Tokyo Tofu

If you read my Japan blog, you might recall the time that I went to a party at Kyoto Women’s Univeristy. They had invited a few people from JCMU to come to a party to speak in English to their English majors. While I was there I met a girl named Megumi (you can see her on the very left of this picture), and after I went back to JCMU we continued to email back and forth, until we met up again with her and her friend, and Cassidy came along to visit Kinkakuji, Ginkakuji, and Kiyomizu one freezing cold day where it was pouring rain for most of it. Well, now Megumi is staying with a host family in Toronto until the beginning of September, and since we’re so close, she’s going to come and visit me for 2.5 days next week! Somehow I’m going to get the day off of work and we will have fun on U of M’s campus and do whatever else she wants to do.

So last Friday I attempted to gather a bunch of JCMUers for a little reunion/Snakes on a Plane viewing party. Well, of the 20 some people that I invited, I heard back from 4 of them, and 3 of them emailed me saying that they couldn’t come. But luckily Brian, who had been reminding me about SoaP for about 4 months, did come as promised, so it was a party of 4 people. We had some Snakes on a Plane cake that my sister spent the whole day working on, while playing Taiko Drum Master and Guitar Hero on the PS2 and looking at what I’ve gotten to so far on my Japan scrapbook. Around 9:15pm we headed out to the theater for the 9:40pm showing. We went really early because we figured that the theater would be packed, but sadly there turned out to be only about 20 of us that showed up for that showing. Those 20, however, were incredibly enthusiastic and vocal, with one girl even coming in with a plushy snake around her neck. The movie turned out to be incredibly entertaining, with about 25% of the entertainment value coming from the other people in the theater laughing and interacting with the movie. I was very sad to learn that it only made $15 million its opening weekend, but it lived up to the hype!!

And here are some pics of the Snakes on a Cake. It turned out awesome.

Yeah so I’ve been slacking on the blog. Face it, nothing I do in Ann Arbor will be as exciting as my adventures in Japan. However, once school starts up I will attempt to be as faithful to my regular life blog as I was to my Japan life blog, if there is anyone out there that is actually reading. I might also be changing the design on this one because the temple is starting to bore me a bit…(maybe I’ll be really boring and just modify the theme from my Japan blog with a new picture and some different colors…). Anyway, faithful readers, don’t despair, my blog will make a comeback…sooner rather than later.

Cuteness.

Just got an email from U of M informing me that Econ 454 aka ‘Economics of Japan’ is being cancelled due to the professor taking a year off for medical leave. That leaves me trying to find something to replace to at the last minute. I was using this class as part of the ‘cognate’ requirements, meaning my classes about Asia/Japan that aren’t from the Asian Studies department. Now I get to ponder if I want to replace that with a 4 credit class on Japanese Minorities, filling it with the stupid English comp class that U of M is MAKING me take despite the fact that I got to skip them back at GRCC because I got credit from an AP English test, or take the substitute econ class, Econ 340, which is International Economics. Boo. -_-