heidi

my miniature schnauzer Heidi, and the first one is a little bit of my lhasa apso, Gretchen

code lyoko

i came across a code lyoko video the other day on youtube. i used to love that show so much and i watched every day until it was canceled. i know that it was french, but i didn't realize just how many langauges it was translated into. i found this site in chinese, and hopefully once i get home (and can use the joy that chinesepera-kun is!) i can see if theres any lyrics i can get. im going to need something new to sing for the final!
http:// www .codelyoko .cn/

vaarsuvius

i feel so sorry for V :(

冯昭宁

so i decided to look up my names to try and figure out what it means, since i lost the paper that told me. sorry laoshi! heres what i found:

冯 feng2
radical: ice, combined with horse, to mean something like speed or galloping. it was listed as the 31st most common surname in china in 2006

照 zhao4
we learned this in our book as "to shine" but chinesepera-kun has several variations，including: "in accordance to", "to shine", ”to illuminate", and "to reflect"

宁 ning2
chinesepera-kun: "peaceful" and "rather". i doubt laoshi meant "rather" so i took it to be "peaceful".

putting it all together, shining peace, illuminating peace(fulness), reflecting peace. interesting. i guess ill ask him tomorrow which one it is. :)

j-fest at botanical gardens

Japanese Festival went off pretty good for me. I wanted to go on Saturday, but I was concerned about the rain, so when Dad had gotten about 1/4 of the way there I made him turn around and go home. We stopped at a restaurant for breakfast since neither of us had eaten. It was pretty good. I was a bit worried at first, since I was wearing a yukata, and I was afraid people would stare or laugh at me. I got some odd looks but nothing too bad, so I guess it was a success! We ended up going on Sunday, which was cloudy, but no rain. I got the last morning ticket to the tea ceremony. They increased the price $10, which I was a bit pissed at, but they gave us a new sweet: it had this crunchy outer shell with a nice, soft, sweet, gelatin inside. I worked everything around the kimono show, but ended up skipping out of it to go to the cooking demonstration, which was worth it. I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked, since I had a bit of a cold. Here's some pics:




(i have so much hair i had a hard time putting it up into a bun- it kept falling out. i wonder what i was trying to do with it here?)



(note the red feathes around the ducks eyes and the odd coloring... i found this guy swimming with koi.)




(is my obi straight? does it look nice? no- not really. but not bad for being done in a rush w/no mirror)

i remember this book...

i remember reading a book awhile ago(Lost on Planet China?), about china. it was a biography and the man was talking about how this chinese man went up to him, yelled in his face, and then randomly started hitting him for no reason before walking off. I remembered it after reading an article that had absolutely nothing to do with it.