't only see the good things about one, I don't think I care much how she looks, I just want her to be happy just being with me and vice versa, after 20,30 years, still do funny, stupid things with together*lol* for that, I have to be more NICE person, ah no, I have to be nice person FIRST*lol*:P it's just hard man^^; I wonder when, or if I can get married*lol* man, I'm hungry. but there is no damn food in the fridgeT_Toh meg, I'm gonna talk with nami tongith^^v can I tell her about your talent???*lol* 6/9 tuini
time to,,,,,,,,,,,,,,go back to japan. last night, every single moment is last, last dinner, last sleep, last passing 9o'clock 10 o'clock etc, whatever. If I talk about going back most, I'd probably be depressed out, so I think I should talk about something else, and there is something I really wanna talk about^^v It's about my trip to Jamie's house, the time I spent at there. I had a blast I must say, and had been given so much hospitality from them, I can even say that's why I'm so depressed now, because of them. Anyway, we did so many things, I should have written day by day, but apparently I was so busy having fun with them so I couldn't write much, you have to know it takes a while to me to write this in english:P I really want to talk about one day where I think I got to know them more, which is the day before I left, we were supposed to go to Great America(theme park), but since I hesitated to answer when jamie asked me if I really wanted to go, she kinda figure out I had something in my mind. and I did have something, I wanted to spend more time with them doing not special stuff, I know theme park is great place to have fun, but since they are so nice, likable and forthright, I knew it's not gonna be awkward like first date*lol*, even if we didn't do somthing special, and I was damn right^^v or at least to me, it was soooo much fun, I think more than I'd have had if I went to theme park. We got more time to talk, to be laidback, we even played soccer^^ there is one thing I have to correct about what jamie and meg are saying, "they ain't kicked my ass at all!":P well, maybe a little bit*lol* even it's been a while since last time they played, I could see they are good players, but it wasn't point, we had sooooo much fun, that's my point of playing soccer, and I assume they might not have had chance to play if I didn't kinda force to play:P so that was good for both of us. after playing soccer, we sat dawn on the field and they tought me how to make sound with grass, that was neat, even thought I kept making weird sound*lol* and after that, we climbed on the tree and took some pics, jamie juse has told me that pic turned out to be great, I wanna see that one so bad, only jamie has those pic cuz I didn't bring my camera that time, I shoulda tho. after we came back we decided to go bowling, and jamie and meg got upset because their brother and his friend decided to come with us, it was no problem for me because he is nice to me, but brother and sister is not just that easy I think, anyways, it was fun, well jamie sucked*lol* but I must say she got much better at throwing a ball, even though score didn't go up, "don't throw it, release it" right jamie? :p oh, that was funny where meg used 6ounce ball and threw it kinda hard I guess, since the ball is so light, it bounced couple times just like basketball*lol* and funny thing about it is, she got strike!! that was great^^ we came back and did "hanabi" it was fun too, and beautiful, I was trying to light up the stick by using one which was held by jamie, but it didn't light up, and jamie finally told me that one is already done, I actually threw new one away and kept done one on my hand*lol* stupid. last night, I was watching the tape where we were playing hanabi, and meg was getting sticks for us, and she noticed the camera and started talking to it, she said"masanari no tomodachi" and she goes"soreto, masanari no kazoku" that was so sweet!! I was so moved by that,that was sooo warm,
gah, I gotta go to bed, I'll finish this later, good night 6/1
guess where I am now^^ I`m in illinois now, after going to florida, here I am. I guess I should talk about staying in Florida, what I did in Florida is,,,,, going to bushgarden(biiiiig theme park) which was kinda stupid, cuz I paid 50box to get in and rode just 2 rides*lol* and when I was at airport, plane was supposed to leave at pm1:50, but my friend told me it`s leaving right that time! so I ran, tried to get through bunch of crowd who were waiting to be checked at where they were doing security thing. but one security fond me trying to skip the loooooong frigging line(that time I didn`t even think that was like "frigging" that was totally "fucking"*lol*) and told me stop and get on the line, that`s when I gave up the plane, but I went to there anyway, cuz there might still be plane, and I got there, plane was gone, I asked one lady if plane has gone, but she said not yet, it WAS suppose to leave at 1:50! ticket was damn right, that was huge relieve^^; After that I got at illinois and jamie and her mom were already there waiting for me to arrive, it was weird feeling to see jamie in real*lol* I mean, we do know each other for year but apparently we hadn`t "met". they are sooooooooooooooooooooooooo nice to me, everybody,literally, her dad,mom,sister,brother, I`m soooo glad about it, what I like about this family is that they don`t hate to talk to me, I mean people may well not to be able to "deal" with listening, talking to people who doesn`t understand much their language. they are just nice. Well, today, since jamie had to work from am6 till pm2 and meg(jamie`s sister) had to sleep(she has to work over night tonigh, she is actually working now), I decided to go to play basketball, and jamie`s mom took me to store to buy basketball, I might be really obsessed with basketball cuz I didn`t care paying 30box to buy a ball for just 5days at all*lol* and after that, I went out to find the place, and I must have gone damn right direction and there it was*lol* and there were also some players, so we played, and as usual, they did underestimated me and got beat by me:p after 2games, I was gonna leave but they wouldn`t let me go, so I played one more and some guy won, I thought I finally got to go, but they started asking me about martial artsX_X it was fun talking with them though, and they were nice too. when I was on the way home, I saw one car looks familiar, and jamie`s mom was driving and said they were looking for me*lol* I guess I should`ve left memo or something. at night, one family came over whose husband is japanese, they were nice too(men! I don`t think there are bad people in illinois*lol*at least I haven`t met one yet^.-) we ate dinner together and talked, jamie and her dad and meg played "horse" and "pig" after eating dinner, of course, I beat them(what kind of stupid worthless basketball geek would I be if I didn`t?), after that, jamie and I went to see movie called "worng turn" which I wanted to see, but I felt sooooo bad about jamie cuz I know she doesn`t watch THAT kind of movie, movie has so many gory stuff and it wasn`t even long enough to be called as "movie"(it was like only 80 min), she was just nice to not say something bad about it. as you read, there`s so many things are happening around me now, which I`m enjoying so much^^v well, I should go to bed soon. goooooood night! 5/28
I just finished working, I mean, I did finish working for this company, no more, not only 1min, it's so weird, cuz I've worked here for 15months total, every single day, literally,it had been part of my life in the US, but now, I'm done, don't have to work, it's gotta be bit sentimental, even tho I hated mexican guys being assholes, but now even it's becoming good memory. I useually don't get emotional, in sentimental way I mean, cuz that's just what I am, but today I thought I might be seriousely sad when I leave this country, people gets sad when they have to part from their friends, but I've never thought I get sad when I part from COUNTRY in stead of people, I know it's related to people who I've met to make me think about this country is such a good place, if I didn't meet people I've met, I wouldn't think I would get sad, or emotional when I leave, but now I do know I would be depressed about it, it's kinda ironic that the fact you've met nice people makes you sad. but, I don't know,,,, well, I hope you guys understand what I'm thinking ^^; 5/26
has my life been always fortunate? I think it has, or I'm just simple enough to be pleased easily that makes me think that way*lol* but sometimes I do feel like as if my life is meant to be what I want it to be. overall though, there is something I think "if this was like that" or "should have, could have" stuff, but I won't regret. and I'm sleepy now -.-zzz 5/26
only 2 more days that I work for this company, it's kinda sentimental to think about, even though I still get annnoyed by "pinche" mexicans*lol* kinda weird huh? anyways, only 2 more days, just try not to get injured or anything that can make my trip suck. I don't wanna end up like being cooped up at jamie's house whole my 5days staying*lol* today, I thought about this by chance, why does the people who ACTs to be liked by someone who they want them to like them(sorry, too confusing^^;) get preferences or benefits more than people who doesn't do that? maybe you could say the one who does act like that is wise, but I just don't like it, and I'll finish it here cuz I just wanted to say it. :p 5/19
after you thought the guy is not your friend anymore, is it gonna be difficult or painfull to see the guy? I guess so, even if you wanna get along with him, it won't work, right? it's so sad, I think one guy actually hates me, and whenever I talk to him, he makes face like "I don't really wanna talk to you", *deep sigh* I know you can't be liked by all people in the world, you might have to have someone who hates you, but it's just frustrating and disappointing, -_= oh well, that stuff sucks, I know it's petty thing that I shouldn't care, but I just don't like it, fuck..... well, I guess I have more thing to write about besids that crap*lol* I played basketball at park where I used to play almost everyday last summer, and it was gooooood playing outside, and with many people who don't know each other, even though my ankle still hurts, I enjoied playing. And on the way to home, I was thinking about how much has basketball been helping my life or giving me opportunities, and I thanked for the fact I play basketball, I think I now have something I can say"this is part of my life"*lol* it's nothing like I can proudly say though*lol* I worked half day today, and I was spacing out the gallon plants(plants in gallon pots), and my supervisor told me that there are 3 different kinds of sunflower so don't mix them up, and when I actually saw it, there were 4 different types of leaves(they don't have flowers yet), I was like "hey, I think he said 3" but I knew he is last person to make a mistake, and I found out that there were only 3 kinds, but since one particular plants have not gotten enough water, they looked different*lol* well, I guess I still have so many things I wanna do here, and I might be finding something would mean to me a lot, it's always like this, when I'm about to leave, I find something I might have looked for, well, still better than being not able to find it.:p 5/16
ok, I'm so sleepy now -_-zzz so I'm gonna write this really quick. I got ticket for trip!! that did make me feel relieved, cuz I was kinda worried about it that I wouldn't be able to get it or they might get me wrong one, but now everything is good, should be.....hopefully*lol* tried to watch the "Matrix reloaded" but couldn't make it on time, so we(me and val) watched "Identity" (I know, again^^;). I didn't know watching the movie is this fun, I have only seen...... less than 5 movies in japan, now I might watch that many only by in month, I love it, but I might not go to see as much when I got back, cuz it's more expensive, it's gonna suck, too bad. well, that's it, no more anything for me. good night^^ 5/13
if you are in "no win stuation" what would you think or do? I think there still might be some way to make the thing work out.
the fact I'm facing right now has been upseted me a lot, cuz seems like I have no way to fulfill what I wanna do,
well, I just need shut up and think about it, or eveything. 5/9
what would you do when you are soooooo sleepy and you haven't taken shower yet? I'm so sure I'll eventually take shower, but not right now*lol* you know what I've wanted for such a long time? it's nothing like "I'm dying to get" but I occasionally think about it, that that would be great if I have some device that does everything I have to, like wash my head, face, body, it's like washer for people*lol* but I really want it, I still would buy it even if it costs like $4000, it'll be so convenient! I have to do nothing, just get yourself in that deviece and wait, in 5min, you are all clean. it's a dream!!*lol*
I should invent that stuff, for real. 5/4
this is what I sometimes think of word that is word is not perfect. there is something like expression you can't describe, and also japanese sentence which doesn't make sense if you translate it into english literally. everyone just haven't notice that because they've never questioned, I wouldn't have thought about this if I didn't come to the US. I think you can't express exactly what in your mind just by word. let's say you are trying to tell your friend what is in your mind, and it's much easier to tell him what exactly in your mind if you show pic of it, because that's the one in your mind, itself, but, what if you try to describe it by using words? it's gotta be tougher and will never be exact, because if two people think about something, each one have their own imagination about the thing, if you think of cake with strawberry, "your cake" and "his cake" will never correspond, it shouldn't matter though, who cares that sublte difference?*lol*:p this happens sometimes, when I hear english words or sentence and I understood perfectly, but I don't know how to say it in japanese, it's so weird you can understand something you can't say in your language. and you might be able to say something in english you can't say in japanese because it would be so embarrassing to say it, one time I wrote a card for my friend in english, it's about appreciation, but I wonder if I would have been able to say such a thing if I wrote it in japanese. sometimes, it would be good not to have knowledge*lol*
5/3
well, I went to see the movie called "IDENTITY" that was good movie till the ending part, ok, here is the story, 10 people ended up being stuck at motel and they started dying in order by number of room they are staying, it started 10 first, and 9, 8, and so on. everyone who's died has key of room, and bodies were disappointing. and it's actually happing in one guy's mind, everyone who's at the motel, it ain't even real, the guy has so many personality, he has 10 of them in his one body, and if you kill the people at motel, the one personality in his mind goes away from him,
geeeee, I can not explain it now, I gotta go to bed soon, hey jamie, thanks for leaving the massage on my page, that's nice, kyouhanemusugi,,,,,,,, oyasumi-__-zz
5/1
I was watching the Laker's game at Red Robin, I think they are given so much preferance more than any other teams in the NBA, that ain't fair!! you know, and I hate'em*lol*
but kobe is good I must say, I used to hate him, but now he is ok(still don't like that much because he's Laker), he gets better every year, especially this year, he's made remarkable improvement. he is great. my cell phone is dead now, because charger is not working!! I'm thinking about canceling the contract and getting prepaid one, so that I won't have to take a trouble to cancel right before I go back to japan which might be busy for me. I saw the NEWS on AOL, it says about the group that they are doing something weird, they wear white custume, they look like KKK, I just saw the pic and didn't get to read it, so I don't know what they are doing, but they are going that in Gifu-ken which is MY home town!! Gifu is kinda country side,but I don't want it to get famous by that:p my ankle 4/24
got hurt!!!!!!!! mechamechaitai!!! I was playing basketball and kept making the shots, and as I jumped to get ball, I landed on somebody's foot I don't even wanna picture when I just did it, I haven'twisted my ankle for long long time.
Anyway, I did twist my ankle and looks like I'm not gonna be able to play for at least a weak, I can hardly walk now, I hope it will get better till tomorrow before I work, well, I guess I should go, mouneru, oyasumi----- my ankle 4/24
got hurt!!!!!!!! mechamechaitai!!! I was playing basketball and kept making the shots, and as I jumped to get ball, I landed on somebody's foot I don't even wanna picture when I just did it, I haven'twisted my ankle for long long time.
Anyway, I did twist my ankle and looks like I'm not gonna be able to play for at least a weak, I can hardly walk now, I hope it will get better till tomorrow before I work, well, I guess I should go, mouneru, oyasumi----- frigging 4/23
spanish!! I can't take it any longer. Ok this is the story I have been through, at work, I have to speak spanish instead of english, it might not sound bad as it really is, but it's really bad when you want to get used to speaking english or get your brain used to english version*lol* now the words come out from my mouth at very first is spanish, that's sad, no offense though, I mean, I would love to study spanish if I can speak english perfectly, but now, I jsut want to concentrate on english, it's been just nuisance, and,when I try to use english, it doesn't make sense to them at all, and when you don't have someone who talk to you, you will be not able to understand as much as when someone talks to you a lot. oh well, this is difficult situation man, and I need to shut up and deal with it......
I was kind of surprised by one lady at retail store said that 10am to 1pm could be busiest time of the day at flower department, I though it must be around 5pm because everybody get off work. it's surprising, hey jamie, is that true? I guess I should fucking go, I don't feel good tonight, Easter 4/20
I'm full now*lol*
and might be getting cold or something, so I think I should go to bed, this makes the shortest nikki*lol* opinion 4/15
I think jerry springer show is most stupid show I've ever seen, everyday at lanch time, people who live in same house watch that show so I kinda have to watch it, people are always naked,and "I've been sleeping with your wife for long time!" kind of crap, shoot,
i can't talk today anymore, because I'm so sleepy!! hey, jamie, take me to the springer show*lol* it's recorded in chicago right?*lol*
LA 4/13
Lakers came to portland and my friend got me a ticket!!!and furthermore it's first floor ticket which I've never sat(I usually can olnly buy )third floor ticket^^; Anyways, I watched the game so close which was soooooooo exciting, you can't usually tell how first those big guys can move, but if you see them very close and live, it's tottally different world I would say, today is the first day I felt like I could understand why NBA players are NBA player, they are absolutely special, it's very nice surprise for me^^ and portland won too!! you guys might know I don't like LA, but I have to talk about kobe little bit, he is really something, I used to hate him because he wasn't good as people says he was, you know, just excessive popularity, but every single year, he's make progress, and he's playing MVP level basketball, from watching the game, kobe was jusat dominating game, even though they lost, he was unstoppable, and shaq, now I can understand about people who likes shaq, I used to think the way shaq plays is so boring, because he jsut pushes the diffence away and dunk the ball into the hoop, but onece you saw him play, you might change the opinion, he IS fun to watch, I have to admit it.my friend told me that I made some progress at my jump shoot, man that just made me happy, whatever that's about, to be praised can't be bad.
well, I might need to go to bed, I got only 2 hours sleep last night -.-zzz
4/7
it's more difficult to get visa than I thought it would be,I'm tring to find the lawyer who can get me visa with my company's help, but since I don't know any of them, I have no idea how I'm gonna fing right lawyer to ask, so I went to some message board and left message there that asks people to give me any information about lawyer and 2 people with great kindness have responded!! and they even told me the name of lawyer's they think I should ask, so I think I'm gonna ask lawyer, I really really really really hope I can get visa and to be able to live in here. Oregon 4/6
is still cold!! I got back this morning and it's so cold, and I worked*lol* well, it's expected. by the way, last night when I was on the bus, I was talking with bus driver who's born in japan and grow up in japan and he is american,anyway, I was talking and out of the blue, we heard HUGE sound, I thought tire went flat, we parked, got outside, and checked the tire, and surface of bus where covers the tire is gone!! and not to mention, tire was flat, what happend is actually some other car's tire flew from other side of road and hit our bus so hard and ripped bus's body away. good thing we are still arive*lol* but I think it's very scary, I have no idea what would happen if the tire hit up came to us 0.5 second earlier, it would hit right in front of bus, we might've died , you know. one more thing, I left my cell phone down there!!!! I had it, I did, till I left my hostfamily's car.... I dropped it when I got out from car. =_= so I couldn't call azusa who might have waited, I'm sorry azusa, good thing my hostfamily has it, not someone unknown, it's great relief when I found out that they have it. well, as I said earier, I worked today, got home 8:30 in the morning and I was already at work by 8:45, I'm used to it, typical of my company. but being at my house is so uncomfortable!! I don't know why,it never used to be like this, maybe I got used to very nice house, I hope that is the reason, if not, that means I have some problem here. I don't wanna think so.
well, I guess I should finish here,,,, oh I found out one more thing about this house, I feel like as is I'll never be able to study as I did back in calif, so I guess I should try to study from right now on. finally 4/3
finished taking classes! yeah!! finally, I have friday,and saturday and that's it. I kinda remember one time I've talked about what I'm gonna talk now. I tend to be sentimental when I leave the place, it's not like I'm gonna cry or something like that, maybe coule be like that. I've met wonderful people here who I think I can continue to be friend with, I really miss them, but I have to, can't be helped, right? that's one thing I like my life about and also don't like about, to meed many peole, after all, I think this is totally positive thing, they feed me, they make me to grow mentally, so, why should I worry?*lol* hey jaaaaamie, are you mad or something?I'm sorry if you are, and I'm waiting for your response man,:p ok I should go, having dinner with my teacher.
It is 3/31
hot today!! which is good though, I don't like I sweat when I'm on bike and that's all. I'm so sure I'm gonna miss my hostfamily, they are so nice and generous. ah, *lol* yesterday, we were having dinner and talking about me leaving soon, hostfather said "we are gonna miss you masa"(he and his 14 years old son always tease me) and he goes, "you are the best japanese male student we've ever had" me"of course I am, in fact I'm the only japanese male you guys have ever had" (they are always like this*lol*) and he also said"we are not gonna have japanese boy any more becouse no one can be better than you" and his 7years kid said"really!? we are not gonna have any student anymore? cool!" they are all like "heeey nick(his name)!*lol* that was just funny, gatta go to class, moron 3/26
I had thought about word archive as achive.... -__- helpless,,,,,,, annoyance 3/26
I've been trying to buy movie called "laputa".DVD from japan can't be played by DVD player in the US and vice versa, but somehow I found the web site where sell one you can watch here(I don't know if that DVD can be played in japan too), and I wanted to buy it, you know, it's obviously great movie, my favorite, so I want to my friends to see it(it's in english), but for some reason the stupid site wouldn't let me buy it, whenever I try, I get stuck where I do paying stuff, -__- it's stupid....... I'm at library and little while ago I went to rest room and my friend came in, we talked a little and I left, I was sitting on chair and my friend came up to me and asked me "how old are you?" while he is strangling me. The reason he asked me that is because I forgot to turn the water off after I washed my hands*lol* How absent minded am I! Well, it just happens when you get older, but it can happen when you are still young too,:p Weather is so nice here, I hope this weather lasts forever. 3/24
my friend "tony" helped me out to clear up the past nikkies,It lookes tidy now or rather just new*lol*anyway, if you want to read past nikki, click "archieves" it takes you to page has what I've wrote. I wanna make home page for real, somebody tell me how to make it!!! oh, hey jamie, I tried to go to your page but computer didn't let me get there, why is that? is that only me? Leeet's goooo home, I feel like I'm lethargic, -_- don't wanna go to school!
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