T’s birthday

We went out to celebrate T’s birthday.

Tの誕生日から、皆夕食へ行った。

Unfortunately, her present wasn’t ready yet, so A and I bought some fun things to give her.

プレセントが終わらなかったから、楽しい事が買った。

The night started with just a small group of us girls.

最初に４人女の友達ｈが来た。

Later, the guys joined us.

後で男の友達も来た。

T’s birthday cake.

誕生日のケーキ。

Blowing out the candles.

ろうそくを吹き消した。

Condensed milk in a HUGE tube.

大きい練乳。

Our present. We thought it’d be fun to include a picture of us with the present.

私たちからプレセント。私たちの写真もあった。

Since T doesn’t like mushrooms, we decided to get her all the mushroom-shaped candy.

Tはきのこが嫌いから、全部きのこのあめが買った。

The cake!

ケーキ。

The whole group that came by the end. I got to meet one new friend that I’d only met on Facebook with there rest of the group.

最後の全員。１人Facebookだけ知ってた友達が会った。

After dinner, us girls went out for karaoke.

夕食の後に女の友達はカラオケへ行った。

It was a ton of fun, as everything I do with this group is.

Tの誕生日は楽しかったけど、このグループと何でも楽しいから、びっくりじゃない。

Rusutsu, Part 1

We went to Rusutsu Amusement Park for A’s birthday.

Aの誕生日のためルスツの遊園地へ行った。

A and T getting ready to go up!

AとT!

A group shot.

４人の写真。

This one twisted all over the place. Only A and T wanted to ride it.

AとTだけ乗りたかった。

Then I took them on the tea cups.

コーヒーカップ見たいのを乗った。

Apparently, I spin us in circles too fast.

早い過ぎたらしい。 ^^

Only in Japan.

日本でだけ。

Is she tall enough?

背丈が足りないか？

The swings!

楽しかった！

We’re standing in the elevator and someone says “grapefruit.” hehehe.

エレベーターに待つ中にだれか「グレープフルーツ」と言った。

After getting just a tad cold we went in for dinner.

少し寒くなったの後に夕食へ行った。

M-sensei’s birthday, part 2

M-sensei is the leader of the choir. On Tuesday night we celebrated his birthday. (The second time for me).

M先生は合唱の先生。火曜日にパーティした。（私のため二回目パーティ）。

Blowing out the candles before dinner.

バースデーケーキのろうそくを吹き消した。

The cake – it was delicious!

ケーキは美味しかった。

The whole group.

合唱の全員。

Birthday package

Birthday package from my family! 

家族から誕生日プレゼント！

Birthday

After the barbecue, a few of us camped out by the lake. It was absolutely incredible to wake up to the next morning.

バーベキューの後４人は湖の近いにキャンプした。　朝にとてもとてもきれい。

Before everyone left, we went for ice cream. It was so delicious!

皆は帰るの前にアイスを食べた。とても美味しかった！

It was a really simple, but really good birthday.

簡単けど、いい誕生日があった。

A birthday celebration

Yesterday, I celebrated my birthday with a bunch of friends. Some from town, some who live in other parts of Hokkaido.

昨日誕生日パティをした。

K brought Totoro onigiri.

Kちゃんととろおにぎりを作った。

R was one of the group who was cooking.

Rは料理した。とても上手！

A couple of group shots, we didn’t quite get everyone in them though.

皆の写真けど、２．３人いなかった。

Birthday dancing.

おどりした。

Here are the shots from various cell phones. Cell phones don’t take the best photos at dusk.

皆の携帯の写真。　黄昏に携帯の写真は難しい。

Dinner with friends

A couple of nights ago, I had some friends over for dinner. We had spaghetti.

水曜日に友達は晩ご飯を食べに来た。　スパゲッティを食べた。

This is my friend Y and her adorable little girl, R.

Yちゃｎとかわいい２歳Rちゃん。

We had a lot of fun hanging out, and in typical 2 year old fashion, R ate exactly what she liked – about 15 mini tomatoes.

とても楽しかった。そして、全部食べ物食べたくないから、１５個ぐらいミニトマトを食べた。

R gave me a beautiful bunch of flowers as a birthday present.

Rちゃんか誕生日のプレセント。　きれいね！

We had Hokkaido asparagus as a part of our dinner. It was yummy!

北海道のアスパラ！

Surprise Party!

On Friday, it was my friend, Aya’s birthday. On Saturday, We had a surprise birthday party for her.

金曜日にあやの誕生日。　だから、土曜日にサプライズのパティをした。

A small group of us went out to the cottages near the lake and prepared.

３人は準備をした。

This is Tomo.

とも！

This is Ami.

あみ！

Preparing. They decided that her birthday should have a graduation-like ceremony. Ami is making a list of the things that are going to happen during the ceremony.

卒業式見たい式した。

Here is the finished product, complete with all participants’ faces.

卒業式のリスト。皆の顔をかいた。

Here’s the “stage.” Complete with the paper flowers that are always used to decorate all Japanese graduation ceremonies.

これはスーテジ。日本の卒業式は紙の花いつもある。

After everything was ready, we had to take a few pictures.

準備の後写真を撮った。

Then Ami left to go get Aya. So we waited some more. (I had the camera set for time lapse so it could capture the whole of the ceremony, unfortunately I started it WAAAY to early).

あみはあやの家に行った。私たち待った。　（駒落した。はやすぎた。）

Then the ceremony began. Miyauchi-sensei gave a speech and a paper for Aya. I handed her the flowers that are in my hands in this shot. Apparently graduation ceremonies move quick enough that I should have had it shooting more than 4times per minute.

式ははじめた。　みやうちー先生はスピーチした。私は花をあげた。

Tomo gave a tear-filled speech. Actually, it was laughter filled, but faking tears made it less obvious she was crying.

とももスピーチした。

Be quiet Aya! Quit laughing! (Tomo was very strict)

しずかあや！笑わない！（ともはとてもきびしかった！）

The group shot.

皆の写真。

Birthday girl!

誕生日の女！

Apparently, 29 is the meat birthday. It’s a play on words, because 2 is read “ni” and 9 “ku.” Meat is “niku.” 29, isn’t read that way, but the two numbers separately are. This was dinner.

２９さいの誕生日は肉の誕生日。びっくり！

Aya with her birthday presents.

あやのプレゼンツ。

Round 2 for the meat birthday.

たくさん肉があった。

Aya and her cake.

あやの誕生日のケーキ。

The cake! It had blueberries.

ケーキ！

In the end, we stayed up until 4am playing cards. I taught them “Killer Uno,” but re-named it to “Crazy Uno” because I figured that’d be easier to remember (And how do you translate "killer" as a game name??). It was a lot of fun.

４時までUnoをした。私は「Crazy Uno」を教えた。とても楽しかった！