Melon bread is good...but warm melon bread is full of win and awesome.

Remember that. It's a very important fact.

I went to see little kids (1st and 2nd graders) at this elementary school Friday...and I have pictures. Only because they're actually on my computer because the nice vice-principal gave us a CD. Ahem. Anyway...

This is me playing jan-ken-pon with a student. (Jan-ken-pon= rock-paper-scissors.) They put the kids in line and they each got a chance to play with one of us.


This is my profile pic on Facebook right now...we're still playing jan-ken-pon, even though you can't see our hands that well.



The kids sang and danced for us. Here is some sort of traditional dance, I think...sort of. (I love how that one kid's really feeling it.)



This time of year, many towns hold Autumn festivals, where they hold parades. Yesterday, the kids had their own mini-Autumn festival. People carry Shinto shrines through the streets, and the kids made their own version (that's what I'm holding up with Carl here). We marched around the gym a few times, yelling something (it started with a w...I think.)

Ah, the jan-ken-pon train...that was...interesting. Basically you play jan-ken-pon, and whoever loses gets behind the winner. So your train gets longer and longer, and the person at the front of the huge line in the end is like the jan-ken-pon master or something. Playing this with 50 hyper kids...you can imagine the pandemonium. But it was really fun.



"I want that one." Caught me right in mid-point, lol. Some of the students pressed flowers, and we got to pick out one. They put it on a small card and we could decorate it and take it home. I really like my little yellow flower. We also got some other small presents, like a hand-drawn panda and what I think is a paper cow. And leaves...they kept giving me leaves. I have the biggest brown leaf ever sitting in my room right now. All in all, I had a great time. It made me feel better after a not-so-stellar week academically. I think I'm just in a dummy slump. My brain's just burned out for the moment. It'll pass.

Found my alien registration card. That made me very happy. Mostly cause I kinda need it to get out of the country...eh heh heh.