the past couple of days
i had a pretty chilled weekend, though somehow managed to get absolutely no sleep regardless. saturday i went kickboxing and have established that i've really got to work on my biceps. (haha yes i'm serious). my triceps are decent and thus my punches are ok...it's just holding the pads for other (much stronger) people that i'm having a hard time with! my hands and arms shake for hours after the class because of being overworked. a good thing i suppose.
saturday afternoon laura came from tokyo and we spent an hour or two at starbucks catching up. crazy that it has been like a month since i'd seen her!
saturday evening we went back to indus for dinner. the usual oishikatta.
sunday laura, kat, casanova and i took a drive up north of murakami, near asahi village to a waterfall up in the mountains. it was a beautiful day, bright sunshine and crisp air. we took my 4x4 skateboard (minicar) and climbed the steep, muddy, pothole-filled narrow dirt path up into the mountains. we parked at the top and negotiated our way up and down a treacherous trail...even over a rotting life-risking suspension bridge. we ran from bears and mean monkeys, killer bees and giant spiders. after hours and hours of hiking with absolutely no water whatsoever, we made it to the infamous waterfall...and were each granted one wish. the last few sentences may have been exaggerated a bit. but it was an adventure!!!
sunday night lins came over and we put away a bottle of shochu between us. caught up and watched napoleon dynamite.
had sho yesterday and actually taught some genki 6-graders. they had me sing the ABC song with them and they even cooperated. well get you gloria. during one of my free periods i played "basketball" with one of the 2-nensei special needs kids. cho adorable.
in other news, some of the guys that we met in papua new guinea are in japan for two weeks doing drumming and dancing performances all over tokyo and niigata. a couple of them had been outside of PNG before...and even to japan. but there were at least a couple of them who hadn't. unimaginable. what their reaction to the bright lights and cramped of tokyo must have been. it was incredibly nostalgic watching their performance last night (we went to nagaoka) and actually quite emotional. you spend so much time immediately after you get back thinking about PNG. the people, their culture, how absolutely incredible of a place it is...the Last Untouched Place on earth... and then you spend so much time thinking about it that after a while you just stop thinking. so it was nice to be reminding again of how amazing that two weeks of my life actually were.
saturday afternoon laura came from tokyo and we spent an hour or two at starbucks catching up. crazy that it has been like a month since i'd seen her!
saturday evening we went back to indus for dinner. the usual oishikatta.
sunday laura, kat, casanova and i took a drive up north of murakami, near asahi village to a waterfall up in the mountains. it was a beautiful day, bright sunshine and crisp air. we took my 4x4 skateboard (minicar) and climbed the steep, muddy, pothole-filled narrow dirt path up into the mountains. we parked at the top and negotiated our way up and down a treacherous trail...even over a rotting life-risking suspension bridge. we ran from bears and mean monkeys, killer bees and giant spiders. after hours and hours of hiking with absolutely no water whatsoever, we made it to the infamous waterfall...and were each granted one wish. the last few sentences may have been exaggerated a bit. but it was an adventure!!!
sunday night lins came over and we put away a bottle of shochu between us. caught up and watched napoleon dynamite.
had sho yesterday and actually taught some genki 6-graders. they had me sing the ABC song with them and they even cooperated. well get you gloria. during one of my free periods i played "basketball" with one of the 2-nensei special needs kids. cho adorable.
in other news, some of the guys that we met in papua new guinea are in japan for two weeks doing drumming and dancing performances all over tokyo and niigata. a couple of them had been outside of PNG before...and even to japan. but there were at least a couple of them who hadn't. unimaginable. what their reaction to the bright lights and cramped of tokyo must have been. it was incredibly nostalgic watching their performance last night (we went to nagaoka) and actually quite emotional. you spend so much time immediately after you get back thinking about PNG. the people, their culture, how absolutely incredible of a place it is...the Last Untouched Place on earth... and then you spend so much time thinking about it that after a while you just stop thinking. so it was nice to be reminding again of how amazing that two weeks of my life actually were.
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