Sorry,I haven't updated in awhile. I've been busy, with schoolwork, my job, the band, hanging out with friends etc. I'm down to the last stretch here, since I only have about a month left in Japan, so I'm trying to spend as much time with my friends as possible. At the same time, I just started practicing with my band a couple weeks ago and we're nearing the end of the semester so I'm getting busy with schoolwork. But things have been good. This past weekend, I had band practice. It was our second practice and it went much better than the first. For the first practice, our guitarist and the only person who knew where the studio was, ended up being 40 minutes late, so we only got to practice for about 15 minutes. But this last practice was better, we got a full practice in and actually got all of the way through our first song, Island in the Sun by Weezer. Friday night we're practicing again and we're going to start to play a Nirvana song, so I'm excited about that. It should be a lot more fun than Weezer. Than on Friday night I went out to eat/drink with a group of friends because one of my friends just had a bad breakup and we wanted to cheer her up. So we went out for Mexican because what's more cheerful than Tequila? Then on Saturday some people from my church had a BBQ and I went to that. It was really fun, plus I got to eat a home-grilled hamburger for the first time in a very long time and be around lots of cute babies. I like American babies because when I smile at them, they usually smile back, whereas Japanese babies get scared and look away or start crying, I guess because of my scary yellow hair and spooky green eyes. Then yesterday I went to church and then attended a charity concert afterward to help people suffering from the earthquake in Indonesia. The artist who played was apparently quite famous, I think her name was Jian Jinhou. She played a string-instrument from China called the erhu. Anyway, the sound was really interesting. Some songs sounded sort of like Chinese bluegrass music if you can imagine that. Anyway, that's what I've been up to lately, now I need to go do some homework. Peace out.