ChanomiTalk

今日は展示会場で一日待機の日でした。
午後からはお客さんの入りも緩やかだったので、
少しだけ新しいイラストが描き始められました。

お客さんから「新聞を見て来ました。」と言われ、
おおー、新聞効果はすごいんだなと思いました。
来てくださった方から「ここに来てよかった。」と言ってもらえると本当にうれしいです。

朝京都を出てサークルのお友達のところへ。
荷物が重たくてスムーズに移動できず、
なんと2回も電車を乗り過ごすという大失態をかましました。
乗り継ぎがこうもうまくいかないとは。。。とほほ。

そのお友達がされている「レイキヒーリング」というのを受けてきました。
私自身はだた横になっているだけなのですが、いつの間にか寝てました。
そしてなんか体がぽかぽか。

カードも引いて、今の自分を振り返ることと、これからの自分を考えることのきっかけをいただきました。カードの結果が、今の自分に当てはまっている内容でビックリしました。前回の状況では絶対に引き得なかった内容だったし。カードの結果を当てにして物事を選択していくというものじゃなく、自分を考えるきっかけになるものだからすごくありがたいです。お友達も「ちゃんと前進してるようで何より。」と声をかけてくださって。お話しすると前向きになれる人です。ありがとうございました。

I’d like to admit. Though I know or know of only a handful of you. My teachers and one student whom is on his way to Nihon.(Good luck) I think I will enjoy posting here. I had just about given up on social networking. I do not have a facebook and that is a story for another time. Once upon a time though I blogged frequently on the internet. Then abruptly stopped. But I posted anything from dreams to recent art or poetry I created or how much I despise the New York Yankees. 🙂 GO GIANTS! 🙂

And so now I have found a home again, Nagaya, for where others may or may not read. But I am here. Here is where I will document my journey on learning Japanese. and perhaps other moments in my life as well. I’d like to take the time to thank you for having me here.

So. What this is about. Penelope vs. The Japanese Language. As I left class today. I walked with a slightly diffrent stride. Something felt different. Was I anxious to ride? Was I satisfied with what I had just learned? No and Yes. I am never anxious to ride. I love it. I was satisfied because my class is more than a class for me. And I am really starting to see how it works. Language is not mathematics. Though I feel my progress is not where I want it to be. I know more than I did the day before. And each day I learn. I know more than I did they day before. It is not as fast as I want it to be, But I must remember life’s a journey. Not a destination.

And this how Penelope came to be pitted against the Japanese Language. OH! Penelope is the name of my bike, my 2009 supotsu suta.

As I was walking to my bike to ride home. I thought. I don’t think I’ve been this challanged by anything in life except for learning to ride. So I started running through comparisons in my mind.

Learning to ride. The only thing I had to conquer was the fear. The fear that 30mph felt like 60mph. That I am not protected, that I could fall. It is the fear that also drives me when I ride and makes it exciting. The technique to riding believe it or not is the easy part. The hardest part is getting over your fear.

With Japanese, There is no fear. And Technique isn’t everything. Through my teachers I am learning I must also have a personality when I speak. Not just reading a piece of paper. In a way. I am trying to find who I am all over again. And it is difficult to compare which is more exciting. The first time I rode on the freeway and broke 60mph? Or to discover parts of you never knew before.

I can say this. I don’t think I’ve ever took up anything in life that has been this much fun and challenging at the same time.

And because I have a small belief. It’s one I applied when I would draw. You set many small goals forself and they snowball into a large one.

A small goal I have is to post here exclusively in Japanese. This will eventually lead to my larger goals. 🙂

Thank you again all for reading if you took the time.

高速バスで5時間、京都着。
ありさんの命日でお墓参りに行ってきました。
6年です。今までで一番前向きな報告ができました。

ぼちぼち定期で行くのは卒業の時期かもね。
今日は京都のビジネスホテルで一人お泊り。
こういうのは割とめずらしい。だからなんかわくわく。
自由気ままに京都駅周辺を散策。
切り紙の美術展行ったり、秋服見てみたり、デパ地下行ったり。
あてもなくウロウロするのがなんか楽しい。う～ん、なんや楽しいな（笑）

Well. Here I am. I woke a little early for work. Decided I’d finally get on here and make a post. Though I’m not sure what kind of enjoyment others may get from this. However my mother often reminds me that humans are meant to interact. annnnnd there goes my Alarm Clock. Time to start my day (night). Which begins with with an 8 hour day of work, followed by a fun class of learning to speak Japanese at NACOS. 🙂

Which I must say, Not only spending time learning the language is fun. But also heading to that side of the island is also very different for me. As the culture of Honolulu is different from Kapolei, The area where I live. I think I’ve now visited Honolulu now in one week more than I have in the last 4 years. I actually enjoy going to Don Quijote before I start class and like to look at all the different people and imagine what each person’s history might be and how they arrived here. Now. 🙂

To cap it off. When class is over and I’ve loaded my brain with many new things. I jump on my Hare Dabiduson (Harley-Davidson. 🙂 And enjoy the ride home. Luckily the weather has been nice everyday. And beautiful views from a motorcycle are breathtaking at times. With that said, I once read, “If you’re looking at a view from a car you might have as well bought the post card.” Nothing like riding a motorcycle and being one with the road and the enviroment. I have to prepare for work. Thank you forever took the time to read this.

Rodney

せっかく高知に来たのにといわれたらそれまでですが、
今日は昼まで寝る ランチをする 映画を見る 焼肉を食す
というなんや高知でなくてもいいんじゃないかという過ごし方をしました。
本人が満足してるのでいいのです。

高知でイラストを飾らせてもらってたお店から連絡があり、
再び飾らせていただけることになりました。
やからそこにランチがてらいってきました。なんとも嬉しいです。ありがたいです。

映画も「うさぎドロップ」を見てきました。松山ケンイチが大好きなので、
もう何回も「ケンちゃんかっこいい’と心の中で叫んでました。
そんな一日でしたが、なんや夜にはヘトヘトになってしまいました。

I’ve always gone to summer school or summer fun during the summer. But this one time, I begged my mother,  if I could stay home and  play with the neighborhood children. I think I was about 7 or 8 years old. My mother agreed and left me home with a list of 10  chores to do everyday, to keep me busy and out of trouble. She gave me 50 cents allowance to spend.

We lived at the end of a lane, and there was a corner store at it’s beginning.  Every morning I would take a short walk to the  store and take my time choosing what I could buy with my 50 cents.  I usually bought only 3 comics, Chinese seeds, candies and a coke. There were so many comics to choose from, Little Lulu, Archie and his gang, Casper the friendly ghost,Lil Lotto, Superman, Chip and Dale chipmunks, Dennis the menace, Beetle Bailey, Richie Rich, that I ended up with stacks of them in my closet.  It was a lot of fun deciding everyday which one to buy and it took time trying to remember if I had already bought it the other day.  There was so much candies and seeds to choose from.  Some of my favorites were, mango seed ( dry or wet),Li Hing  Mui(dry, wet, salty, seedless,sweet), crack seed, cherry seed, preserved plum(big green and round), tootsie roll, bubble gum, juice sticks, liqurice, red vines, chocolate covered raisins,malted balls and tablets in a bottle, Jujubees, Tomo Ame with a free toy(kokeshi doll), Cracker Jacks with it’s little prize in the box, animal cookies, Big Hunk, Look candy bar, lolli pops, crazy corn nuts, assorted ice cream bars, milk duds, candy dots on a roll of paper, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, and etc.  There were so many flavors of bottle soda to choose from, like creme, vanilla, lime, strawberry, Dr.Pepper, Green River, grape and etc .

When I got home after that, I would turn on the TV and watch movies and cartoons and enjoy all the snacks I had just bought and then later read all the comics.  I did that everyday and enjoyed not going to school, but the fun lasted only for a short while!  All my friends were busy with summer fun and classes so I was left with no one to play with in the neighborhood.

Some of the chores I was assigned to do then were, wash the clothes by hand and hang them out to dry, starch and iron them, clean and wax the floors, clean the toilets, do the dishes , clean and defrost the refrigerator and icebox, dust and polish the furniture, polish the silverware and fix the beds, straighten the pillows on the couch, cook the rice, wash the screens, scrub the shower and the curtain, and etc. Just an hour before my mother would come home, I’d rush around trying to finish all the chores that I was assigned to do in that short time.  I got yelled at a lot for doing such a bad job of cleaning.

After just a month and a half of all this playing and enjoying myself, I went to my mother and cried and cried. I was so, so sad, lonely, and unhappy with staying at home,  that I vowed never to spend a Summer vacation home ever again and begged to go to school or summer fun just like the rest of the other children.

There after, I attended summer schools, or summer fun, or YMCA and was a jr. leader,and latter on I worked at the Pineapple Cannery during summers. For….       ” my summers “were never dull or  boring, evermore!  In fact, neither has my LIFE!

四万十、足摺方面へ行ってきました。
高知一か月滞在中に行こうと思ってましたが、
結局行けなかった3か所のお遍路をめぐってきました。
岩本寺、金剛副寺、延光寺。

これでひとまず高知県にある16か所終了いたしました。
ありがとうございました。

教えてください！

りんごの一片を、喉の食道に詰まらせてしまいました。

熱いお茶をたくさん飲んでいますが、りんごはまだ喉から下に降りてくれません。

このような経験のある方、どうすればよいのか教えてください！！

先日は、大きなカルシウムの錠剤が喉につっかえそうになって慌てました。

今回は3日間だけです。
電車とバスで5時間半。
やっぱり時間もコストもそれなりにかかるね～。
なんや一か月ぶりですが、懐かしい気がしました。