My plant is STILL growing. I’m in amazement. The leaves that were red are even taking on more of a dark green tint. Maybe it’s confused about what time of the year it is? I’m not sure but it sure is growing. I think I’ve unknowingly nicknamed the thing Kuru-kun lol. It works. XD
I’ve found some more Japanese sweets that I’m obsessed with lol. Well sweets in the relative term. I keep eating a rice ball for “lunch” and found that there are some interesting things in rice balls. Like a large chunk of chicken for example <3. Thinking on chicken… there are these chicken wraps at school that I’m really fond of! They’re fantastically good, with chicken and ranch dressing and lettuce and stuff. At least I think they’re good. Well I found out that they’re not ALL chicken. There’s a strange version of it with beef meat, ketchup, and something else. I was NOT so fond of that x.x in fact- I was mildly disgusted. It still ate it though <.< it was 200 yen. On the other hand, everything I’ve grabbed from the bread and sweets section has turned out good o.o if not surprising sometimes as one of the “bread” things that I grabbed quickly one day had a large chunk of MEAT in it and BBQ sauce ._. very strange. Anyways- I grabbed two things that I took pictures of- one being this dough-like thing “mocchiinyo” as the package reads in katakana- which was a set of four items. They were very dough-like and each one had a small filling of a kind of sweet cream cheese. From the corner grocery store however came the best surprise. The package was decorated for winter but I found the Japanese version of those white little Debbie cakes <3 It was extremely delicious and almost addicting. But it was basically a large Debbie Cake XD I loved it. Anyways~ classes are going well. I got Dreamweaver to use for my one class and I’ve currently got a good quarter to a third of my website done. I need to adjust backgrounds and make it look “pretty” but basically I’ll be done in a bit. I need to work on my home page the most I think for this Thursday to show to the teacher- as of the moment there’s nothing but links on it ><;;; I need to put a background and text under the links to the other parts of my site. As for the rest of the site- I’ve got to figure out how to stick pictures in decently around text and I’ll be good. I’ve got all the pictures I need, I just need to figure out how to use them. I also need to type up a history of Visual Kei, which I have partially written out right now. I have all of my subsections written out and some of the pictures decided but I’ve got to figure out better how it’s all working together. The other thing is- I didn’t realize how big of a project I picked. I keep finding NEW genres of Visual Kei each time I turn around. It’s a strange thing but I think I now have about 20 subcategories but I’m only including about~ 8 on the site… maybe. Some are subcategories of others. It’ll all work out though ^.^v As for other classes… Japanese is going well- midterms start tomorrow with an oral exam and continue from there for the following two days I believe. As for my culture class, my midterm probably did NOT go well, as one of the documents for the test I didn’t read and it took up a WHOLE 20 point question. I felt very stupid and like I was going to fail at that moment. It wasn’t my fault Japanese took over during the time I was supposed to read that. On the other hand- the rest of the test I think I did well on, including the other two 20 point questions and the 8 fill in the blank (of which I answered 7 cos I really just couldn’t remember the one). In Literature, our test is a take-home exam basically on Genji and the small amount of other stuff we’ve read. Since I’ve been so website obsessed lately, I failed to read the most of the last four chapters (two of those chapters being about 40 pages EACH) and it didn’t help that the teacher failed to open them up to people for that weekend either. I felt very disinclined to read after that, even though I was beginning to like Genji.
I did pick up a book for me to translate over my breaks during the year- it’s an L’arc~en~Ciel book about their early days or something like that. I haven’t gotten around too much to it yet but I glanced through and it’s basically all text. It looks like it was published JUST after Yukihiro joined the band, as it talks about “Dive to Blue” at the end and the three main people in it are Hyde, Ken, and Tetsu. It looks like a good project I think lol. I also picked up SID’s hikari CD for cheap XD well kinda cheap lol. I actually kinda like this album quite a bit ^^v.
I keep writing in my free time though- all sorts of different story beginnings- endings, etc. It’s kinda annoying to keep having new ideas pop up when all I want to do is have ideas for Misfortune’s Fortune and get back to work on it. There are a couple I have some high hopes for, since they’ve started pretty decently but… I’m not really looking for too much in it honestly. I want Misfortune’s Fortune back on track mainly.
This thing has rambled on too long XD I think I’m just typing whatever comes to mind at this point as I’m fairly exhausted today. I think I may lay down for a bit before studying or working on my website. Hopefully studying.
- One American girl
PS- (knew it was coming- didn’t you?) I got the WEIRDEST look on the train today. This older man did a literal either triple or quadruple take and stared when he saw me and my bag, even though I’d been standing next to him the WHOLE time. I went to put my bag on as my stop was coming up and rearranged my bags while listening to my music and watched him out of the corner of my do the traditional “foreigner double-take”. What he did next surprised the hell out of me. He glanced at my bag, did a double-take on that and then looked from me to the bag a couple of times as if he was going to say something. I felt like going “YEAH SO WHAT I HAVE REITA ON MY BAG?!”… but that would be highly rude- especially if he was going to say something completely different like “Your bag hit my newspaper.”… not like I can hear anything with my music going and I like it that way.
.... btw... PICTURES!! XD
