2006 Genki Seinenkai Retreat

For those of you that dont know, I am taking part in a musical that a lot of the JETs in Kochi participate in which goes all over Kochi. To make matters worse it is not in English (as noone in Kochi would understand it coz theyre all old people) it is in the Prefecture local dialect, Tosa dialect! JETs holds a different musical every year in order to raise funds so that Kochi can help send their kids overseas on exchange. Last year, apparently was their best year and I've decided to sacrifice a lot of weekends (bitch, moan) to take part in it! This year it is based on a couple who is famous in Kochi who helped bring Kochi Castle to Kochi (i think.....forget what it was about) and merges with the Antony and Cleopatra story! Believe me its quite a well done story! Anyways, lately we've been parctising our lines and i snagged the part as one of the main characters friends called Doc. There are actually 7 other friends who are based on the 7 Dwarves. So we have a sleepy, sneezy, bashful, etc. So I have a few lines and have to be in like nearly every dance. This weekend all of us JETs who are doing this, the Genki Seinenkai, had a retreat up in the mountains away from everyone in order to fine tune our skills as actors and dancers (like it really helped.....)! I didnt really want to go coz it was Mika's last weekend staying with me but it ended up turning out alright, Mika even had a go at the dancers and we both saw how much we both suck at dancing.