I tell of my day-to-day experiences in a funky Japanese town from my American viewpoint. This blog could also be called 'Bizarro World', 'Notes From Kyushu, a Smaller Island', or 'Teaching English in Japan: Smash Your Ego in 10 Easy Lessons."

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Sharing time

Hello. There are three things I would like to share tonight.


The first is this new stationery, which also reminds us all of the importance of creaning our teeth daily.


The second is that it's firefly season now. Japan has 12 varieties of fireflies, two of which live right here in Tamana, or so I'm told. I went for a stroll to see them tonight, just when they were at their blinkiest, around 8pm.
I recall from my younger days that the chemicals that light the firefly's tailend are also the same chemicals in those stick thingys you break and they light up and you can wave them around, and attract other stick thingys, but not matchstick or broomstick thingys.

The Japanese have an interesting word for something that the fireflies do. The word sounds like 'Sinko-suru'('suru' meaning 'do something') Nobody knows why they do this. Can you guess what it is that they do?


Lastly, but not leastly, the third thing was an announcement at around 3 o'clock this afternoon through the city loudspeakers. Apparently there is a wild boar('いぬしし,' I think)on the loose in town.

4 comments:

DoneCheap DoneRight PC said...

Now you can write a letter with your new fantastico bery pearly clean staionary using glow in the dark ink and write about the wild boar on the loose and everyone can make paper airplanes out of the letters they received and fly them around at night and create their own public chaos, hahahahehehe I just love making good clean fun......

Jetblossom you are my hero.....I mean that....

Blu~

DoneCheap DoneRight PC said...

One more thing....I wish you would turn off that silly owner approval thingy so that all your loathing fans can sit back and admire there wonderful commentry that they thought so hard about as soon as they post it, I feel so left out sometimes, hahahahehehe.....

Blu~

jetblossom said...

Well, for a little while I was getting undesirable fan mail, such as, "Cool blog. Wanna see mine? xxx"
So I turned it on. It's been a few months since I got one of those, so maybe I can turn it off now.

And about the party--maybe I will lead a seminar in town on 'creating public chaos' and 'fun'--they could use a good lesson around here.

DoneCheap DoneRight PC said...

Jetblossom, my wonderful jetblossom, you don't have to turn it on or off for me, I was just pokin' fun....

As for that party we are talkin' bout....I think it's a no brainer and you should jump on it.....

Let me know, hehehe.....

Blu~