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FUCK

10:07am JST Tuesday 16 September 2003

I hate this rfucking fucked

4:10pm

I feel better. I was just like BAM at all of this little wussy culture all these fucking niceties and no one makes a decision and the fucking language barrier and just leave me the fuck alone I'm fucking FINE. Actually I'm fucking petrified about my speech that I'm supposed to give in less than two weeks. It took me over an hour to pronounce it (and by pronounce I mean mispronounce a lot

janette

12:24am JST Wednesday 17 September 2003

Really impressed with janette. She's got a business minded goal that involves making money doing that which she loves, and bettering her resources all at once.

(new oven paid for by baking cookies)

comments

Name: j

Email: dreamon *redacted*

Subject: cookiemindedness

Comment:
thanks mate permalink

purple high top high heels

11:40pm JST Tuesday 16 September 2003

Shibuya shoes

(click)

Fashion in Shibuya is sometimes bizarre, and sometimes ... wow.

comments

Name: j

Email: dreamon *redacted*

Subject: once you start wearing those shoes

Comment:
yay!!! you did it! i am impressed by you.
but mostly by these shoes. damn permalink

speech

12:19am JST Wednesday 17 September 2003

I haven't finished the entry above and I probably never will; more important to work on my speech. I have basically memorized the first two lines.

My name is Rob Nugen.   
私はRob Nugenです。　　　

I was born in the US in 1970 and grew up with my brother and parents in Texas.
私は　１９７０ねんに　アメリカで　うまれて　テキサスで　りょうしんと　きょうだいと　いっしょに　すんでいました。


Texas is situated in the southern central United States, 
bordering Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico on the southwest and southeast.
テキサスは　アメリカの　みなみちゅうおうにあり、メキシコと　こっきょうをせっし　なんせいぶと　なんとうぶの　メキシコわんに　めんしています。

Four other states border Texas on the west, north and east sides.
また、テキサスの　にしと　きたと　ひがしがわは　４つのしゅうと　めんしています。

Texas is almost twice as big as Japan, with some big cities near the south and east borders, 
and a few big cities scattered within vast plains and plateaus in west and north Texas.
テキサスのおおきさは　にほんの　やく２ばいで、みなみと　ひがしの　しゅうざかいに　おおきなとしが　いくつかあります。　
また、２，３の　だいとしが  Texas にしときたの　こうだいな　へいげんや　こうげんに　てんてんとあります。

Texas is famous for cowboys, made popular by Hollywood movies.
テキサスは　ハリウッド　えいがの　カウボーイで　ゆうめいです。

Cowboys appeared in the late 1800s as workers who drove large herds of cattle from Texas to markets in the US and Mexico.
１８００ねんの こうはんに　 カウボーイは　テキサスから　アメリカと　メキシコの　いちばに、うしの　たいぐんを　つれてきました。

They were young men aged 12 to 18, available for seasonal work to help herd the cattle thousands of miles to their destination.
かれらは １０００キロもの　もくてきちまで　うしの　たいぐんを　ていきてきに　つれて　行くことが　できるのは　１２さいから １８さいの　わかものたちでした。


The journeys were usually boring, as they spent weeks on horses walking across the plains.
へいげんを　いくしゅうも　うまで　いどうする　そのたびは　たいくつなものでした。

Sometimes the rides were punctuated with dangerous stampedes due to lightning or dangerous river crossings.
ときどき　そのたびは　きけんな　川　わたりや　いなずまで　うおうさおうして　だいこんらんになり　ちゅうだん しなければ　ならない　ときも　ありました。

By the 1890s, barbed wire fences and other regulations forced cowboys to give up their trade, 
as railroads became the primary method of transporting cattle.
1890ねんだいになると　ゆうしてっせんの　かこいや　カウボーイに　ぎむかされた　きそくで　ぼうえきが
できなくなり　うしの　いどうしゅだんに　てつどうを　つかうように　なりました。




Houston is famous for NASA's Johnson Space Center, referred to as "Houston" by astronauts as they orbit the planet.
ヒューストンは、うちゅうひこうしたちが　じんこうえいせいで　きどうに　のるときに、　
”ヒューストン”と　さけぶ、　ナサの　ジョンソンうちゅうセンターとして　ゆうめいです。

There are no launches from Houston;
ヒューストンには、はっしゃだいは　ありません。

shuttles and other US spacecraft are launched primarily from Florida.
シャトルや　ほかのアメリカのうちゅうせんは、おもに　フロリダから　はっしゃされます。

The Johnson Space Center is a 45 minute drive south of Houston, and is a popular tourist trap.
ジョンソンうちゅうセンターは、ヒューストンの　みなみ４５ふんの　ところにあり、　かんこうちと　して　にんきが　あります。

Austin is the capital of Texas. People in Austin call it the music capital of the world.
オースティンは　テキサスの　しゅとで、　　オースティンの　ひとびとは　せかいの　おんがくの　まちと　よんでいます。

If you come to Texas, I hope you have fun.
みなさん、テキサスに　くることが　あったら　ぜひ　たのしんで　ください。

comments

Name: j

Email: dreamon *redacted*

Comment:

you         you
 will      already
  be      are
   awesome

stephanie

3:15am JST Wednesday 17 September 2003

I feel sad.

Stephanie is leaving Japan on Thursday. My first new-teacher-friend that I could hang out with comfortably and show her how to buck the Nova system and joke about stupid stuff and walk around and whatever. Gone in less than a month. We only hung out like.. 3 times I think. First I told her diplomatically, "fuck what Scott says; your lesson was almost certainly fine; whatever you did was fine." Then we met at Subway when we had the same lunch. Then we zoomed down to Yokohama and munched at TGI Fridays and caught some of the last trains home. Then we went walking around Kawasaki and I showed her Cinecitta area and we didn't eat at Tuk Tuk Thai food, but we did yammer around the CD shop. Most recent adventure was getting Ocean's Eleven and watching that over Kraft macaroni after I soundly beat her at Uno and then she barely beat me back. We decided we'd go to OZ together this winter break. She felt a bit sick that night and I told her not to die. She didn't die, and I'm super thankful for that. But she didn't come in to work the next day. Nor the next day. Nor during her weekend as we bounced a few text messages that she was feeling like crapola and the hospital couldn't figure anything out.

Most recent message asked me to take her to the airport on Thursday. Sigh. I'd be honored.