As Promised, More Dance Video

Here is the latest rendition of "To Live in the Moment Without Fear," from December 18, 2011. I am more "visible" in this video than the one from June, because my hair is flying free in a half-ponytail. It's easy to tell the little white girl from the others when her golden tresses are everywhere. This video is of an extended performance featuring revised choreography on seven dancers instead of the original six, a duet with myself and Shio that I was instrumental in choreographing, and a charming finishing number featuring four young creative movement students. There are moments I dislike, like when the fabric gets caught on the back lights and I have to untangle it (very obviously), but overall it was a good experience and it felt nice in performance.

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Enter: Germany

We stopped in Munich to visit my good friend Martina who studied abroad in America during high school. Munich is an unbelievably beautiful and clean city, full of spectacular architecture and interesting places to visit. The surrounding area is made up of rolling hills dappled with stupendous castles. Martina and her man Christian were the best hosts ever, taking us all over and dealing with us in their space for almost three weeks! The first main tourist site we visited was Hohenschwangau, home of two castles. The first we saw was Schloss Neuschwanstein, built by Ludwig II. It was never really completed, especially inside, as the King went bankrupt during the process. He was removed from the throne and thrown in prison, where he managed to talk his way out for a solitary walk where he drowned himself. It's a tale befitting such a sight and such a life. The castle itself, shown below from an onlooking bridge, is an impressive white ...

Some Funnies

As our first year (6 months, really) draws to a close, I think it's important to display the winners of this year's worst (as in best) English sentences. Coming in third place is a very silly dialoge written by some third-years at my school. Another ALT discovered this and thankfully showed me. It's obvious what they're trying for but they really miss the mark: A: Hello. B: Hello. This is H. May I speak to T please? A: This is T. B: Great! I'm going to prikura (sic). Can you come to porice (sic) office at midnight? A: Yes! Of course! That sounds fun! Do you want me to bring anything? B: Sure. Could you bring some monneys (sic)? A: Yes. Thank you for inviting me. I'm so bad! See you! B: You're welcome. Fuck you! Second place is two sentences that can be taken as a pair or as stand-alone awesomeness. These were written by one of my third year students when we had a unit on debates: A: ...

Hikone

On April first we began our week-long vacation with previously mentioned good friends Alan and Krista. The journey starts in Hikone, a smaller city with one of those original castles. More of the castle is original than Inuyama's, where only the main keep (castle building) is original. In Hikone, much of the defense structures are also original stone. It's magnificent to behold; here I will try to give you a glimpse of the majesty. First, let me introduce Hikonyan. He is the mascot of Hikone (each city has one) and my favorite so far. To the left, he is doing his signature jump. Hmm, a cat who does ballet in a samurai helmet? Hard to see why I love him. It amuses me to think of Hikonyan as the cat samurai version of this samurai to the right. The statue is placed near the train station, continuing the trend I've observed so far of placing each city's great warlord statue in the vicinity of the train station...

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