Karaoke time

Hey everybody! I just got home from karaoke with my neighbor, her kids and a friend of mine! It was so much fun. Afterwards we went to eat dinner, and after that we went to play arcade games. We all took pictures in a Print Club machine. Here are some of the pics! Well I hope you all are doing good! Thanks to lynn and marcel for putting me on webcam to see the party. I hope it was really nice! Talk to you all soon ok! BYE!!!!

peace

vince

Hi sorry for the long delay

Hello everybody! I'm really sorry for not writing anything lately. The honest truth is that there really hasn't been anything worth writing about. It's been really bone chilling cold out here lately. Every morning I ride my bike to school which is a bit unpleasant, but I have gloves and other gear so it's not so bad. School is going pretty good. Next week is the last week this year. The students are ready for a break. Frankly, so am I. Although I'm not really looking forward to the break because I don't think I'm doing anything. It's going to suck this Christmas. I don't really think that Japanese people want to invite foreigners to hang out with them on Christmas. Well at least I haven't got any invitations or anything. Oh well whatever, it's all good.

Next Friday there is a party for my work, called a bonenkai. It's apparently a party for the end of the year. It will be held at this fancy hotel in downtown Osaka. It should be pretty fun I guess. I will be going with one of the Japanese teachers, she is new and by some bizarre reason we got set up. It will be cool, I'm looking forward to it. Tomorrow I will be going to Karaoke and dinner with my neighbor and her friends. I really need to do some Karaoke, you can get a lot of stress out by singing some good songs.

What are some of your plans for the holidays? Let me know what some of you are going to be doing? I'd be thrilled to know! :)

I wanted to say congratulations to my cousins Lynn and Melanie. They are graduating Saturday December 15, 2007 from UTEP! I'm so proud of them for their achievements! You rock! Oh and also to Lynn for dealing with all sorts barricades put in her life and not letting them stop her!!! YAY! Two more special family members will be graduating in May 08! So that rocks too!!

Oh yeah, thanks again to everybody for my virtual Christmas presents! I'm really enjoying them. OK well I will be going now, I will see some of you on web cam soon at my cousins graduation party back in El Paso! I can't wait! See you all I miss you!

peace

vince

p.s. Happy BIRTHDAY TERESA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

p.s.s. Hi Millie and jigga I freaking miss you guys! :`(

Back from a good day!

Well today was great! I went to my co workers house to eat lunch. It was great we ate SOOOOOOO MUCH! Talked, played games, and just had a great time. Here are some pics of today! I will be back soon with some more stuff! See you! :)

peace

vince

thanks for the presents everybody! very nice of you :)

Hello all!

So lately I have been engulfed in the greatness that is the video game "mass effect". My brother send it to me last weekend and it is awesome! After work I have been coming home and playing! Nothing new has been going down this week. It is really cold though. Some people take it way to far though. Sometimes the people here look like they are going on an expedition to Antartica or the North Pole. Today I wore a tshirt under my jacket and when I took off my jacket they couldn't believe that I had just a tshirt!!! WOW!!! hahah I'm going to my co-workers house for dinner this Sunday. She teaches Chinese which is pretty cool. She invited me yesterday, so I'm excited because it's something cool to do. Well I will be back this weekend for some updates and news. Please be careful where ever you are in the world, I miss you and thank you for reading my blog.

peace

vince

p.s. if you would care to laugh for a little while please watch this humorous video! see you

Back from Kyoto! Pictures Galore! :)

Yellowcard ROCKS!!!

Wow, I just got back from the Yellowcard/Just Surrender concert in Downtown Osaka! It was so awesome! My friends and I were the only foreigners in the whole place. It was a pretty small show so we were right in front of the bands. They didn't allow us to take pictures or videos it really sucked! Just trust me the show was sick! About halfway through Ryan from Yellowcard stopped and said that he noticed there were some "American Looking people" there. And we just screamed even though 2 of us were from England!! He dedicated a song to us! It was soooooooooooooo awesome! After the show we went to talk to the guys from Just Surrender, they were really nice and I took a pic with the singer and one of the guitar players! Oh man it was nice. I bought my brother and I a Tshirt so NaneO expect a Yellowcard shirt in the mail dude! :) OK well enjoy the pics. I will be back tomorrow to write something OK! Miss you all thanks for the visits and comments! take care

peace

vince

What a sad time

I don't know if you have heard about this but, Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died this morning. He was shot during an attempted robbery at his house yesterday. He was shot in the leg and his artery was hit. I don't follow the Redskins, or know too much about this guy but damn it saddens me to hear something so horrible. The guy was 24 years old. Somethings I will never understand, damn damn damn damn! Just tragic.....

Other than that news tonight I had a great day. I will give another exam tomorrow to my seniors. I think they are really prepared for it so it should be good! Ok I'm out tonight, going to hang out with my friend. take care everybody I miss you.

here is the story link yall


http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3129406

Grading exams!

Hey all! At the moment Im grading my students 3rd term exams. They really did a great job. I told them to write anything on the back of the test to me in Japanese or English. Here are some photos of them.

YO!

Hey everybody! Wow it's been a while eh? Well life has been a bit bland lately. I was engulfed in college football this past weekend. I was a bit dissappointed about the Kansas loss but hey it's all good. I love the underdogs in the championship! Today I was thinking about heading back to EP for christmas, so I called up a local travel agency and the cheapest I can get a ticket is about $1,400! It's a tad bit pricey I think. Oh well, I will have to just sit around in Osaka.

I found out today that there is a giant party for the teachers at my school on December 21st. This is called an "enkai". Supposedly all the teachers will go to this party and it will be at a hotel in Namba(where I through the happy time party). I guess I will look forward to this, since I have no idea what to do around xmas. I will figure something out!

Ok, so I went to go eat with my amazingly kawaii friend Fumiko right now. I was trying to get her to take a photo but she said she looked bad (like that is even possible). I will get one though OK! :) We ate some yakitori and some awesome grilled cheese sandwiches! haha :) GOOD TIMES! Not to mention we had a few beers, so it all went down nice. She is a really cool girl. Actually she is the first local girl that I met in my area. Plus we live about 2 blocks away so it's cool. Anyway, I put a few more random pics I took with my cell phone last week and today. Another is the place where we were at eating.

School business... Well today I suggested to the English department to allow me to create an English club. I want my own room and just time to hang out. I know I can get some students in there to speak English, trade English music, watch movies, and just hang out. It will be a cool place to be, also if the students need help with English homework they have a great resource! ME!! I just want to try and do something for myself here. I sometimes feel that they think I am just a kid with no idea how to teach. When in fact I spent 5 years in Uni studying about education... Oh well...

Alright, tomorrow I am going try and hit up a Temple or something to take some photos after work. I hope it's not too dark though, because lately the sun has been going down around 4:30pm. Yes, I know Marcel you are dying to see more pictures haha :)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I missed the snow in El Paso during the holiday weekend. It must have been really nice, any EP people send me some pics of the snow. I'm sure "BEN SWANN" and the rest of the ridiculous "KFOX TV" were out there sliding around. (storm 2006) hahaha ;)

Ok, I'm out everybody take care and keep in touch. I'll talk to you soon and don't laugh at my buzzed self done haircut ok! haha see ya !!

peace

vince

oh by the way I'm going to go see YELLOWCARD on Wednesday night IN OSAKA!!!!!!!!!!! ROCK ON!!! :)

Remember that picture?

Hello all! I was on another marathon space stuff hunt online tonight and I thought I would share this video. It is about that picture that I posted a few days ago, remember? The hubble space photo! Well here is a video that explains it all!

Thanks to the people who have commented lately! :)
peace

vince

mrs.b- i sure you have some time for some turkey action in big bend :)

lynn- i miss you too :( ill call ya soon k

Same old

So I was thinking about what to write about the past few days. I really have nothing write actually. This week so far has been quite uneventful. I guess that could be a good thing too. Things are pretty normal over here right now, as normal as things can get for a foreigner in Japan.

Today I had two girls come to my desk and randomly ask me "Do you like peanut butter?". I happily replied yes of course. Apparently most Japanese people don't like peanut butter or something. I never thought I would randomly be asked that during school. They laughed and ran away...... yeah.

Right now it is really cold over here. Last night I had to bust out the portable space heater. There is no gas heater in my apartment. I don't think Japanese people ever thought about weather when they built the first buildings. It's freaking hellish hot inside in the summer, and deathly cold in the winter. Maybe I should tell them to import some of that pink insulation stuff from the Home Depot (or Lowes). hahah Oh well, I will get used to it... sometime.

So this week in the USA is Thanksgiving. I will be missing all the lovely fried turkey and the typical food stuffs that my mom makes back home. I will miss my grandfather complaining about the smallest things and eating everything before we even start.haha I will also miss giving my awesome dogs their left-over turkey. It's all good though, I will be there in spirit. I think on Thursday here I will go to KFC to eat some chicken! :) good times yo!

Hey how about those HOUSTON DYNAMO from MLS!!! Two time champions back to back baby!!! That's what it's all about!! I know you probably don't care about MLS but I love it. Thanks Houston for another amazing season you are the best and you showed it!!! Now, HOUSTON BUILD THEM A DAMN STADIUM! :) Well I hope you all are doing good. I hope that I will have some more news this week ok. Stay tuned to the most un-amazing blog on the planet!! Thanks everybody! miss you !! and take care! :)

vince



watch this lovely video of my team!!! HOUSTON DYNAMO!!! HELL YEAH!! it was worth getting up at 3am to watch :)

What a great night!

Hey every body! I just woke up a few minutes ago and I have a bit of a headache and it is freezing in my room. Anyway, last night was the happy time party that I made. It was a real success! Only one person didn't show up that said they would. So there were a total of 20 people I think. The place was really nice, the only thing that sucked was that the tables were separated. We would just move around to different table though. The food was great, we had unlimited Asahi Super Dry beer, and any other drink. I was able to use Japanese all night, and I was quite impressed with myself! It was not so good but I was really trying. I started to talk to the nurse at my school, she is so cool! She likes rock just like me and skateboarding! How crazy is that? Anyway, after the restaurant I asked every body if they wanted to go to a cool bar that I knew around the area. I thought they would all say no, but they all said YES! It was great, I was leading the way to a place they didn't even know in Osaka. So strange! haha We got to the bar and had a blast, talking laughing and just having a good time!

All in all, it was a real special night. All my colleagues thanked me for the night. They said they had a blast, and all that. I was really happy about it. Next week I'm supposed to go with the nurse to a rock club so thats awesome.

Anyway, on the 28th I'm going to go see Yellowcard! I'm going with my friends Tom and Becky. I can't wait! Ok, well I hope every one is doing good. Send me a comment if you wish. Take care and I miss you!

peace

vince

Today is the day!

Hey everybody! How are you doing today, tonight or whenever you are reading this? Well as I said a few weeks ago today is "happy time". It's my first party in Osaka! So far I have had about 21 people rsvp, I was actually expecting about 12 but 21 is great! It will start tonight at 7:30pm downtown. I hope it goes well haha!

Other than that everything is going pretty well over here. Just been working like usual. I will be back soon with some pics! Take care everybody and I will talk to you soon!

vince