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10.16.2005
花風
作詞 AIKO
作曲 AIKO
唄 aiko
あなたもこの空の下 同じ日差しを
眩しいと目を細め くすぐる花風かすめ
もう心もおだやか 空はうなずき
マンションの2階の廊下でバイバイ
あたしの髪も伸び昨日の涙乾き
時が経ち気付いた揺るぎない心
生まれ変わってもあなたを見つける
雨が止んで晴れる様に
あなたもこの空の下 同じ日差しを
眩しいと目を細め くすぐる花風かすめ
見えなくても 声が聞けなくても
過ごした月日が二人を繋ぐの
手のひらに落ちた奇跡の様な恋を
離さないで 汚さないで
あなたがこの空の下くれた七色の
世界を守り通すよ 臆病なあたしの胸で
生まれ変わってもあなたを見つける
雨が止んで晴れる様に
光が射しててそれは綺麗で
あなただけを照らしてるから
あなたもこの空の下 同じ日差しを
眩しいと目を細め くすぐる花風かすめ
空に唄えば
歌 175R
作詞 SHOGO
作曲 SHOGO
空を見上げて雲を見つめる
過ぎ去りし時の空 雲の行方は
青い桜の花は散らない
小さなこの両手で夢を掴もうとしてた
友の声は遥か遠くに
僕の心の中で絶えずに響いて…
朝が来るまで語り明かした
僕らが夢見ていた約束の街
何も恐いモノなんてなかった
目に映る全てが希望に見えた
道に迷い 笑いあって 目の前の光 探し続けた
友の声よ遥か遠くに
僕の心の中で絶えすに響いて…
あの日の僕等はそこに立っていて
何も言わすにこっちを見ている
あの日の夢は今も
僕の事を縛りつけて
何も変わらずずっと流れてる
愛しき人よ 空に歌った
僕らの声は今でも絶えずに響いて…
あの日の僕等はそこに立っていて
何も言わずにこっちを見ている
遠くを見るような目で
僕の事を睨みつけて
何も言わずにじっとみつめてる
僕らが過ごしたあの日々は
何も変わらずあの日のまま
明日へ繋がるこの道に
大きな足跡残してやれ
あの日の僕等はそこに立っていて
何も言わすにこっちを見ている
あの日の夢は今も
僕の事を縛りつけて
何も変わらずずっと流れてる
形じゃなくて
言葉じゃなくて
この胸の高なりよ
届け 僕の想いよ
バンザイ〜好きでよかった〜
歌 ウルフルズ
作詞 トータス松本
作曲 トータス松本
イェーイ 君を好きでよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと 死ぬまでハッピー
バンザイ 君に会えてよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと ラララふたりで
つまらない事で君をこまらせて
思い出す度 赤くなる
笑っちまうくらいに毎日は
ただもう過ぎてく あっという間に
スゲェスゲェ幸せな気分の時は
帰り道で君を思い出す
コンビニをうろうろしながら
思い出し笑いをかみ殺す
ダサイカッコはしたくない
年はとらないように
つくり笑いなんかしたくない
だからBaby そばにおいでよ
イェーイ 君を好きでよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと 死ぬまでハッピー
バンザイ 君に会えてよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと ラララふたりで
いい女を見れば振り返る
ホント スケベ オレの頭ん中
でもやっぱグッとくるほどの女は
心の中にひとりだけ
キザな言葉はてれくさい
カッコつけずにいこう
いつもふたりでじゃれてたい
だからBaby ここへおいでよ
イェーイ 君を好きでよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと 死ぬまでハッピー
バンザイ 君に会えてよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと ラララふたりで
だからBaby Baby そばに そばに そばにおいでよ
イェーイ 君を好きでよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと 死ぬまでハッピー
バンザイ 君に会えてよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと
イェーイ 君を好きでよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと 死ぬまでハッピー
バンザイ 君に会えてよかった
このまま ずっと ずっと ラララふたりで
花
歌 ORANGE RANGE
作詞 ORANGE RANGE
作曲 ORANGE RANGE
花びらのように散りゆく中で
夢みたいに 君に出会えたキセキ
愛し合って ケンカして
色んな壁 二人乗り越えて
生まれ変わっても あなたのそばで 花になろう
いつまでもあるのだろうか オレの真上にある太陽は
いつまでも守りきれるだろうか 泣き 笑い 怒る君の表情を
いずれ全てなくなるのならば 二人の出逢いにもっと感謝しよう
あの日 あの時 あの場所のキセキは
また 新しい軌跡を生むだろう
愛することで強くなること 信じることで乗り切れること
君が残したモノは今も胸に ほら輝き失わずに
幸せに思う 巡り会えたこと オレの笑顔取り戻せたこと
「ありがとう」 あふれる気持ち抱き 進む道程
花びらのように散りゆく中で
夢みたいに 君に出会えたキセキ
愛し合って ケンカして
色んな壁 二人乗り越えて
生まれ変わっても あなたに逢いたい
花びらのように散ってゆく事
この世界で全て受け入れてゆこう
君が僕に残したモノ
"今"という現実の宝物
だから僕は精一杯生きて 花になろう
花はなんで枯れるのだろう
鳥はなんで飛べるのだろう
風はなんで吹くのだろう
月はなんで 明かり照らすの
何故ボクはココにいるんだろう
何故キミはココにいるんだろう
何故キミに出会えたんだろう
キミに出逢えた事 それは運命
花びらのように散りゆく中で
夢みたいに キミに出逢えたキセキ
愛し合って ケンカして
色んな壁 二人で乗り越えて
生まれ変わっても あなたに逢いたい
花びらのように散ってゆく事
この世界で全て受け入れてゆこう
君が僕に残したモノ
"今"という現実の宝物
だから僕は精一杯生きて 花になろう
雨上がり 虹架かり 青あらしに生まれし光
ここにゆるぎない大切な物
気づいてる"愛する"ということ
Posted at 02:08 am by youme
7.1.2005
Redirect Yourself Immediately
Posted at 11:10 pm by youme
6.28.2005
Testing starts tomorrow.
From about a week ago all club/sports activities are on break
to give students time to study for the trimester finals...
I've studied some, but mostly I spent my spare time reading.
Japanese books I've read include Dive, Yoruno Pikunikku (Nighttime Picnic),
Midnight Call, and Sanjuuichino Chiisana Uso (Thirty-one Small Lies).
English books I've read include I Know Why the Cages Bird Sings
and A Natural History of the Senses... I'm also a quarter of
the way through The Pickwick Papers, but it's rather thick.
Other than that... well, I turned Sixteen on June 19th.
I went to Kobe with my host family and ate Italian food.
Afterwards they had a free mini-concert out on the dock
(pier? It was next to the ocean) and there was this
Brazilian guy playing acoustic guitar and a Japanese
lady dressed in a bright red dress and high heels singing
in Portuguese. It was magical. Some picsvv
 
<Tomatoes w/Mozzarella - One of My Favorite Dishes!><Pizza Chef>
  <Concert> <Kobe Port Tower, Kind of Like the Space Needle>
I also got a haircut some time ago (2 weeks?).
It was short to begin with, but the hair stylist did this cool maneuver
where she randomly snipped at twisted chunks of hair,
making it look ragged. Sweet. If only I could dye it.
 
Posted at 05:00 pm by youme
6.19.2005
Yesterday was our taiikusai (Sports Festival).
Our class had to get to school by 7 AM to get everything ready.
First we carried our desks/chairs down the stairs and
out onto the field to make the hina-dan (stairway-type thing
each class sits on to cheer their classmates. Like bleachers, I guess.)
Then the guys had to set up the backboard,
and the girls helped afterwards to put up the blue tarp.
All of this took about an hour and a half.
*If the above makes no sense to you:
Homei has a big dirt field with
a circular track drawn on it with white powder.
On one side there are 5 or 6 long tents for the parents
to sit under, along with a podium-type thing
the principal/teachers/ASB stand on to speak
into the microphone. There's also a big drum.
On the other side of the field each class
(about 8 in each grade) has their own
hina-dan, backboard, and resting area (blue tarp),
in that order. So when the parents look
across the field they can see 23 different
billboard-type things, and under those they
can see desks and chairs stacked on top
of each other for the students to cheer from.
 
<Our Backboard (Blue Dragon)> <My Teacher Ms. Yamato and Our Blue Mascot>
 
<Me On the Left> <Behind the Backboard>
The news said that it would rain Saturday,
but the sun was out and boy was it hot!!
I had to refill my water bottle three times.
The different events were: *=I participated
*Zenko Koshin "Student March" (everyone marches onto the field,
then stands in rows facing the podium to listen to
the principal make his speech)
*Opening Ceremony (where the principal makes his speech.
2 student representatives have to take an oath of good
sportsmanship too. Oh, and some guys from the track team
runs once around the field with a torch and lights up
a goblet-type thing. Weird, and boring)
Mukade "Centipede" Race (4 or 5 students line
up on what looks like a long pair of skis and
raises their legs at the same time to move forward)
Sophomore Girls' Dance (looked like a Jewish folk dance...
like Fiddler on the roof, except with girls)
*Tsunahiki "Tug-of-war" (self-explanatory)
*Oonawa "Big Jump Rope" (each class lines up
in twos to jump a really big jump rope.
max: 34 us:14)
Sannin Yonkyaku "3 People 4 Legs" Race
(three students tie their feet together and run)
*Bukatsu Koshin "Club March" (each sports club
dresses up in their uniforms and march once
around the track. I marched behind the boys
basketball team in sweats and our team T-shirt)
Bukatsu "Club" Relay (4 members from each
sports team runs a relay with their uniforms on.
The girls bb team came in second after the track team.
The boys bb team totally goofed off and passed
a basketball back and forth while dancing around the track.
The hockey team ran while putting-around the black disc.
The kendo team of course ran in their long, heavy robes.
...I might also mention boys baseball was really, really fast
and beat the track team until the very end when the 4th
member of the track team caught up. Wow)
Tamaire "Beanbag-throw" (staff members/PTA members
throw beanbags into a basket on a tall pole)
*Junior Girls' Dance (we danced to the song "Mickey".
Pretty much like the end roll of Bring It On)
Senior Girls' Dance (w/yellow and purple pom-poms)
Boys' Kumitaiso "Group Exercise" (all the guys from
the Sophomore grade to the Senior grade line up
in rows and do different poses to the drum beat.
handstands, human-pyramids, etc... like gymnastics, sort of)
 
 
Relay (self-explanatory. Our class made third in the boys relay.)
 
*Ouen "Cheer "(each class performs for 2 minutes on their hina-dan
at the same time to gain points)
 
 
<I'm Pretty Much in the Middle. Height-wise, Not That Hard to Find.>
*Folk Dance (inside circle->boys outside circle->girls.
You change partners as you go along.)
*Ending Ceremony (line up, listen to principal, listen to
results... boring again)
Posted at 12:15 am by youme
6.15.2005
Getting Ready for the Sports Festival (Taiikusai) 6.9.2005
6.6.2005
Lately I've been able to "think Japanese", but my first month or so
many of the unwritten rules of society frustrated me.
1.Don't talk to guys unless necessary.
2.Always invite others to the restroom.
3.Don't take off your necktie/use your cellphone
even if school has ended and no teacher is looking.
4.Don't wear earrings when another student is around.
At basketball...
5.Stay standing at all times, even if you're not doing anything.
6.Don't smuggle snacks.
7.Only talk to the players after practice.
8.Speak in a respectful manner to anyone who has been around
longer than you, even if they're the same grade.
9.The players always come first, even when boarding a train.
10.Don't fall asleep during a game (okay, that was bad. I didn't meant to though!!)
A lot of these just make me think, "If it annoys you that
I'm doing this, why don't you do it too?" Like, eating snacks.
Bring your own snack, I don't care.
Don't get ticked off at me for eating when everyone else is hungry too.
In the U.S. you think, "I'll do what I want, so you should too."
But in Japan it's, "I'll withhold my selfish actions and you should too."
Which is better? I like the U.S. But this is Japan.
Posted at 06:45 pm by youme
6.5.2005
vvMORE PICTURES TAKEN ON MY CELLPHONEvv
 
<Futa Ate 7 Plates of Amaebi (Shrimp) Sushi!!><Pretty Sky Seen Near the School Gym>
 
<On the Way Home From the Tournament, All 10 Basketball Managers, Clockwise from Top Left: Yuuko (senior), Yone (junior), me, Macha (junior), Miyuki (junior), Yui (sophomore), Kana (sophomore), Anna (senior), Hiroko (senior), Mami (sophomore)><USJ (Universal Studios Japan)... Just the Entrance, Since That Day I Went to Ame-mura>
 
<Birthday Cake I Baked for Yuukosan, June 5th... in the Back is the Cookbook I Used and Some Brandy><Ooh, Layers!!>
Posted at 06:54 am by youme
6.4.2005
Thursday afternoon the juniors and (retired) seniors of
the girls basketball team, including the 7 managers,
held an after-party at a bar someone's father owned.
Since it was a school day we were all wearing our uniforms,
and there were about 30 bicycles parked outside (!!)
For $20 per person we were given a feast.
Sausages, fries, spaghetti, sushi, chicken...
we even got some "whole strawberry ice cream" on the house.
Each frozen strawberry was filled with milk-flavored sherbet
and covered in sugar on the outside. Yum!
Of course, the seniors said their farewells (again) and
everyone mounted their bicycles in the dark to head home.
My bicycle's head-light thing, which I didn't know even existed until then,
wouldn't work so most of the way home I stuck close
to some friends for safety. Well, they were going in the same
direction anyway, but it was very convenient for me ;)
 
<Anna (senior) and Miyuki (junior)> <Morimoto Sensei (a.k.a. "Micchan")>
 
<Clock wise from top left: Anna, Miyuki, me, Macha (junior), Yone><Add Hiroko (senior) btw Miyuki and me>
 
<Masae (a.k.a. "Macha") Not Wanting to Take a Picture><Macha's Masterpiece... We Collected All the Decorative Green Stuff and Arranged Them in a Paper Cup to Create a mori (forest)>
vvTHESE I TOOK WITH MY CELLPHONE'S CAMERAvv
 
<Miyuki and Yone> <Anna and Hiroko Messing w/Their Cellphones>
<Anna, Hiroko, and Mika>
Posted at 04:35 pm by youme
Oops! Forgot to load this entry... it's about a week old :P
Here are my midterm (for the 1st Trimester) test results:
Math ME:27 Class Avg:28.7
History ME:70 Class Avg:57
Biology ME:66 Class Avg:62.1
Ancient Japanese ME:51 Class Avg:46
Geography ME:56 Class Avg:54
Language Arts ME:60 Class Avg:56
Sunday girls basketball won their first game easily,
and lost their second game by 38 points.
The seniors are now officially "retired" from club activities.
Yesterday the two senior guys, Keisuke and Takeru,
came to practice as "OB"s (OB=Old Boy, I guess).
They played four 10 minute games, 5 on 5, and, surprisingly,
the team w/both OBs didn't win so easily... in fact, they lost
one of the four I think. During these games I showed one
of the Sophomore managers how to work the timer.
It felt great, her asking me questions, relying on me for information,
and maybe possible looking up to me.
When in actuality I joined the team 2 days before the Sophomores :P
After the second game or so, Takeru's mom came up to the entrance of the gym
with some milkshakes from MacDonald's for the boys bb team,
so we managers had to store them into a refrigerator
in the teacher's lounge until practice ended.
There were 24, and since there are 14 players on the boys team
and exactly 10 mangers (including all the seniors, that is) I got one too.
At the end of the day we all sat in a circle in the gym,
sipping on our milkshakes, and the last "meeting" commenced.
For an hour or so the seniors talked about their experiences on the team,
why they chose Shinsai for the new captain, what each player was good at
and what each player had to work on and improve.
It was great. I loved being part of this small ceremony.
Posted at 03:08 pm by youme
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Age: 15
Birthday: 6/19/1989
Sign: Gemini
Ethnicity: Japanese/American
Fav. Movies:
1)Moulin Rouge
2)Chocolat
3)About a Boy
4)The Pianist
5)The Breakfast Club
Fav. Music: Punk/Pop/Classic/Alt ROCK!!
Some Good Artists: The Beatles, Blondie, Butterfly Boucher, The Cure, Everclear, Five for Fighting, The Hives, Jason Mraz, Jem, Maroon 5, Michelle Shocked, Nirvana, The Presidents of the United States of America, Queen, Switchfoot, Talking Heads... the list goes on.
My life philosophy (lol)
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
-Emily Dickenson
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