The Beginning of a Nice, Long Weekend!! Hurray!!

This morning I was awake from around 4:00 because it was soooo hot! We have been using the timer on the air conditioner so that it will turn off two hours after we go to bed, but I've recently found myself waking up really early; it's possible that it's because it's so hot. :P Well, Maki and I are going to try experimenting by leaving the air conditioner on all night. ^_^

Anyway, Maki had an early ASL class today since it's Friday so I woke up around that time again but was able to sleep a bit longer before I finally got out of bed. Naomi was waching the morning shows so I joined her (Bewitched and I Love Lucy). Lucille Ball is such a character; today's was her famous episode of Vitamina-veggie Girl. lol! A classic episode indeed...

When Maki and Erin came home, I went to my room and started reading the Epic of Gilgamesh. It took about an hour to finish it but, boy... what a totally 'immoral' book! It's no wonder that God was so firm about his chosen people not getting involved with the people from the other civilizations of that time! Gilgamesh was certainly no hero in my opinion, no matter how many 'epic' deeds he may have accomplished. I like the character and story of Odyseuss WAAAAAYYY better. At least the Greeks seem to have a little more sense than the Mesopotamians. I'm glad I finished reading it. :P

For lunch I had leftovers from last night's takeout dinner. Watched some Full House episodes then watched one episode of Law and Order. Went back to my room and did some writing as well as chatted a bit with my parents.

At 3:00 I left for my ballet class. Fun class as usual, thgouh I had to be a little careful because my left ankle was a bit sore (still is, but nothing too bad). Every class I'm liking my teacher Sharon more and more. She's a very good teacher and the way she teaches is by using lots of 'visual' imagination. 'Diamonds in your heels', 'the rose tattoo', 'the three-points', 'the bowl of water', ' a cup of tea', and so on and so forth. ^_^ Very fun!

Naomi picked me up and since Naomi was a little tired, I drove us to go pick Erin up from her internship office downtown. Lots of interesting driving especially since it was rush hour and it was crowded everywhere. And I'm also still VERY careful when on the highway.

As soon as we got home, I took a shower then Naomi and I went to Friday night service (Erin and Maki stayed home). We went a little after 6:00 (service starts at 7:00) because Naomi was doing a sign dance performance for that service and needed to practice. While the sign dancers were practicing, I was able to talk with Tony, Joe, and Croz. They're still ganging up on me to play the drums in the services. ^_^

The service went well, and Pastor Ron talked about "Jesus and Judaism". Quite interesting; it was funny because the sermon started off with a funny dialogue skit between Pastor Ron and Croz. :P VERY funny, I know how much Croz enjoyed doing these kinds of short skits. Sign dance also went very smoothly.

It was nice to have fellowship with a lot of people after the service. Towards the end I was mostly at the drums where Shouko, me, Henry, Sam, and a few others were playin some drums. I hand't had much of a chance to ever talk with Henry and Sam but now that we have a common interest, there's something we can talk about. :P

Naomi and I picked of McDonald's for dinner and ate at home while watching an episode of Moonlighting. What else? That's it for today! Now I'm just relaxing after a yummy dinner while listening to good music. ^_^ Tomorrow promises to be very busy what with we have a couple of things already planned out.

Sorry, not many pictures tonight. :P In honor of Camp Akagi 2005 going on in Japan right now, here's a picture of the girls of Camp Akagi 2004!