Zombies

Ok, so I'm going to a Halloween party-type thing this Saturday. I'm not entirely sure where it is, or who is running it, but the people taking me there seem to do so I'm not worrying about that. Before I thought it was just a Rotary party, but today I found out that it's like a learning thing for Japanese kids ages 10-15. They are learning about Western culture and English and such, so this party is a way to teach them about the very popular Western holiday - Halloween! Tiffany is also supposed to be coming, but she has been sick for the last couple of days so I'm not sure whether she will or not. But it would be really nice to have her there as back-up.

Anyway, you might be able to guess what I'm dressing up as. Yup, a zombie. Well, I was actually going more for the survivor-of-zombie-Apocalypse-zombie-killer this-is-my-boomstick type of deal, but the way the costume and makeup turns out, I look more like a zombie. Plus, I couldn't find a cheap baseball bat to put red paint on. So without a weapon it would be kind of hard to guess I'm a zombie killer. So just plain zombie will do. A decent one though, without all the blood and gore showing. There is another Rotary thing on Sunday and don't feel like showing up with big pink stains on my skin everywhere.

My costume is basically a cheap t-shirt and cheaper jeans, ripped up with home-made blood splattered on it. Despite it's simplicity it looks pretty awesome, I must say. I got the shirt and jeans today with Sachiko from this really cheap department store called Daiei. The t-shirt is dark navy with a print of some singer's face in white outline and the words 'Killer Turn'. I picked it because the words seemed to fit beautifully. And the jeans are just jeans. That cost 480 yen. Which is crazy awesome. I made the blood out of corn starch, red food dye, cocoa powder and soy sauce. Yeah cocoa powder and soy sauce. Just the starch-water mix and dye didn't look enough like blood - it was too bright red. So I had to find some dark colored stuff, and guess what was laying around? So my blood smells like soy and chocolate, which is kind of nice. I cut up the shirt and jeans for that nice Chaos look and flung my blood at it. When it dried became bright red again, and very fake looking, but still cool. Oh and I got some gauze and covered it in blood, so I can wrap it around my arms or something.

And Aya is sick with a stomach flu. And since Sachiko is a nurse, I got to see her put a drip into Aya's hand. It was funny because the drip was hooked up to the curtain rod with a hanger and a string. I don't know what the fluid was. Lots of people are getting sick though. Donny, Drew, Tiffany and Aya have all been sick. Not swine flu though, so that's good.

Oh, and a little moment yesterday that I should probably mention. We were in the CALL room for English speaking class. Everyone has a computer and headphones, and there is a topic that you and someone else have to discuss. Instead of turning to the person beside you, they get all technical with it, and you talk to someone on the other side of the room through the headphones and speaker thing. Anyway, as an example conversation me and this other guy was picked. Now, everyone can hear our conversation through their headphones. So we did the thing, and the teacher started talking about topic. Which was cigarette smoke harming non-smokers and such. And he asked who else smoke hurts. And I said, so myself, 'Everyone'. In a whispery voice. Then, because I could hear myself in my headphones and it sounded cool, I put my mouth closer to the speaker and repeating again, whispering, 'Eeeeveryoooonne.' I hear people laughing and look up and realize that everyone could still hear me through their headphones. So yes. I was a bit embarrassed, and took off my headphones so they couldn't hear me anymore.