Thanks to Andrea, I have got the blog roll up and running. Yay! Caro, can I link you?
THanks for all of the comments on the last blog and I will post recipes soon! Thanks, Jean, for stopping by and making a comment!
Caro, I know, too weird (and gross!)
Have a good night/day!
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Thursday, February 23, 2006
yummy
Well, I made us a yummy dessert tonight (if I do say so myself!) We had rice pudding. HMMMM! I haven't had it for about 3 years. I haven't made it since moving here as my MIL always had a puzzled look on her face whenever I mentioned it (rice, in a dessert? Huh?) But I decided to make it for my 3 lady students tomorrow night. They are quite a low level but everybody likes talking about food, and they do their best to talk in English whe we talk about food. So at the end of the month, I ask them to bring a recipe to share with everyone. Some of them are beyond their comprehension, so I sometimes bring samples. They've had perogies, pumpkin pie, a variety of cookies, and tomorrow night rice pudding. I hope they like it as much as I do!
I'm quite tired today and my throat is really sore from teaching. I taught around 135 elementary school kids today, all in grade 2. I had 4 consecutive classes. We were doing body parts, so we sang Head & Shoulders, played Simon Says, and then sang a couple more songs that I had taught them last year. It was really fun but my throat is paying for it now. They are pretty funny-every time I talked about singing a song with them, two or three of them would say, "I know this song." or "I've heard this song." and and I'm thinking all of you should know this song, I taught it to all of you last year? I can't believe how well some of them did with Simon Says. I was speaking pretty fast and they managed to keep up. It was great!
Going to turn in early tonight but I'll leave you with this- it explains alot to me about why there are so many weird looking people on tv /in magazines.
I'm quite tired today and my throat is really sore from teaching. I taught around 135 elementary school kids today, all in grade 2. I had 4 consecutive classes. We were doing body parts, so we sang Head & Shoulders, played Simon Says, and then sang a couple more songs that I had taught them last year. It was really fun but my throat is paying for it now. They are pretty funny-every time I talked about singing a song with them, two or three of them would say, "I know this song." or "I've heard this song." and and I'm thinking all of you should know this song, I taught it to all of you last year? I can't believe how well some of them did with Simon Says. I was speaking pretty fast and they managed to keep up. It was great!
Going to turn in early tonight but I'll leave you with this- it explains alot to me about why there are so many weird looking people on tv /in magazines.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
blogging for dummies
Okay, I don't know how to do this and would appreciate any advice-how do I put a blog roll on my blog? I tried inserting them before my links, under my links, under my flicker badge but to no avail-Anyone?
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
oh boy!
I have some unexpected time to myself-the boy is passed out-didn't sleep all day and just had it around seven.
So I have been quite busy lately and even at school I have had lots to do. One thing I was doing was interviewing the students in grade seven. ALL of them. It was fun but time consuming. I prepared some phrases for them to think about while they were talking to me as their level is QUITE low and lots of they need help. One of the questions that they can ask and answer is What do you want now?
Ohhh, what a question-so many possibilies running through my head-Let's see, on a personal level, I want my family to be happy and healthy, I want to not have to worry about anything but especially my little boy being hurt by someone, I want him to never have to worry about money, I want to spend more time with myself but I want more time to myself, I want to be younger, slimmer, energetic, beautiful, bigger boobs, smaller bum, a car, another kid, countless cds, books, clothes...For a bigger outlook, I want the American government or any other government for, that matter to stop bombing the shit out of defenceless people, world peace, to stop world hunger...hmmm, I guess that covers it for now.
So then I just smiled at them and said, "Uh, I want a car." and asked what they wanted now, and it was always something like a new pencil case.
;P
So I have been quite busy lately and even at school I have had lots to do. One thing I was doing was interviewing the students in grade seven. ALL of them. It was fun but time consuming. I prepared some phrases for them to think about while they were talking to me as their level is QUITE low and lots of they need help. One of the questions that they can ask and answer is What do you want now?
Ohhh, what a question-so many possibilies running through my head-Let's see, on a personal level, I want my family to be happy and healthy, I want to not have to worry about anything but especially my little boy being hurt by someone, I want him to never have to worry about money, I want to spend more time with myself but I want more time to myself, I want to be younger, slimmer, energetic, beautiful, bigger boobs, smaller bum, a car, another kid, countless cds, books, clothes...For a bigger outlook, I want the American government or any other government for, that matter to stop bombing the shit out of defenceless people, world peace, to stop world hunger...hmmm, I guess that covers it for now.
So then I just smiled at them and said, "Uh, I want a car." and asked what they wanted now, and it was always something like a new pencil case.
;P
typical?
Sorry for the lengthy delay between posts, I just can't seem to get out of bed after lying down for what seems like hours to put Hiroki to sleep. He currently has ANOTHER cold (and fever) though and he actually went to sleep quite quickly:P
So I was at yoga class this weekend (still feeling the pain) and some of the other yoga-ees were talking about foreigners. As in me. But not me, because they weren't talking about me or to me, just about foreigners.
Sometimes even though a foreigner comes and speaks to me in Japanese, I just answer in English, because I am just expecting to speak English
Me thinking, yes, I've experienced that many times.
Then someone else says
Well, when a foreigner come up to me or near me , you know, I just, well, get all nervous
Me thinking WTF? Sitting right here? Can't see me?
I just can't understand this way of thinking, mostly because I was born in Canada and we just don't know (or care?) who's foreign or not. Also, MOST PEOPLE I KNOW WOULDN"T TALK LIKE THAT!
It bugs me because even if they weren't intending for me to feel isolated, separating people into us and them just makes me feel even more that I won't be part of us.
Even more good news. The Japanese government in its infinite wisdom has decided that all foreigners coming to Japan will have to be fingerprinted to prevent terrorism. (Again WTF?)(The only terrorism that has happened in Japan has been by a Japanse cult) The only exceptions to this will be Special permanent residents (Korean and Chinese) who were actually born here. That's pretty forward thinking, way to go guys!
Have to end this post for now as I can't see anymore. Need sleep!
So I was at yoga class this weekend (still feeling the pain) and some of the other yoga-ees were talking about foreigners. As in me. But not me, because they weren't talking about me or to me, just about foreigners.
Sometimes even though a foreigner comes and speaks to me in Japanese, I just answer in English, because I am just expecting to speak English
Me thinking, yes, I've experienced that many times.
Then someone else says
Well, when a foreigner come up to me or near me , you know, I just, well, get all nervous
Me thinking WTF? Sitting right here? Can't see me?
I just can't understand this way of thinking, mostly because I was born in Canada and we just don't know (or care?) who's foreign or not. Also, MOST PEOPLE I KNOW WOULDN"T TALK LIKE THAT!
It bugs me because even if they weren't intending for me to feel isolated, separating people into us and them just makes me feel even more that I won't be part of us.
Even more good news. The Japanese government in its infinite wisdom has decided that all foreigners coming to Japan will have to be fingerprinted to prevent terrorism. (Again WTF?)(The only terrorism that has happened in Japan has been by a Japanse cult) The only exceptions to this will be Special permanent residents (Korean and Chinese) who were actually born here. That's pretty forward thinking, way to go guys!
Have to end this post for now as I can't see anymore. Need sleep!
Saturday, February 04, 2006
um
Well I've been meaning to write for a couple of days again. This working 4 evenings a week is really getting to me...The weeks go by soooo fast! I can't get anything done, the house looks pretty bad!:P
So my brother brought me some music and some of it I just can't get out of my head!
Warren Zevon and some of his songs done by other people, and Rilo Kiley. I really like some of their lyrics, too.
I should find someone better for me but Mom says we're born that way in a song named Glendora
and
You're just image control for a walking corpse like mein Portions for Foxes.
I don't really know who they are and if I can I'll set up a link for you (but it's not working right now, no emoticon for speaking through gritted teeth!)
I took the day off on Thursday (so nice!) but still didn't end up getting much done. I went to Shizuoka city by train to get my new spouse visa and apply for my permanent residence visa here. Since I had already applied for my spouse visa, I didn't need to add much more paperwork. Now I just have to wait for it to be processed.
I think there's another wave of influenza going around. One of the teachers at the school has it, and I've heard that my nephew has gotten it. I hate this season.
Take care everyone!
So my brother brought me some music and some of it I just can't get out of my head!
Warren Zevon and some of his songs done by other people, and Rilo Kiley. I really like some of their lyrics, too.
I should find someone better for me but Mom says we're born that way in a song named Glendora
and
You're just image control for a walking corpse like mein Portions for Foxes.
I don't really know who they are and if I can I'll set up a link for you (but it's not working right now, no emoticon for speaking through gritted teeth!)
I took the day off on Thursday (so nice!) but still didn't end up getting much done. I went to Shizuoka city by train to get my new spouse visa and apply for my permanent residence visa here. Since I had already applied for my spouse visa, I didn't need to add much more paperwork. Now I just have to wait for it to be processed.
I think there's another wave of influenza going around. One of the teachers at the school has it, and I've heard that my nephew has gotten it. I hate this season.
Take care everyone!
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