Schools out!!!

Yeah! okay so school is now finished finally after drawing it out painfully, by doing so many half days:p I'm leaving in a few days to go on my summer adventure to go to tokyo disney, and see relatives and best of all my best friends in washington! and most of all i'm going to stay in japan, for another semester:) my parents let us choose this time either to go back to washington or stay at least another semester...and we or me and shannon chose to stay! taylor kinda got over ruled..:(i have no reason why i want to stay, it's just all the sudden i feel like wanting to stay a little longer. also, my friend dani, like the best friend i had here, is leaving and i'm going to miss her so much:( well i think that's are plans so far, unless boeing sends us home early because of the stupid economy..well right later!

SWEET 16!!!

SWEET 16!!!

We're 16!! so rachel and i had a sweet 16 birthday party and it wasn't like those birthdays that you see on the tv but this one was fun and exciting with all my japanese friends that i met..even though they're not all japanese.lol. We had a blast! the first game we played was rachel's idea. we went outside without our shoes and socks which was freezing and we tied our shoes to the back of us or put them in our back pockets and ran around trying to get everyone elses without letting someone get our own. then after a couple games we were freezing so we went in side and played pass the magical present around. the game where this one prize is wrapped in layers and each layer someone has to do something. almost all of them but one or two had to deal with food. like poor rachel had to eat nasty disgusting fish eggs:p after that game we played the game where there are two teams and you have to each put a layer of snow gear(gloves, hat, shirt, and shorts) and then run to the table and try cutting a hersheys bar and eating a chunk then each teammate would do the same until the whole bar is gone. since we were all sweaty after playing that we went outside and played the shoe game again. after that they lit the cake and rachel, miki(her birthday is the same as rachel's) and myself all blew out the candles. we had cake and ice cream also some pop. then we talked for a while and some played wii. it was about 5 something and everyone had to go home so we all walked to hongo station and took some last minute pictures and said goodbye. when we got home after dinner gabbi, dani, and alex came over again and we opened up my parents' gifts for us and we opened up gifts that we got for each other. it was an awesome day and the gift we got together from my parents was a day with japanese ladies and wearing kimonos! we had a blast when we got to go do that too!

Portraits!!!

Ok so i though of this brilliant plan to ask my art teacher(mr. hughes) if for one of rachel's 16th birthday presents he would draw a picture of us two. well he wanted to take his own picture because our's weren't professional enough.haha. so after talking to him he decided that on saturday he would come over and take pictures of us, then we could pic a couple that we especially liked and he would either draw one or two of them or do a portrait out of them. (it was ahrder then it sounds because he kept on forgetting about it granted he was busy with teaching many different age groups.) so on saturday he came over and we went down to the park and he took over 250 pictures of us in different poses as you can see. it took about 2 hours and we had a blast:) rachel even thought of some ideas for some of the poses which came out beautiful. and we also had some funny moments..even in pictures we still have retarded moments it's hilarious. later on after he left he went through the pictures and deleted the bad ones then gave us the cd for us to pick the ones we like...and we still have yet to get it finished.but we will sooner or later. i hope rachel loved it and had fun:) hope you had a happy 16th rachel!

Portraits

The Amazingly Hard Challenge Course!!

cooking!!!

oh my goodness guys!!! i've cooked 4 times now!! first i cooked breakfast which was pancakes, then i cooked dinner which was teriyaki chicken, next a day or two later i cooked cookies for desert, then just tonight i cooked dinner with the help of my mom; which was tacos!!! to top it off everyone liked it:D who knows maybe when i grow up i'll become a famous cook and then i would prove you guys all wrong.haha. i heard what you guys said..well at least rachel and chase and you guys are so dead when i get back:p i did pretty good but when i made the cookies i broke the beater.hehe. yea just wanted you guys to know because i know at least rachel would be proud of me for cooking all kinds of different meals and dishes:) i know you guys are sooo jealous of me, haha i'll cook for you all when i get back.lol. luv ya all!