Showing posts with label excitement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excitement. Show all posts

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Things I Want To Do!

I've compiled a list of activities I would like to do with my husband! ^_^ It's grown quite long, and is still getting bigger! We haven't even put a dent in it so far. I think that's good though, since I think we have more than enough time to do these things, and besides, it's no fun if we just rush through them! With that being said, here's my "List of MUST Do Good Clean Fun Activities!":

1. Go to a carnival

2. Go on an epic lost journey

3. Go to a farm and ride horses, milk cows, feed animals, and everything you can possibly do there! x3

4. Try food from all over the world!

5. Learn to cook different dishes from all over the world!

6. Catch caterpillars and watch them grow into butterflies (it's no fun if you don't catch them yourself!)

7. Go to the zoo!

8. Paint on a huge canvas outside using random objects such as leaves, spray bottles, balls, rocks, our hands, and whatever we can think of as our tools to create abstract art!

9. Fly a kite at a park

10. Relive our childhood memories by going to a drive-in movie theater

11. Go on a scavenger hunt

12. Go through a corn maze

13. Experience different cultures in other countries

14. Take up ballroom dancing

15. Take up archery

16. Grow and raise a flower garden

17. Grow fruits and vegetables

18. Make a HUGE sundae with everything on it!

19. Have a picnic by a lake

20. Go on a balloon ride

21. Have a water balloon fight!

22. Go on a boat

23. Go cherry blossom viewing

24. Grape stomping!

25. Go berry picking

26. Enter a pie eating contest!

27. Build a snowman

29. Learn how to do origami

30. Visit a famous location known for being haunted

31. Do face painting

32. Cosplay! xD

33. Learn the ways of the tea ceremony

34. Make flower arrangements

35. Go to a place where the sky is filled with stars at night and try to spot constellations

36. Go on a nature hike

37. Play outside in the rain

38. Play on a trampoline

39. Go to a concert (never been to one)

40. Go to an arcade, start up a fun bet, and challenge each other!

41. Go on a train ride

42. Go rollerblading

43. Be pampered at a spa

44. Go shopping in all of the biggest cities!

45. Try every exotic flavor of snacks/desserts/pastries

46. Go to a water park

47. Participate in suikawari (also known as watermelon pinata) with a huge group of friends and family

48. Scrapbook

49. Miniature golf!

50. Write a creative story together

51. Write each other love letters

52. Participate in a murder mystery party

53. Go fishing

54. Go see a magic show

55. Go whale watching!

56. Take pictures at a photo booth

57. Go to a bed and breakfast

58. Go for a horse and carriage ride

59. Make a pizza

60. Visit a Japanese shrine

61. Get our fortunes told

62. Make fortune cookies and pass them out to our friends and family

63. Host a tea party

64. Go to a dog show

65. Drink coconut juice straight from a coconut on a beach

66. Make a time capsule!

And I'm sure much more will be added in the future! Lols!




Thursday, April 12, 2012

Nooo! Not Needles!!!!

I'm scheduled to get vaccinations next week and I'm freaking out over it. Why am I getting vaccinations? The reason is because I'll be moving to Japan with my husband for 3 years! x3 I have to get the JEV vaccination, which seems to be mandatory. There's no way around it, I can't skip out of it like I did with my flu shot last year... (horrible, I know... I really don't advise people to skip out on their shots). But, I'm so excited and I can't wait to go, so I don't mind having to suck it up for this opportunity. :P It will all be worth it in the end. :3

I've always wanted to go to Japan, as I have family there (not family I'm extremely close to, but family nonetheless) and I just really love learning about different cultures and I have always wanted to travel and see how people from different parts of the world live, but I never thought I would actually get the chance to actually experience something like this. It's like a dream!  I've lived in California all my life and have never ventured outside of it. Still, even though I am really happy and feel so lucky to be able  to finally travel somewhere and stay there for awhile, part of me can't help but feel nervous.

California has always been my home and has become something like a security blanket to me, and parting from it for so long seems crazy, especially since it also means being so far away from my mother, whom I have a very tight bond with. I've grown so accustomed to my life here. Everything here is familiar to me... It's what I'm used to. It's kind of scary going to a place that I know so little about, which in a way is sad since I should know more about the place where part of my family heritage lies. I've been working hard though to learn more about Japanese customs and etiquette... Speaking of learning, I feel so much pressure to try to learn the Japanese language and to memorize each character in their writing system (well, more like systems, since there are 3 different scripts). I've only managed to memorize a handful of the hiragana symbols so far.... I feel like I'm a child all over again trying to learn the alphabet. @_@ What makes it worse is that we have to leave for Japan in July, so I have only 3 months to learn as much as I can.

I hope that I'm just worrying too much and stressing for nothing. Maybe I don't have to rush myself or push myself so hard. In fact, it may be better for me to take my time. Who knows? Maybe living there will be the best way for me to pick up the language and culture than looking at flash card after flash card and trying to learn random phrases here and there or trying to google everything. I need to remain positive!