october is a busy month...

sorry i haven't been writing on this blog for a little while. with everybody getting sick i just haven't found the energy. this month has been busy for us. last weekend there was a huge festival in town. i don't know what the name of it was but it was for my area of town. each neighborhood (i think there were 8 or 9 of them) made these floats and we paraded them around the main street. one group made the ship from the cartoon "Starblazers" (in japan it is called Yamato). that one was unbelievable. it had bubbles blowing out the back, turrets that really worked and radar dished that turned. and at night the whole thing lit up. the people who made that float worked everynight for a month and a half building it. there were two judgings of the floats. one was by the erai hito (v.i.p.s of the community) and the other one was by ordinary folk. the big battle ship won the first contest. but my neighborhood float won the popularity contest. our float was a giant lady with big boobs and a sword named "cutie honey" (it is a comic heroine in japan) we all had a great time at the festival. school is busy and i will be having a festival this saturday at iino elementary school. the kids will be singing two english songs for their parents and i am in charge of that. should be fun. naoko and i are looking forward to a weekend off so that we can relax but it doesn't look like that will happen for at least another few weeks.

it is starting to get cold here but our air conditioner which also acts like a heater is keeping us warm. also recently we (thanks for mom and dad) were able to get a dryer. it is helping out naoko a lot. we just need to find/get bounce dryer sheets now.

so things are hectic now but we are surviving. would be nice if we could keep our apt. clean but noah is thwarting our plans everyday. speaking of noah he is speaking more and more japanese and loves edamame. he also still loves his pacifier which has me concerned as to when we should take that away from him.

well i better get ready for my next class so i will write more later. i promise.

see ya.