Potluck

Potluck: a gathering where all who attend bring one dish to share with everyone else.

ポットラック：集合場所ですべての人が一皿を持って皆で共有する。

Maia and Cassie (the Stark twins) have an awesome mom. She came up with the idea that "Hey, we should have people over. On a regular basis. Let's have a weekly potluck at our house every Sunday !"

双子友達マイアとキャーセィのお母さんは賢い！彼女が「毎週人々が私達の家に来たらいいな」と考えて「じゃ毎日曜日ポットラックしよう！」のアイディアが生まれた！

This past Sunday was the very first one.

先の日曜日が初だったよ！

I decided to make homemade udon ! And since we didn't have any udon dashi, I made miso with wakame and tofu to go with it. It turned out not too bad ! Pretty healthy tasting anyhow...

メリッサが手作りうどんを作った！だしがなかって味噌汁とわかめと豆腐を作ってあわせて。。。まぁそんなにまずくなかった！めちゃヘルシーな味。。。

先の一週間休みだった！

Alright, I have not posted in FOREVER and seeing as I just returned from a splendid trip I might as well write it all down.

2010年2月15日- 日曜日

電車でレッドディーアへ友達ケーティを会いに行くぞ！

出発は２３時４７分です。６時４７分エドモントンに着く予定で時間がめっちゃ早いしそこの駅で誰も待ってなかって良かったわ！ジョウジョウもお母さんも駅まで送ってくれた。駅員のフランス語アクセントが重くて自分の席を見つけられなかった。ついに彼の助けてもらって光すごすを見て寝ました。

Monday February 15, 2010

I'm taking the train to visit my friend Katie McLaren in Red Deer ! 

My train leaves at 11:47 pm. It is scheduled to arrive 6:47 am in Edmonton, and hopefully Katie and her Mom will not be there yet because that is SO EARLY ! Jojo and Mom drove me to the station, we had no problems finding it. I couldn't find my seat due to the train attendant being French and speaking in a funny accent. He eventually helped me, I watched lights pass in the dark and fell asleep.

Happy New Year !

あけましておめでとうございます！！

去年お世話になりました。どうもどうもどうも！今年もよろしく！

Violins and Video Games !

よっしゃ！試験全部終わった！降格できたかな？(笑）

やっ初テスト(地理学)の場合テストする場所を間違った。(`o`) あせた！
PACジムと書いて、EDUCジムに行っちゃった！
始まる時間は2時でメリッサは違うジムに入って違うテストを受けって見て出てPACジムまで走ってた。マジしんどかった！！たぶんその日の気温は-27度かな？
｢やばいやばいやばいやばいやばいやばいやばいやばいやばいやばい｣と思った。
2時16分PACジムに着いてまだ大丈夫だった！良かったな～残ってるテストの始まる前場所を３回もチェックした。

昨日トクマルシューゴを見つけた。日本インディ歌手と言う人。この歌を聞くこと止まれない！聞いて見て！

Yesssss. Finals are done and away. Hope I passed ! (Especially Math 110)

Haha, so I messed up the location for my VERY FIRST final, Geography. It was in the PAC gym, but I showed up at EDUC. I looked around me and saw only guys, so I texted my brother and (haha) asked whether they separate girls and boys for tests. Oi vay. It turns out there were two Engineering finals going on. Haha. So I went in, I get my test, I looked at it, and when I realized the GE stood for General Engineering not GEography, I walked out of there and felt ready to panic like crazy. I then had a nice job through the cold brisk air. I didn't even feel tired from running, but it was probably cause I wasn't even thinking about that. I showed up 16 minutes late, but it was all good. Phew. Definitely doubled checked all the rest of my test places after that.

I discovered this guy Shugo Tokumaru yesterday. He's a Japanese Indie Artist. I cannot stop listening to this song !! Have a listen.

土曜日友達マイルスはうちの家に来る。彼とNYOCオーディションを受けるしバイオリンを弾いてビデオゲームを遊ぶ。

めちゃ楽しみしてる！

Miles is coming over this saturday ! We're auditioning for NYOC, so we're gonna jam on our violins and play video games. I'm so pumped !

心配させてごめん～

久しぶり日本語書いてなかったごめんね！

I got a call on Monday, and I'm not going to Africa. Oh well, I can always try again next year ! But since I'm not going, I've applied to audition for NYOC (National Youth Orchestra of Canada). It's really hard to get in, but it's a good experience to do the audition. So from now til the end of January....endless violin practice.

月曜日電話がかけて来てアフリカの行かないらしい。ざんねんけどまた来年もう一回申し込もう！アフリカに行く予定が消してカナダの国立青少年オーケストラに申し込んだ。(笑。申し込むこと終わらんな～）オーケストラに入られるはしんどいけどめちゃいい経験と思う。今からいっぱいバイオリン練習しよう。
昨日と今日高校のミュージカル見に行った！名前「Anything Goes」をした。やばいめちゃばかばかしかった。ビデオを見て！

Yesterday and today I went to see my old high school's musical production. They did Anything Goes. It was ridiculous. Here's some clips !

That was all fun, but with classes done, finals are a coming !

My next week looks a little like this:

Dec. 9 - Geography Final and Cantata rehearsal

Dec 10 - Symphony Concert

Dec. 11 - Jazz Final and Symphony Concert

Dec. 12 - Symphony Concert

Dec. 13 - Cantata Concert

Dec. 14 - Quintet gig and Chemistry Final

Wowza, that's a jampacked weekend ! Hopefully it all turns out well...

９日~１４日は忙しいと思う。地理試験、カンタータリハー、ジャズ試験、交響楽団コンサート、カンタータコンサート、五重奏ギグと化学試験。やばいいっぱいな！

Tomorrow Never Comes

I applied to become an EWB (Engineers Without Borders) Junior Fellowship, to go and volunteer overseas in an African community for 3 months this coming summer. I did an hour interview with them 2 weeks ago. And tomorrow I find out if they've accepted me or not. NERVOUS !!!

内職...?

I should be completing one of the many things on my list to do:

VSEPR Molecule Lab
WebAssign Online Math Assigment
Mastering Chemistry Assignment
Studying for the Geography Lab
Finding a Spanish Piano Piece
Practicing for the upcoming Chamber Concert

But...

This morning I played piano for worship. And it was So Fun. So Fun ! Finally I wasn't in an older person group, but instead got last minute called up to play for Youth Worship. So we played pretty upbeat stuff, although I'm sure we shocked the hair off of many seniors at the service: we were pretty loud. So now, all I'm thinking about is Christian Rock and those 6 songs that we played this morning. I wish I could write music. Or more specifically, write Good music. Grounded just released their first EP and Pirate Fridays is having a CD Release on Sunday. I admire you all, I can't write melodies, let alone lyrics, even if it's a poetry portfolio assigned to me in Grade 9 ! And a random connection, the drummer who played this morning is opening for PiFri in the band Rippit Rippit (with David Turnbull!) It should be a good show, hopefully I've found focus for my work so that I can attend that concert guilt free !




Our version is better :)
We received applause from the age 50+ crowd at both services, but we weren't sure if it was because they were happy the loud song was over haha.