Monday, December 27, 2004

How did you spend your X'mas?

Hello, everyone! How did you spend y0ur X'mas? Someone that have boyfriends would have a romantic night. And Someone that are single like me..also could enjoy X'mas! There are exactly many ways to spend a fun Christmas!

As for me, On Christmas Eve, I went to Dojyo to practice Kyudo with my teammates. At 1:30pm, we had lunch at Mos Burger Restaurant. As a special menu, we ordered five pieces of chicken and got a pink bear toy. We had a fun a lot.

And finally Christmas came! I, with the same mebers went to Fuchinobe Theater to see Howl's moving castle at 11:45. It was the second time for me to see this movie. But I liked the movie so much that I was able to enjoy it again. The girls seeing it were all content at it! And we all agreed that the dog appeared in the movie was so CUTE!! We can't stop love him!

After seeing the movie, the girls decided to go to my room. So we rented " Cutty Blond" at Tsutaya and saw it at my room. However, a unexpected happenings occured to us! We had both Japanese and English subtitles! And what is worse, English one lays on Japanese one so we couldn't see Japanese subtitles. Because Elle, the heroine is a typical American fast speaker.
We were busy at cathing up the whole meanings of words.

Well, these are the ways I spent my X'mas. Merry Christmas! And Have a nice year! ☆

Sunday, December 26, 2004

knitting


knitting
Originally uploaded by mikifu.
It is getting colder and colder. I am not that strong at coldness. So I have started knitting since last month.

I am knitting a muffler for myself.
Whenver I go out the street, I feel extremely chilly over my neck. All I need is nothing but a warm muffler!

It takes time to finish it. And I will try my best and decide to finish it during winter. I am looking forward to it!!

Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Christmas Special Menu

Last night, I had a X'mas special dinner in my dormitory.

We had really gorgeous menu exactly. We had the leg of Turkey, a piece of Chocolate cake,
and spicy curry rice.

Every food seemed so Christmas! I got full very much and I enjoyed my dinner!

Friday, December 17, 2004

One little happening tonight.

Hi, eveyone.
I am living in a student dormitory in Machida.
We have breakfast, dinner from Monday to Saturday. And we can have bath or get shower every day in public bath. So the life in dormitory gives us comfortable feelings just like we are at our own home. We are never troubled by buying food to eat or something.
Eveything is okay but except of only ONE problem that is unavoidable to face. That is FREEDOM! Every dormitory has its curfew! In the dormitory, we are supposed to come back by 11:00pm. At first I thougt of nothing, because I believed I would never come back after curfew.
However, a few weeks ago, I DID it. I went to Maihama to go to after SIX Disney Land with my friends. We did have a fun time. But when it turned to 10pm, I knew my face suddenly got pale. I would not make myself back to the dormitory in time. Because Maihama is never that close to Machida. It takes us more than one hour to get to it.
After hesitating for a while, I finally made up my mind calling to the manager in the dormitory. No doubt he was quite angry. But somehow I managed to persuade him not to lock the front door until i come back.
Since that, the relation between the manager and me have become a little strained. Of course I feel sorry for him, but I was giving much more thought to my freedom. It is not that easy thing especially for University students to not to go out late. I am in Kyudo club and sometimes i am to be staying late.
Tonight, however, my thought got a little changed. When I prepared to take a shower and down to the stair, I saw the manger and his wife were sitting on the sofa in dark. It was almost near to 12:00pm. No sooner than they saw me, the manager asked me abruptly, " Miss Kawakami, how do you say " you should come back by 11:00pm on time" in Chinese?" Yes, they were waiting for a Taiwanese girl to come back. They were waiting for her for about one hour. I suddently reminded of the truth I also HAD MADE them wait for me late at night. That time, I felt extremely sorry and regret I wasn't able to think at their side. I was only worried about myself instead of realizing I was bothering some people without self consciousness. That was a terrible thing.
I didn't know I was so selfish. I should have been more thoughtful. All I know today is that Freedom comes with responsibility. I think I must not forget it and bear it in my mind.

Thursday, 16th December, 2004

Today, it was a normal day. Nothing special had happened.
Maybe life is just like this. I do expect something special event happening to me almost everyday. I am dreaming of it all around when I am alone at home.
But things don't always go the way you want it to.
I know it. But somebody great said if you lose your hope. Hope is just like the oxygen, without hope, you will get despaired, and faint.
So I decide to keep on hoping.
Live my every day.
Life is beautiful.

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Happy Birthday to Me~~♪

Friday, December 10th was my birthday! I am 19 year-old now! It was also the day I said farewell to 18~~Ah, now I feel so complicated. What on earth did I do last year? What did 18 year-old mean for me? And how should I spend my 19? The age of 19 is the last year as an teenager. I am not ready to be an adult yet. (^_^;)

By the way, today, it was a great day for me. On saturday, i went to Kyudo club and practiced hard as usual. And when I finished the club, i was called to come to the circle of all my fellow peers, then at sudden the applause was occured. Happy Birthday to Miki!!♪ They cheered all together! I was surprised because I never thought I would have so many people celebrate my birthday. I felt extremely happy and moved. Today it was the last day of our regular practice in 2004. And it absolutely became one of my most unforgettable day~♪ I want to say to everyone that Thank You All A Lot!

Christmas is coming up soon. I haven't decided how to spend it yet. I am thinking of going see Howl's moving castle again with my peers in Kyudo club, or coming back to my hometown Okayama spend time with my parents~I have a few choices♪So what is everyone's plan of X'mas?


BARBABAPA!


BARBABAPA!
Originally uploaded by mikifu.
Here is my Birthday Present I got on Saturday. It is a RED Barbabapa! I love the color of Red, because red means passion! I like this very much~

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

800 arrows in two months!!

Hello guys. How is everyone doing these days? Last Sunday, it was INCREDIBLY HOT, and the highest temperature was 28C!! I can't believe it! It is winter now!! No doubt that GLOBAL WARMING is proceeding day by day. But it is winter after all. The day time is warm and when it gets dark it get chily. So people should take coats or wear warm for it.☆

Well, let's return to the main topic this time. Maybe some people already know that I am in Kyudo club? We practice Kyudo very hard twice a week, Wednesday and Saturday. Except the regular practice, we would usually go to routine sport centers together to play Kyudo. So it is not difficult to have a chance to see us with two meters high archery in the campus. Actually TODAY I have brought my own archery to the school~=

As we are to have two months holiday, we would not have played Kyudo in the club since next week. It's good to have a long vacation...BUT!! The leader of our club has made an goal to all of the members! That is to shoot 800 arrows during the holiday!! You know, Kyudo is an martial art that need physical strength. We normally only shoot 4 arrows in one Tachi ( stand). And 800 means we should do 200 tachi in total!! Our seniors said it was never a big deal and that it was no more than a piece of cake!! But to us, freshman, it is NEVER that easy!! Just last Sunday, I went to the Dojyo and was playing Kyudo for over 8 hours. However, I was only able to shoot 65 arrows on that day..(>~<) What is more, we have to pay 200 yen in every two or three hours..it is not free..which means if i don't work dead harder, i would come to use enormous amount of money!!

Um,,this time i got a little excited...sorry. But it never changes my mind that I still LOVE KYUDO!! Well, ehen,, I will go to practice Kyudo after finishing 4 period!! For my fairly Kyudo~~Forever~~♪Cheers!!☆☆☆


Sunday, December 05, 2004

Christmas Tree in Disneyland!


Christmas Tree in Disneyland!
Originally uploaded by mikifu.
I wish you a merry christmas, you wish your merry christmasâ™Âª

X'mas is coming up! And Disney won't miss it of course! It was a quite large tree!! I am sorry my camera phone is out of date, that it wasn't able to express the beauty of the tree! But never mind, just feel Christmas!

Mickey and his girl friend


Mickey and his girl friend
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

This is the picture I took in Disney Land this Wednesday. I went to there with my friends at 6 o'clock at night, so it was really dark that day.

It was my first time to visit Disney Land, and I liked it very much!!