I am pretty exhausted today. Last night was a barbecue at the junior high that I work at (which is also 20 meters from my front door). It is getting frustrating not being able to understand all the words that are being composed around me so it will make me determined to learn Japanese. People chat a lot here and they have a lot to ask me, but I can rarely understand them.
I wanted to post this photo because it is the upper half of the sleeping Buddha profile that the Mt. Aso peaks make up. Here you can see the scraggly face and the tummy of the giant beast of a man. Ubuyama apparently means "Mountain Birth" and refers to a myth about a god that was born up here. It also can be read as Innocent Mountain, or Mt. Innocent (my professor from college has informed me). There is a lot of drinking here for an innocent place. And those fields in the photo were once under the water of a giant lake and before that they were part of the floor of one of the world's largest volcanic craters (maybe #2, if not #1 largest).
Last night a friend's lapdog bit me twice and drew blood. Hopefully I will not die, but I do not know that this is the case. The dog is a cute little one with fluffy white hair and big round eyeballs that jut out of its flat face. So much for cute animals being peaceful and friendly. Same is true for chimps. They are about three times stronger than most people (maybe more) and can tear you up if they are in a bad mood.
Enough for now; tonight is my first conversation class and I need to rest up.
Hope you all are well and enjoying the wide world.
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