A Ways to go

So, Juni and I were sitting in a cafe/bar with some friends on Wed. and we started talking with people around us with mixed Japanese and English. I think this was the first real time we were able to talk and practice speaking in an actually conversation using Japanese. Then today, i went to a donut shop (something i do every Friday) to study and instead i talked with the guy next to me for about two hours. it started with a lot of English but then transformed into a mixed conversation. Its hard to describe the feeling i get when i am able to speak and be understood haha. I get the same rush as a person would get if they were about to have a mutually pleasing dialogue with a famous person. haha i know it isn't quite the same but it is the closest explanation that i can give haha. but yeah, so the fellow i was talking to happens to be related to juni's Kocho (thats principle and not Kancho)haha. small world. but yeah, we enjoyed our conversation so much that we are going to meet next Friday and just practice English / Japanese with each other.

shiawase desu ( i feel really happy).

chari kancho

OK, so a Chari is a Bike and a Kancho is something that kids do as a joke. they put their hands together in a gun shape and yell kancho before poking someone in the butt.

so yeah, there i was minding my own business riding my bike home last night when out of nowhere this giant bump jumped out in front of my bike. this wasn't your regular small bumps either. no no this bump had to be on some kind of drugs because it shot me way up in the air and when i landed the force from my fall and the weight in my butt caused the seat the bend down towards the back of the bike and the following bounce from rocketing over the bump caused me to get a kancho from my own bike. you may think i am crazy but i think i can still hear the bump laughing at me..

anyway when i got home i had to get the tools out to put my bike seat in the appropriate position. and in cause your wondering, yes i had to stand up for the rest of the ride home... because sitting had a certain penalty attached to it...


Oh yeah I (Ron) was the unfortunate bike rider in the story... lucky Juni huh...

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what has japan gotten itself into

A drive in Morioka

Today both Ron and I had the day off thanks to a Japanese national holiday. We've been trying to save money so instead of going someplace far far away, we decided to take a drive to get a better look at Morioka.

If you are to ever look at a tourist pamphlet of Morioka, there will be two things that the guest of Japan must do, see Mt. Iwate and Koiwai farm. Mount Iwate is said to be the "Mount Fuji of the North." It's pretty huge. So we went towards the mountain, didn't climb it, but had some really nice pictures.

On the way back, we saw the signs for Koiwai farm. This farm is the only privately owned farm that became a theme park filled with sheep and cows, and selling anything that comes from sheep and cows. It's suppose to be really beautiful in the winter when they have their winter festival, which we will show you all in a few months, but since we were in the area, it seemed like something to do now. It was so fun. We ate lamb, drank fresh milk and ice cream and went into the wool museum. There was something really fun about this place. Families came from all over just to be together in this park. It was a really memorable time.