Posted by: elephantdreams on: August 10, 2009
Oh my God oh my Gawwwwwwd, Awa Odori starts this Wednesday!! I’m so nervous!!!
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Our last practice was tonight.
I’ve been practicing really really hard!
So hard, that I pulled something… my right leg is all screwed up, as is my lower back. I have to stretch really well every day just to be able to do normal [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: July 15, 2009
Tonight at Awa Odori practice, I wore my geta for the first time.
Remember when you buy a new pair or a poorly made pair of sandals, and the bit that goes between your big and second toe chafes from here to Dixie?
Yes, well it’s like that, except you are putting all our weight on [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: March 22, 2009
Well, the musical is over. My weekend life for the past couple of months is completed.
We did the last show of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” in an old kabuki theater. It was an amazing audience, filled to the second level and ready to clap and laugh at all the jokes and dances. As soon [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: March 4, 2009
Well my goodness. I’m very sorry about lack of updates and especially lack of pictures!
That will change, I promise, when this musical is over. On Monday, I slept in until 10 am. I could have wept, it was so amazing. I didn’t even live it up the night before, just did my regular routine [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: January 29, 2009
A few things from the past week:
Simone and I rode the train home from Ishii after the Burn’s Poetry Supper. Getting into Tokushima, Simone had to switch trains, so we listened to the train announcements as we were pulling into the station, and were able to figure out which platform she had to run to [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: January 16, 2009
It was dark, and we were supposed to be going home. We are responsible adults, after all.
But instead, naturally, we were busy wondering if ar0und the next corner we would fall off the mountain and die.
All our fellows were at the bar, making merry. It’s a small bar, and we’d been stuck with these people [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: October 18, 2008
I put all the photos on a separate page, so as not to clog up slower internet connections.
Zoos give me mixed feelings. On one hand, the zoo is a place where I can see all sorts of exciting animals. I really like animals, and thinking about animals, and thinking about going to see animals. Sometimes, [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: October 17, 2008
Hooray! It’s Saturday! And I have internet, so I can blog from the comfort of my floor! I am wearing super comfortable sweats. I bought them in a 2-piece gray set, the kind where you just get a bag containing pants and a shirt for cheap. I bought them in size LL, and the check-out [...]
Posted by: elephantdreams on: August 3, 2008
I’m alone in the staffroom right now… because everyone else is at the staff meeting.
There is a lot of stuff waiting to be said about Tokushima. Where the heck do I start? Well… I know I say this to everyone I talk to, but THE HEAT. I simply can’t believe it. It affects everything you [...]
