The JET Halloween Party

Here are the pictures from the JET Halloween Party. Jenny, Nick, Todd, and I went as greasers and pink ladies. It was very cute. We participated in the pub crawl where we had to go around to 7 bars. And thanks to Jenny, since we had a drink in each bar, we won the bonus prize, which was a free drink at one of those bars! Good looking out Jenny! This was a really good time. So good even, or maybe cause he was drunk, Todd got up and sang Karaoke!! Isn't he cute.

Halloween Fun

This past week has been filled with Halloween fun. I had a Halloween party for my students at Iinan High. Only five 3rd grade girls showed up but it was alot of fun. Signe also helped out and brought some cool games. We bobbed for apples, played the 'what is the creepy thing in the bag' game, made cookies, and then made halloween shapes out of clay.
The clay picture is a picture of the scariest thing of all, a gaijin (foreigner)!






















Then on Sunday Janelle and Gabi held a Halloween Party for elementary school children. I work at the craft booth. We made Halloween finger puppets (yubiningyou). It was good fun! The kids were real ly cute and into it. They came in great costumes, some of them that their parents obviously made. There were different workshops for the kids to go to. There was a haunted house, a scary story telling workshop, outdoor games, and the craft workshop. As you can see Jen was the mad scientist!

Random Things

So I figured I would post some random keitai photos I have. I will warn you they are mostly of my cat. I know it is sad, but she does lots of cute things. She is always trying to get into the shopping bags after we take the groceries out of them and attacking things in the house. The other night a tiny lizard got into the house and Kitty stalked him until he was close enough to attack. We did rescue the lizard because we couldn't let kitty kill it. She kills enough things already. My drive way is littered with mouse parts. She tore head off of a mouse and just left it there on the ground. She is a killing machine but she is cute while she is doing it!

So this is my life now, talking about my cat. I mean I do 'things', just not exciting things right now. For example, I am spending a third of my time in Japan just within the glorious establishment of Green City. One reason I give it my loyal patronage is because it has 8 slice bread. This is a treasure and should get them some kind of award. Also, my fridge is tiny so I have to go to the store all the time to buy stuff cause it can't hold anything. And recently Todd and I bought a DVD player from Inai. It was only 4000 yen, so being that cheap, it doesn't have any region restrictions on it. Therefore, I can play DVDs from Europe, Japan, and America! Whooooooo! Life is good!

Oh! and more exciting news. Two of my friends from home, Andrea and Dave, just got engaged! Congratulations!! I am thrilled to be able to go to the wedding next September!

Let's Enjoying Japan

Just for the record, this is how Todd spends his time in Japan!