

March 17: Hey, the sun is shining! Spring is almost here, the cherry blossoms should be opening there pedals soon. I'm excited! I'm slowly starting to feel better...well better than I was, I still get random coughing attacks, and my nose is still bleeding whenever I blow it. Ewww. I'm back to my busy schedule. Saturday I had my first day back to those classes, and it was great to see the kids again. It was so sweet they all saw me and came up and gave me big hugs. Awwwwww. I was supposed to go to a party Saturday night, but due to cold, I kept at home and rested for next day. Sunday I woke up early to go down to Yokohama to meet Marie and Araki at the station. Together we both went to the studio for dance rehearsal. It was my first time doing dance in like 3 weeks, I didn't know what to be prepared for with my body condition. KENTO is amazing, I just have to say that he is AMAZING! I'm so glad to be able to dance under him, someone who is quiet famous in the dance world. He places 3rd is all Japan Dance competition. I'm lucky to be able to get to know him and the other dances, so we are like a big family. And I like how he includes everyone, when he came in the studio he was "HELLO EVERYONE!" like in the Simpsons, Abu? And after wards he was saying I should teach everyone English here. haha ^^ But in the group there are around 17 or 18 members, and alot are so young. There are some cute boys but got to keep telling myself...NO! HIGH SCHOOL BOY! DAME! lol I had missed so much dance, so I had a lot to catch up with, so no breaks for me, when KENTO was working with other groups, I was busy learning parts I missed. The lesson went on for 3 and a half hours, but Kento was chatting afterwards and it was 4 by the time we left. Next practice is 4 hours on Friday. After practice it was already getting late, so I went home, and took a nice long shower. Well before that, I took a nice nap, beacause if I didn't I would have passed out on the floor from my spinning head O.o;
I'm back again, and it's time to catch up with my blog! This was written March 13th ^^;;
Hey everyone, I know I have been not posting for a while. It has just been crazy since I went back in Canada. It has been non-stop lately. From Animaritime and catching a massive case of Con-silitis at Con time and getting back home and getting ready to move, it's been a fun few weeks XD But once I have time to sit down, I will update with all pictures and more.
I was back home in Canada for two weeks, and it was great to see family and friends again, wish I had more time to hang out with you guys!
The first 3 or so days I was Jet lag, getting up at 3am and going to be at 5pm. I was always tired at night. But then it was Con time and no time for sleep, and I caught a huge cold. It's still showing its head now too. The flight home was awful for my sinuses since they were going to explode from the air pressure. My ears are still plugged now.
Today I'm back to work, and its going to be great to see all the kids again, but not fun to work with a cold. Hope it goes well. ^^;; I need to print off pictures to show everyone for next weeks class, since I had no time yesterday. Oh well ^=^
Hey everyone! I'm back home and safe, and been busy so had no time to post. I arrived at 1am two nights ago. What a flight. It took forever, but at least it was decent enough. Had to change in Vancouver and Toronto and finally home in Halifax. But we had a lot of turbulence. Which sucked for my stomach, but it stayed calm for most of the flight. My first stop when I got in Canada was Timmy's! I feel weird, in an all English environment now. It's hard to get used to again, I find myself catching myself before saying "arigatou" and speaking random Japanese words around my family and friends. I keep pointing at my nose, and I'm being way too darn polite in a non-polite society. Canadians...we are friendly, but not polite. There is a big difference. ^_^; 



おつばんわ~
Wah just got home from a long day of work and dance.
Today I decided to go to the acrobatic/breakin' class.
Well, I am still まだまだだね~
XD
I have never felt so unable to do something...well not the hardest thing I've done or will do, but it was difficult. I don't have the muscles for lifting myself off on my right hand and kicking my legs up over my head, and spinning around on my hands...but I feel like I want to try and see if I can really do it. So I think I'll keep going to the class. Today I even got to do a front flip and back flip. First time I did a back flip, though I kinda landed my knee on my wrist. Which is now all nicely bandage. I can do daily items with my hand, but no heavy pressure. So I guess I sprained it...which is better than breaking it, since I have no medical yet. Note to self, do that next Monday. And today's lockin' class, Nabe was out so we had a sub, and OMG hard and fast. It was sooo difficult to do, after having a hour half class of breaking and spinning, and handstands and floor work. By the end of the class I was sweating bullets (the aircon wasn't even on!!!) and so tired. Came home, got a shower, ate English muffins, beacuse a sandwich and cereal is not enough food for a day ^^ and they are going to expire tomorrow lol
Today I also bought some new shoes. I'm doomed :P and some new contacts. I got the soft contacts and a 30 day supply. I tried them on today and they feel a lot better than my 4 year old contacts. My eyes aren't even that dry as they usually get from my contacts.
Last weekend we had Eda's Bday party. So a group of us (7ppl), at the house had home cooked food and cake, while drinking and just relaxing. It was fun!
One more day till the weekend. Gosh I can't wait. This weekend will hold many fun things. I'm excited Laura is visiting tomorrow and Sunday. It's been way too long! :D Work is a pain, they want to add more classes. Hellll no! If they add anymore classes, I will probably start looking for another job :/
But I realized I never posted about Christmas. Well Christmas I spent the morning relaxing in my bed, woke up to open all my presents! I loved my gifts everyone. Thanks so much to the candy and gifts I received from my friends :D I got ready and went to Tenimyu. I love 4th cast generation. I wish they didn't have to leave :/ But I will keep supporting them :)
During Christmas holiday, I moved, and now am basically all moved in. Though my stuff barely all fits, I got it all in. Rose came to visit for a few days, and we went and did the touristy thing.
Work started on Tuesday and I started back with dance on Monday. So it's been a busy week, what with work, dance, stages, part time jobs and so much more. I was lucky enough to be able to relax tonight and watch movies with Jamie. While drinking Sakura liquor, chocolate liquor and milk. Yummy ^___^
So the other day, I met up with Adele, Hannah and Liz in Shimbashi. We decided we all needed a nice day of relaxation at a Ooedo onsen. While waiting in Shimbashi, I tried this new Apple Pie Latte. I don't know why, but I got the ice version and not the hot. Not a good idea with the weather ^^ along the way I got a free small cup of coffee from Starbucks which was too bitter, but luckily Liz had a packet of sugar in her purse. But as we made our way to the twirly bird rail with a dot. It's a rail that travels over the bay and goes along Rainbow bridge. It was a fun ride. Finally we arrived at the station and walked down to the spa and got a fancy wrist band where you can charge all your items to it while you were in the onsen. I picked out this navy blue yukata, though I do like the red one, will have to try that one next.
So we got in, changed into our Yukata's and spent the rest of the day getting naked and going into the onsen, getting my feet eaten by fish. This was amusing, I never had my feet feeling so smooth before. I couldn't stop laughing and sometimes they got a good chuck of my foot and scared me. Hannah had a rough time keeping her feet in the pool ^__^ We ate dinner, where I had ramen and the other girls had some weird stamina dinner and Adele had soggy tempura. We would go to the relaxation room, which was a room where you could eat and/or lay down and take a nap. We also got a massage which was not bad, but I'll stick to the place I go to in Shibuya. ^__^
But it was a great day of relaxation. Spent most of my day naked and in water. 気持ちいい~
Wow, this is a bit late, but I'm finally posting about it. A few weeks ago Jamie and I decided to head over to Namja town. You're probably wondering what the heck is Namja town. Namja town is located in Sunshine City building in Ikebukuro. It is a place with themed dining, including Gyoza Stadium, Ice Cream City and more. As well as Carnival style games, a haunted house and many more fun things you can do. 
Spent my day running around and on trains and going to the airport since Rose left her passport behind :p
The at night a bunch of us went out for dinner and ate Chinese food, and later cleaned up the living room and sat down and watched a movie. I will write my resolutions tomorrow ^__^
I just want to tell everyone, thank you for being there for me during 2008 and I hope that I can become closer with everyone. I hope I can get to know you more. Who knows what is to happen in 2009 but I'm looking for ward to it I guess
So I hope everyone has a great and safe new years, hope your 2008 was great, and if not so great, at least some good memories that you can look back on. This year I met a lot of great people, made a lot of new friends, that I know, I will be friends with forever. I would never change that at all.
A year in which you cherish The past year’s memories, And live your life each new day Full of bright expectancies.
I wish for you a holiday With happiness galore; And when it’s done, I wish you Happy New Year, and many more.
November 24th, 2008: So the other week I went and signed up in an agency, I never expected to hear from them again. ^^;; I know I have 'high' expectations don't I? -_-; But I thought it was worth a try =) So after I signed up with the agency I went and continued my life like usual. Dance, work and sometimes sleep ^^; Then I got a phone call last week asking if I could be an extra in a movie shoot. I of course jumped at it and said yes! Who knows when I'll have this opportunity again to try this. Today was the shoot, so I had to wake up at 4am to get ready and catch my train to go Shibuya. We had to be there at 545 to get on the bus and leave at 6am. I arrived early since I didn't really know where we were supposed to meet and approached a few lonely looking foreigners and we found we were all going to the same place.
We were finally all on the bus, there was at the most 20 people. All the girls were European, well one was from Taiwan, but I was the only North American. O.o; There were tons of guys from everywhere, another Canadian who I found later is from the same Province! Small world!
The first thing they did was give us breakfast, a bottle of warm green tea and a bento. Inside the bento were two onigiri's and an egg and gyoza. Welcome to Japanese thinking of breakfast. (laugh) I ate one of the onigiri, though it was a bit salty. The other one was Fish Roe, so I didn't eat it. Yuck! A little after 6 we were on the road. I never realized how close Disney Land and Odaiba is by car! I need a car badly. That will be added to my list to do this winter...get my license. I finally got to go on Rainbow bridge. I kinda crashed on the bus on the way up, snoozing in and out. We had a pit stop and finally arrived at our hotel/changing area at 845am in Chiba. We had to go in and change into our beach wear. I decided to wear jean shorts and a tank top with my bathing suit underneath it.
We jumped back on the bus and it took us to this amazing beach down the street. I really want to go back there in the summer. The weather was amazing though! The water was warmer than the water gets back in my hometown...that was so surprising, it's snowing back home and here I'm playing in the water at the beach here in Japan.
The movie we were extras for is called Dead Heat Virgin Road It stars Ueno Juri who was Nodame in Nodame cantabile. I was in the group were we were playing volleyball. We did that for almost 2 hours, and boy was I tired. At the end myself and Alec, had to walk past the camera pretending to chat to each other. It was such an amazing experience!
Lots of fun!!!
I got to see Ueno Juri, she is such a sweet person! So cute. I loved her suitcase in the scene, big blue suitcase with big yellow stars on it ^__^ I want like it.
Finally we were finished, and good thing, it was getting windy and the umbrella's kept flying away. I wanted to stay longer, but it was time to go. We hopped back on the bus and went to another shooting spot...turns out they didn't need us so we got to leave. Got back to the hotel/changing area and got back into real cloths. It was so funny how out of all the people it was the guys who wanted to shower and not the girls...though it would have been nice since playing volleyball made sand fall in my hair and made it feel gross.
The trip ride was quick, we got a huge bento lunch and tea again. This time it had tons of food. Fish, meat, rice etc... (^-^)b Slept on and off throughout the bus ride and now home!!
This was my first time doing this kind of thing, and I really had a great time.
I would defiantly do it again! So everyone check out Dead Heat Virgin Road alright?!!
We had a beautiful day. Well the morning was nice ![]()
The boys playing around
I liked how this one turned out ^_^
It had started to get windy.
Group Shot...well half a group shot XD
Our hotel/changing area
Lunch Bento

So the other weekend I went over to my Japanese teacher's place. I stayed over at her place for a few days. But what I didn't expect was to be taken to her place, which is a huge house with two cards and all the cares of home...they even had heater flooring! But I got to meet the family, and all the animals. Her parents own the largest pet hospital in Japan :D so they had tons of dogs at their house. They were alllll so cute. I want one. I may be able to get one cheaper from them, but I don't think I will get one. I'll just have Niou for now. But I had a home cooked meal. Summers mom made so much food, I was stuffed! But it was so tasty, and it's been soooo long since I had a home cooked meal that I ate it all and more ^^;; After dinner we sat and watched tv then went back to Summer's place, which is huge! It's a house, but she uses the bottom to teach classes in and lives up stairs. I want it. It was so massive. A huge living room with double balcony. A large kitchen, laundry room, shower room, 2 washrooms, 3 bedrooms and tons of storage room. I would live with her, if only it wasn't so far from home :/ We spent the night watching Friends and drinking. What a great night, I really don't know what we talked about, we drank a little too much. Summer fell asleep on the floor so I had to wake her up, and I feel asleep half on the bed but was kicked off to my room and crashed till the morning. 

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I find my seat in the small concert hall and sit in anticipation as they start announcing that the show would begin in 20 minutes. Members of the band enter the stage and begin their warm-up as the guitarist has a smoke machine in his hands and decorates the air with heart shape smoke, earning a burst of laughter and applause from the audience.
Altar Boyz is a NY Broadway musical that has been translated into Japanese. It’s a story of five guys, four Catholics and one Jewish who sends out gods message and faith by singing and dancing to make their audience happy.
I have been unfortunate to never have been able to see Altar Boyz performed in an English stage production, but the Japanese one blew me away. I was not expecting the breath taking dancing, comedic humour; they did a wonderful job translating and the way the actors really made you immersed in the stage.
I left the hall wanting more and such, I bought myself one more ticket and it could have been more if I didn’t have bills to pay.
Since Altar Boyz has been raising faith and spirits all over America, I hope this won’t be the first and last time these holy boyz will grace us on stage in Tokyo.
Check out the website here.
November 11th, 2008 : Hey Everyone!
I missed you all! :D I'm having a hard time catching up with posts. Everyday I have been soooo busy. And I'm not finished yet. But it's fun since I get to hang out with so many friends and do so much stuff! ^___^
Last weekend I met up with friends everyday. Well with work on Saturday my weekends are Sundays and Mondays. It's great to just relax with friends and chat. I helps with stress! ^^
Lately I've been dressing up, well a girlish kind of style ^^;; I like my hiphop/boyish style though! I can actually use make-up more now. Last year my face was so horrible I couldn't use it. Now I just have to been careful and clean my face well at night and see how it goes. But the other night I went clubbing and on the way home I was stopped by a pretty host boy who followed me down the street trying to get me to go to his club. XDDDD

Happy Halloween!!! ^^; it's a bit late, but I said it. ♪♪♪
On Friday I had a small Halloween party at my place and it was great! \(^O^)/
Friends I haven't seen in a while came and I was happy to see everyone again. :D
We played lots of games, lots of Halloween games and a few party games. It was all new to my Japanese and Taiwanese friends. ☆☆☆☆