Sat, Nov. 15
5~6pm suddenly decide to go to Champaign
10pm get in Champaign
4am fall asleep at Misaki's place
Sun, Nov. 16
10am wake up+take shower+go eat
4pm take greyhound back to Chicago
7pm get in downtown Chicago, take cab back to my dorm
8pm visit my friends' in downtown for a little party
12:30pm get back @ my dorm
1am Andrea comes over
6am finishes two papers, go sleep
Mon, Nov.17
8am wake up to wake up Andrea
9:10am realize that there's another homework assignment for the 4-hour-class
9:30am class starts...
1:23pm am still alive!
Since the discussion about diversity, discrimination, and history of Acts for segregation was held in one of my classes that I'm having, I was thinking about discussing about it by myself in my entry. As I was researching in the internet, I found a valunable essay in Japanese. It even made me cry to know the facts in a good way and in a bad way.
please go check yourselves click here.
If you'd like to know more about Japanese history, please go to click here.
(only Japanese script available)
Excuse my language but,
I AM ALSO PISSED ABOUT THE FACT THAT PEOPLE DISCRIMINATE EACH OTHER!
THAT'S SOOOOO WRONG.
each and every of you guys who's reading this,
please think about it.
Unfortunately, at this moment, I've no time towards the winter break, but I promise, I'll write about my thoughts on discrimination later on.
It is very important.
冬休みの予定
11月24日期末試験最終日
11月26日シカゴ－ミラノ－アテネ
11月30日アテネ－ミラノ－ルガノ
12月2日(3日）ルガノ－ザンクトガレン
12月5日（6日）チューリヒ－日本
1月2日東京－シカゴ
Meine Zusammenfassung fuer Winterurlaub
26 Nov. Chicago(USA)-Meiland(Italien)-Athens(Griechenland)
30 Nov. Athens(Griechenland)-Meiland(Italien)-Lugano(Schweiz)
2(oder 3) Dez. Lugano(Schweiz)-St.Gallen(Schweiz)
5 Dez. Zuerich(Schweiz)-Tokio(Japan)
2 Jan. Tokio(Japan)-Chicago(USA)
In no long time, I'll see whom I can see during this short trip, I wish I could go to each country in Europe to see all of you, but as you see, the time doesn't permit.
おヒマっコくらぶのみなさんに日本で再会するのが楽しみですっ☆
(n.b. this is not necessary my case)
Let's say, your loved-one (eg. your partner) died suddenly. You loved her/him dearly.
what are you supposed to do now?
Weep sorrowfully for her/him for a while? Could you be proudly say that you loved her/him deeply or you still love her/him?
Is it right to move on to depend on someone else? Take it as an opportunity to meet new people and start new life? Can the person left behind possibly love the new partner as much as they did before? Or the deceased one is the best and always the best and that's how it would bug and hold back to move on?
What about the promisses that they made for their eternal mutual love?
If that person decides to move on, do they have to forget the loved-one? Can they promise again faithfully to a new partner for their true love?
My favorite K-1 boxer, Andy Hug, passed away on Aug 24th, 2000. He was in Japan and I was in England back then. I've never seen him face to face, but I knew that his Karate practice place was near my house...
My friend tried to explain that to like someone and to love someone is totally different. I know each of us has different definitions to it, and I've never actually tried (or had) to think about the difference. Without thinking about my real feeling seriously, thought they were more or less the same. My friend says she doesn't believe in whole marriage thing. Neither do I. If the true love exists, there's no need of such a ritual to tight up nor possess each other with rings.
Back about Andy, I like him but to be honest, I don't love him. There's nothing wrong with it. I want him to have my love for him to know that I care, but that's different from whether I love him or not in the different sense. I wanted him to beat the disease with his champion golden heel drop...
I was so shocked when I heard this news. That was the time that I had to think about death. Both physical death and mental death.
If I were to love him truely, would I be shocked and crying all day? And be closed to myself which leads to mental death because of Andy's physical death? Would I die after for someone else's death? Is that right thing to do?
Time would solve the sorrow. It would.
I was nothing to him, but would it be wrong if I eventually forget even his name? I'm afraid that he'd disappear. I'm afraid that I'd disappear.
午後７時、よっそーから電話がかかってきた。「時差ボケでねむれな～いっ」って。
（よっそーを知らない人へ：よっそーとはTASIS（高校）で会った。AUP（American University Paris）から二人とも、受け入れ通知をうけとったものの、結局よっそー一人で行くことになってまった。）
で、”時差ぼけ”ってキミどこ行ってたの・・・って話になるじゃん。な～んと、よっそーも、NYに居たらしいよ。怖いねっ。そんなん全く知らなかったし、彼は今、Parisに住んでらっしゃるんだよっ！！
と考えてたら、いろいろマサコに起こった偶然的出来事を書き出すことにした。（この前の美咲のこともあるしね☆）
１．よっそーの双子の兄に、シカゴに行く日に空港でばったり会う。しかも、チェックインの列の目の前に並んでいて、よっそーのおばちゃんがうちを発見。さらには、成田からアトランタまでの飛行機が同じだった・・・ 唖然）
２．さかのぼること２０００年の３月の終わり、初めてTASISを訪れた日、私はリナとケイと仲良くなった。４ヶ月後、私はイタリアのフィレンツェ（Firenze, Florence）でホームステイを３ヶ月した。ステイ先のおばちゃん、Letiziaさんがサイン帳履歴を見せてくれて、あまりの量にめんどうになって、ぱらぱら流し読みしてたら、見たことある顔発見。・・・ケイだった。彼女はその年の４月にフィレンツェで美術の学校に何週間か行ってたらしい。夏休みが終わり、８月の終わり、私はTASISに通うことになり、ケイに再会。
恐るべし・・・。（けど、楽しい♪）
Ovbiously, New York wasn't affected by me, but that "ME" was affected by New York.
...*grinning*
I decided to spend this Halloween weekend with Cristina from TASIS. She goes to GeorgeWashington University, so I took a flight to Baltimore and we met up at her dorm. We took a China Bus, which charge us 30 bucks each for a round trip ticket. I was so excited, but somehow managed to fall asleep in the unconfortable bus. I was already broke that time...spent up all cash for taxi from the airport to her university.
We already planned another trip for spring break in that bus!
So here I come, in New York.
NEW YORK.
I've been to London, Paris, Tokyo...but never been in NY.
If I have enough plus some extra money, I'd really love to live in NY. I don't mind if my apartment house is small, if that's enough to live on my own.
I gotta find out what's so facinating and exciting about NY and put it into my own words(...with my alien voice.) mission!!!