yamaonna

guess who actually uploaded a few photos!!!! not that you will see many just yet, but its a start…..

today i had a very relaxing day – half spent in aircon!!!!  yokatta!!!  It is soooo very hot here.  It kinda went from around 15, 20 degrees up to 30 and humid in a few days.  Im not coping very well with the heat (never had I think) and I keep getting headaches, despite upping my water intake.  *sighs*  i hate the heat.  and I dont care if you dont like my complaining. just deal with it, cause its how I deal with the heat.  grrrr

in the afternoon i went to Zuihoden, the tomb for Masamune Date (pretty much the guy who established the city).  It was very intresting, in that the architecture style was momoyama, so the buildings were very ornate.  of course they wernt the originals  (they never are in japan), but rebuilt in the 70’s/80’s after burning down in WW2.

i love the Date family crest!  Its in the first picture on the doors.  Its very complicated for a samurai family crest, probably the most fancy I’ve ever seen actually…  I’m trying to find a picture…..  oh, heres some history on Masamune – http://members.tripod.com/MiyagiAJET/new_page_6.htm   banana man, hehehe…. ugh, thats a bad drawing….  at least its not mine

what else…..  um, yesterday was my final stint at the primary school.  we sung heads shoulders knees and toes, and if your happy and you know it.  both in english.  all the kids wanted to shake my hand….  and i was called ‘yummy’ by and 11 year old kid, which was quite, um, distressing??  afterwards my teacher took me and 2 other students to a place called hiko ichi, where they serve the yummiest japanese sweets.  I had the anmitsu with icecream and mochi!!!! i love that stuff!  and apparently they are taking me to yamagata next wednesday to eat soba and sakuranbo (cherries)…..  that really blew me away….  its like the next prefecture over!!!  wow!

i got a book in the mail today,  the last that I will be buying now that money is pretty tight.  well, I will be buying one more but i have a voucher for that.  i just cant decide if i should buy basic kanji book 2, or a dictionary of basic japanese grammar…  decisions……

oh, and at my local video store, you can also rent out cds…..  how dumb is that???  like ppl arnt going to copy them…….