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It's the beginning of second term, summer break is over ("break" - ha! for who?) and we're preparing for the 文化祭 (bunkasai) or culture festival. Tomorrow, the students perform skits and music in the gym and sell food they've made. I have tickets for Thai yakisoba, croquette, a frankfurter, tamasen (fried egg on a shrimp cracker with okonomiyaki sauce and mayonaise), and various drinks. On Friday, we'll all head over to Arakashi Hall at the city offices and there will be a talent show with singing, dancing, etc.

So I'm f-ing busy this week (Japanese lesson for today: "クソ忙しい" - kuso isogashii = "f-ing busy") because somehow I ended up 1) juggling at the bunkasai, 2) singing an enka song at the bunkasai, and 3) editing a film I helped shoot and act in for the 3rd year class 4 students. GUH.

So the biggest problem I've encountered thus far - importing layer styles from Photoshop into Final Cut Pro. Thank you, Internet, for helping me solve that problem.

Here's the song I'm singing:


I'm just doing through the first chorus (thank god). I'll be dressed (arguably) like Jero (aka Jerome White, Jr.), the first black American enka singer to take Japan by storm. (@_@)