8 more weekends!

Until I'm off to England....very crazy when I think about it. Had a good time this past week. Time to throw some pics up!!!

Last day with some funny students!


Curry and Kiwi's!



I need to teach somebody the word moderation....



Snowboarding with my bud Yas!



Chi-chi relaxing




Cherry blossoms on a windy day....


GRRRAAAAAAWWWRRRRRRRRRR



It's been good so far. I've been trying to study a lot! I've found great online study tool and it's been working great. I'll probably be able to almost get down all the information to take a level test in July that will look good on a resume if I ever wanted to do anything with Japanese. Although I'm very far from where I want to be I can't let that gap get me down, and it had been for about the past month.

It's funky, my learning curve really plateaus every couple of months. I probably plateau and speak the same Japanese for about a month...learn a little bit more the next month. Then get super stoked that I'm learning I study like crazy the following month. Then I usually get overwhelmed and hit that plateau again. Repeat.

In the coming month I'm going to start sending stuff back to America!!! Aghhh I think I'm going to start being a very busy bee! Hopefully I'll keep up on the blog! Hope everyone liked the pics...gotta do laundry!

Hakuba this past weekend

SO NICE



Had a very cool group to ride with too. A buddy's board broke(center(chris)) and he rented a scooter board lol and it was fun watching him goof around on it and have fun.

The weather was perfect!

Couldn't have asked for a better weekend!

Happy St. Patty's day

It's not really the same over here though, not that many people are into it!!! But whatever I AM and I love making fun of everyone at work for not wearing green and hearing their weak excuses!

Things over on this side of the world are good! Had one of the most beautiful days snowboarding in a long time! Finally pays off, I figure if you go every weekend one of the weekend you'll have to have great weather! Met some friends and had a good time. Even had to teach a little, which sucked but they were getting pretty good by the end of the day!

Anyhow...let's throw some pics up...

Had a pretty big snow last week in my city!



oddly enough the next day I was feeling really 'sick' and couldn't make it into work....



Jeez I had a lot to write about but I'm coming up with nothing! Getting excited after my sister posted her website to the wedding! Talking about England and Europe makes me realize how much of a good summer I have ahead of me. It's funny though everybody keeps telling me how soon I'm leaving. I KNOW! But what's the need for the countdown I friggin know already. Look even the trees are getting ready for April, saw this one yesterday.....

Sakura = cherry blossoms



lol and one of my student and I, this is Yosei he's in my Tuesday classes. He's a maniac. And I'm giving that look because he's digging his chin into my head!

Almost forgot!

lol Karaoke soon!

I think this is going to be the first Japanese song(and probably last) I'll be singing!!!! lol these guys are from where I go snowboarding( about 40 minutes away) = Misaka.

I love chi-chi!

So I felt pretty bad today because after work I went to the gym, then to the store where I picked up this for her dinner!



It was late so the sushi was half off...all that Maguro(tuna) was only $1.50. of course I took 2 pieces for myself while I cooked my own later dinner. Wasn't able to finally sit down and eat until 11:30!! But it was an alright day. I love going to the gym after work because the trainer there is so funny and I can really understand him quite well for a language barrier there.

So as I'm watching my usual evening programs....look who decides to curl up right next to me. Icing on my cake of a fairly decent day! And raining nicely too :)

Even as I'm writing this she's still chilling out pretty hard..lol let's get an instant shot because she looks kinda funny...



So talked to the pops today to plan a bit of the Europe trip after Katie's wedding. Destinations are looking like....

Paris
Venice
Rome
Monaco
Barcelona

Not too shabby. Dad wanted to go to Monaco, never even heard of the place. Then! I asked a couple friends at work and they were freaking out about it, saying it's basically the Beverly Hills of Europe and we'll probably see some amazing yachts every time we look out to the ocean. Excited for that. Thinking of maybe doing a wine tour sometime...but other than that don't really know what to do while we're in Europe! First things first though I suppose and we'll have fun @ the wedding and figure out everything afterwards :P

Ok! I forgot I took this picture, this was also today 3/4(Happy Birthday Mom!) but your 3/3. My last class I teach today is a bunch of Junior High School students, 4 girls and one boy, named Ryo. He's a really smart kid but I guess the other girls were giving him a hard time about his love life because when I walked into the classroom I saw this written on the board....!



I started cracking up!!! These kids English is friggin awesome, but some things are just a little off :P Close enough for me though when you're just joking around before class. I was stoked they even wrote it in English :) If you can't read it too well that last word is "human?" lol

A wet weekend

So I bought a season pass and I'm going even on the worst conditions! Luckily I have some back-ups. Putting on wet gear sucks!



I've also my camera phone can take ok pictures when things are close-up. Other than that it's good for nothing. I went to a friends house, she lives on the top floor of her apartment, and the roof of the other apartment was covered with bonsai's where half of them were blooming. I was pretty upset about the pics, but ohh well I'll be able to take it into the shop asap.

Went snowboarding in the rain on Saturday, about an hour or so into riding I was just about to get on the lift, and all of the sudden I felt a rushing of water into my left boot. It had sprung a leak, or rather the the water must have found a way to seep in and my whole foot was soaked the rest of the night! That sucked! But still trying to make a little progress while riding. It seems no matter what the conditions I'm still having a good time. Funky how that works with this hobby.

On Sunday went shredding with a buddy who only speaks Japanese, and he's talkative. I thought I was getting better but during the whole ride he talked so much it was hard for me to keep up and drive at the same time. But it was good motivation to keep studying.

After two days of being crazy busy my Monday was just chilling hard! Cleaned up the apartment a little bit and went to the gym. Caught a chair thief too!


Doin things on a budget too! I can't believe I'm going to be in the states and outta here very soon! Well, England first then the states! It's going to be a crazy summer by the looks of it. Here's how it's lookin...

June: Leave Japan, Go to England, Go to Europe with mi Padre
July: 7/3 another wedding in Canada! Relax in Florida for a little while.
August: Go up to Seattle and work as much as I can doing what I did 2 summers ago.
End of August: Move to Las Vegas and make cheese($).

Going to be very interesting! Can't wait to see it all unfold. Found a nice song too while watching a snowboarding video!