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The superintendant sent me another bag of vegetables today. Luckily it's a small one. I may actually be able to finish it.

In one of my classes this morning, the students were assigned to write a letter to an (imaginary) person and explain either their family, school, city, or some aspect of Japanese culture.

Student: Japan has four seasons. Does that count as culture?

Me: ^_^;

Yes, they're REALLY proud of the four seasons here. (I suggested she write about what Japanese people DO during one of the seasons, like flower-viewing.)

I also found out that two of my team teachers will be gone this Friday, so that means two solo lessons. But I'm going to some international exchange ceremony thing next Friday, so I guess we're even.

Update: While I was going to the post office to mail [livejournal.com profile] mangaroo's present (a manga cover)...
I decided to take pictures of some of the flowers along the way for potential use as embroidery designs.

I wound up taking so many that I thought it would be worth putting them all together in a collage and sharing.


Date: 2005-05-09 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com
Why aren't you figuring out how to embroider bunnies?

Date: 2005-05-10 01:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com
Why aren't you figuring out how to embroider bunnies?

I will...there just aren't any around the neighborhood for me to take pictures of.

Oddly, there are peacocks, but no bunnies.

Date: 2005-05-10 05:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com
But manga bunnies would make better embroidery patterns anyway, right(since you need simple and cartoony)? And surely that's easier than wandering the neighborhood looking for bunnies.

Of course, if you want a real bunny picture, there's always google.

*gets distracted by bunny pictures*

Uh...yeah. Bunnies. Or...something.

Date: 2005-05-10 08:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com
I have bunnies in my yard in summer. Or I would, if Ptolemy wouldn't keep killing them all. One summer he slaughtered a whole family of them, one by one. I felt like I was witnessing the murder of Peter Rabbit and his whole clan. It was very traumatic. (Spoiler cut to protect [livejournal.com profile] wednesday_10_00 and other bunny lovers from trauma due to gory details.)

I wonder if the bunnies will come back now that Ptolemy will have to stay inside all summer?

Date: 2005-05-10 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com
Oh, that wasn't even gory. I've lived with cats my whole life, remember. I could tell you stories of the things our hunters used to bring back. It's sad, but them's the facts when you have outdoor cats. (And that's just another reason I'm glad the cats I have now are indoor cats.)

I wonder if the bunnies will come back now that Ptolemy will have to stay inside all summer?
Do you have a vegetable garden?

Date: 2005-05-10 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com
I just didn't want you to be caught unprepared reading about bunny death over your morning coffee. ^_^;

Yeah, the one thing I will NOT miss now that I'm keeping Ptolemy in is the fresh rodent corpses on the bathroom mat in the morning. He was always so polite about offering to share.

I did one year, but lately it's been hard because I haven't been organized enough to get the patch cleared and planted before June, and mid-June is really too late to be starting a garden. I might do herbs this year, they don't care how many months of growing time they get.

Date: 2005-05-11 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com
Well, I appreciate the thought. Sometimes it bothers me more than others. (Like, did you ever see Save Toby? I know it's just a joke, but it still makes me want to cry.)

He was always so polite about offering to share.
Hee! It's so sweet, the way cats bring their gory little offerings.

Wednesday gives the best offerings, though. Since she doesn't have any real prey to bring us, she brings us her toys instead. Her favorite thing is to drag her stick (you know, the kind with a string tied on) around at night. If it's upstairs, she'll drag it down, and if it's downstairs, she'll drag it up. And she cries the whole time. (LOOK WHAT I DID! AREN'T YOU PROUD OF ME??) It's too adorable.

Date: 2005-05-11 06:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com
Since she doesn't have any real prey to bring us, she brings us her toys instead.

Ptolemy used to do that... he's gotten too fat and lazy adult and sophisticated to do it now. But he does sometimes still bring his toys to my bed, or to the food bowl. What, is nylon fluff going to become more edible if you put it in a bowl?

He only ever did the proud crying for real prey, though. >.< That was how I knew to watch my step in the morning.

Date: 2005-05-12 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wrenwyn.livejournal.com
I will never look at Ptolemy the same way again.

(=^.^=)

Date: 2005-05-10 01:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com
But manga bunnies would make better embroidery patterns anyway, right(since you need simple and cartoony)? And surely that's easier than wandering the neighborhood looking for bunnies.

They would...but I'm trying to cut down on the amount of reference material I lug back and forth to school with me. So I'm practicing first on things that I can have snapshots of on my keitai, since I take that with me anyway.

Downloading a bunch of pictures onto my laptop for reference is another option, but if I were to take my laptop to school it would dominate my desk and leave me no room to draw, so I'm waiting for the weekend to do that.

Date: 2005-05-10 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com
I wasn't thinking real bunnies. I think some of the line drawings of usa-san and other characters would make great subjects. I've collected fabrics to do characters in applique, but was going to try to tackle Jinjyuu first ...

Date: 2005-05-10 01:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spacealien-vamp.livejournal.com
I wasn't thinking real bunnies. I think some of the line drawings of usa-san and other characters would make great subjects.

I definitely want to try making patterns from characters. ...I suppose this means I will have to buy more volumes, since my current supply of scanables is quite limited.

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