mikao's world

the jaw

today i went on a grand ol' trip to the thriving metropolis of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, also know as "little chicago," although it is far from being any sort of a little chicago. i assume that most of you who read this will have never had the treat of spending time in moose jaw since the majority of you are Americans who've never had the pleasant opportunity to visit Canada. : )

moose jaw is a city of about 35 000 right smack dab in the middle of the country near the bottom, on the wide open prairie. everyone who is not from the prairies always says there isn't much to see, but i love the prairies. endless wheatfields, what could be a better sight? there is a kids book called if you're not from the prairie, i love kids books. moose jaw has a really really big statue of a moose, it's cool.

anyways, back to the story at hand. i went to 'the jaw' with kiko and joanne, we had a lovely time at the town n' country mall, rogers video, wal-mart, and superstore. at the mall joanne and i went to winner's ("brand name items at discount prices" and "you should go" are their slogans). i am not a winner's fan. i never find anything good there, it's always just weird brand names that you've never heard of and would not normally buy at regular prices. anyways, joanne made me put on a glittery one-shouldered velvet dress for fun which was hilarious, too bad we didn't have a camera, but then i was covered with glitter. we got a few movies at rogers and kiko contemplated getting a cellphone (cellphones perplex me. they look cool, but they still aren't necessary. everyone here doesn't have one yet. i don't know anyone at school that does, i had one friend in college this year that did. but where i was working in ontario this summer everyone and their dog had one). anyways, at wal-mart i got some film developed, lots of funny pictures from september that i had forgotten i had taken, and some neat ones that joanne, rachel and i took when we went on an autumn walk a few weeks ago. i also got some new gel... i have decided to try for the curly wet look even though my hair is poker straight. i need to look less fourteen years old and more twenty-four. i also got some fabric lining and zippers to make some cosmetics bags for my two sisters for Christmas. i have some fabric that i got from my Gramma's attic this spring that i am going to make into a cool patchworky sort of outside for the bags. at superstore, joanne and i bought a ton of groceries... yummy fresh broccoli and green peppers and stuff for stirfry, and a lovely mccain rising crust pizza that we are very excited for... tamara won't let us buy pizza but what she doesn't know won't hurt her since she's not here this week. we're going to take pictures, it will be very rebellious of us to be eating pizza. ; ) chuckle chuckle.

it was fun to spend time with kiko because i don't often get to and she's fun and so interesting... this is her ninth year in Canada, her parents sent her to the high school here when she was in grade nine and only spoke Japanese. she's only been back to Japan a few times.

later joanne and i watched "kate & leopold." interesting movie. not very realistic.