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There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. And yes, Zeta's a Greek letter.

Hey everyone, I realize I'm a bit behind with various things, but it's been a HELLA busy week. It's not been too smooth, either, with the heat, tests, late schedules, surprise schedules, forgetting birthdays and other important things.

So first off, a present for my brother, who turned .......... 21, this Saturday. He asked if I could put the pictures in the side bar up so that they could be enlargened, so this is the least I can do as a present right now. Here you go, bro. Happy birthday.

And, I don't know if this counts as a present, but since it was father's day today, I went to buy something in town with Nyuu, and came home with a microphone. So now you can call me on Skype if you want dad, or if I'm not around, send me an email saying you want to talk, I promise I won't get mad. This counts for mom and Alek too, of course. But happy father's day.

Yeah, these pictures are rather hard to arrange, but hey, at least they're pretty. It'll be better when there's more text here.

Things to come:

More lifeslices, including LOVE DRAMA!, upperclassmen versus lowerclassmen, sports test, encounter with Miles, the humidity & heat of Japan's summer, speech contest results and aftermath, and some stuff about a certain book that's going around in my class.

CHESS post written in detail.

Pictures I haven't gotten around to taking or putting up, including the black book, CHESS pictures, and more.

See you in a few.

Oh, and

HEY JERKWAD

Sorry! Sorry, I just needed all of you skimmers' attention. Okay, now that I have your attention, please read carefully. See, in the right side of this blog is a bunch of text, what I want you to look carefully at, is the "added stuff" titled part, in red. Here, I put every single update I've done to this blog, so this means that not all new stuff appears at the top!! I may likely just edit an older one, for example add a lifeslice, and then write in the side that I added it. Capisca?
A good system is only good when everyone knows how to follow it. I don't like adding a whole new post for just a few things, this post will be changed into a lifeslice post when I get breathing space to work.

EDIT: 25/6

Hey hey! I'm back, today's no school, so I can write a bit. First off, a special someone who's taught me how to get any person in school to laugh. Woah, woah. Woaaah. WHAAAT?? *Pbblt*

WOOAAH.

Now on to what you've been waiting for, new lifeslices!!

My own personal stalker

This isn't as bad as you would think. Let me start from the beginning.

Wednesday, 24th of June.
In "geijutsu", you can pick between three classes. Art, music or calligraphy. I tried music, then, art, then calligraphy, and settled on the latter in the end. So, calligraphy had just ended, and I was heading back to the classroom with Yuusuke. He asks, "So, anything interesting happened lately?" "Wellllll..... Not.. really, I guess. Maybe.. 1-6." "1-6? Class 1-6?" "Yeah. Lots of interesting stuff there. Heh heh." "Ah, haha. Show me some time."

As we approach the classroom, I notice Moe and Saki giving me some strange looks, like they'd read and understood the notes I did on them in my little black book. I slump down on my chair, and.. What the hell.

On my desk is a small brown paper box, about the size of a Coke bottle. On the top of it, written with a black marker, "Fuu-chan, look inside". My hands started shaking. What the heck is this, a bomb? Gah. I quickly peel the finely folded brown pieces of paper apart, and out falls an even more finely folded green crane, in what seems to be a yellow nest.

I frantically searched every corner of the papers, but there was no name or anything else written.

Now, in Japan, when you say people's names, depending on how well you know them, you must add a specific prefix to the end of their name. The most common are -san, -kun and -chan.

I am generally known as "Fuu-kun" or "Furederikku" to the students and teachers of Taisha High School. Even at the Opening Ceremony back in March, the principal told everyone to call me "Fuu-kun" at my own request.
-san is the most default of the three, and is any gender. You use it for basically anyone you aren't friends with yet.
-kun is mostly used for boys, but some cases also used for girls.
-chan is pretty much only for girls, pets and small kids. Or, someone you have affection for. Parents to their children is okay though, for example, my host parents call me Fuu-chan.
(When you're good enough friends with someone, you can let off the prefixes completely. I do this to pretty much everyone my age, and they don't mind because I'm a foreigner. Kind of funny how the other boys address the girls by "lastname-san", and I casually call them by their first name)

This is what puzzled me the most. I showed it to Yuusuke, and he just spoke my thoughts out loud, "Someone has interest."
So I became a temporary detective. First, asked around the boys in my class. "Hey.. You seen that? Did you see who dropped it off?" "Oh, no.. Hey, those papers.." *He pulls out a wad of similar-looking colored pieces of papers from his pocket* "!!" "I got it from Yoshida-kun, over there. You want it?" "Nah, it's okay..."

"Hey Yoshida, where'd you get those papers?" "Oh, from art class. We did origami today." "I see.. Do you know who made that?" "Hmm, Agou-kun made a box of paper I remember." "Okay, thanks."

"Agou-kun, did you make that?" "Oh, no, mine wasn't brown, and I didn't bring it." "Kay."
Darn it. Anyway, now I know that it's someone who did art, today. I found my classmate list and checked what classes they did in geijutsu. 11 people in art.
5 boys, Yoshida, Agou, Kento, Maruta and Isoyuu.

6 girls, Nagaoka Saki, Naitou Natsuko, Murakami Mai, Kisaka Manami, Notsu Aoi and Akiyama Akane.
Out of the remaining boys I hadn't asked, I was pretty sure it wasn't a prank of some sort. Kento'd do something like this, but if it was supposed to look like a girl's, he'd at least drawn a heart.
Saki and Manami are among my favorites in class, though. But I wouldn't know if the 4 others, who I rarely talk to, have interest or something.. It's a mystery.

I took the piece of brown paper that had the message on it, and wrote back: "Thanks for the trane, you're very good at origami. But, who are you?", and left it on my table.
Do follow.

GIMME DAT
The other day after PE, we were changing back into our uniforms in the classroom. It was hitting 30 degrees C, and we were burning up. Suddenly, Kento, the semi-crazy basketball guy in my class, shouts out "Hey, look! Hey you, wait!"

Apparently some lowerclassmen went by our classroom with a drink in their hands that Kento liked. So, he does how a 'senpai' should do, and "asks" if he can have some. He drank it all.

Zoomboy
Two weeks ago, we did the rest of the sports test outside. 50m sprint and volleyball toss.
It was 2-7 and 2-6 together, and first up were the boys' sprint.
So, 50 meter sprint, and the time's going around 7.0 seconds to 7.8 for the other class. That's pretty fast.. Adrenaline was building up in my body. Back in my old school in Denmark, I was outrun by no one.

You had to pair up with the person alphabetically before you, and run together. However, the boys in my class are unequal, and I'm the alphabetically last.

"Don't worry! I'll run with you!" says the biggest, coolest, craziest and friendliest guy in the class, Yuuji. Oh, man.
"Now we'll see how fast Danish legs are!" "Show us some of that Fu-power!" "Denmark-kenpou's secret running style!"
Don't get your hopes up.

Or what.

"GO!"

...

*Woah, this feels great. I haven't run at full power for a looong time.*

Aaand goal! 6.9 seconds! Awesome! Yuuji behind by 7.1. Best in the class, but the top score in school was apparently 6.4.

Then, the volleyball toss. That wasn't anything special, because there was extremely limited run-up space, so no one got it further than 30ish meters.

Close encounters of the Second Kind

I've recently been getting calls from none other than Miles, the German boy who was here in Izumo as an exchange student last year.

We've had long conversations, without really thinking about who's gonna pay the phone fee - it feels great to talk to someone who's experienced the exact same stuff that you're going through.

So HUMID you could DROWN by BREATHING

So HOT that MEGAN FOX compared is DRY ICE

Picture related.


Hubba hubba Transformers 2


But seriously, heat's hitting above 30 degrees C here. Damn nice to have coolers in the classroom though.

"I have a dream!"

A few weeks ago, I attended an English speech contest in a place called Oda. My full speech can be found here: http://freetexthost.com/3uaffdxpr2

It was a bit too long though, so I didn't manage to memorize all of it, and as thus got a 2nd place for, well, not memorizing it, lol

I went with only one other guy from my school, Yuta Ito, a guy of.. 2-1, if I remember correctly. Really nice chap, albeit a tad shy when it comes to doing AWESOME poses in front of a camera


It took a good while to get to the place from my school, but there were an unexpected amount of familiar faces when we arrived - namely students that'd also participated in CHESS.

It was quite cozy as we were all preparing our speeches, there were two groups, 3 and 5-minute speeches. The 5-minute winners go on to a national comp., while the 3-minuters are pretty much just doing this for fun. I was in the 3-minute group.



Yuta is in the tennis club, and met some teacher who wanted to teach him some tricks. That got us around the school a bit. I felt choked by the stares of some of the more serious yankees the school had (No rules about hair and accessories). That reminds me I need to add a new type of yankee to that list..



..Argh it's too hot to write this in detail, and I want to write about more interesting drama stuff. Here's a picture. Be happy.

Insert thoughts here

I don't know how many schools does this, but in Taisha, there's this notebook the teacher passes around to the students alphabetically every day. The students then write in the book what has happened that day for them, and how they feel, etc. I guess it's a way of 'checking up' on how students feel, although everyone can look in it, any time.

It's been around me once, and I did my best to write how I felt, with my poor, poor Japanese at that time. Also got a look in the other students' heads, to an extent.. I checked the dates, and tried to find the day where I ran into the net in the first PE lesson, and the day where I brought Danish candy along to school, and bingo.
Even better, the two who wrote about those things were some of my favorite girls, Moe Iwanari and Manami Kisaka~

From Moe, it went something along the lines of: "Today, Fuu-kun got tangled up in the net in the gym hall. Taketani-sensei couldn't stop laughing the rest of the lesson."
And from Manami: "Today, Fuu-kun had brought some Danish candy to school. It was like gummy, but in strange colors, there was black too. It tasted wonderful. *laugh*"

Edit: 3/9
Oh, wow. Hey, people. I'm.. late, lol soz don whine k? iz mah site poot

Poor Yomota
During the sports test, we did some volleyball shots to waste time in the gym hall. There was a net set up already, so the boys split up in two teams, on each side, and took turns doing serves.

Yomota, the short, not-too-popular, curly-haired boy in my class had an injured leg, so he was sitting it out in the corner.
When I did my serve (I miss often, because I hit too hard), it flew over the net as expected, but headed straight for Yomota in the corner - bam, and hit the wall behind him.

You know the cold feeling around your heart when like, someone discovered your grave personal secret? I had that same feeling right there for a moment, but whew.
The other guys were going "Daamn! Close!!" though, heh. Yomota's a good guy though, he has personality. dw

Greenpeas/ce
Back in the first few weeks of school, I went around and asked people in my class what they liked and hated.
Yuusuke, currently a very good friend of mine, told me he hated "guriinpiisu", as they pronounce it. "Wtf, why" I thought, "don't they save turtles and icebergs and stuff? Aren't they good guys?"

Apparently, as I found out recently, it wasn't Greenpeace, but green peas.

Reminds me of when I was asked in Hiroshima, "Watto isu piisu tu yuu?" (say it out loud), "Small, green, and give lots of stomach air."

Train Woman
Recently... Well, since I started riding the train to school instead of biking, there's been this... strange... weird.. disgusting, not to mention annoying woman riding it.

Forgive my language, but she looks like a drug wh***, dirty hair, dirty clothes, around her 30ies, 140cmish in height, and eyes like freaking millwheels.

And she likes me. And how, ergh. Everytime she gets on the train (I'm always sitting alone in the train when everyone comes in, from where I get on you have to change trains you see), it feels like she's gonna burn a hole in me.
Managed to ignore her up until now, but now she's been asking if it's okay if she can sit next to me... shit.

Damn it, why do I always get the strange chicks.

BONUS: The Wikipedia game
Credit to Taisa for showing me this.

On Wikipedia, if you click "Random article" in the left upper side, it is guaranteed that you can in 5 clicks or less, from any article, get to Adolf Hitler.

How you do it is, well, you click Random article, and get a random article. Then, from clicking links inside that article, marked with blue, you advance on to other articles, and by clicking 5 times or less, you WILL get to Adolf Hitler.

Try it.