Ice Skating

Second Ice Skating lime. Dan, Kathrine, me, and Houtaro (playing the fool). This time was really fun. There were loads of little children and people in general on the ice today chasing us and making skating fast more exciteing (or dangereous, whichever you prefer... ran over 3 actually...lol) Most of us walked away with scars from falling.

Ice skating for the first time in MY LIFE last week. Was great fun. My feet were literally frozen afterward though. Went along with Houtaro, Sandy and Dan (L-R). Of course we all were the stars of the rink!

Houtaro, Dan and I displaying out new found skills. Well Dan is pro but we'll pretend he's still novice like the rest of us.

Necessary Purchases

Music is is life... These are the CDs I have purchases since in Japan. 3 RnB, 2 Reggae, 2 Rap (Missy Elliott is mssing), 2 Classical (want so much more), and 1 Dance. No Japanese in this mix because they are really expensive... over 3000yen for most! The foreign CDs are always on sale. I almost bought an Ella Fitzgerals jazz CD today too but I was like "Allan yuh over doing it man!" The don't sell Gospel here (one of my favourite genres). No market for that.

Knowledge is power... Just some of the books I bought. I have bought a few National Geographic and TIME editions, as well as some Elementary school japanese writing books so I can learn the way the kids here learn. (I feel dunce everytime I hear some arbitrary 4yr old Japanese toddler rattling on in Japanese on the bus and I can't understand half of what they say.)