'Shopping and Squeeing'

Jumbo!
On Thursday we went to Ikspiari with Maika & Ribeka. we went to Missha first, and I was having really bad blackheads that day, so I thought I could try putting some of the sample makeup on to cover it up. But it wasn't working, so I grabbed a cotton ball, and put some 'Clear Refreshing Water' on it. It was sitting by the cotton balls, so I guessed it was for taking tester makeup off with. It made my skin feel really shuppa-shuppa (Urara!). And when I got home, my nose was (almost) healed! So I'm going to Ikspiari with Lexi tomorrow, when she goes modeling, to see if I can buy some. after that, we went to Claires, Lush, the dress store, and maybe a couple others. aren't you proud of me? I didn't buy a single thing! And, I found out yesterday that the American Eagle stores are updated the day I fly into America! OMG! I really need to go to PayLess. I have no summer shoes. Church, or casual. I got blisters when I wore last years church shoes to the temple. We've been seeing the Nanjos too much lately! (In a good way!) We saw them at YC, April 1st, the 3rd, the 5th, the 6th, 7th, and 8th, then again yesterday. We'll see them at Seminary this Saturday, at church the next day, and, they're skipping school to see us of at the airport. Yea! I gotta do my school work now. Peace out.
Adios!

'The Sound of Youth'

Yay! Yesterday we went to Nakano, and played

with the Youth from the stake. We played Signs,

Sardines, Wink Killer, Nanndemo Basket, Missionary

Tag, and danced Ok Go!. It was fun!!!! And,

we saw Elder Judd for the last time. I'm going

to miss everyone! Everyone who was there

signed a good-bye-message on a good-bye-card.

I especially liked the Kusume boys', and Nanjo's

messages, and I will keep on loving them Always

And Forever! Chiba-kun, Shunnichirou, Yuuichirou,

Yuuki,Yoshiaki, Yoshuya, Mana, Maika, Ribeka,

Nobuaki,Lexi, Tashi, Yuuji, Kouji, Tomonori,

Ari, and Ayumi went. That's 17 people. But,

only Kasai ward can come to the temple on

Friday. Why can no one come? On the way

home, we stopped at Gap, and got some cute,

new dresses for Gracie(just in case you don't

know, this is the baby's name-to-be). Her first

name is going to be either Felicity, or Suzzana

unless they come up with something else. But,

she's going to go by her middle name Grace. And,

her last name will be Stout. I picked that one out.

I've had lots of songs stuck in my head lately.

new ones, old ones, classics, classical ones, Pirates

of the Caribbean ones. Pirates 3 is coming out in

a little more than a month. Yay everyone! I

must go now, good bye.

'Japan Cry'

I can't believe how many garbage bags full of

things we have gotten rid of, but how much

stuff we still have. It's like, we get rid of things,

but more keep appearing, so no change happens.

It's kind of annoying, and somewhat disturbing.

The first day of Youth Conference was fun! (that's

all I participated for). I didn't get to dance with

Tomonori, but I'm ok. Hmm, I have nothing to

say.

Church was fun. Next week we'll be going to

the Koiwa building for General Conference,

and the week after that will be me, Mom, Mia,

and Noah's last week at Kasai. We're planning

on going to the temple to do baptisms on

Friday, and the Nanjos will come home with

us to sleep over, and we'll party all night

dancing, playing Uno, and watching movies.

Yay! And in the afternoon, we'll go to semonary

together! I'm not sure if Anna & Erika are

coming. Anna wasn't making sense. ah well.

I believe we've decided we're leaving on the

17th. Noah, & Austin Rodenberg, & Asami,

Yamagata & Nick DeMann's b-days. Yay!

Mia's is on the 15. Easter! She was born

on Easter. I found out where the 'crap' comes

from yesterday. It was kind of weird. It comes

from the last name 'Crapper', who the first

toilets were named after. Wonderful thing to

be named after. "Lucky..."

'A series of fortunate, & somewhat unfortunate events'

Our American Eagle order finally came today! I got this darling 'graphic T'. Isn't it darling? It's a bit see-thru though, so I'll have to wear something under it. But it's still cute. Spring vacation today! But I still have to do school work, because I was sick Thursday, Friday, Saturday. We've all had it throughout the week. It consists of a runny-nose, achy muscles, coughes, sore throat & lungs from the cough, head aches causing eyes to hurt, and fevers. scary I tell you. Mia & Noah still havefevers. And, today is Noah's interview for his visa. If this goes good, we can move back in mid-April. (AKA: around Mia & Noah's B'days) This is probably why I had the dream that I mentioned in the previous posting. Everyone who's been saying they'll come visit us for years but haven't, you gotta come within the next couple weeks. From Wednesday, we've doing deep cleaning around the house, and we've thrown 7 garbage bags full of things away, and given 13 away. and we're putting out some magazines right now to recycle, and there's still more to get rid of. And I am not looking forward to the game closet whew!

'While I was sleeping'

I had a weird dream that Our whole family was going to the US for only one day just for Mia's B'day. If that were only so... While I was uploading the icons for this post, Mia looked out the window, and started getting mad at our cat Pippin. So I asked her why she was scolding him, and she said that "Pippin is eating himself! He's licking his leg!" When I was refilling the kerosene tank for our heater, I threw one of my mom's jackets on, since it was right there. Noah was beside me putting his coat on before we went outside. Noah suddenly realised that I was wearing a jacket. He got all excited and started patting ny stomach as though he thought since I had Mom's coat on, maybe I had a baby in my tum. I had to take him on the train to meet my dad to get medical check-ups for his Visa. He was very cute until we had to go home. It was right when he was supposed to be taking his nap, so he didn't feel like he should have to walk, and I should have to carry my bag, the diaper bag-full of stuff for him- And Noah. We had a big fight when we were almost home, and he was crying 'cause I wouldn't carry him. I finally had to throw one of the bags down, pick him up, and get the bag later. People I knew where looking and everything. And now, I have change an extremely stinky diaper because it made Mom throw up. At least he called me nice afterwards. On Saturday we had a before-Youth-Conference-meeting. It was so boring. The leaders planned it, and made us play this 'game' that adults like to enforce apon children at school & church even though no one likes it. Everyone has to go aroundd introducing themselves to eachother, and make notes on a piece of paper. This time, there was 16 squares, and the leaders would draw a name, and if you had written that person down, you mark it. So it was bingo. If you got a bingo you earned your group for Y.C. points, and since our group only had 3 people(everyone else left), we didn't get ANY points. People made fun of us. Is it some kind of curse I have to never end up in the group with the energetic, talkative, fun people? They always seem to be grouped together. Are the leaders plotting against us? What has become of the Youth? it's turned into the leadersdo what they want. They plan what activities they want, when they want. And, the Youth go alongwith it. If I make a suggestion, I'm always outvoted. The leaders only ask "what;s in it for us?" They come to the pilaties activity they planned, but when it comes to Y.C., they make the parents drive. And they force the parents into it weeks in advance, asking you over, and over if you'll go, till you finally say yes. Once again I say "What has become of the youth?" Enough depressing talk.

The sakura are starting to bloom. Only the white ones. I picked

one off, and plan to press it in rememberence as the first sakura

of the year.

'Oops I did it again'

I ate too much sugar, and my stomach is now

regreting it. Our kind bishop went to Cozy

Corner and got us cakes for White Day. This

is the first time the men of Kasai returned

Valentines treats to the women. There were

cheese cakes, chocolate cakes, cream puffs,

custard tarts, ann tarts, crepes, swiss rolls,

and eclaires. OMG! And then, Daddy gave

us each a Tolberone bar. yay! I got my

Personal Progress completion certificate in

sacrament meeting! I'm finally done! When

we got home, we got to eat my daddy's chicken

soup for lunch. After reading, sewing, and

sudokuing, Noah helped me make peach

cobbler. He's turning into quite a cook. He

knows each cooking utensile-ware, and can tell

the difference between pies, cakes, cookies,

muffins, and cobler. After it had cooked and

cooled Noah helped me, yet again, to make

ice cream. It was quite yummy. I found my

five year old camera the other day, and have

been trying to download pictures, but my hard

work has so far been in vain. I'm gonna try on

a different computer, so we'll see how that

works.

Lot's of stuff

Em is here! and, we've been eating junk food everyday! Scary!....Couple days later, Em is gone, and I'm going on a diet! Not. I resolved things with my misguided YW leaders, and I don't have to do my Personal Progress over again. Yea me! I just have to write my testimony, and Bishop Kawaminami will give me my certificate thingy next Sunday! Yea! Me, Lexi, and Pops are going to immogrations in 2 minutes. Gotta go.
5 hours later... We had a wonderful fieldtrip today. We took the train Kamamatsucho during rush hour. And got to breath in toxic fumes while gazing the beautiful scenery of buildings that looked like they somehow survived the WWII bombing. Then we waited for about an hour or so till it was our turn to go to the counter. Daddy bought us Fanta & Pockys. Yea Daddy. I have a strange rash on my face, so I put calendula on it this morning. The walk back to the station was super windy, and dirt kept hitting my face. It hurt. When me & lex got on the train, she looked closely at me and said "What happened to your face? There's little black things all over it". I looked at my face in the mirror, and I had specks of dirt all over my face! I couldn't get them all off! Not to mention the wind had blown my hair everywhere!

Happy Valentines Day

Hello folks, and Happy Valentines Day to peoples in America, and belated Happy V-Day to those in Japan. Last night, instead of our parents going on a romantical date, they stayed home, and the 4 'big' people partyed with chocolate fondue, apple pie, cheese cake, cinnamon crisps, and Cheaper by The Dozen 2. Yes, we hadn't seen it til now. Mom got Dominos pizza for dinner. How surprising & mezurashii. Since there'ss Parent Teacher Conference, Mia's been getting out at 2:00 the past 3 days. Around noon today, Sister Kawaminami just said "ojamashimasu!" and walked in to our house. It was for a good deed, she was giving us some gyouza that she had made at Enrichment Mtg. to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and Mom hadn't been able to go yesterday, because she wasn't feeling well, but it was still really weird. It's not the first time it's happened though. I'm going over to the Welch's soon to babysit because S. Welch is going to school to watch her daughter study. I need moola so I agreed. I bought some cute pants off of American Eagle, and and I owe Mom 3, 791 yen. I was $31.27, but with exchage rate, it's more expensive. When I checked today it was higher. It was sent to Em, and she'll bring it with her when she comes on Monday hopefully. I haven't mentioned them to her yet.