not much news i'm afraid...

so the weekends are drifting into the weekdays and the weekdays are drifting into the weekends and suddenly it's...almost the end of september. i think that i always felt as though my third year would pass by slowly. but now it's almost as though i'm looking it as only a matter of months left. shinjirarenai.
clap your hands say yeah are coming to tokyo and we're thinking about grabbing some tickets. the more the merrier so if anyone's interested...however, they will be performing on a wednesday, so nenkyu is required.
i posted some of the yosakoi photos from the weekend festival in the city. you can check them out here.
i like this linking thing. hehe.
i'm starting a ceramics class tonight taught by Sakazume Katsuyuki. he's apparently quite a world famous potter and lived in NY for about ten years teaching his techniques. thanks to anna for hooking me up.
last night i taught my weekly eikaiwa class. after, five of the older ladies invited me to one of their houses for some tea. one of the women is a farmer and lives in an (apparent) huge, old, traditional japanese style farmhouse. she was saying that it even has one of those bamboo-coal burning fireplaces in the middle, where you can cook nabe pots. she said next time she will invite us all over for a nabe pot dinner.
monday it went up to 30 degrees and we spent the day at the beach. but it's slowly getting colder, and it's hard to believe that in a matter of weeks niigata will look like this.
ok, that's enough hyperlinking for one day. 16 more minutes...