| Monday, April 24, 2006 |
| Easter party! |
 Our last event for this AJET year was an easter party at the orphanage in Okayama city where we also visit at Christmas. We had 20 ALTs, 40 kids, 160 eggs, and excessive amounts of chocolate: perfect combination! Spent 3 nights preparing hardboiled and blown eggs-- Bob-san and Adametal and I did our best to not wasteful by preparing a giant Japanese-white-trash omu-rice (lots of ketchup!) dinner, but we couldn't even eat a dozen between us.
 The mayhem! All those years at Kids' Place and BCC Kids' Camp finally came to use. We had egg dying, egg painting, origami, face painting, and basket decorating. Most of the younger kids just wanted to play with the balloons, though.
 NY Sarah helping at the egg-painting table.
 Captain Matt, heart of the party as usual...
 Where's Waldo?
Matt and Frisbee Neilu and Andrew D hid all the eggs outside during craft time, which went well except for a crow making off with at least one. Neil is minorly obsessed with egg-hiding... let's hope his future children really really really like Easter or he will be disappointed for life. We released the kids in batches, just like Easter in the olden days at the Chapmans' house when we actually had anyone that qualified as as a kid. (I'm disappointed there was no hunt this year back home. The fact that Laura is almost legal drinking age and the "kids table" is progressively getting married off should be of no concern. Next thing I'll hear is that Debbie has stopped making her famous carrots!)
 Joyfull Danielle and a plaid friend-- tamago desu!
 Emcee Claire C and buddies.
 Little Bae-Yon Cottontail...
 Bae-yon Chris and Adoraemon (wearing the most fantastic shirt under his sweater: "I am a cat-like robot"): Chicken fight!!
 Liza doing face painting.
 A stowaway in the Guppy!
 We headed off afterwards for a sayonara dinner to stay goodbye to Kathryn as she leaves JET for law school. On the way downtown, though it was springtime, we stumbled upon a short winter sonata. It was Yon-sama day at a Pachinko joint, so Bae-Yon and I took a moment to be Korean and in love...
And as this is inexplicably the Year of the Orphan, I'm off to Cambodia for Golden Week (which I'm stretching into 2 weeks) to attempt to build some houses and visit orphanages in Phnom Penh and Siam Reap. It's going to be really really hot and I haven't really ever built anything since junior high tech class. Formerly Chair (but still Social) Claire is going to Mongolia for a Habitat for Humanity trip, Neil and Ashley are biking to all 88 temples on Shikoku as fundraisers for Hodgkin's and Alzheimer's research, and Adam is going to be a volunteer organic farmer. Gambarimashou! |
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Hey! You forgot about my charity trip! I am going on a special trip, entitled "Save the vacuous" whereby I shall be going to Tokyo (probably) and undertaking the following tasks with very high visibility:
1) having hair cut in hugely improbable style
2) shopping, both excitedly and unnecessarily
3) drinking, both excitedly and unnecessarily and
4) dancing until my limbs fail (which leads to more of number 3)
I shall be funding this project myself as a kind of living sacrifice although should you wish to make a donation large notes, money transfers and credit cards are all accepted.
I'll finally make my family proud...
Love
Bae-Yon Shopaholic
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Hey! You forgot about my charity trip! I am going on a special trip, entitled "Save the vacuous" whereby I shall be going to Tokyo (probably) and undertaking the following tasks with very high visibility:
1) having hair cut in hugely improbable style
2) shopping, both excitedly and unnecessarily
3) drinking, both excitedly and unnecessarily and
4) dancing until my limbs fail (which leads to more of number 3)
I shall be funding this project myself as a kind of living sacrifice although should you wish to make a donation large notes, money transfers and credit cards are all accepted.
I'll finally make my family proud...
Love
Bae-Yon Shopaholic