Sunday, October 26, 2008

The elementary experiment

Hello, good reader. It's been over a week since my last update - with good reason, too. All this time spent at the elementary schools has left me feeling verymuch under the weather. Feeling about six feet under, to be sure. For the first three days, I thought perhaps I had managed to catch SARS, but thanks to generic American Dayquil, I was able to manage through the last week.
Elementary school was fine, in fact. No students tried to manhandle me, and despite some minor annoyances, the time flew by without much incident. I worked this Saturday, attending my Junior High's chorus competition, and so got this Monday (today) off work in exchange. It's nice to have a day to sit around and run some errands, to be sure. Many thanks to the nice ladies working at the post office that helped me stumble through the forms required to send money home.
As I mentioned in my last entry, Miranda July has an art exhibit in Yokohama, along with a couple dozen other artists including Yoko Ono. So, a couple of my friends and I met up on the way to Yokohama to go see what we could see of the world modern art scene. I had a really good time, saw some really good exhibits, and had a great day just getting out of the house and into a new city. Our visit coincided with some Thai festival in the bay area, which was fine with us, because we could eat cheap Thai street food and have a couple of Thai beers after trudging through the art areas.
My favorite exhibit was Pedro Reyes' "Baby Marx" - a socialist puppet show filmed and made into a movie trailer. Really great puppets, really wonderful video. Watch it! http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=o7VdMyNXWUM
Of course, Miranda July's exhibit was really good too, and I took a bunch of photos of myself there.
I've been slowly adding photos to my photobucket account. My name is allhailinformation, and you should look up my pictures, if you want. I will probably add a link at some point to make it easier...but, I'm not all the way done uploading stuff yet. So, enjoy and leave comments please.

Until next time, dear reader.

"What am I that can't help wondering what am I that can't help wondering what am I?"

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