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| Aoba no Mori Park in Chiba City |
I'm
officially moved into my new apartment and the internet is up and
running! Life has been tough seeing as Japanese apartments don't come
with any appliances installed, and I won't be starting work until
September. However, thanks to all kinds of gracious support from my
friends, coworkers, family, (strangers, wizards, etc.), I've been
somehow pulling through! So here's a HUGE thank you to everyone who has
literally been saving my ass for the last month or so. I owe you all big
time.
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| Took this during work hehe |
I
haven't had any spare time to write a blog post due to the move, doing
some part time work at a friend's barn, and studying for the new job, so there's a giant
gap in information here, but I've actually been up to some really
interesting stuff lately! Between living in Japan having taught me to
not be afraid to try new things, and being obscenely broke right now,
I've been testing out new kinds of work, and doing other random things
on the side that I wouldn't have had the balls to do if you had asked me
to two years ago.
First
off, a friend and I decided to be extras in a movie! We were on set for
a day for the live action version of Kiki's Delivery Service which will
be coming out sometime in Spring. The set was amazing and colorful, the
lead actress was cute as a button, and I absolutely cannot wait for it
to come to theatres, whether I actually get to appear in it or not!
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| Best windmill ever! I require one of these. Now. |
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| We look so 60's! |
The
following day was JLPT N1 (*.*) Woke up with a migraine so I'm pretty
positive I failed the test. But there's no use talking about it now, the
results will be out in... one hour and twenty minutes!! (Hence why I'm
awake writing this instead of getting well rested before another day of
manual labor tomorrow.)<----(Don't let me fool you. I actually like
it :P )
A few days before the big move, I climbed Mt. Fuji with a group of friends, and I got to make a new friend during the climb as well! If you don't know, Mt. Fuji was just added to the World Heritage List, so it's been all over the news as being extremely crowded right now. Ironically, when I was there it wasn't that crowded...not really sure what that's about. The climb was exhausting and took forever, our massive group got split off into two, and one member of our half-group suffered altitude sickness, but we successfully made it to the top and back down--at which point some guy tried to get me to pay 3500 yen to take a picture with one of his ponies despite the fact that I told him I own my own horse, so how could I possibly justify paying 35 bucks to take a picture with one of his... In any case, it was an eventful trip full of mysteries and drama that I will leave up to your imagination. (Sorry there aren't any photos. My phone battery was dead due to the lack of service!)
A few days before the big move, I climbed Mt. Fuji with a group of friends, and I got to make a new friend during the climb as well! If you don't know, Mt. Fuji was just added to the World Heritage List, so it's been all over the news as being extremely crowded right now. Ironically, when I was there it wasn't that crowded...not really sure what that's about. The climb was exhausting and took forever, our massive group got split off into two, and one member of our half-group suffered altitude sickness, but we successfully made it to the top and back down--at which point some guy tried to get me to pay 3500 yen to take a picture with one of his ponies despite the fact that I told him I own my own horse, so how could I possibly justify paying 35 bucks to take a picture with one of his... In any case, it was an eventful trip full of mysteries and drama that I will leave up to your imagination. (Sorry there aren't any photos. My phone battery was dead due to the lack of service!)
Two
days later was the July riding school exam! Videos are below, and this
post is long enough already so I won't go into it, but I made tokuren!
(short for tokubetsu renshuu or "special practice") So I'm pretty
excited about that! I have to save up my money so I can go to some shows
next year!
Then, today I worked a one day job doing voice recording! We did recordings for a new application that's coming out which will help teach natural English in a medical setting.
It was my first time doing voice recording so I was surprised at how
many takes it took to get everything perfect. You seriously aren't
allowed to breathe at all during recording, and you have to start
recording with your mouth already open or the mic will catch the noise
on tape! That was a little frustrating, but it was actually a lot of
fun.
Well,
I think that about covers everything of the last... since whenever I
wrote last. Oh yeah, also we had the circuit in July the week after the
exam and I knocked a rail on Fusaichi in 1m, and had a clear round on
Fururu in 110cm and got second :)
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| Fusaichi getting his legs cooled down :) |
