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Name: Fuzzy
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Gender: Female
Interests: bowling, snowboarding, tennis, golf, table tennis, Japan, round & fuzzy things, Justin Timberlake!
Expertise: forgetting things the minute after u tell me
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
Member Since:
2/17/2003
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| wow, my life in NY is soon coming to an end. i can't believe i've already lived here for over a year. what's more unbelievable is that i'm graduating in May and i'll have to start taking care of patients on my own! i can't wait to have my RN though, i need to start making money again. at times i miss the simplicity of life in Japan but i don't think i could've done it for a second year. my mental capacity would've declined much further.
i can't wait to leave NY and go back home. recent changes in my life have made me value family much much more and i just need to be back in CA. i've been running away and chasing my globetrotter dreams for the past few years and i think it's about time i go back home. i just wish i had realized this sooner.
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| wow, haven't written here in a long time. so much has happened since then. don't really have much time anymore. i've already moved back here from japan  sometimes i wish i stayed an extra year.
July
- went to Okinawa with one of my japanese friends. we picked one of the most deserted islands, only 1000 ppl for the whole island, so we barely ran into more than 5 ppl a day during the time we were there. that made it kinda boring cuz we didn't really meet any ppl. surely one of the most tiring vacations i'd ever been on cuz all we did were activities: kayaking, snorkeling, night kayaking, hiking, etc. i can't say much for okinawan food cuz we didn't eat much while we were there, surprisingly, since we were doing so much exercise.
- family came late july and we toured all over japan, from kumamoto up to tokyo.
i'll post pics sometime.
got back to the US early august, hung out for a while, but now it's busy busy busy. applications and working and moving. i miss my house and cheap rent in japan. i have a nice studio now but i'm paying 3.5x more for it.
if u'r still in japan, i'm jealous of u!
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| haven't updated in such a long time. May has been quite a busy month.
it passed so fast! can't believe i have only 2 months left in this
country! 
didn't do much for Golden Week. went on a long hike from the mountains
to a hot spring in my town. the 28K (17mi) hike took a total of 6hrs to
do. it wasn't as hard as i expected it to be  it was actually pretty fun to see the beautiful landscape of this area.
also made another attempt at cooking japanese food - nikujaga. i think it turned out pretty good, considering my friend and i both suck at cooking.
the color may differ a bit, but it looks pretty good, doesn't it? hm, maybe not. it tasted better than it looks tho, i swear!
attended my last Sports Day in japan. this time it was at my jhs. most
of it was races, cheers, and pyramids. i think the jhs is more
interesting than the elem school ones though, cuz it involves the
audience more. i played a game of badminton golf and also participated
in a relay. lost though, haha, no surprise.
climbed mt. takachiho recently. as i heard, this mountain is actually a
pretty hard climb. not as tall as mt. fuji, but more difficult to
climb. the rocks are really slippery and unstable, so going up the
mountain in fact took all 4 appendages. going up wasn't so bad though.
coming down was the hard part. we were again on all 4s, flipped this
time, and whenever i fell, my butt landed on sharp jagged rocks. yeah,
it was a bit painful. scratched up my palms too. but the climb was fun.
we were rewarded with a beautiful COBALT BLUE LAKE.
beautiful!
had a golf tournament recently. i've played for almost a year now, but
i'm still pretty bad. i had 5 mosquito bites, each the size of my palm,
itchy as hell, on both my arms, so i couldn't play my best.
surprisingly though, i came in #16 out of 28 ppl, so i guess i'm not
that bad! i fully expected to come in last!
my golf bag is also red 
teachers' volleyball tournament coming up. why do japanese ppl always
make me participate in sports i seriously can't play?? grrr. my arms
are still visibly bruised from practice a few days ago 
random pics...
btw, those who are looking to try this... it's available in one of my inaka bars!
those who ever wondered how those bundles of hay are made...
here's a pic of some elem school kids.
i was told the girl on the left looks like me when i was young. really?? 
momo-chan's driving! i love the closed eyes look.
my tofu and nagasaki castella (pound cake)
this is a chair. i'm supposed to sit on his head! no a$$ is coming near my Scrump!
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that reminded me of this other time when another boy ran up to me to ask what 