American Machanical Pencils

Hi everyone! Recently, it's been getting really cold, right? I love winter though. There's a lot of great event in winter like Christmas, A New Year's Day.. But! Be careful! Don't get a cold!! hahaha



The other day, when I was talking with my American friend in my psychology class, she grabed her machanical pencil, and she said, "Oh it's almost done. I need a new one!" I was so surprised when I heard it. I asked her why she didn't use refills, and she told me, "Oh, we don't use refills. We can get 20 machanical pencils set like 20 cents so we don't have to charge leads." In Japan, if you get a machanical pencil once, you'll use it until it doesn't work any more and won't throw it away right? And leads are gone, you get some refills don't you? That's a really interesting difference between American stationeries and Japanese ones! I got a picture of the pencil which my friends use.

http://asia.bicworld.com/japan/productenlarge.cfm?img=images/products/BIC Matic ClassicFull.gif

Kaiyuukan!!!

Hi everyone! How was your big weekend? I had a bunch of great time! On Friday and Saturday, I enjoyed our school festival, On Sunday, I went to Nara with some international students:) And On Monday, I went to the aquarium called Kaiyuukan with my boyfriend!! I haven't been there for three years, so I was sooo excited!!
There's a big ferris wheel in front of Kaiyuukan. We took on it after we got out from Kaiyuukan. I'm afraid of height, so it was kinda scary for me.

I saw 2 sea turtles there. I had a turtle before, so I like turtles. They were so cute and their way to swim was really kalm.

I could learn how to call the animals and fish in English there. For example.. sea lions, sea otters, and so on:)

Look at that guy! He's cleaning the tank, ant the ray came to him and tried to bite him! WHOAAAAA!!! Haha just kidding.

Penguins!! They're sooooo cute and funny!! There were 3 types of penguins.

I really really enjoyed my big weekend!!!!

Halloween!!!

On October 30th, the Halloween event was held at Gaidai. So, I wore my high school uniform. This picture (above) is Bruse Lee(Shark Boy) and a School girl(Me).

This picture is a kitty boy(Glenn) and a School girl(Me).

Mayumi and I are from the same high school.

From left, Scot, Sharkboy, Me, Glenn, Jason and someone in fromt of CIE.

That was my first time to wear a costume on halloween. So at first, I was kinda embarrassed but I was so excited! There was a competition in the evening. It was soo fun!!