電Nipponbashi Street Fest電

So there's an event held in Den Den Town called Nipponbashi Street Fest. It's basically an otaku parade followed up by some photo taking. It was fun to attend though. I wish I had a costume to wear. I was feeling a bit out of place, but I think I had enough attention as a foreigner.

A Lolita Cosplay...low caliber kind.

Lolita & Kodona Cosplay of the high caliber kind ^_~

Very crowded. I love the faces I capture, sometimes.

The band comes marching!

Samurai

Entertaining balcony men!

I love this picture just because the man in the reflection makes me laugh. A lot. But then I realized upon further inspection that there is something much more important! TUXEDO KAMEN!! *Very left*

I'm not sure what this was, but later on my way home that day, I saw a picture of the same guy on the train. *shrug*

Yeah, I have no idea.

Do you likes robots?

These guys kind of seemed visual kei-esque so I took a picture.

No idea...

Gundam~

Old maid ..lol

Osaka castle!. . . just kidding. But you can jump inside :)

Gants

Paparazzi Luffy

Street Fighter~

SNAAAAAAAKE!!

One Peice Pirates

Bon Clay~! <3

Full Metal Alchemist

Somewhat familiar...

Yu-Gi-Oh.

Lol... honestly, I thought of Gino.

Rorschach!

Power Rangers... still going strong.

Repeat after me: Mecha Kawaii

Big Bunny!

Aw, c'mon now.

春Spring Break休み

It's the first day of spring break! I did not make any huge plans such as going to Okinawa or China or anything crazy like that. I just want to go back to Kyoto a few times and go to some downtown areas. I'd really love to go out and karaoke with friends, but it seems to be hard to get people to go with us. I'd like to get a sushi/sake get together going on sometime.

Today was a beautiful day! It was actually warm outside! Melody and I went to the park and I sat in the swings I wanted to play on every time I had passed them. After that, we went to the park to see if they sold ice-cream, but they didn't. We ended up going to Hirakatashi station via bus. It took a while because today was the graduation ceremony for the Japanese Students. The girls were all dressed up in Hakama and their hair done up. It was so pretty. At the station, Melody and I ate some cheap but yummy food, then we went shopping, went to the arcade, and had a parfait. It was a great way to start off summer break. Tomorrow we are going to DenDen town again for the big festival. It might rain tomorrow, but I'll stay optimistic.

Here are some pictures of my spoils.

French Toast! Nothing too great. That's not soda. I got fruit juice!

The purikura of Melody and I today.

Ultimate deliciousness~

A cute headband I got to match tomorrow's outfit~

Nail Polish~ My nails grow really long here and tend to last like that, so lets make them pretty now.

Some crazy nails for tomorrow. :p

Earrings to match

Pretty nail art. Cuuuuuute.

A new necklace for tomorrow. Ahahaha. It's so gaudy.

The cute ring I told everyone about.

The first necklace I told you all about. It broke right before my exam. :(

A cute locket! <3

Midterms! *shriek*

Oh my goodness! What a week! I have so much to do it's almost overwhelming. Next week is Midterm week and it has already begun. In my Communication class, we were assigned an 8 page paper on 4 topics. I did half of it yesterday and finished it just now. I'm pretty proud of myself. I'm terrible at getting papers to be lengthy. I'm a bit upset at the professor because he assigned us a LOT of reading material for a class during midterm week. I object and will read it during spring break after the discussion. I just can't handle that right now with everything else going on. I also have a 5-7 page paper due on Wednesday, (which basically means get it done this weekend...) on the topic of finding something portrayed as "Japanese," such as a film, and analyzing it with the topics we have talked about in class. (We can incorporate our own as well.) I'm going to head to the library tomorrow (on a Saturday!? Oh my.) and pick out a film to watch and take down lots of notes and then write all about it. Maybe it won't be so bad...

I also have Japanese exams coming up. Two writing tests and an oral test. (Somewhat similar to the situation examples we practiced with Furuhata Sensei and her teaching assistant. I hope I do alright... I've been practicing to memorize what I want to say.)

I took my camera with me today, so I took a picture of my delicious (and somewhat expensive) lunch that I had today. It made me feel really good though, so it was worth it.

Ta-da! No idea what it was called.. but it seems like a basic stir-fry type thing. I'm pretty sure the meat was chicken. :9 It was delicious. (And about $5). It came with rice, salad, and soup.

Here are some of my sumie paitnings that I have worked on lately. (I don't think these are the one's I turned in though, except for the chrysanthemums. Those I turned in.)