Life Lately

Hello Everyone! Since I have time and I’m bored at school, time now for another bilingual blog!

皆さん、こんにちは！時間があるし、用事がないし、今回は英語と日本語のブログを書きます！

I need to update more often but I guess I’ve been busy. It’s now almost halfway through February, and I’m only a month and a half from going home probably.

ブログをもっとアップしなければならないんですが、最近忙しいんです。２月上旬って言うことは、未だ決めてないけど帰国まで後1ヵ月半かもしれません。

Last weekend I went to Gifu with my girlfriend. It was a nice trip, and my first time to see snow like that in years. Over one meter of snow was on the ground and more was falling. It was supposed to take 5 hours to get there but took six because of the heavy snow. Here are some pictures:

先週の週末彼女と岐阜県の高山と飛騨に行きました。旅行はすごくよかった、それにあんなに雪をみるのは久しぶりでした。一メートルも積もって、まだ降っていました。大阪から高山までは5時間つけるはずでしたが激しい雪が降っていたので6時間かかりました。写真を是非見てください：



Tomorrow (Thursday) is a national holiday, foundation day. I think tonight I’m going to celebrate my friend’s birthday coming up. It should be fun. This weekend I really want to play Frisbee since it has been a while.

明日は建国記念日なので休みです。もうすぐ友達の誕生日が来るなので、今夜友達と遊ぶつもりです。楽しみます。しばらくフリスビーをしていないので今週の週末したいです！

In late March/early April I plan on visiting my friends in Tochigi. Last time I saw them was when I left Tochigi in August last year. I was sad to leave, I came to like Sano. Some of them went back to America but most of them are still there.

３月下旬もしくは４月上旬栃木の友達を訪ねるつもりです。前回会ったのは去年の8月に佐野を去る時でした。去るのは悲しくて、そして佐野を好きになりました。

I like Osaka, but I need to get more involved here.
大阪が好きですけど、もっとスポーツとか参加しなければならない。

Happy New Years!

I can’t believe it’s already 2010! I brought the New Year in Nara, a historically rich city to the east of Osaka. Nara at one point in time was the capital of Japan. There are a lot of religious artifacts and such there, such as the worlds largest wooden Buddha.

もう2010年っか、ちょっと信じられないなぁ。大阪の東にある奈良で新年迎えました。 昔奈良は日本の首都だった。奈良に修道院とか多い。世界中最大の大仏があるし、文化遺産いっぱいある。

Christmas was nice, but quite humbling. I had a quiet Christmas, got a gift from my girlfriend and from my grandparents in the mail.

クリスマスはいい感じだってけど、大変謙遜した。静かなクリスマスだった、彼女と祖父祖母からプレゼント呉れました。

After Christmas my friend Yuhki came from Tochigi (where I used to live) to stay for a couple days. And then a day or two after Yuhki arrived Halston came. It had been over a year since I had seen Halston. Having them both here was awesome. It’s a bit strange being around friends who I met in completely different situations half way across the world, but at the same time it’s really cool. They got along great.

The first day or two we spent just relaxing and doing a little sight seeing in the city. For actual new years we went to Nara. It was just Yuhki, Asuka, Halston, and me.

Over his whole visit we saw a lot. We saw some things that I’d seen before and wanted him to see, and things that neither of us had seen.

I think my favorite was sanjyusan gendo hall in Kyoto.
As for new years resolutions I don’t have that many. I think I’m living a good life, there isn’t much I want to change about it. They aren’t really resolution, more just things I’d like to do more of. For example I would like to get better at speaking Japanese. I think my reading and understanding have increased greatly, there’s no doubt, however my speaking hasn’t really gotten that much better in my opinion. So I guess I just have to practice more? Other than that I’d like to find more interests/hobbies. I have quite a few, maybe instead of finding new ones I should more strongly pursue current ones, I

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from Japan. Next year I'll be celebrating with family and friends in America. Make sure you tell the people important to you today that you love them. It's one of those things you don't realize how important it is until you don't have it.

December

Yo!

December has come and its more than half way over now. Christmas is coming up soon! As well as New Years. This holiday season I'll be in Japan for the 2nd time around. Next one I'm definitely going to be home.

My friend/old roommate is coming to Japan on the 29th, I'm super excited. Also my friend from Tochigi is coming for New Years. Most likely I'll celebrate with both of them in Nara.

Soon I'm going to buy a new camera. More pics and videos will happen after that. I'm going to start my search tomorrow at Bic Camera. Come home and maybe look online too. I want to get a point and shoot, not an SLR/big one I need a case for. Just something that's quality and I can put in my pocket.

I'm going to go to the neighboring prefecture on the 23rd. Should be fun, little adventure.