祭り

Posted on 2009/07/31 by anders

Festival

Went to a festival in central Okazaki today.
I noticed a bunch of smoke, and saw some kids playing with sparklers. They were lighting them on this bucket full of some kind of fuel.

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大好きなアニメ

Posted on 2009/07/26 by anders

私が大好きなアニメは:

全部は青年漫画です。大体同じテーマです。特に女の子はたくさん人を殺します。悲しい事があります。

富士山 Experience

Posted on 2009/07/25 by anders

Well, my Fuji … adventure is over.

We didn’t reach the top, it was raining too hard and too cold. I have never been so rained on in my life.

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Tools

Posted on 2009/07/22 by anders

I got all of these tools a while ago, at Daiso.
The wrench and pliers weren’t rusted when I got them in April.

The doors in my apartment building have a bolt in the closer that loves to get loose, and when it does it doesn’t stay open properly. My inner Monk doesn’t let me ignore that, I just have to fix that.

Bikes with loose chains where the rider is complaining I also invite over for a quick fix.

Eclipse

Posted on 2009/07/22 by anders

The eclipse occurred during class, so everyone went to the window to look. It was mostly hidden behind a layer of clouds, so I didn’t even bother taking a picture of that, just the reaction.

(This is my new class, in the same classroom)

今学期の私の目標

Posted on 2009/07/20 by anders

私は3か月前は上手に話したり新聞を読んだりできませんでしたが今少しいずつできるようになれました。
でも、まだたくさんできないことがあります。たぶん全部の新聞が読めないかもしれませんがもっと読めるようになりたいです。
それで、たくさん漫画を読むつもりです。上手に日本語を話せる前に文法や言葉を勉強しなければならないと思います。たくさん日本人と話すようにするともりです。

This quarter’s target

3 months ago I couldn’t do things like speaking well or reading a newspaper, but now I am slowly becoming able to do those things.
But, I still have a lot of things I can’t do yet. I probably will not be able to read all of the newspaper, but I want to be able to read more.
Therefore, I plan to read manga. Before being able to speak Japanese well, I think I have to study grammar and vocab. I plan to talk to many Japanese people.

燃えるゴミ

Posted on 2009/07/18 by anders

I have to keep my apartment above a certain level of cleanliness or else I have cockroaches, mold, the burnable trash stinks, and the floor gets covered in lint.

This is my trash system here:

There are a bunch of kinds of different trash. Also my favorite cleaning fluid ever, green-tea scented multi-surface cleaner. In order of how much I have they are:

Plastic.
Burnable trash
Bottles (PET, cans, glass and milk cartons are all separate, but I sort them at Seiyu, so they have one trash bag)
Paper
Cardboard
non-burnable trash (There is surprisingly little of this. In 3 months, I haven’t even filled up a small trashbag yet)

The categories aren’t optional, trash has to be sorted like that. For most people the different kinds of trash are picked up on different days, but I have access to a dumpster so I can take care of trash whenever.

I am surprised at how clean I am keeping my apartment. Dishes get washed, the burnable trash is emptied weekly, the trash can is wiped down throughly with my green-tea scented multi-surface cleaner. If I had access to chickens I would probably empty food trash every day to keep the smell from becoming a problem. I mop about every 2 weeks.

16th Street Mall

Posted on 2009/07/17 by anders

The assignment was to describe a famous building from my country (Colorado), so I had picked the capital building.

But when I starting talking about 16th street mall the other people didn’t believe me. 2 kilometers long, and that there is a bus that runs down the middle of the mall.

Spiders

Posted on 2009/07/16 by anders

This guy is a little bigger than most of the spiders around here, with a leg span of about 7cm. The web was on the ceiling of a carport a block from my apartment.

Lettuce