In Between Today and Tomorrow

On Friday, I invited Nagi-chan and Ikue chan to my house for a round of nabe! And we ate sooo much! There is still a lot of food in my fridge that we didn't managed to finish...so I don't have to go to the supermarket ths week at all!
Then the next morning, we went to Ikue chan's house in Mizuho to dig some some sweet potatoes!

Here is the view of her family's farm....these are egoma....a type of sesame that is special to this region and is also a local speciality. It tastes really good and is also very good for health!





We were supposed to dig sweet potatoes but apparently freshly dug sweet potatoes aren't sweet....you have to leave them for about a week before they start to be sweet, so I brought the previous bunch of sweet potatoes I dug from Karasuda san's farm and we decided to roast sweet potatoes!

First, we started with the bonfire.



We had to gather firewood to start the fire! Reminds me of how people in the olden times have to 砍柴生火！




Nagi chan and her firewood haha.



We went back to check on the sweet potatoes after a while and they are already done!! So fast!




Yay! Roasted sweet potatoes!




Next, we left the bonfire to die out and started out sweet potato harvesting.



It's very difficult! You have to use the shovel and carefully dig up the soil around the sweet potatoes so that you can pull them out. And you have to be careful not to break any of the sweet potatoes....we broke a lot =P





Me with the shovel....I sweated so much!



Some of out sucessfully dug sweet potatoes!



Looking for our sweet potatoes...




These are what we found! They are really black on the outside cos we ran out of aluminium foil and just threw them into the heap of firewood hehe...but once you break them, they are really good inside!
 



Ikue chan's house.


Their warehouse.



The kei truck that we took to the farm. Me and Nagi chan sat on the back and it was like a roller coaster!



The view outside her house....a really peaceful village.



The first signs of autumn...





There is a small drain outside her house, where apparently the water comes from the river nearby. They wash their vegetables here and we washed our dirty boots here as well haha.


Ikue chan and home-made okonomiyaki!

 

Me and Nagi chan with the huge okonomiyaki.



A really nice lunch served by Ikue chan mama!





Next, we went to see their chicken farm! Ikue chan's father has a chicken farm and they sell eggs they get from the chickens. Today, the ducks are out for a walk!



These are the chickens! I have never seen black chickens before....apparently they are hardier against diseases.





They have 3 hyper active dogs that couldn't stop barking and pouncing on us once they saw us!

Me trying to be part of the flock hahaha

 

Today the 5th graders had their 交流学習 at Kawasho. Essentially it means that all the 5th graders from the 3 schools in Kawamoto get together and interact through lessons.
The 2 lessons that were selected for today's session are PE and English.

For PE, they played omunikin ball.....for people who don't know the game, it basically involves the students running around ensuring that a huge ball doesn't fall onto the ground. They are divided into 3 teams by colour and the first team will shout "Omunikin RED" and punch the ball away then all the red members have to go catch the ball before it falls on the floor! Then once all members are supporting the ball, it's their turn to should omunikin (colour) again and the other team will have to catch it.

It's quite fun because it involved a lot of teamwork and strategy-thinking....like you have to punch the ball in the direction where there are no members of the particular colour you want to say. Then once the ball hits the ground, your team gets a point. In the end, the teachers played against the kids and I was roped in too! It's just 4 teachers and we are BLACK and the kids kept shouting our colour! I missed once cos I thought the kids shouted "kiiro!" instead of  "kuro!" =P but it was really fun!



Then after the PE lessons, we had English! The theme for today's lesson is food and my flashcards had words like soup, bacon and eggs, cereal, pretzel, muffin, cookies, water, lemonade, hot chocolate etc etc etc.

The first game after going through the flashcards with them is the Peanut Relay!
There were 6 teams so I asked Shimogaki sensei to prepare 12 tables, 6 on each side of the room. There is an empty plate on one desk and a plate with red beans on the opposite desk. The goal is to take all the red beans from one end to the other....but the trick is that they can only use chopsticks!
So the game goes like this.....
Ready go! Students will run with their chopsticks to the table on the opposite end of the table, flip over a flashcard and read what is on it, then pick up a red bean with their chopsticks and run back! Then the next person starts again....

The first time I played this game, I used soy beans which are bigger..but this time we used red beans and it is very hard!!! The kids just couldn't pick the red beans up! Some spent a very long time trying to get one red bean onto their chopsticks hahaha....but some of the kids were fast! They are the good chopsticks holders hahaha....one team finished really really fast cos all of their members could use the chopsticks very well!

Next game is the FIshing Game!

This game was actually planned for the 3rd and 4th grade 交流学習 at Mihara tomorrow, and Yagiura sensei had helped me make fishing rods from disposable chopsticks and thread and magnet. But since the 5th graders are having a combined lesson too, I thought might as well! So I had the 5th graders play it too!

Basically, the same 6 teams have to use their fishing rods to fish as many cards as possible that are placed on the ground. Each card as a paper clip on it so that they can fish it with their chopsticks. It was really competitive because the cards are not of the same number....some are less while some are more. And to make things more exciting, their fishing rods kept getting entangled! And while 2 kids are trying to loosen their entangled rods, another team will try to steal their cards!

All in all, I think the kids enjoyed themselves very much which is good! Now, for tomorrow's combined session with the 3rd and 4th graders.....

Next week's theme - Halloween!!!

I am doing a Halloween Obstacle Course hehhee......featured items are Halloween Twister and Halloween Costume Karuta! =DD

After today's class, I went to an onsen with Ikue chan! I cooked dinner myself...had mushrooms with carrots and chicken....seasoned with my mixture of miso, soy sauce, mirin and sake and it turned out really nice! YAY! Tried boiling sweet potatoes in water with sugar but not sweet enough...sigh...will try again!


 

This weekend was really busy...I didn't really have enough time even to do grocery shopping! Have to make a trip to Oda on Tue to stock up on food haha.

Anyway, on Sat, there was a tempura party! I have been saying that I want to learn how to make Japanese food for the longest time ever and finally Yumi san and K-chan decided that we shall have a tempura party! The menu included tempura(of course), nasu miso itame (stir fry eggplants with miso), sweet potato pudding (courtesy of Betsy) and Goreng Pisang!

We arrived at Acoop in Misato at 10am to buy ingredients and we bought so much! After that, we headed to Daiwa to a small kitchen area where we started our cooking!



Look at all the ingredients!



Starting to fry the eggplants.



Everyone busy at work....I am busy taking pictures =D



The tempura batter.



Ki chan prepares the goreng pisang while Karasuda san looks on.



Testing the temperature of the oil. If the batter rises up immediately, it means that the oil is hot enough.



In goes the banana!



Goreng Pisang!
Actually the goreng pisang's batter is a special tapioca batter that Karasuda san bought from Indonesia. I had specially prepared one piece of banana in the normal tempura batter because Mihara is going to try making Goreng Pisang tomorrow from normal tempura batter and I wanted to try the taste. BUT Karasuda san ate it!!! Ki-chan had left it in a small plate and I had meant to eat it later but Karasuda san saw it sitting there by itself and ate it!!!! So now I don't know how my goreng pisang will turn out with tempura batter tomorrow SOBS.....



Wendy and Mei chan preparing to fry the different ingredients.



Look at all the food! There were 10 of us and enough food to feed 20!



Yay!



Ki chan, Yumi chan and Sayuri chan enjoying the food!


Then, after the party, I rushed home and prepared to set off to Hamada with Betsy. We are supposed to stay at Greg's place for one night in Hamada before setting off to Yamaguchi for the monthly flea market. We had food from the tempura party and Greg and Lexi had baked a mikan cake so again, we had lots of food! Then, we watched a French movie and played Mario kart haha..

Next morning, we set off to Tsuwanoto pick up Leonard and off we went to Yamaguchi!



There was some art event going on and there were a lot of banners hanging from the bridge. Reminds me of Tibet haha..






There were lots of antiques at the flea market and lots of cheap yukatas and kimonos! Greg bought lots of old coins.



A very old piano that has a really short keyboard!



Stalls selling plates and cups.



Teapots!



Flea markets - you have to dig!



Kimonos for sale! Betsy bought a lot of nice and cheap yukatas...500yen each!





Look at all the old magazines and toys!



Old telephone!



Water Buffalo tusks.


 

There were even samurai swords!
 

I bought some cheap stuff and rilakuma stuff for my kids, went to walk along the Yamaguchi shopping arcade and headed back. It was a four hour drive so we were really tired by the time we reach home but it was a pretty fun event!
Tomorrow is Goreng Pisang making day with Mihara....I hope it will turn out well! =P


 

I have been really lazy and haven't been updating my blog..so I shall just have pictures for this blog! hehe...lazy laaa



I bought new flowers! Including a pot of roses hehehe.



My ikebana last month..it was Obon in August, ie Ching Ming Jie and so the flowers are different from the usual ones I have. There is this long broomstick looking plant that I have never seen before and dried lotus..apparently they are flowers used commonly during Obon.



I went with Ikue chan to Jomon Mura, a vegetarian restaurant that I have wanted to try for a very long time already...and it was so beautiful!!



Vegetarian dishes...buffet style, all prepared by the owners...home-grown organic vegetables!



Ikue chan enjoying her somen!





Yay! I realised my fringe looks really weird now.....I have to cut it soon!!



The restaurant! Very rustic feel =D



Went to a recycling workshop where we made things out of things like paper cups and pet bottles.



Sample - Penguin! I wanted to make a penguin too!



And so, this is mine!!



Finally visited the Iwami Ginzan after being here for a year! We had to walk 45min to the entrance of the mine, so we decided to rent a battery-operated bike! haha....the assisted bike is very easy to peddle!!



Saw a wooden vending machine!! Actually it's a wooden frame for the vending machine haha



I am finally here!



The entrance of the mine.



Inside of the mine...



I bought more kit kats! Fruits flavour, biscuit kit kat,  apple vinegar, kinako kit kat =DD



I went with Ashley and Drake before their Eikaiwa welcome party to Nakagawa san's farm....I asked Koshima sensei how to go to his farm before going and managed to get there without getting lost! The sun was setting and it was really pretty!

 

We could see Kawamoto from his place!



Very pretty isn't it?



Bittergourd! I got one from him hahaha



Green pepper and paprika!



I don't really know what crops these are haha...



The presents I got =D
Bittergourd, pumpkin, green tea and A LOT of onions and potatoes!

Recently, I got rice (new rice somemore!) and figs from people too! The merits of living in the countryside =DDD

Now, need to sleep le cos super tired from running between 2 sports day today! Tomorrow is Inbara Child care centre day (Finally!!) and then sweet potato harvesting! Time for yaki imo!!!! roast sweet potatoes =DD


 

OK...yes yes I haven't been blogging for the longest time ever and even I don't know where to start haha....
Jasmine has been blogging in Japanese and actually so have a few other friends but I am just too lazy lah.....must think very long leh!
So....back to English! YAY...

It's the summer holidays...1.5 months of sheer bliss for the kids...and 1.5 months of nua-ing for me. Ok...I haven't done a lot of nua-ing until recently cos my schedule was really packed for the first half of the holidays!

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I went to the 5th graders' camp (camp again) and it was the day when the solar eclipse happened! We only saw a partial one but it looked like the moon! I was still very excited anyway.



Looks like the moon right!

I followed one of the groups on their obstacle course...and first was this bridge! It had rained pretty heavily the past few days so this was a real log bridge! It's actually pretty hard! One of the girls fell in...oops!



Then, they have to climb rope ladders, climb rocks using a rope and clear obstacles set by the teachers.



Then go through dark tunnels and emerge victorious...



get stung by loads of mosquitoes...*scratch scratch*



Climb more logs and scale to the top...



only to climb back down again...



More zig-zag log climbing and crossing a tight-rope bridge (there is only one chain as your foothold!)



After conquering the slope, the secret agents had to climb through a hanging tunnel and do some spiderman stunts...



send a signal back to the headquarters and go down a secret ninja slide...



and do some tarzan-roping.....orh-ee-orh!!!



YAY! Completed the ninja secret service training course!!



The next day, we had a talk by the forest rangers and we used bits from the nature to make photo frames!



This is mine!! But very flaky...it keeps shredding hahaha...

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Next, I had an English workshop that was organised by the library. I did it together with Hana san at the support centre with my kids and I had a lot of games planned out! One of the best game is called Peanut Relay which they have to race to a table and pick up a peanut with their chopsticks and race back to put down the peanut and read a flashcard. It was really hot so they were really sweaty after a while...me too!!

Then, off I went to Hokkaido, Aomori and Akita! I really really enjoyed myself and saw a lot of beautiful scenery (although the weather wasn't perfect), ate a lot of food and met Auntie Anna!! We planned our trip back to SG together and we are going to stay in Tokyo for about 5 days before heading back to our homes in Japan! YAY...looking forward...

After 2 weeks of holidaying, I came back to Kawamot and met Ashley and Drake, the new ALT in town ad her husband. They are really nice and Drake really can cook! I hope I can sample some of his cuisines someday! I brought them to Hiroshima on Sunday and we bought so much foreign food! I am really excited at my finds! I bought green beans, wanton mee, oatmean with maple and brown sugar, a lot of premixes and some dried food that I could only get in Singapore! YAY!

Had a lot of Taiko sessions too....had one at the Coming of Age ceremony in Kawamoto, followed by another one at night(some matsuri) and another one at Izumo Taisha the next day! The Izumo Taisha one was nearly cancelled due to the rain but luckily it cleared up! Also, they threw out mochi and sweets to the crowd and I caught a lot! Too bad I didn't eat the mochi right away, and it got moldy! SOBS I had to throw all of them away!....

And so, this 1.5 week, I have been nua-ing a lot...so much that I feel really unhealthy! I just go to the BoE inthe morning, play with facebook and read books, then go home for lunch and just nua at home for the rest of the day! I have almost finished my tian long ba bu 40 episode drama just by staying at home!!!

Huaquan is coming to visit this Sun and Mon and I asked Ashley and Drake along to Izumo Taisha as well. I have been there umpteen times but everyone would want to go there since it is the oldest shrine in Japan.

Ok...time for me to go have lunch and go to the recycling workshop in the afternoon! Then more TV watching and Taiko practice!

I went to Hiroshima over the weekend to take my JLPT 1 for the FIFTH time....I really really hope I can pass this time...although I checked some of my answers online and it seems like I will have to take it for the sixth time this Dec!!! SOBS.....I am hoping by some miracle that the answers I forgot are all right or something SIGH...

But anyway, I had a REALLY good time shopping! I spent so much!! But they are all good buys cos my most expensive purchase is my yukata, 5000yen and that is already the cheapest yukata I can find! The rest of the stuff I bought are all like 50% off or like 1000yen! Really cheap!!

Me, Yumi san and Ki-chan headed out to Hiroshima on Sat, and our first stop was lunch! We had lunch at a restaurant serving french food...it has been a really long time since I had French food!



Salad, cheese and egg tart, mixed peas with bread...



I love the bread!!



Main course - Scallops!



Yumi san's chicken, which came on a hot stone and made a lot of steam haha...



Dessert - Chocolate cake!



Check out the amount of stuff I bought! It almost feels like I went to some other country! Or maybe cos I haven't shopped for too long....went mad in Hiroshima haha...
Well...1/4 of the stuff here are bought at the 100yen shop and half of them are little gifts for my students...my "Flying Pig" shop is opening next week! My students will use their totoro dollars to come shopping at my shop!

And the purple cloth thing is my yukata! The obi that came with it was a cream yellow colour that we thought didn't match, so we changed it hahaha! We didn't tell the shopkeeper though (Well, it's at Uniqlo so there wasn't someone attending to us anyway) and we just changed it! HEHE.... The pyjamas that I bought were only 880yen!



2 of the dresses I bought....there is one more dress but that dress is more flowy and doesn't look nice lying down so I didn't take a picture hehe. The blue dress was on 30% off and the green one 50% off! I didn't pay more than 3000yen for either of them!

This looks like a normal sweater but it is actually a swimming "rush guard", as they name it. You wear this over your swimming costume so you won't get sunburnt! YAY! I can go swimming at Kawanishi and Mihara with this!



A white plain top to go under my dresses...both tops cost only about 1000yen!!



2 light jackets for summer!



And I bought a new watch! The strap of my current one is on the brink of breaking....like only 2 strands of strings left at the part where it is breaking so I better not wear that anymore!! This is my new one! =D

I must start saving again so that I can shop in Hokkaid! I love the summer sale!!!



 

I still remember complaining a few months ago that I have not much things going on in my life and I wish for random people to knock on my door and ask me out for dinner. Well, I would still love to have neighbours knocking on my doors giving me food and stuff (which doesn't really happen) but I can't really complain about the LACK of activities now. In fact I have TOO many activties that they all clash together! Argh!!

On Sat, I went to Kawasho because they have a regional bicycle competition. The competition is divided into 2 categories. One is a safety test much like our driving test, except that theirs is on a bicycle. They have to follow a routined course which involves pedestrain crossings, junction, red-lights, hazards, train crossings etc and they have to put out hand signals to act as winkers. I cannot do it cos I can't bike with one hand! I have been watching them train for quite a while already so I decided to go and give them my support!



The safety cycling course. The people judging are real policemen!



Kazuki kun stopping at a pedestrain crossing.



Tomoki kun preparing to stop. There is even a hand signal to stop! And they have to check all directions before they go and to do that, they will check and say "Yosh!" So you will hear "Yosh! Yosh! Yosh! Yosh! Yosh!" before they start pedalling. =D

The next category is the "Technical test", but I call it the Acrobatics Test. The kids have to go through several courses that require pretty high technical skills to control the bike. I went through it before during their practice and I failed miserably. It is SO hard!!



There are 6 courses in all. 25s course, in which they have to keep the bike on this straight path for at least 25s, ie they have to move VERY slowly. Next is the S course, and they have to navigate this with one hand on the bike only. Next is SUPER S course, where they have to weave in and out of 8 standing pins. Next is the figure 8 course, and then a path much like train tracks, very very bumpy and the last course requires them to cycle on top of 2 planks of wood.



Hiroki kun on the 25s course. They have to keep within the green area. Every time their feet touches the ground, there will be marks deducted.



Next, the S course!



The train track course.



2-plank course! Most people can do one but not both.



And the most difficult SUPER S course!

In the end, Daiwa Elementary school won first and 2nd...apparently they have always been winning this competition since like 5-6 years ago. The kids there train almost everyday! They sent 2 teams and both teams won first and 2nd, and all top 5 individual winners are from Daiwa! But Kawasho isn't that bad too! The A team won 3rd! So happy for them hehehe...

After the competition, I rushed over for a one hour Taiko practice. Actually there is a full day Taiko practice today but cos of the Bicycle competition and the camp, I couldn't go for Taiko and I really need to practice my new song! DIE LAH....
Then, after one hour of practice, I rushed back home to cook curry (Japanese one lah....my nonya chicken curry paste no more le sobs) cos the Kawasho camp is a curry party! Everyone will bring their own curry and we will sample each others' curry =D

Rushed like siao and bathed and then hoped into my car, and rushed to Sasayuri, and realised I forgot to bring my jacket and ladle for the curry! So paiseh....in the end, Itoh san (Kasumi chan's mother) lent me her jacket and a spoon for the curry..



Kasumi, me and Shiho chan! Shiho graduated last year so I was really happy to see her there! She is still the same....bubbly and very teenager-like. And she grew so much! Takafumi, another one of my student grew 10cm in 3 months...he is my height now! SHOCK...



Kitayama san introducing all the curries the families brought.



The curries!



The curry I made! (It's in the silver pot)



Shiho chan, Momoka chan, Daiki kun and Kasumi chan!



And the eating begins! The pot that is right at the front is cabbage curry and it reminds me so much of Singapore curry!! I want to eat Singapore curry!



Momoka chan and Daiki kun are looking at Sasaki sensei's camera instead! But they are very pleased that there are 2 cameras taking them at the same time haha....they are sooooo cute!!!



Momoka chan!!!!

After dinner, there was campfire marshmallow roasting, a horror trail where we need to go through this path with only a torch and fetch a piece of paper. I went with the little ones cos they were really scared (but actually it's not scary at all..it's just dark) but when I finished the trail, Shiho chan and Kasumi chan grabbed me and insisted that I go with them again. hahaha they are even more timid than the kindergarten kids! So In the end, I went up twice haha..

After that, there were fireworks!! It's so fun! There were the big fireworks which go off with a loud BANG and then shoot up into the sky and explodes, very much like the NDP fireworks but on a much smaller scale hehe....



After that, I went home and after struggling in bed, I reluctantly got out and headed off to the camp again. Scavenger Hunt is supposed to start at 830am but when I got there at about 845am, they were still having breakfast...then after some playing around in the field, Scavenger Hunt began!

We are supposed to retrieve 3 pieces of paper and decipher the codes on the papers. I went along with the Yoshimura brothers, Takafumi and Naoyuki and their mum. They were really good!



The boys figuring out the clues.



Deciphering the code.



Last clue!

After lunch, I left to go Oda cos I haven't done my grocery shopping in 3 weeks! Gasp! But I am amazed my petrol can last me for 3 weeks hehe....I went to Shimura and bought a bunch of stuff, including a pair of track pants, a light jacket for sunny days outside, a dryfit top, a beige overall, a pair of white shoes and goggles! Wanted to buy an umbrella initially but decided against it since I won't really use it although it is so cute! Then bought my grocery stuff at Jusco and topped up my petrol! Car wash was having a promotion....shampoo wash (I think its just soap and water) for 200 yen! So cheap! So I went to join the queue haha....since weather is predicted to be fine the whole week, I decided to wash my car!

Now super tired, tm need to go Mihara child care centre! Play with babies again hehehe






 

On Tue, Wakatsuki sensei invited me and 2 other teachers to her house for dinner. I went with her to the supermarket to pick up some stuff and then we went cooking! I was quite excited cos Wakatsuki sensei is Kawamoto's food nutritionist so she does know how to cook!

We had Tofu hamburger, which is something that I have wanted to learn for a VERY long time and I finally had the chance too! And then, we also had boiled bamboo shoots, a simple salad, miso soup with mushrooms, nonya chicken curry which I made from the easy pack, and stir fry potatoes with pork!

It was a really good dinner! And A LOT of the ingredients actually came from Wakatsuki sensei's hometown in Izumo. Almost every dish has something that is home-grown! Onions, potatoes, lettuce, bamboo shoots, miso and even the tea we drank!



Look at the spread!



The tofu hamburger!



Halfway through preparing the dinner, Karasuda san called me to say that she has strawberries to give me!! So they came all the way from Misato to give me strawberries and a roll cake! Aren't they sweet? =D

I had a pretty good time talking to Wakatsuki sensei and the 2 young teachers, Shimogaki sensei and Yamane sensei. Both of them are fresh grads and this is their first job...so they are still pretty inexperienced and you actually can tell from the way they talk about certain things haha. The kids actually haven't really gotten used to them and when I spoke to my 5th graders, they told me that Shimogaki sensei can't explain things as clearly as Masumoto sensei...but I guess everyone has to start from somewhere...so they just have to ganbatte!

Then, on Thur, I went with the 5th and 6th graders to Gogawa to release Ayu, a type of fish, into the river! My students from Mihara came too so it was a decent crowd size....it was so interesting!



On the way to the river!



Queueing to collect the fish!



Here they go!!

It was pretty fun cos I released the fish into the river too! Too bad I missed the rice planting...but I will plant sweet potatoes this weekend at Karasuda san's field! Looking forward hehe.....

Then, this weekend Betsy and me went over to Anu's house at Izumo to stayover so that we can go to Horanenya on Sat. It's a once every 12 years festival, so we definitely have to go! Photos are on facebook so not posting here.

Anu's house is HUGE! Her house is about twice the size of my house and she even has a koto!!! I want a koto too!!! But then like all other people, she only lives in her living room haha. We went to Horanenya on Sat and parked illegally at the prefectural office's carpark haha but we didn't get a ticket muahah.
We had lunch at an Asian food cafe and they had Bak Ku Teh and Gado Gado! I was so excited but turns out the Bah Ku Teh tasted quite differently and the chilli was more salty instead of spicy haha but I was still happy I got to eat it =P

Sat was my Chinese birthday so I had to wake up at 530am to cook my own mian xian breakfast cos we need to leave for Matsue at about 630am cos the festival starts at 830am...we wanted to take the train but we got the timings wrong so we ended up driving to Matsue instead. The festival was interesting although it was SO crowded! I couldn't really take nice pictures cos I was practically taking pictures over people's heads....no choice la cos the festival is one of Japan's 3 biggest boat festivals and it only happens every 12 years!

But cos it was raining, we left in the afternoon, and went back to play Mario Party! It is quite fun playing with Anu and Betsy haha and now I am itching to buy at least a Game Cube (cos I can't afford the wii) so that I can play at home! Then we watched Da Vinci Code on TV cos it was showing and then we went to watch Angels and Demons the next morning! Haha...we planned it in such a way so that we will watch Da Vinci Code first then Angels and Demons!

It is my first movie since I came to Japan and although it was EX (1800yen), the movie is pretty good! I quite enjoyed it actually...much better than Da Vinci Code I feel...and there are a lot of other movies coming to Japan! I am so going to go watch Transformers 2 (20 June), Star Trek (29 May), Harry Potter (15 July) and maybe Terminator 4!

Plus, I found an online website that I can rent DVDs and they will send it to me! After I am done, I just need to post it back....I can use my DVD player I bought from Kumamoto! YAY!!