This Just In.....

The H1N1 Flu, otherwise known as the swine flu, has nailed Toogijuku straight in the face. After two weeks of light artillery with only a few casualities "single classroom cancelations" this week has faced the full head-on blow. Due to the influx of known cases, ALL classes have been cancel for the whole week. But of course, teachers must brave the battlefield until 2pm everyday (for apparently no apparent reason (teachers have already been seen asleep at their desks, playing internet games, and...leaving early)). The hope is to stab off any further cases of the mighty enemy influenza. This may faulter seeing how the flu will continue to travel about the land looking for any innocent creature to feed upon. So the odds are that: 1-classes will be cancelled for months to come, 2-We will learn to brave the infectious disease and things will continue as usual.

This is a breaking news update, please stay tuned for further announcements!!!!

Basket of Harvest Joy

Today was a good day...

we have a Pumpkin patch, yeah, see that big one in the back- 3 dollas!!

Random Acts

Due to the coming typhoon, which is the biggest in recent years, our school cancelled classes early! We came to school today just to find out that classes would let out after 1st period. Well, we don't have 1st period so we had no classes today!! Yippy! Unfortunately, if the typhoon is bad enough it will knock all the apples off the trees and the farmers will lose a lot of money!

Also, one of our favorite shopping centers will be closing this weekend! The department store is called Joppal and is the popular hang out for high school students. It has a lot of cheaper fashion shops and a really nice dollar store. We are frequenters to this department store and will be quite sad to it see it go. Many a good memory has been had within the walls of Joppal. What will Hirosaki be without trusty Joppal. Some may say a safer city, but NO! Where will the kids hang out? They will just turn to the streets. For us, it means long, long, long treks through the winter waist deep snow for our supplies. Or we'll just broke spending our money at more expensive (and reliable) stores.

Here is a picture of our stomping grounds: Joppal. Oh! You shall be missed.

All is well though, we are thankful to have learned to cook well enough to make pulled pork!! Yes, thanks to our slow cooker we had a delightful meal! There is a lot to be thankful for!