Nihongo-a-Go-Go :: Aimee's Journal

20 questions

I was bored. And I found this 20 questions meme, via JoAnn. But I don't feel like doing it in photographs... so I did it in doodles! As you can see from the pictures of me, I desperately need a haircut.

Who am I?

I'm Aimee!

Who knows me best?

Mandchu!

How old am I?

The most important thing in my life is...

Something I always carry...

Something I always do...

I'm happiest when...

(I love fixing things that are hurt or broken.)

On Monday morning, you can find me....

...At my language exchange, absorbing Japanese like a brick absorbs water.

I'm really bad at...

Dancing.

My eyes are...

(For those who aren't familiar with Masterpiece...)

My favorite material possessions...

My dolls. :)

To relax, I like to...

Sculpt, mod, or paint.

The town I live in is...

My worst habit...

(Mandy hates when I say that.)

My guilty pleasure...

Nintendogs continues to teach me new kanji. I might actually rebuy the game in English when I get home.

When I look at someone, the first thing I see is...

Whatever immediately suggests itself. I'd like to say I always see someone's eyes or posture first, but really... if someone walks like a weirdo, I notice that. If someone has a mohawk, I notice that. If someone has stunning eyes, I notice that.

I think trees are beautiful.

I could lay under a tree and just stare up at the leaves for hours.

One thing I can live without.

I hate my job. 6 more weeks.

Something people don't know about me...

People think I'm a packrat, but really... I see everything as being special. I want to find a way to use everything, or I just want to remember. I have things from all of my friends to remember things about them or pieces of my life.

My life is...

all about the details. It's all of the little things that make me happy. :)

Ekisupo.

We went to the Aichi Expo today. Long day, lots of walking! It was interesting, though a bit disappointing. I didn't go in with hugely high hopes - all of my students praise it up and down, but all of the Westerners I'd talked to weren't very impressed. I wasn't able to see any of the corporate pavillions, which I'd expected. But I had expected to be able to see The Earth Tower (a huge, 64 foot high Kaleidoscope), but the line was gignormous and all of the tickets to see it for the day had been given out before we even arrived. There were some individual country Pavillions that we couldn't go to because the lines were just too long.

We did go to a bunch of individual country Pavillions, though. We went to Bulgaria, Turkey, Tunisia, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Ireland, Ukraine, Cuba, USA, Argentina, the Andean Amazons, and Central America. We were there about 7 or 8 hours, I think? It's a lot of walking.

I think the "coolest" Pavillion was the UK Pavillion. They had these interactive exhibits that were pretty fun. I took some short videos of some of them.

The friendliest Pavillion was the Tunisian Pavillion. They were really nice. The guys there were so excited to see Westerners (99% of the Expo crowd is Japanese). They gave us little vases with our names on them in arabic... Usually they cost money, but they said they were a "cadeau" (gift). They spoke french and were pretty cool. Unfortunately, my little vase got crushed over the course of the way. And the picture of me and the vase-maker didn't come out. Which is too bad, because when Mandy was taking the picture, he said "I speak English only for you." :)

The American Pavillion was pretty cool, even if it was a bit corny.

Anyway, go look at my pictures!
http://www.another2am.com/japanphotos/thumbnails.php?album=25

And for famiglia and friends, you can see my little videos I took on my camera of different things there. There's some livemusic and dancing fromt he Irish Pavillions, there's a cool giant clock (that we happened to see at noon when it was performing... unfortunately I had a moment of stupid and turned the camera sideways to take the video the long way, forgetting it doesn't do that. Duh), and then some videos of different exhibits at the UK pavillion. There's one where you move the flower and it makes little light bees go after it... and then another where you flip the pages of a virtual book, another where you use this cool wind-sensitive cloth.... and one more wher yeou make a virtual geckoman climb.

They're in this folder.
http://www.another2am.com/japan/bideo/
It's passworded because, well, I don't really want to share with people I don't know. The username is expo and the password is the color of my old van.

Cel Phone Pics...

I alwways forget to dump the photos on my cell phone onto my computer.

First... last week Mandy and I went to Otsu Kaya last week. The Aichi Expo characters, Morizo and Kiccoro, were there to meet children.

Kiccoro was very popular and got lots of love.

....but Morizo mostly got beat on by this little girl.

This week I had to buy toilet paper. The sale brand this week was....

Pity I bought some at another shop, huh? *musical sting* I'm so punny. :)

I always mean to take a picture of this with my real camera... and with my little video camera function. I will at some point before I leave. This is the clock at Nagoya Station. It's actually rather famous... at noon it different parts come up and it plays music and the little parts dance. This is when all the sections are out and everything is in full swing.

And these are my evil Juniors. Well, 5 of the 8. They're so cute. You can tell a lot about their personalities by how they're posed here. On the far left we have Mitsuki, my brilliant little crier. She's cried at least twice in the last three months. Next to her is Naofumi, my smart little badass. He's gotten kinda spacey since he moved up to Juniors... I think he has trouble in a bigger class because he's overwhelmed. Next to him is Hikari. She's not as quick as the other students, usually, but she's one of my favorites because she tries really hard. She's a little whiney though. Next to her is Ren, my semi-bully. Sometimes I get really annoyed with him because he has no volume control, but then he'll do something cute like sing the Days of the Week song to himself while doing his worksheet. Last is Kasumi, my little pervert. When she's good, she's really good. But when she's bad, she's REALLY bad. I alternately love her and just can't stand her (In most of my previous entries about kids classes, she's almost always mentioned specifically).

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