Some Pictures; a Review

I took this picture a few days ago and it was kind of random. This guy is the faculty adviser... for world peace. I'm not kidding. My schools motto, by the way is "Pax Mundi Per Linguas" ("World Peace Through Language"), so I guess it's not really too surprising that we have someone like this guy working there.

Anyway, these girls are a part of Habitat for Humanity here, is how I understand, and that's one of the many programs he controls, I guess? Anyway, I had my camera with me and offered to take a picture. I didn't mean to upload this, but it was in my "Put on the blog" folder because I use it more as a generic export folder.

At left you can see Sara (in pink), Sou Jong (with the white hat), Park Mingji (sitting, looking away), and Paul (the, uh, only guy). Sara and Paul are exchanging contact information by IR transfer, easily the most common way of doing so among the people I know. I have a hard time imagining salarymen huddled under an umbrella, trying to get their phones to connect, only to end up exchanging cards anyway. I think the card exchange is important for them. I don't have IR on my phone, but it's called 赤外線 sekigaisen ("outside of red waves") if you want to know.

The next few shots are from a birthday party for some friends at Kyodai I was at Sunday afternoon. On the left are the three birthday girls and a bonus girl, since the group was one short of all the women at hand with the birthday girls.
They didn't all have the same birthday, but it was one of those "let's celebrate a couple of birthdays at once" things. There was cake. I'm still alive.

On the right we have a great example of my progress on Operation Take Pictures of People While They're Eating.
The title's creative, don't you think?

Also, I enjoy surprising people and warning them just a tiny bit before I trigger the shutter, which resulted in this next picture (left). I guess her shoes were rubbing her ankles, and she was headed out into the rain, so she was going to put on more suitable ones. I don't know her name.

At right is a picture from my judo club. Last I heard, these two broke up, so I don't know what's going on now, but it looks to have taken a turn for the better.

The girl on top is Takako, and the guy on the bottom is Aki-chan, whose massive umbrella I accidentally stole. He said it was okay and that I could keep it, because he had already bought another one. They're both a lot better than me at judo. Like, Takako weighs half as much as I do and she kicks my ass. When I took this picture, we were all pretty much just messing around, 'cause time was about up.

Last is a picture of everybody screwing around a little later after practice. Far left is Ryohei, the team captain. I was talking to Aki-chan earlier after I nearly broke his spine, and he said that it's everybody's wish to throw Ryohei just once. My dream is to throw someone. I aim high, you know?

Behind him is Aki-chan. On the right is Takako again, and Keiichiro is on the far right with the wooden sword. Keiichiro has really good English and has no problems talking with me at conversational speeds. He also speaks some Chinese, I think.

And with that, I need to get ready for class.