Lately

The other day I made carrot cake and cream cheese frosting in my tiny microwave. YUM! It did indeed disturb me a little bit to enjoy so much raw butter and cream cheese (ew, when you think about it) but my goodness do I love carrot cake. I ate heaps, and that was after giving away 3 cakes to my eikaiwa students and my shamisen teacher. Cake diplomacy!!

Yesterday I finally sat down and went through my videos from China. They are pretty awesome, but unfortunately look terrible on youtube. I don’t understand this, because the quality isn’t bad to begin with. Perhaps I need to change it around before uploading.

Today at school I have two lessons; origami, and bingo. WHOA. In other words, reading practice, and number practice, hooray. But at the end of the first class, we all made origami wrestlers, and made them fight on cardboard box rings. You tap your fingers on the box to make them move (or if you’re a jerk, you slam your hand down hard and it pops your opponent into the air. HOORAY! VICTORY!!)
My fighter did alright at first, but then fell over and lost repeatedly. I bet you could play this on airplane tray tables quite easily. You could even do sumo purification with the airline meal salt packets, and make a rope ring out of paper napkins.

June is supposed to be the rainy season, but we haven’t seen much of that yet. Actually it’s been beautiful, James and I went to USJ this weekend and had absolutely perfect weather. I keep looking outside and seeing sunshine and fluffy clouds. I almost wish it would be rainy and miserable, so I wouldn’t be so cabin-feverish when stuck indoors.

Life is pretty easy-peasy at the moment. I have several projects going, some secret, some public, some long-term, some short-term. It’s nice to have a variety of things to focus on. One of them is doing a piano piece in public, the thought of which makes me nauseous, but I volunteered myself for it so I can’t really complain too much.