Beach clean up and Halloween craziness

So today I Woke Up to the sound of my alarm clock telling me to get out of bed. I'd like to remind you all that this was a Sunday Morning. But I got up, got out of the house in 30 minutes, and arrived at Yoshino beach only 15 minutes late because I got lost (I followed one sign to Yoshino, and it passed Aragusuku, which is just north of Yoshino, but then all of a sudden I was at the road to go to the cape. Grrrr), but then I met up with David (DAH-vid, the Germen CIR), Teresa, Kirsty, Jonathan, and a bunch of Japanese people I didn't know to clean up the beach. They provided us with gloves and bags and we got to. I didn't fill up a single bag, but I did 3 half bags. The first one was half filled with little bits of broken glass and it was getting heavy and I was worried that the bag would tear. The second one was half filled with Styrofoam, but I also found a beach blanket type thing under the trees (right after I found the spider inside the small flotation ball, that was fun), and it was heavy, so I headed back. And the third one was truthfully 3/4 of the way full of debree, Styrofoam, glass, and all kinds of plastic bits, and I found a large sheet of plastic in (I think it was) a natrual spring that flowed down from the cliffs into the beach, and that was REALLY heavy so I dragged it back and then they told me it was okay to stop. I was out there for about 3 hours. Then we sat down under the canopy of the trees in this kinda tent and one of the ladies made us Dango (dumplings) in a "sweet soup" that had red beans in it. It was So Good. I was really surprised when they said that there was sea water in it, but that was because the recipe calls for salt (to bring out the sweet flavor, don't ask me how), and they didn't have enough, so they added some salt water. It was perfect.

After, I Could have just gone home, but I decided why not and went to Maehama. There was a volleyball tourny going on, but I don't want to play in those until I get better (with how little I'm playing, I don't think I'll actually get to the point of wanting to play in the tournys) because I don't want to be the reason my team loses. So I watched Teresa, Jeff, Justin, and Jason play and then went for a 500m swim. Yes, I went to the beach and had a swim on October 21st. This is awesome. It was really cold, the water, I mean, because as soon as I decided to swim the sun ran away. But as soon as I was moving I was fine. And then I was cold again when I got out because the sun was still away and the wind was blowing, but I was fine after I dried off a bit. I love my island.

After my kester was dry enough to not soak my car seat, I drove over to Sazan to try to find some face paint, which I did, but it's the clown type, and was kinda expensive for only wanting to use white. So I'm still thinking if I wanna go back an buy it. I'm gonna ask Chris and Tiffany if they can find some at a better price for what I want to do. Then I went over to San-e and bought the fabric to make the darn thing, which was much more expensive than I thought (48yen apparently means 480yen per meter), but I'm commited to doing it now. Even if noone seems to have a sewing mashine and I have to do it all by hand. Wooo!

By the way, I've decided to be a yurei. So, information here. Pictures here, here, here, here, here, and here.

So yeah, I have about 4 days to make a kimono by hand. Yep, this week's gonna be interesting.