Showing posts with label paper cranes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper cranes. Show all posts

23.10.06

parents, crane party, homecoming


Wow, it's been awhile since I've posted. So here are my 3BT's for the past few days.

Parents: My parents unexpectedly came to visit me on Saturday. We went shopping and out for dinner, which was nice, and also a break from insane amounts of studying for upcoming tests.

Crane Party: This weekend both my roommates were out of town, so I had our three-person room to myself. So, I had my cousin come spend the night. We went to Hobby Lobby and bought decorative paper to make paper cranes. We had a nice relaxing evening folding cranes, listening to random music on YouTube and watching Bulletproof Monk, which was actually a pretty good movie. Now I have a flock of paper cranes circling around my bed.
Homecoming: Homecoming was kicked off at my university this Sunday morning with a 5K race. Ten members of my Yosakoi club (including me) ran the race. It was freezing to begin with, but certainly warmed up over the course of the run! We even had a small cheering section, yelling and clapping Naruko, the wooden castanets that we use while dancing. That afternoon we had a sidewalk chalking contest to incorporate our club with our homecoming theme, which this year is 'Homecoming of Heroes'. We drew our school's mascot dressed as a yosakoi dancer in front of our own version of Kakushika Hokusai's "Great Wave off Kanagawa", a picture that has come to be a symbol of Japan and shows a giant tsunami wave and Mt. Fuji in the background. We had a great time chalking out the design, and getting chalk dust all over ourselves. We even got a picture in the university paper. Next up: painting windows in the dowtonwn shopping district. Homecoming is turning out to be really fun, as opposed to the cumbersome obligation it could have been in a week packed with studying.

15.10.06

oasis, dinner, paper cranes

Oasis: What a great band. They remind me a lot of the Beatles, and it's so relaxing to sit and listen to them while I'm tooling around on the computer. Don't Look Back in Anger and Sunday Morning Call are favourite tracks of mine.

Dinner: I had dinner with some of my Japanese friends as well as a couple other international students. We got to know each other a little, joked around, and had several conversations over the misinterpretation of English phrases. It was nice to talk and linger over the food as other students hurried in and out. Dessert for me was purple blueberry ice cream. My friend decided she'd rather not try the unusual flavour, so what did she get? Vanilla ice cream with blueberries. :) A nice, leisurely time to eat and enjoy good company.

Paper Cranes: I learned how to fold a paper crane! Maybe I will find some fancy origami paper and fold a flock of them to hang from my ceiling. You can learn how to fold a crane here.