all things d@vidb
This month things worked out and we got a chance to spend time with our other family’s here in Japan!
I have an excellent relationship with my two host families from when I was a highschool student here in Japan, the Kato family and the Takashima family. It just worked out that we managed to meet both families this month in July.
Some of you might remember Nao and Daisuke!!
(yes, i realize that wasn’t a flattering picture of me above. I was sunburned and tired.)
Lots and lots of rain…
Just barely made it up and out …
now look at us before… (when we were full of hope!)
I am currently uploading some pictures from our recent trips to Nagano and Guam as we speak!
In the meantime, why don’t we get some video goodness happening.
Anyone that has a slight interest in Japan or the Japanese language will have heard of the term “ganbatte!”. It is pretty much the all encompassing word for “good luck!” “you can do it!” “chipper up!” “break a leg” etc etc. It is pronounced GAN (as in Ghandhi)- BAT – TEY (hey with a T)
Watch the master in action.
DOWNLOAD NOA GANBATTES!!
希空くんのビデオ (頑張って！)
Speaking of mastery, I decided it was time for Noa to learn how to wink to woo the ladies.
So there was an “audition” for a magazine in Saitama, where we live.
That’s all I was told. Being the good person that I am, I went along
and did what I was told.
Now is time for the warm-up, Kiko says.
I thought it was weird that I was asked to sit with Noa for “his” audition,
but I sat down, took the picture and then we went home.
“What happened to the audition?”
Apparently the audition is some women’s magazine where all these
mothers sit down and show their kids. and me.
Poor Noa… once again he has been suffixed with the little girl diminutive. –chan.
(As in Noa chan.) That reads “Bennett, Noa (Noa) chan” by the way.
He’s a boy tards!!
Noa has learned (apparently “learnt” isn’t a word) some new tricks!
NOA, HIGH-FIVE!
NOA, E-T!
NOA, SHAKE!
NOA, RESPECT! (… but not the British children)
See how cute he is?
concert pictures coming soon!
Sorry! Missed a few photos from when we were in Tanegashima. Here they are…
(someone complained that Noa wasn’t showing enough love to cats, and instead was focused only on dogs (plush dogs mikey… plush).
that is not true.
I think they bonded.
Look who else bonded?
That is all.
We are back from an exhausting (but fun!) trip to Kagawa where we got to see a number of good friends and colleagues. We miss Kagawa and everyone there very much! Thank you so much for making the time to hang out with us everyone!! (except those of you who dragged me into the freezing cold ocean in the middle of winter. you know who you are. actually… that was a lot of fun but sucky in the I thought I was going to die kind of way.)
A big part of our trip to Kagawa was to go see our friends Lindsay and Takeshi get married! Congratulations!!!
It was there that Noa was reunited with Jim, and performed live on stage with Jim’s band LAME (which despite all that I was expecting… which was nothing… turned out to be pretty good!) [I will get a hair cut, calm down.]
and here’s something to think about…
nope…just a fever.
So Rumi-chan in Tanegashima gave Noa a nice haircut (this was about 2 weeks ago). Look how cool he looks:
and the process
see how happy he is?
and the before shots: (this was us in Kiko’s house!)
you can almost see dagger, dagger 2 (aka twin dagger), tooth, misty, and the newly emerging “sean”.
off to sleep for me…
