New Blog!! wooo. i said WOOOOOOOO!!! enuf of the fanfare, lets get started on my update.

okay, today is...tuesday. nothing particularily fascinating happening today except i have japanese classes. but tomolo...oh yes, oh yes, its ohara pre-party night. ohara, biggest festival in Kagoshima about to rock the house down. i was supposed to dance in the festival but i have a speech competition to judge that day. oh well, i've already had enough dancing this week. halloween was freaking sugoiiiiiiiiiiiii (swicked!).

highlights:

Shane makes a sexy snacku girl (a snack girl in japan is a girl that stands in front of bars trying to entice men to come inside for "snacks and conversation"). except someone stole "her" tray of snacks, and abducted her poor little puppy choko. luckily, choko was returned by the end of the night, after shane paid the ransom of dried octapus tentacles and jello shots.

finding poor caleb hanging out of a cab puking his intestines out. (how in the world do u get vomit in ur own hair???) game over before the nights even begun

our ghostbuster dance was "brilliant" according to the ever lovely Sir Ped. haha, when i got down on my back for emma to spin me, instead of laughing everyone was like ooo0000OOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! emma was like "its supposed to be funny, not sexy!!!" Sir. Ped wants us to do another dance at his christmas party. this time i'm gonna recruit more of the girls. watch out anna, were gonna have u whining with the best of them.

we hit doggy bar afterwards cuz we were craving some hip hop beats. man, we are now LEGENDS there. we all saunter in with our halloween costumes, and shane "snacku" brock gets hit on by more girls AND guys then he can handle. emma, michelle and i, being the cheeky catholic school girls that we are, jump up on stage behind the DJ booth, and get our dance on. it was awesome, we got the crowd so hyped up, making them JUMP JUMP!!! Ash assaults a poor japanese bloke with his onion garland (he was dressed as a rude frenchman), "i said take it!!!" and who else do we find there, but mr. guy drake himself, fresh off the boat as it were :-P a night full of surprises

in two months, i have to make a decision that will shape my life for the next two years. whether or not i stay another year in japan. i've been trying to avoid thinking about it, because i'm still so confused as to what i want. life is sweet here, but it lacks meaning as harsh as that sounds. i know it's up to me to find my own meaning in life, and i guess i just need to re-evaluate my perceptions. before i came to japan, i had already decided i would only stay a year. and this was the same with emma and anna, but now were all thinking of staying two. we have good lives here: good money, easy jobs, awesome friends, what more could u ask for? for me, a lot of it is the communication barrier. i'm the kind of person that gets off on bantering with people, and the majority of people i meet in japan can't even form a simple english sentence.

my problems are insignificant in the bigger scheme of things, thats why i try not to stress over them. take it as it comes. we'll all float on, okay? two years in japan...wow...i think i'm gonna do it. :-) here's to tomorrow!