Thursday, August 03, 2006
Weekend Festival
This coming weekend is one of the most eventful in the big I, as far as excitement goes by living in the sticks standards... Today is a four day week because we have tomorrow off to prepare for the dance festival. Perperations include putting on our traditional Japanese summer Kimonos. I am pretty pumped about that whole experience. I am gonna stick out quite nicely in my Yukata but it should be an overall awesome experience. After the dancing ends my boss is hosting a BBQ at the school. It doesn't get much better than that!
After Friday nights festivities I will arise early and hit the beach for a day of surfing. I have started standing on the board at long last so I am super motivated to continue my attempts at surfing. I am not standing for long but long enough to brush the hair out of my eyes before getting slammed by the wave. We are riding in board shorts these days which feels awesome, the temperature is hot but the water is so refreshing! I should have quite the tan before too long now. Following the day of surf there is a fireworks show being put on. From what I hear its something to write home about, so I am, in advance! I will post up some photos afterwards. The program goes for an hour and a half which sounds really impressive. My boss has bought tickets so we have guaranteed seats. After the fireworks there are all kinds of street stalls selling food and drink. In the city next to us, which is the capital of our area the bigger festival gets started up on Sunday. It runs until Tuesday night with a huge street parade happening that night.
I will not be taking part because on Sunday there is a surf competition that one of the hamma boys has entered. I will be down on the beach filming his runs. I am hoping he does really well. I have been training him all week, by training I mean getting him out of bed early to head down to the surf. Then I put all kinds of good thoughts in his head because if he wins the comp I am gonna beg him to take me to Cali with him. I think the grand prize is a surfing trip. We are not really sure, he just likes surfing and I just want some prizes, so we should both end up happy. I will post up some footage of the contest next week.
Last weekend I went to the Karate tournament but I have not had a chance to put the film onto my lap top. I think I am going to buy a new external hard drive in the near future so I can put entire tapes on them for future editing. In the winter I am thinking there might be much less to entertain me. That would be a good time to work on my video editing skills.
Enough blabbing from me. I am still at work so I should probably get some actual work done!
Later
After Friday nights festivities I will arise early and hit the beach for a day of surfing. I have started standing on the board at long last so I am super motivated to continue my attempts at surfing. I am not standing for long but long enough to brush the hair out of my eyes before getting slammed by the wave. We are riding in board shorts these days which feels awesome, the temperature is hot but the water is so refreshing! I should have quite the tan before too long now. Following the day of surf there is a fireworks show being put on. From what I hear its something to write home about, so I am, in advance! I will post up some photos afterwards. The program goes for an hour and a half which sounds really impressive. My boss has bought tickets so we have guaranteed seats. After the fireworks there are all kinds of street stalls selling food and drink. In the city next to us, which is the capital of our area the bigger festival gets started up on Sunday. It runs until Tuesday night with a huge street parade happening that night.
I will not be taking part because on Sunday there is a surf competition that one of the hamma boys has entered. I will be down on the beach filming his runs. I am hoping he does really well. I have been training him all week, by training I mean getting him out of bed early to head down to the surf. Then I put all kinds of good thoughts in his head because if he wins the comp I am gonna beg him to take me to Cali with him. I think the grand prize is a surfing trip. We are not really sure, he just likes surfing and I just want some prizes, so we should both end up happy. I will post up some footage of the contest next week.
Last weekend I went to the Karate tournament but I have not had a chance to put the film onto my lap top. I think I am going to buy a new external hard drive in the near future so I can put entire tapes on them for future editing. In the winter I am thinking there might be much less to entertain me. That would be a good time to work on my video editing skills.
Enough blabbing from me. I am still at work so I should probably get some actual work done!
Later
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