Sorry for the looooong delay with posting. I am still sadly stuck in a neoludite state with technology at my place. Right now I am posting at one of my highschools.
Last weekend I had a fantastic time in tokyo at the Tokyo Design Festa. It is the biggest art fest in all of asia supposedly and it was an amazing sight. IT is held at this big exibition center called Tokyo Big Sight. There were HUNDREDS of artists with booths displaying their work, lots of crazy bands, girls in the wildest dresses, a robot you could ride in, dancing etc. I had like saucer shaped eyes for two hours walking around the place. I also got TONS of art to cover my walls. I am going to send some postcards from the event home to you guys in vancouver when I get off my ass and over to the post office (im also collecting a bunch of random japanese gifts for you, which might not get there till after christmas). Basicly it was quite the spectacle and i kept yelling out at random moments ''I love JAPAN!!''. I also got a few photographers over wanting to take pictures of me for some reason (work it girl work it!). Unfortunately I missed the last train home from kofu (normally this wouldn:t be that unfortunate, but I was riding on almost no sleep for the last few nights...but thats another story). I ended up crashing at my friend Marissa:s house (she reminds me of you carissa, she LOVES animals and is really giddy around kids).
As for the rest of my life it is going great. I am settling into runnign around to 7 schools. I am exploring all the local temples (there is one just near me called zenkoji that i have been told has a huge labryinth in the basement that you can wander through in near total darkness). I am busy running around with all the other crazy jets around here (Last thurs I bunch of us got together at my friend Lynn's house for mexican food - yum yum!). I'm looking forward to a big christmas fancy dinner party we are having this coming weekend on sat. I have to find a dress to wear (I am so not used to looking fancy, so this will be an adventure). I am starting to get japanese lessons from this really funny coworker at the Kencho (Yamanashi gov't office), where I'm based. Basicly, this guy Tanaka San just walked me all over the Kencho and I would point things out and say *nihongo dewa* (japanese word for) and he would tell me the japanese word and then he would say *eigo dewa* (english word) and I would tell him the english. IT was actually a pretty effective teaching technique.
Well I best be off and actually do some teaching. Take care everyone and know that im thinking about you all so much.
love
grace
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