WATERMELON

This is the best icypole ever! Watermelon. It looks like a watermelon, tastes like a watermelon but has yummy choc cruch pips! It´s so good! They only sell them in summer!

CRAZY KANEKO

Meet Kaneko. He is my special student. I have a lot of fun teaching him English. He loves games and most of the time makes his own games up. He can´t sit still and ends up all over the classroom. He loves coming up to me to say good morning, how are you.

TYPHOON

This was taken on the 14th of July, the day before the typhoon hit Hamamatsu at a beach close by. Lots of rain and wind. Angry waves!

Basketball Club

I spent an afternoon playing basketball with the girls! The boy in the pic is cool! He loves saying hello to me... ALL THE TIME! Like, every 2 seconds!

ART CLUB

This is the etching I was working on in art club! So much fun!

Toyodaminami

I know, I know, it has been way toooooo long! Just to fill you all in quickly- I have been keeping very busy... this is the latest school I have been teaching at- Toyodaminami Junior High. In these pics we were making thongs out of material. The old man next to me kept talking to me and I didnt understand a thing he was saying but he kept talking even though the english teacher told him I didnt speak Japanese! Cute! Anyways, the kids are great. A group of girls have been teaching me Japanese words such as agepan and sagepan (like harry highpants and sagepan when you wear your pants low). Hehe. Oh, I love it!

Two weeks ago we went to Toyami which is north, about a 4 and a half hour drive and a lot colder than Hamamatsu. Minol had a no rules fight. He won. The guy he beat is the one on the left holding ice to his face.

These girls are awesome! Soooo funny! I sit with them at lunch time and they teach me Japanese. The girl on the very left is from the Philipines and her English is pretty good so I talk with her a lot. She does a really good impression of the girl from ´The Ring´!! Japanese kids are CRAZY!

Fuji-Q Highland

Wow...Mt Fuji

Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park

Team Brazil (+ME!!)

The BEST ride ever- (eejanaika)

Saturday´s Adventure was going to the amusement park... oh yeah! How´s about that adrenaline! Best ride was the eejanaika which holds a record for the amount of turns or something. We went on it twice. On the same day though at another place a girl was killed on a rollercoaster when her cart came off the rails!! CRAZY CRAZY!

Tandem Skateboarding

Lu and Karyn (Brazilian Chickadee´s)

Flower Garden

And here we have our little excursion to the Flower Garden (and in 30 minutes we did a speedy looky looky at the zoo which was just next to the FG).

Hamamatsu

Minol & I hanging in Hamamatsu. That´s the Hamamatsu Castle. Notice the famous Cherry Blossoms? Oh and yeah, that´s Minol´s Sponge Bob Squarepant made from leftovers. Haha. Ha.