While everyone else was busy celebrating Halloween, I decided to get in on the action a little bit.
Believe me that I used to really be and go crazy about Halloween; parties, costumes, my share of treats, and tricks 😉 These days it’s just not that easy to get into, but I try. Especially since my students are really into it, I can enjoy it at least a little.
In the spirit of that, here are a few photos:
OC VI 3rd Period Halloween stuff
OC VI 4th Period - Is there anything in there?
Today was the first day of Aichi Shukutoku’s Student Festival.
It’s why we had no regular classes yesterday (Friday) and why we’ll miss a couple of days next week (for recovery ;-))
One thing is for certain, a lot of students put in a lot of work setting things up and preparing their parts.
I was there with my sons, Bynn and Ahn, and only stayed for a couple of hours, but it was fun.
We had some French fries from the Movie Producers club which Hideki is in so the boys wanted to stop by and see him, and of course, eat 😉
We did eat some other good stuff though, some monster franks on a stick, that looked and smelled great, but since the boys ate all of them, I can only guess as to the actual taste.
We watched some performances by several groups, mainly some hiphop dancing and a rap/singing group. We also saw the university cheerleaders squad perform.
Several of my students are in the group (I think there are about 50 members in two teams actually) so it was great to see them. I was impressed with the job they did. Their part of the show lasted about 25 minutes, non-stop, and they did a great job.
I got a couple of pictures of that, and I’ll post them below.
I also met my friends Professors Dan Molden and Jennifer McGhee. Professor Molden was going Mobile Halloween. Pretty interesting.
He had a bag of candy and anyone who came up to him and said “Trick or Treat” got candy. (for the record, I did say “trick or treat” and I did get some candy, too ;-))
I’ll post a couple of those pictures, too.
Anyway, I’m sorry I can’t get out to the Nagakute Campus for more of the festival, but I just don’t have time ;-( maybe next time.
Here are the pictures:
ASU Festival cheerleading team Rangers
So, I of course am a difficult person to get to do something a little out of the ordinary, or silly…
Last Tuesday, when I arrived at class, Yui offered to let me try on her Julia Roberts style sunglasses.
Me? Would I do that?
Sure 😉
Didn’t have a mirror, so I took a couple of quick shots to see what it looked like.
Silly though it was, I will share them here…
Plus a bonus photo. Was great to see a couple of students from my class from about 2 years ago who came by to help out and of course to enjoy some snacks 😉 I also met some new students and we really had a fun time playing UpWords.
So, last week was Ahn, my youngest son’s, 10th birthday.
He said he wanted something a little different for his cake this year, so I tried something with some Oreo cookie crumbs.
I think it could have turned out a lot better, and I learned a couple of things that will make it look better next time. Taste was still great 😉
We did manage to eat about half of it on the first go. Ate the last of it last night. Not exactly what’s on the menu for a good diet, eh?
Anyway, here are a few pictures of the cake and Ahn and of course Bynn.
Woke up this morning to the sound of the cidadas singing, or as I like to call it, making annoying sounds. This has been a strange summer for our garden when it comes to the time schedule of things.
This seems a bit early for me, as did the ending of the tree dust that falls for a month and makes it nearly impossible to be outside without having that dust in your hair, your coffee cup, or other drink, or in your pockets and down the collar of your shirt.
So, the ‘singing’ started.
Walked out this afternoon and found this little guy springing forth. Looks a little like Predator at times, but it was pretty cool to watch.
We didn’t take photos of every stage, sorry, but there are enough to cover most of his progress.
Semi "say-me" hatching
Semi hatching and it looks like Predator