OMG!!! THE CRAZY BOY FOUND ME!!!

I signed into MySpace today to check my messages and such, (you know, typical MySpace stuff) and y'all will never guess who tracked me down. That annoying as ALL HELL little, Phillipino-college boy Antonio who REALLY irritated me on my flight to Japan!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! How the hell did he find me?!?! All he knew about me was my first name!!! It takes forever to search for people on MySpace with such little criteria! God, I'm so wigged out. How can he not realize that he is, in my opinion, quite possibly the MOST annoying person on this planet? I was downright rude to him on the plane, I RAN AWAY from him in the aiport... is he dense?!
My first reaction is to just ignore him. I won't deny that I'm a little bit tempted to send a message to aquaint him with my feelings, but I think that would just be mean. I'm really not a mean person and I don't really like the idea of making another person feel bad, even if said-person is annoying and obtuse. Sooo, is ignoring his message the best bet? Any ideas?! Is anyone else a freaked out as I am!? :-P
EEEK!

<~~~ Beautiful Amakusa!


Well, I came back to Japan with a new digital camera and I'm still working through it's many quirks. I'll try to get more pics up once I start doing interesting things! :)

Indian Summer in Japan!!! Hmmm... so what would one call it here... maybe burakumin summer? I dunno, they did suffer the same discrimination but in a different way, so I dunno. I'll leave it to y'all to decide!

So, the last time I wrote I had just experienced hail in Amakusa. A few days later, (the first Friday of February) there was SNOW in Takahama but thankfully if didn't accumulate. Honestly, if there was any, and I do mean ANY, snow on the ground I wouldn't have driven anywhere; I don't trust my car! Anyhoo, on that following Sunday our Indian summer began! I drove to Hondo on Saturday wearing my warmest boots, gloves, and a scarf with the heater on. On the way home on Sunday, my windows were rolled down and my sleeves were rolled up! Sheer HEAVEN, let me tell you! It was the first time I've felt really warm since I got back from America. That's sad, ne... I've been home for over a month!
More good news! I have a three day weekend, so no work for me on Monday! It's "Substitute holiday." I have NO idea what that is, but I think it's just the local Kumamoto government telling us when we can take our choseibi. You see, in Kumamoto we are not allowed to work over 20 days a month. Thus, in months like August where there are no holidays, we get 3 days off to do whatever we want and those days off are called "choseibi"! It is an awesome system, I highly approve. :-) I wanted to go somewhere for the long weekend but I decided to save money instead. You see, in March I'm planning on going to Osaka and Kyoto for an short vacation, and then in April/May I am going to either Hong Kong of Cambodia so I need to save my money! I'm really, really looking forward to these vacations because, as much as I enjoy my town, it's too small so I've already seen everything I can see. It's time to explore new places while I'm still here!
I promise to take many pictures to make everyone jealous as soon as I can. ;) Sorry that I haven't put new pics up for a while. The house party I was supposed to go to fell through, so I ended up doing other stuff and forgetting my camera. (FYI, karaoke in Japan is AWESOME and AMAZING! Who cares if you suck, as long as you sing in English, you are the epitome of cool! :)
<3 <3 <3 Mata ne, tomadachi!!!

EXTRA EXTRA! HAIL SEEN IN TAKAHAMA! LOCAL ALT FREAKED OUT BECAUSE HER APPATO ISN'T INSULATED AND SHE'S ALREADY COLD ALL THE TIME! PLANS FOR EXERCIZING HAVE BEEN DUMPED IN FAVOR OF BLANKETS, HOT CHOCOLATE, AND MOVIES! ;)

OMG, I saw hail this morning! In Amakusa!! The weather here is similar to NOLA's and I sure as hec never saw hail there! (Well, I guess it did "snow" once, but I'm a Minnesotan. One inch of snow doesn't really do anything for me!) Wait!!! Speaking of snow, one of my teachers came in this afternoon and told me he saw SNOW in Fukuregi! That's only 25-30 mins from my appato! Eeeek! I don't want it to snow! It's just not right. It shouldn't be allowed to snow unless homes and apartment buildings are insulated... isn't that one of nature's rules of something? It should be! Anyhoo, I wish that I'd had my camera or keitai with me to take pics of the hail but, Alas!, I was in class. I'll keep my eyes open from now on!
Ok, that's all for now. I'm going to a house party this weekend, so I hope to get some new pics up soon! Ja ne!