Hello all. I’m sorry that I’ve fallen into this rut where I only write every few days. My bad. I guess blame half of it on laziness and half of it on American trash TV. Yes, that’s right. I’ve started watching trash TV. I miss watching American TV, and it seems like the only shows I can watch online are the trash shows. A lot of networks won’t let you watch shows outside of the USA. It’s considered “out of region.” Blarg. I think I’ve already admitted to watching Teen Mom, and now I’ve adopted Toddlers and Tiaras. I found full episodes on You Tube. If you’ve never seen an episode, watch it. It’s ridiculously scary that moms allow their children to do that.
First, I wanted to say congratulations again to David and Lucy. David proposed to Lucy on Saturday and skyped us shortly after. Actually, Ian was on facebook, and David messaged him saying, “the date you guys come home this summer just got a little more important to us.” Ian immediately called me over to the computer, and we called him. I’m so happy for them!
One story that I forgot to tell the other day was about a really horrible driver. Saturday, we were walking to Family Mart, the little convenience store in town. We got to the main intersection in town and noticed something was off. There was a car driving down the sidewalk. Only in Japan would this seem normal. We continued to watch the car wait on the sidewalk for the light to change and then cross the street in the PEDESTRIAN WALK. Once the driver crossed, he continued to drive on the sidewalk for probably about two blocks until he reached his destination. Actually, I think the only reason he stopped is because he ran out of sidewalk to drive on. I wish with all my heart that I would have taken a video of it. I thought about it, but then I didn’t want to be the obnoxious foreigner. It was really funny.'
On Sunday, we went to the elementary school sports festival. What a fun day! I feel like I’m doing this backwards because I usually write the blog and THEN post pictures, but I guess it doesn’t matter. It was our first big festival together. I never really know what to do or where to go during these festivals. Sunday was no exception. All of the teachers were organizing students, so I couldn’t just march up to one and say something like, “Hey! I’m the big, dumb foreigner. Tell me where to go!” When in Japan and you don’t know what to do, stand around and look confused until someone approaches you and tells you where to go and/or what to do. It works most of the time. It worked for us. At first, we were just wandering around, but one of the office ladies approached me and gave me a map of where to sit and what events would happen throughout the day (oh, how I wish I could read Japanese!). Most of the events involved running. There were A TON of relays. The little first grade relays were the cutest. By far! They had no idea what they were doing. It was adorable. Other events included teams racing up a bamboo pole. The participants had to latch multiple ropes on the top. They were ridiculously quick. Another event that we like was the big red ball race. Each team had to roll/bounce a GIANT red ball through an obstacle course. At one point, one team’s ball bounced on one of the tents, and they had to wait for it to fall down, lol. My favorite event for the day was synchronized exercise. I know it sounds lame, but it’s not. It’s really awesome. Several blogs ago, I described a “PE” class. It turns out that it was synchronized exercise practice. It starts off slow, but soon the kids are doing all kinds of lifts. It’s really fun to watch. It ended with a HUGE human pyramid. Their human pyramid would put any human pyramid we have in the States to SHAME. The top two rows stood up completely. Please check out the video I have posted on facebook!
After the sports festival, we walked home. Our neighbor, Mr. Fujimoto, saw us walking and called us over. We haven’t talked to him in a while, so we went over and talked to him. Him and his friend were cutting up some kind of fruit and making some kind of sauce for….something. Mr. Fuiimoto is really nice, and despite the fact that we can’t speak Japanese, we had a pretty good conversation.
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