花見 Flower viewing

OMG?? Wait, I'm updating my blog and its only been....oh right -_- Well, at least I'm updating it sort of regularly, more than I can say about my Japanese blog which seems to be forgotten a lot of times :( (日本語のブログ) Well, its Friday today and I'm feeling so much more rested than I did throughout the whole week! Because, school was closed for today!! Something about entrance exams or something...whatever, its a DAY OFF which, between you and me, doesn't seem to happen very often. Let's see, my new record for the past few weeks is staying in my lab until 1 IN THE MORNING to finish my experiment. Really have to love research to put up with it...MUST...LOVE...RESEARCH...argh...LOL.

Well, as I said in the previous edition of this blog, I did get to go look at the sakura that were blooming. The sakura here in Okinawa are (I think at least...) the same as those that we have back in the islands. They are, as always, a sight to behold with their wide range of....2 colors? LOL. But, they are beautiful nonetheless. I, of course, met up with Yuko-chan again and we went to a park near to 国際通り. This was about two weeks ago...so yeah, I lied and didn't update right after like I was going to try and do. I don't remember the name of the park but the previous week there was a big 祭り (event) there to celebrate the 'end of winter' or something like that. And, of course, we were there the week after it...so not much of anything was there as far as the 祭り was concerned. We did get to walk around and get some pretty nice pictures and, as has become a tradition, we went to karaoke for 2 hours.

Let's see, the 22nd, went to the ocean and ran a pilot of my experiment. the low tide was from about 1600 so I was there from about 2 til 5 to get through the whole thing. After, had to come back to the lab and analyze the data and run tests. The data actually came out surprisingly well but...I was in the lab until 1/1:30 in the morning. :( Well, sacrifice for what you love doing?? IDK.

Hm, and finally we arrive at yesterday! I went with Tanaka-san to おきなわワールド and into the cave system there (FOR FREE!!). It was an amazing experience because its been FOREVER since I was down in a cave. One of the downsides, it was so well lighted and the walkway so well established that it kind of takes the 'cave' experience out of it (in my opinion). Oh yeah, there was that actually having to run the experiment while we were there also...but that wasn't as bad as what it would seem like.

Well, its now officially spring vacation here in 流大 which means absolutely nothing for me. Still have to go in to my office everyday like before and still run my experiment like normal. The only difference is that there is now next to NO ONE on campus since...no more class. Kind of sad being one of the few people having to be in school for the vacation. Oh well, gotta just keep on at it for that degree! :D

Not sure if anythings going to happen the next few weeks since most people went traveling and such so we'll see when I next write here...maybe next month? Maybe in a couple of weeks? We'll never know...LOL

Aloha guys~! ☆彡♬♪