In the Week of Gold

Today is Children's Day in Japan, and everyone is on vacation and all the malls are busy and people gather in large swarms where there are Golden events. Why golden, you say? Well, that's what I asked, and the answer that I got from these foos, my friends, my co-workers, is that this is a period in Japan where there's a bunch of national holidays lined up, so it's like a second spring break in the middle of May, and it's called GOLDEN WEEK. siiiick.

So yeah, hope you're doing well, and my week is about chillin and getting ready for the next long semester at this school. Yeeeashh, along with making up conversation worksheets and stuff, I'm also doing a marine class and we're going to choose boats- be like Jacques Cousteau on the Calypso or Charles Darwin with the Beagle- and do madd research on an imaginary journey so we can get some knowledge and do something to help save the dying coral reefs of Okinawa. I'm also teaching English playing sports and stuff, saying like "Pass the ball!! Here!" Good times, good times... This teaching thing is pretty dope, but that's probably because the institution I work for is pretty free and still developing, rather than already set in educational values, methods, and rules. I'm real lucky to be given this opportunity to try things my way. We'll see how it turns out.

So yeah, I've also been running around on the beach three times a week, playing this sport we invented... Everyone keeps telling me I look all dark, but I can't really tell myself. Dipping in the ocean after a morning of running full speed- mmm, nice. And never forget the food, the food, so lucky to have food! Way different from my college-writing days when I lived on trail-mix and Folger's. Hahaha- Hope you're all doing well back in LA, in Australia, in Japan, everywhere.

Woo Gnarl's Barkley Odd Couple, and also Nat King Cole and Thelonious these days...