Meditational Field

Arrival, Settling in, Sumo, Random:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2017965&id=1230390045&l=fe935f12ae

Yabusame:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2020088&id=1230390045&l=e7e5b19b1f

Night Stroll!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2020137&id=1230390045&l=93ef55fb67

Performances and First Night Out!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2020615&id=1230390045&l=0b59e150e5

Halloween!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2021650&id=1230390045&l=7d04beda4e

More Miscellaneous:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2022079&id=1230390045&l=319d3e2ac2

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My birthday was wonderful! The taiko performance was beyond amazing. Exhilarating and very entertaining. I loved every second of it. The man who came to teach us taiko, who gave us discounted tickets to the performance, looked so much more inhuman as he drummed for an hour straight without stopping. And when he came out, he was the same funny guy from Osaka that wanted to show some foreigners his favorite thing to do. It was great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Kymm6RNW0
The man in this video is Ikki Hino, the man who is amazing. When he and his team perform live, its much more fantastic than this. Believe me.

Afterward, we went for yakiniku which is basically when you order some raw meat and you get to cook it yourself on the little grill on your table. It's delicious. We had a toast for my 21st and my friends paid for my meal :)

That's about it really. I try to not let it get to me that two other friends of mine, had birthday parties that were thrown for them by the same people, one of which has the same birthday as me. She got a cake with her name on it. They invited me to take a picture with her as we had the same birthday, but it was still her cake. Yeah. I'm gonna let it go. I'm trying. I'm just a little....hmm, hurt? I guess. I feel like I'm not as appreciated. But whatever. I'm trying to get over it. I got something, I should just be happy. End of story.

Anyway, my mom has brought up the idea of me coming home for some time in February (preferably, after February 13th, because I discovered that Paramore will be playing at the same venue where I went to see those Japanese bands. But oh man, I LOVE Paramore! I hope I can get the tickets before they're sold out!)

I wanted to be incredibly cool and not be homesick and be able to just travel around the world now that I'm out here and I have the money to do so with the scholarship I gratefully received....

But, the idea to come home and see my family, my friends, drive a car again (which includes singing along to the radio), eat the foods I miss (Chipotle and my mom's cooking, specifically), play the video games I haven't been able to touch for the last few months, possibly go dancing - its getting more and more tempting.

And then reality hits me again and I know that I can't go to all the places I wanted, even with my scholarship. Whomp whomp. I have to make choices. And I feel bad because I want to visit all my friends but I'm just not going to be able to. I hate making decisions sometimes.

There are cats screeching outside my window again.