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Alice

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About Me

Hating Hard-fi ( comes as a shock I know considering I used to love them so much in the summer time. They shall be my summer band - free easy and go so well with disposable bar-b-ques and corndogs. Yes. Hard fi are lost during winter but shall be found once more come early june) Playing piano - thinking about stuff - reading- walking - sleeping are all things i really like. yup. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Yoshitomo Nara.Nana. Kitty Chan. Rila Kuma. Learning japanese. Writting japanese. Waking up early. Running. Curling up into small balls. Making home made cards and laminating them.

I'd like to meet:

bjork.

Music:

This week mostly: le loup, the national, MBMR, MGMT, BRMC,GOAT, sufjan stevens Grizzly Bear, low,brand new, Sigur Ros, Mum, and efterklang, Grzzly recently forgotton how good stereolab is. French disko.

Movies:

Azumi (thank u tom!) Stranger than Fiction. BRICK Spirited away. Robin hood prince of theives. Mean girls. Howels moving castle Princess mononoke Broken Flowers Rushmore. the royal tennembaums The life aquatic little miss sunshine

Television:

extras, spaced black books.

Books:

Any thing by ishiguro - especially An Artist of the floating world 'Never let me go' The Rotter's club - jonathon Coe. 'Yuki Kunee'by Kawabata - amazing. Made me want to live in Japan.

Heroes:

ANy one in a band full time. ALso any one who is fluent in japanese - bloody impossible language and I find myself recently fustrated by my lack of progress with this fickle vernacular. The selfless, the kind and my family are all my heroes. Oh and Ghost of a thousand for doing what they love. ANd making me laugh when they put dumb videos on You tube. Douche Bags.And from the English crew - TESSA DAY! YAY! Alice B, Petro, shanu, jen, bethy, tom b, Tessa, Jenni M cos they are all lovely. yay. Go heroes. go.

My Blog

Kashima kingergarten part something or rather .

Masaya has left. Cruelly quit my lesson without so much of a good bye or sayonara. We feel his absence greatly. Taisei is alone now  lost amidst a sea of giggling girls  feigning somewhat half-hear...
Posted by Alice on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:18:00 PST

TO be continued when i can be bothered.

It occurred to me today, as I was shlumped (new word I employ to describe sitting in a chair with bad posture  spinal curvature no less- and a blank expression on one's face) how perfectly not norma...
Posted by Alice on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:04:00 PST

Yesterday was a long day.

Yesterday.   Yesterday I was sent to Fukuoka prefecture as a cover teacher. Covering is a bad job. Nil respect. Nil job satisfaction as you know you ain't gonna see the kids again.nil attentiven...
Posted by Alice on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:57:00 PST

National holiday.

Food Pal- =Kumamoto.   Last Monday was a national holiday for Japan. This just meant that instead of having my day off alone, the whole of Japan joined with me in lounging about the flat and bl...
Posted by Alice on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:16:00 PST

Kashima kindergarten part three.

A few absences I feel inclined to mention - again changing the mood some what of the lesson - notably Little Kiri , her older sister Rina and Nana - who likes to looks up peoples skirts. Taimei was i...
Posted by Alice on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:53:00 PST

Foreword to kashima kindergarten part three....

Not much in the way of drama to report on this hot and damp saturday morning. The most exciting event was the news that the construction site next to Kashima  Kindergarten was in the p...
Posted by Alice on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:35:00 PST

Old people are interesting to look at .

Japanese old folk are incomprehensible to me. In England they come primarily in two catagories  - those that are nice and cuddly and those that are haggered and have cats. Both don't really do mu...
Posted by Alice on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:51:00 PST

Kashima KG part two.

Kiri didn't come to school today - nor Reine , Natusuki Rina or Rena. Yoko and I fear it may well have been something a foot in the water. The lessons today - five in total- seemed strangely  qu...
Posted by Alice on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:49:00 PST

JOnny Rebeck.

I was just doing a spot of research on childrens songs - merely to update the repetoire - and I came across this little ditty. Kinda scared me.     Johnny RebeckAway out in the forest...
Posted by Alice on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:29:00 PST

Kashima Kindergarten part one.

Drama in school today. Kiri (aged four younger sister of Rina - who I shall no doubt mention in future blogs) - had a nose bleed. Big time .   Masaya (small boy aged four  - mother rec...
Posted by Alice on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:10:00 PST