December 20. 2004 18:16

Party! Fun!

Waai! I'm hyped! I have a new skirt and I'm going to Yuuko's birthday tonight :D (Yuuko is Tom's girlfriend, she turns 22 today.) I've been so frustrated with all the skirts here being too small for me, but today I ran into this very nice red and black square patterned skirt at school, again being sold by the ever so benrina flee marketers. And behold, it was big enough for me! And it looks great on me, too! ^______^ The sellers seemed to be very happy that someone bought it, makes me wonder if it was so big that nobody seemed to want it ;P I'm so happy!

Everything's great today. I finished and turned in all my manga projects, made some more peppercakes and handed them out to people, there's a nice party waiting for me tonight and on top of it all, yesterday was very nice, too ^_^ But before I tell you about yesterday, I have to tell you about Ken-san and my children's manga.

I handed out cookies to the girls in my dorm, to my children's manga teacher, to Dion and later tonight I'll be giving some to the others at the party. I went to the International Office to give them some as well, and while I was there, Ken-san wanted to check the manga I was carrying with me to school. I showed it and he said it looked very nice and reminded him of some children's book artist (though he couldn't remember the name). When I was talking to him, I (naturally) look at his face and noticed he had tears in his eyes! I can't believe it! O_O You have no idea what that means to me. Someone read my story and cried for it! That's like suddenly accomplishing what I've always wanted to do with my manga. I didn't think about it before, but when someone suddenly felt so strongly about a thing I've done, it made me feel so happy and proud! I've been up high ever since that moment ^_^

And yesterday I had a nice time with Dion and Tim. I went to ask if any of the exchange students was up for lunch/dinner (for me it was lunch, but it was already dinnertime...) and got them to join me. (And while I was knocking on people's doors too see if they were home, I interrupted a very intimate moment between Richard and Lorna, if you know what I mean... Ahem.) We went to a okonomiyaki place a few block away, even though we first walked around half of Iwakura trying to decide what we were gonna get... (Tim changes his mind like the autumn winds.) Finally we ended up at that place. And it was good. Dion did all the ordering and showed us what to do with the food that was brought in front of us, because he knows Japanese better than me and he's been to Japan several times and knows a lot more about this kind of practical things :P (It was very nice when we for once had someone who kinda knew what to do with us, even though Dion was saying that he wasn't really sure about it...)

The okonomiyaki was really good (and not too expensive), and after that I went to hang out at Dion's again. Tim went to McDonald's to read a newspaper but came back later on. Dion couldn't get it how I was not bored at all just sitting there, doing nothing while he read things from the Internet or talked to his friends online or something like that. People usually have difficulties understanding how little amusement I need around me to be happy ^_^ It was warm and there was someone around me (and he wasn't as cranky as the day before), so that was enough to make it one of the homiest evenings I've had since I came here ^_^ I really miss being around people, not being alone all the time, so having someone in the same room with me, just hanging out, was so great. I loved it ^___^ And he did show me videos, so it's not like I had ablosutely nothing to do for the whole night :P

I'd kinda like to contemplate more on what a good day today has been, but I don't really know what to write about :P I just have this very nice warm feeling inside of me ^_^ And besides, I think I need to get readier to leave soon, so I'll have to get dressing up and eat something. Ah, such a wonderful day ^_^