Rough Draft

Well I haven't had a real update in a while...I think I've figured out that I am a perfectionist with my writing, but I just realized that I won't have anything to look back on if I don't stop that NOW. (hence the runon sentence...imperfction has begun!)

These past few months have been a whirlwind...if you look at my Flickr page here it gives a general idea of what I've been up to. In summary:

September:
Got stuck in a typhoon in the car ride back from Kumamoto, pieces of the car were flying away and Suzie was a crazy driver, but we amazingly made it back to the hanto just in time. I made her stop at a hotel because I was afraid the sea would swallow us or a telephone pole would land on the car. We ended up at a swanky love hotel called "Chapel Coconuts" which was littered with fallen tropical statues of flamingoes and dolphins; I thought I would die by getting knocked over by one on the way to the door. It turns out the hotel was full, so we tried another one in which I accidently bought a $10 thong. Stupid vending machines!

October:
Rode in a van up to Yamaguchi with a bunch of JETs, camped in the woods, played on the most amazing jungle gym known to man, watched debauchery unfold before my very eyes, made a friend (Becky), went to the BEST FESTIVAL IN JAPAN (Sake festival), had my ears assaulted with way too much Guns n'Roses for a human to stand, saw some fellow ALTs disrobe at a rest stop to the amazement of onlookers

Helped harvest rice, received a 5 kg bag of genmai (brown rice) for my labor

Purchased my first Macintosh!!! I love it!

Had a wild night in Fukuoka for my birthday...learned that I don't like for people I don't know to dance with me...discovered that having a prop to go out with is fun...my prop was a giant daikon (radish) with pictures of Hard Gay that Erich made me

Halloween: Me, Suzie, and Katie dressed up in matching jumpsuits; I was a plumber and they were carpenters. We went to a house party in Sasebo that was busted by the cops, so we wandered the streets aimlessly for the rest of the night. Katie and I did the limbo with measuring tape.

Witnessed the Yosakoi, amazing dance that takes place every year in Sasebo. The most notable thing about it is that the dancers seemed to really be having fun. That's something you don't see often in Japan!

November:
A fairly laid-back month...went to sumo in Fukuoka, got yelled at for throwing cushions, drank lots of hot sake, absorbed the amazing atmosphere, realized that I'm very socially awkward, met some very nice Kumamoto JETs, danced my arse off in darkroom and Keith Flack

Shimabara Sideshow Spectacular! Finally all those weeks of band practice paid off because we had our first gig! It wasn't perfect at all, but I'm proud since we only just started playing our instruments. Many people in the audience told me that they have been playing bass much longer, but never had the nerve to perform.


My final thought is this: it's too easy to become too perfectionistic. If anyone reads this, remember to just do whatever it is you do and don't worry, you can perfect it later.

Or, you can just tell yourself that. ;)