so those mediocre anime that ive been following for the hell of it have been getting better. either that or theyve just grown on me not being any better than when i first started watching. anyway it gives me a good laugh and i like to compare the characters with my own high school kids haha.

anyway its test season and the kids are stressing like no tomorrow. teachers are all cutting my lessons or canceling altogether because theyve fallen behind on their own lessons, but its all good - whatever they need to get as many points right >_> /sigh

i think i was super fair in creating my section of the test. i even spoon fed them a "omg if you guys are alive and breathing at all right now, you can get full marks on my part" review session, so if they fail hardcore on my part then its totally their bad. i even told them if they wanted me to check grammar for the written section id be happy to do it but only 2 girls came up to ask me. oh well~ but maybe they gots this whole testing thing down right? i guess ill see for myself very soon when i get down to grading.

i was looking at a bunch of WCCUSD web sites today. a teacher asked about class scheduling in america - at least where i grew up, so i went to research. i found a 2006 copy of graduation requirements, and a full list of all the courses offered in our district among all the schools at least 9-12 that is. sharing is awesome. actually telling stories from back home and extracting stories from the natives is the meat of what i do daily.

tomorrow will be a chill around day. poor kiddies and their mountains of tests - five consecutive days of examination fun.

dancer at ten

so happy

and watching shiina's samba animation hasnt gotten old yet hoho

still gotta sub dnc and watch my thf dance in different kinds of armor =3

interesting sights at school: there was this dude who walked into the teachers room and he stopped in front of a hand wash station kind of near my desk. he gazed, primped (his perfectly styled hair lol), posed, spun around, primped, posed, and gazed again - it was so awesome to watch - it took a lot of willpower to not laugh at the sight. his buddy even came up to him and was like, "dude, who do you think you are, lol and where do you think youre at?" crazy kids.

Fairaure is a south asian elvaan lol

http://thicosmetics.com/

if it was only just Thi Pham cosmetics!

i should order some to trick people lol

and the color names for their cosmetics are all asian names - its great

man, my name is so cool!

bay area ftw.

the good - i cant totally start practicing windmills again with all this room in my apt!

the bad - no turkey at normal jp supermarkets... not even sandwich meat.

the ugly - oil in the bay. poor bay area wildlife ;_;

i got some fresh threads today - but not at the discount store. i went to this UNIQLO place right next to EIDEN. they have clothing there that makes me think of Old Navy back at home. Quality stuff, but everything is totally made in honduras, or indonesia or china. at UNIQLO most of the items are made in china - so what we get are pretty nice new clothing at an inexpensive price. i swear all their womens winter clothing are like 1.5 times thinner than guys clothing or something... so i bought a set of fleece jammies (they call it room wear) from the dudes section and some fleece pants (room wear) from the ladies section because they didnt have this nice color of brown from the guys section... i also got a white hoodie - discount bin for the win - to make a version two white mage jacket <3 hopefully i can find a colorfast red textile this time where going through the wash wont totally ruin it all. anyway, i think im going to use garnet's design from ffix for this one, or at least do the empire waist thing like she does with the red triangles.

so you know in those random anime that have a schoolgirl all bandaged up with that crazy ass medical eye patch thing across her eye? well i saw one today in the teachers room and i was like /stare lol she had sporty hair and an "eff you all" look in her features. i swear she was cosplaying or something.


oh and i have something totally awesome to share in terms of the kind of english my kids dish out. this entertained me all day (i even made a photocopy of the original and placed it on my desk to look at when i got bored lol):

Dear Chris,
Body condition how?
Really doing the buying which is OK?
It was surprised about meeting with traffic accident, and so on.
Even though, there might were not something wrong in the life.
It was relived.
Because it goes to the present as soon as possible at the hospital.
It gets to rest sufficiently, to be early and to be fine.
Also, it telephones me if there is something.

Your friend,
Nakajima

win! it felt like reading auto-translate lol

[body] condition [How?]

anyway the swelling on the mosquito bite on my lip is pissing me off to no end. it burns and is getting pretty swollen. thank goodness these 3 bites on my face havent turned a blistering red color (yet?) like the one on the back of my hand. the swollen area there has the diameter of 3 inches - almost the entire surface of the back of my hand. somewhere in japan i just know theres a shrine for a mosquito deity or bug deity or something. i totally need to visit.

yay for sunday.

my apt is so clean - it feels great.

winter is really starting to show around here. the cold wind is all blustery and stuff. im glad the second hand store is so close to home. i can get all the 500yen flannel i want! i can get 100yen scarves and gloves too at the upstairs 100yen shop - it's totally sweet.

this bastard mosquito bit me of the face today. i hate getting bites on the face... it got me on the back of my hand earlier too. and they said mosquitoes would go away when it got cold... talk about crazy jp bugs.

im looking forward to camping melon pan at the school store tomorrow. the almost all guys school told me not to come tomorrow because of a special event so im gonna chill at my base school. i guess ill go ahead and make my part of the their test + a happy study guide thing. go monday.

still happy about my clean apt!