Cherry Blossom Festival '09!

We (Neil, Sun and I) meet at the fire-look-out place in Little Tokyo at 10. Then we go to the opening ceremony where there was some awesome Taiko drumming going on! It was beautiful!

Next, Ishii-sensee gets her "Teachers Make A Difference Award"! YAY, SENSEE! She is the best "official" teacher I've ever had (Although I've only had probably 3 teachers in my life, so far... :3. My mom, Ishii-sensee, a sign language teacher from SCC (he was the ABSOLUTE WORST TEACHER, EVER!) and Shimura-sensee (from Japanese Culture class, she was okay but she gave out wayyy too much homework!).


Ishii-sensee is in the middle with the short hair, next to the guy with white hair.


This is Sun, posing with Hello Kitty, who distracted us from the awards ceremony. Oh, well. It was basically over anyways!


What? Do you think I'd miss out on this photo op?

Sun (black) tries to teach Neil (white) how to play Go...

20 minutes later... How's that "teaching" going? O_O More like total annihilation! Sorry, Neil.

Hmm... Who won? Those game pieces in and on top of the plastic lids are the ones that the players have captured. See that big pile of white? That's all of Neil's captives. See the little black group? That's what Neil has captured from San. :D Not even close, Sun wins by a landslide!

Even in the big city, there's some beautiful man-made sites. I never thought I would have "beautiful" and "man-made" in the same sentence, ever.

People whiz by not even knowing that that beautiful sky line is there.

Day in My Life: Santa Fe 10-8-2008

I help Michell cheat at go fish.
Surfer dude about to get annihilated between two waves! XD

Pretty Santa Fe Mosaic at the train station!

Awesome torii like thing that I can't read... Effing Kanji!

The boys google at the dragon.

Russian submarine, anyone?

Treble-clef time!

A beautiful picture I took at the little tourist village.

Mmm, Shrimp, crab and scallop salad! Oishii! (Delicious!)

A re-creation of the famous picture from New York.

I can't remember who this person was I think it started with a B... Maybe it was Bob?


The lamp looks like a UFO!



"Fuses & Torpedo's" hm... Torpedo's on a train?

A delicious boba drink. Tahi tea (IT'S ORANGE?!?!) no milk tea... It tasted pretty good though. A lot better than my brother's Durian smoothie. Too creamy for me K-thanks.

Mmm, a delicious Vietnamese sandwich before I go to Japanese class! A pretty good day if you ask me!

DOMINATED IKE!

Mom called my Grahm to see if she had heard anything about the hurricane. It turns out that Grahm had just hung up with Farrah's dad. Which means that....THEY'RE OKAY!!!! I feel so relived! The watter didn't even come up their driveway enough to water their grass in the front yard! Haha TAKE THAT, IKE! Hmm, maybe I shouldn't taunt the bull...

I went to Japanese Culture class today and I did the homework right this time! But, sensee decided to go over Elementary school in Japan and how it was different than school here. I had no idea what anyone was talking about, being homeschooled and all. Most people usually go to school for a little at least but, not me! I've been homeschooled since birth! I don't really want to go to public school in America anyways. I probably wouldn't mind Japanese schools though. I'm going to look at transfer student stuff when I finish learning the language. I could go without knowing all of it but, I think it would be more fun if I knew what people were saying. They're so different, I really wish I would've just grown-up in Japan. But, then I guess I wouldn't have met all of my friends. Confusing O_o, now my head hurts. Anyways, everything is fine now so, YAY!

(The cat bus is from Totoro, one of Farrah's favorite animes that we watched together back in the day....)

Hurricane Ike...

One of my best friends in the world lives in Seabrook, Texas. Her family decided to honker down and try to pass through hurricane Ike. I really hope they make it! I am SO worried right now I may explode!!! It is a 2-5 degree hurricane with waves up to 20ft just in the first wave! It's supposed to hit around 1-2am and should be over around 6-ish. Farrah's mom said she'd call us when it's over, if they're still alive. THAT IS NOT AN OPTION!!!! I will not let them die! GRRRRR! I can't do anything! All I'm doing is sitting here worrying if my friend will be alright! I feel so useless... I'll update again when Farrah calls me. (Which she WILL do!)

Awesome Skater chick!

This is a friend of a friend in Texas trying to win some skate equipment or something. Anyways, I WISH I COULD DO THAT!!! Seriously! I need to let loose instead of holding back because I'll get dominated by the concrete! "Don't even think about it, just DOO IIIT!" hm, maybe a good idea after all... Oh, and please do rate the video if possible! Anyways, I will update again shortly with my 'Day in my life' post.

Bunches of homework with the predictable overcast, and magots???

You wouldn't believe how much homework Ishii-sensee (JA1) and Shimura-sensee (Ja21) decided to pour on me. I had 7 pages of translation from JA1 and I had the regular homework from JA21 (which is basically just answering questions and a writen summery of the text book.). So after I was done with all this stuff, Ishii-sensee decides to pour more homework on me! It's not as bad as last time though, I really enjoy learning all of the characters. Soon we'll just take quizzes in Harigana instead of this lame, Americanized romaji version!

Today I woke up and looked out the window to find: IT'S OVERCAST TODAY!!! I am really excited for Autumn/Fall! I really love that season, with all the colors and stuff! I had to dig out the little bottle of clove oil I made into a necklace. Mm, I love the smell of cloves. It reminds me of the whole feeling of Fall. It makes me want to bake snicker doodles because of the cinnamon (I like that smell too It's all warm and homey) (no, homey is not a real word).

I had the weirdest dream last night. I was dreaming that me and a few friends (I don't remember who) were sitting on the edge of a little creak and we had our feet dangling in. It was really nice out it must have been the beginning of Fall. Then there were these cute little fish that were swimming around and started spitting out maggots! Then the maggots came by our feet and started crawling up our legs... Then they embed themselves in the back of our knees, I was really freaking out. The others were just fine while I was getting more and more freaked out at the small strange colored holes in the back of my knee. They were really weird colors too like purple, pink, blue, green and yellow... But in the crayon colors not the bruise type of faded colors. Then my friends told me that this is some sort of treatment for some disease. I DON'T HAVE A DISEASE! Then I woke up. Such a weird dream...

Monday park day: The food-filled future

Karasuma hasn't been eating anything, the other day he told me he hadn't eaten anything since lunch, the day before and it was already five o' clock at night! So, I decided to make Karasuma lunch Monday and um.... I have no idea what to make! Mom and I are going the grocery store tomorrow, so I can get all the stuff I need.

Hm, maybe I should make curry or something? That would be really funny because then Jon (Karasuma) would actually be like the Karasuma he's named after in School Rumble. Maybe I should make a bunch of onigiri? Or stir fried noodles.... Or orange chicken. He loves oranges.

If anyone has any ideas please share. Till next time (or I figure out what to make Jonathan), Sayonara!

Skating Sunday!

I went roller blading Sunday! It was a lot of fun! My family and Cheese's family went to Holiday Skate in Orange. They have special deals on Sunday nights from 6:30 to 8:30pm. A family up to 5 can skate for $5.50 each including skates. The inline ones are extra and they don't have the beautiful stopper on the front that gives you a guaranteed face plant.

I fell a lot on my knees and elbow (no thanks to Cheese! XD). They still hurt a little bit but, what could help soar muscles than a shower? A shower with no hot water (We had hot water I just wanted to know what Jon was going on about)! It would've been a good idea if it wasn't already 10 'o-clock at night. I had fun thought and hope to go again in a week or two. Anyways till next post, Sayonara!

Batman: The Dark Knight

This is seriously the best movie that I've ever seen (besides the ORIGINAL Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) with Gene Wilder. That or maby Blazing Sattles). The Joker was my favorite character in the movie! He was funny, needed to take a shower and phyco! Can someone say TRIPPLE WAMMY? I did a few photo shopped beautys to commemorate how beautiful the Joker is:

I call this one "Everyone has a little Joker in them"

The Joker is actually Christine I may have went a little overboard... You might remember this picture from the Halloween Haunt post. I'm Batman, and look even the...Whatever that is, is smiling XD!

Have you seen this? "Chilling Batman movie no joking matter for children". I mean, If you're going to criticize something at leas make it something that actually matters! I saw Sin City when I was 9, American Pie (all 3) when I was 7, and a whole bunch of other R rated movies when I was younger! I mean, COME ON! This is ridiculous! Till next post/rant, Sayonara!

I'm back!

I'm back from my trip at sea! I'll have to do a 5 day in my life post when I get the pictures developed. But I'll tell you what I did now and pictureify it later.

July 7, Monday

Everyone took turnes raising people to the mast in a chair (it looked like a wooden swing). We mostley got associated with the crue and some of the campers. Japan intruduced me to a few of her friends from last year. Last year everyone gave each other country names:

Christine > Japan
Travis > Britin
Chris > Columbia
Rachel > Morroco
Ali > Africa
Hayley > Mexico
Bella > Cuba
Jeni > Finland
David > China
Me > Israel

I named Bella Cuba because she was rather small and fragile looking so that's like the total opposite of a Cuban! I was rather clever if I do say so myself! We got situated and figured out where we slept and unpacked. Afterwords we went to the Aquarium of the Pacific. Since I used to volunteer there (for about 1 year) you could tell that I didn't really want to go but, oh well. So as I was at the AOP I spotted a few people that I knew. Lily and Taylor. These are probably the last people I wanted to see at the Aquarium! I forgot that Monday is their usual shift! So I sneaked by hoping to be unnoticeable, mission accomplished! One thing has been knocked off my list!

July 8, Tuesday

We woke up and went to Shoreline Village and took showers just so we could have those few hours when we were clean! After that we were finally out at sea! It was a 4 hour boat ride to Avalon, Catalina. The ship was anchored and we took a small ferry to shore. Once we got there we had a scavenger hunt for stuff like: What time is the Sheriff Department open? and Where's City Hall?. So the girl team won that contest we didn't have to clean the heads today! There was 7 girls and 18 guys. The guys split into 2 teams to make it more even. After that was all done we headed back to the ship, were we had lunch. I'm not picky about food but, there was these sandwiches that were horrible! They consisted of processed cheese, ham and turkey. I had to eat at least some of it but, I could only bring myself to eat half. Christine was the same way. Probably because we're both Foodies. The rest of the day was pretty slow. We got to jump off the boat into the water! I stayed on the food sticky but some people went to 6 bars up (each bar was around a yard apart)! Christine and I took pictures of each other underwater with our Awesome Underwater Cameras (AUC for short)!

July 9, Wednesday

Today was a very bad day for me. I woke up and felt sick so I spent most of the day throwing up! Sounds fun doesn't it? While I was having a party in my bucket the rest of the campers went snorkeling and kayaking. I caught a second wind and decided to go kayaking! I had a lot of fun! Afterwords we went to a beach I forgot the name but, it was pretty nice (except for the sand fleas and bees)! We had another competition to see who cleans the heads today! The first thing was a kayak race around bouies! Japan and I dominated everyone so the girls won that leg! The other legs were: "Spinning around 15 times, then race around a paddle in the ground and try not to fall", "Skipping pebbles 35 times in the wake", "Covering a person up to the neck in sand and then building a sand castle on them"(Cuba forgot her swim suit so I was buried, I was the second smallest in the group), "Build a sea animal in the sand" (we built a Sea Cucumber), "Write 'American Pride' in the wake before it got erased by the waves", "Swim to the inflatable boat and back" (Christie owned this leg in the race! She used to swim in a team) and finally we had to tackle a crue member to the ground. That last part was made-up! So we won again! After that we played a little bit of dodge ball! I'm not good at it at all... One kid got Travis (Britain) in the face and chipped a tooth. It wasn't that bad though. So it went downhill from there one time I threw the ball and it bounced it got the Tooth Chipped in the groin!XD

July 1o, Thursday

Today we pulled anchor and sailed to Twin Harbors on the way we passed Bird Poop Rock (a small piece of land COVERED in bird poop)! We took another fairy to land. We helped bring food and balls and other supplies to shore for the day. This will be the longest I've been on land for awhile now... So soon after getting everything somewhat set up we went on a short hike. Our first stop Death Beach! We found a rotting dead seal! Just what I needed! So as we continue out hike we find people picking up skulls and such. We work our way to another beach and there's two trails we could take I decide to take the EXTREME one and drag Christine with me. So here we are almost hiking vertically up a hill... It was fun to go down though! We reach our destination, another beach! This one is a lot better though! There's a lot of rocks and such to climb on! I decided to just sit on one and take a break while Christine stayed up on the hill on a bench. The break was nice but, It didn't last long enough...As we were heading back (Christine and I took the low trail this time) one of the crue found Coyote Brush! It smells really good! Cowboys used to use it as something to cover up the delicious smell of being out in the sun and not taking a shower (showers were rather expensive back then). So Kurt rubbed it on Finland and everyone took turns sniffing her! It was funny but not as funny as my blue and green armpits (never wear Tye-Dye before washing it first)! I was missing my gymnastics class but, this was cool too. We head back the way we came and saw a Buffalo/Bison! It made Christine and I suddenly crave a Buffalo Burger! Like I said, we're Foodies! We went back through Death Beach and people were fishing for Leopard shark in a Leopard shark nursery. I only knew what they were fishing for because there already was a dead one by the fishers foot. After Kurt (one of the crue) made some comments about how that's wrong (but completely legal) we left. We got back to the camp site (whatever you'd call a place where you store all your junk for the day and has tables). There was Mustachieo (another one of the crue that everyone called Captain Crunch because of his awesome mustache) with some snorkeling gear. I didn't have a chance to go in Catalina so I went snorkeling here! Once Ali, Kurt, Hayley and I got into the wet sutes (this was the first time I've worn one!) we started realizing how funny we all looked (epically me) Ali looked like a model for some Billabong add Hayley looked like a serious diver and my suet was a little too big... I had a groin fold and a back Brest! It was pretty funny though! We finally got out into the water and Mustachieo decided he was going to wear just his speedo! I had a hard time not falling over and laughing until I passed out! It was hilarious! Just imagine a mustache in speedo shorts with tattoos and snorkeling gear!XD Once we got into the ocean we saw Garibaldi, Bat rays, Round rays, sea stars, lots and lots of kelp and Kurt found a HUDGE Sea Hair! He has a thing for them. It's a bit scary actually. The water was freezing and people took turns unzipping wet suites! It must have been 50 degrees (Fahrenheit)! We saw some kayakers, One of the people in the kayak thought I was a guy and bopped me on the head! It was funny though because this was before he was in the water and he said "Sorry if you're a girl I can't tell". Soon after that I flipped him over with a little help (I don't weigh enough to flip someone over by myself (I tried earlier)). Soon after that we headed back to shore, here's a tip for ya': It's easier if you take off your wet suet in the water. People were playing Jail break (a volleyball game). Instead of playing I took a shower Christine wanted to use flip flops but didn't pack any so I let her use mine. I jut put paper towels down on the floor of the shower when I went. Bella took a shower last. She went in the same one I did but, It wasn't working... Very odd because, I was just using it mabey 2 minutes before. So once we found a shower that worked she FINALLY got to take one! We forgot Christine's shorts in the bathroom when we left so she went back only to find that the people already cleaned! So she still hasn't found her shorts... We played Jailbreak for a little bit (I caught the ball once!!! Yay!). We did skits after that. The girls won! our skit mainly consists of Mustachieo and his speedo and Kurt marrying a Sea Hair. We had dinner and then watched a movie: Captain Rob. It was a funny movie! I cracked open a glow stick and it was as bright as one of those stadium lights!!! It didn't last that long though... Just about 6 hours I think.

July 11, Friday

Today we go home! At this point I was missing my cat Maneki verrrry much! Most of the day we were cleaning. I was polishing brass and copper. Mustachieo said that if you helped polish you could steer the ship. I didn't really care if I got to steer or not but, I'm one of those people that help out as much as possible. So I ended up polishing almost everything! I got to steer the ship after all I got to steer it into the harbor through the rocky gates and everything! Mustachieo and the Captain were telling me what to do, where to turn and everything! It was AWESOME! I was taught how to do a braid naught by Finland. So I was practicing that too. The Captain and crue wanted me to stay longer so I could finish polishing all the brass and copper. I know they were just joking but, I would've even if they weren't joking! We were finally in the dock and people were getting picked up. Christine got picked up first so I had more time to practice my naught. And play a little more Shithead, pronounced Shith-eed. Sometimes people call this game Anchores away too. I was picked up by my mom, brother and dog. Soon after I got home I took a shower and ate fo' real food! The end.

EVERYTHING!!!

I went to Arizona for vacation and to Tombstone and Sedona. Mom, Dad, Cam and I went to Slide Rock Park ($10 for vehicle (4 ppl)) It was SO AWESOME! And we went to old saloons and stuff.

Now back to the future....

I feal as though I need to do a Bazillion things! Even though my ASL classes ended (they ended on the 5Th). I'm writing a manga called Vampire Suki or Suki Vampire (I haven't decided yet..) and I need to work on that. I also want to find the old, for real me. I kinda' started acting like the people I hang around but, I want to be the old me again. So now I have to work on that too... I want to make more videos on PhenomenonU. My YouTube account. I need to start updating my blog like Christine does (like every day). Get stronger and make my bro's B-day cake. A weird hat type of thing. Aaand figure out what classes to take in the Fall. So far the only one I've decided is Japanese! AHHHHH! I feal so busy already! Oh, and I'm going to go ride my bike to go get the Sunday paper at the seven-eleven tomorrow! Well I kinda like riding my bike XD. I have a LOT of anime series I started waching too. Like: Twin Spica, School Rumble: Ni Genki, Rumbling Hearts...I could go on forever. My anime role model is Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket (Furuba)! I want to be like her (I kind of was but, I had the temper of Kyo ^-^). I want to be as kind as Honda-Chan but, as strong as Sohma-Kun....But, I have fangs too.. (no literally my eye teeth are fangs, naturally). I need to wake-up earlier.

July trip

In July I'm going on this AWESOME ship trip! I am soooo pumped! It kinda helps that I'm going with a friend. Any ways the ship's a old restored Schooner and there's a lot of stuff to do! Like, kayaking, volleyball, swimming, and a whole bunch of other stuff! I AM SO PUMPED! Okay, enough bragging... It's just I've never been to a camp before. Not Girl Scouts or a Summer Camp either. That's probably why I'm so pumped it's a whole new experience! And I'll be out at see for 5 days!

1st Beach Day 2008!

Friday was the first beach day of 08', it was a lot of fun ( I wish my all of my friends could have came). I was really pumped the day before I was listening to the Beach Boys the whole time! the Beach Boys are awsome!XD

The water was REALLY cold. It must have been 50 degrees. I seriously need to learn how to duck dive. I have the habbit to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time when a wave comes rolling allong. My friend Christine is about 4 inches taller than me just enough so that she doesn't get knocked down as easy. It would be really awsome if I could grow a few inches this comeing summer too.

Another beautiful thing was that I put on a lot of sunblock and still manadged to get burnt pretty good! I thoght I'd just tan (I usually get pretty tan in the Summer). Good thing my mom has an Aloe Veara plant in the back yard. It keeps growing and growing
!

Band day

I was at DL (Disney land) and everyone in the Teens group dressed up like pro kids from a rock band. We couldn't decide what to name the band I thought the name 'Racially Confused' was pretty awesome but, 'The Cancerous Lumps' is clever too... So we didn't ever name the band. I played the tambourine and Christine was playing the finger symbols. Nick was playing a maraca I think. And Russell was the lead singer (oh dear) it was pretty bad over all but, we looked like we came straight from a rock concert. It was a lot of fun.

Disney Land Band

Yes! We HXC kids are going to play as a band at Disneyland (Unnoficaly of course...)! I'll write another entry then. So i'm playing the Tamborene (I could sing too but, somebody else is)...My friend is playing the Finger Symbols... And, I really don't know what else anybody is playing.. I should write a song... I haven't wrote a song in soo long. See ya' on the Flip Side!

Disneyland

I miss Disneyland my friends and I used to go all the time... But, I got a pass again! So now I can go (if it isn't a block out day)! WOO! I kinda miss when California Screamin' and Space Mountain where ROCKIN' but, unfortuanatally that ended... But Jack is back! Halloween Haunt jets Jacked around Christmastime, If you've ever wached The Nightmare Before Christmas you know why but, if you haven't... Jack Skellington (the Pumpkin King) "Grows so tired of the same old thing". You'd just have to see it I don't want to spoil it ^_^.

One of my friends and I used to ride Thunder Mountain ALL the time but, now we can't (my friend moved to Texas). Anyways...That was 'our' ride, I guess it still kinda' is. I need to get a ride to Texas one of these days...

Charity shoot

Shooting is for pro kids only example below...




I don't have that much to say about this pic. Besides it's disturbing and his lipstick doesn't mach his outfit. Zombie slaying gun HARDCORE! XD...Good times

Halloween Dance

Disturbing? HECK YES! That's "Misty" from Pokémon. And the person with an R on his shirt is "James" from Team Rocket! And if you have no clue what Pokémon is there's something wrong with you I mean COME ON it's on TV all the time! Ha "James" dyed his hair with Kool-Aid. I probably only worked because his hair was really light blonde. The person at the car is not dressed up at all...But, who can tell unless they know him.

And this is the Jester! She SO should've worn that to Halloween Haunt. Her coller has BELLS! Too bad one fell off...A lot of things went missing that dace, "Jesse's" earring, one of the bracelets I was waring and the Jester's bell (Actually I think she found it again..). And the reason I don't have a picture of me is because Blogger wouldn't download it, LAME.


Team Rocket! Jesse! "Surrender now or prepare to fight Meoth that's rite!". "Jesse" is the person in front. Ash Kechem (as in Gotta' Kechem' all HAHAH).Is on the right and "Meoth" is on the left..Yeah, That was a pro dance... XD HARDCORE!

Halloween Haunt AND pants!

Gee where do I start? WITH...

THE PANTS

There was this idea of making Planet Unicorn pants (my friend and I love the show sooo...That's how the idea started). I went to Joann Fabrics' craft store and bought some of that iron-on paper stuff that you can print pictures on....It doesn't transfer color very well, at all (Thank goodness for Sharpies, one of the bestest inventions in the world!). So that's what i ended up wearing to Halloween Haunt (with the frilliest shirt I had aka red and pink hearts :p). "Give it up for: Feathers ohh Cadalac and Tom Cruse"...And Seacorn, Flower, Rock, Frog and Tyra Banks Shannon the 8 year old gay boy who wished the unicorns into existence.

THE HAUNT

Yup, the Haunt was full of 'Haw-T Shaw-T Naw-T Bod-T' monsters....Like the Zombie Pirate that I was asking "Let me borrow that top" (okay that wasn't' really asking..). So he decided to model it Tyra Banks' style. So I'm like "You should be a model". Good times.... We actually didn't get a picture of the pirate 'creature', 'monster' whatever. The mazes were the scariest (for me at least). The most disturbing maze I went in would probably be....The Asylum, Gory beyond belief. I'm glad we didn't come across the doll maze because, my Grahm has a doll that looked like the ones from the advertisement. Old 50's-ish dolls creep me out...Unlike the clowns they were REALLY LAME so was Clown Collage that was the lamest maze ever. Lore of the Vampire wasn't scary but, it was still pretty cool. There was a zombie thing that looked like it could have been related to my dad, Prospector Pepperspray. YEEHAW!