Posts tagged Summer
Bad Communication
Aug 26th
I’ve been settling into my new apartment and spending most of my free time scouring the city for furniture. I’m happy to report that my refrigerator arrived just last weekend and I’ve been quite enjoying cooking at home for the first time in quite a few months. It’s really nice to have a decent kitchen to go along with the newly acquired cooking utensils.
While the cooking front has been progressing smoothly, I’m still without an internet connection and have been reduced to sporadic hours of internet bliss provided by a local internet cafe called “Funky Time.” The place is extremely funky. I feel like I need to take a shower every time I return home because of the funk. I feel like I’m coated with it when I leave.
I am grateful to be able to check email every now and again though.
The new episode of Bad Communication went live a few days ago. The quality as well as the numbers are getting gradually better. My next goal is to get to 1,000 viewers per show. It’s a lofty dream though…
Settling into Life in Tokushima
Aug 15th
Although these past few weeks have been quite hectic, I feel like I’ve been settling nicely back into life in Tokushima. I’ve been making a countless number of trips to the furniture shops around Tokushima and trying to get things together for the August 22nd show that will film in less than a week. That being said, I’m really happy to be back and am quite enjoying my time here.
I took a trip to the Awa-Odori festival again this year and shot a short video. Take a look and let me know what you think!
The July Post
Jul 25th
For those few of you who actually browse your way to this site every other week, I apologize for not posting more frequently. Although I made many grand promises of weekly entries and such as soon as I had an internet connection installed in my apartment, it seems as though the opposite has happened. I will try to be a bit more diligent about posing in the future. If you leave me some nice comments, it may spur my incentive to update more often.
Ah, so much has happened since the last post. The short list is as follows and is not in chronological order (rather, it’s in the order in which I can remember them which may turn out to be chronological order starting with the most recent): bought a neat new bike that can be collapsed and carried around, went bowling twice (once with my school and the other time with my Awa Odori dance group), a trip to Okayama, a trip to Takamatsu, learned how to cook miso soup, learned how to cook Japanese style curry, had an interesting experience getting my haircut, made a dozen or so new friends, every so slightly improved my Awa Odori dance form (my friends say that my hands are now slightly less “strange” than they were a month ago) and am looking forward to the week off I have coming up in mid-August.
Everything has been going very well here. I can, with a fair amount of honesty say that I really can’t complain about anything. While I’ve been here for almost four months, still the most mundane of daily tasks presents itself to be a welcome challenge. Keep me posted everyone. It’s always good to hear from you all.
*I posted a slew of new photos; take a look!
