Saturday, October 22, 2005

Offspring



Anton got moving this week when he realised that he might not seen the Offspring concert afterall The tickets had sold out immediataly and things looked pretty bleak. So he sent an email to someone at Offspring begging for some tickets. Surprise, the guy decided Anton's plea was legitimate and sent back an email saying that there would be five guest tickets for Anton and his friends that evening. So Anton, David, Sam C, Patrick and Raphael went out to Odaiba and picked up their tickets. The photo to be attached soon tells the rest of the story.

Anton got home late because he had to go back to school to pick up his backpack (and Naomi had to drive over to pick him up.)

Here's the email he sent:

Anton runs his last NIS CC meet



It was the last CC meet at Tama. Anton and Thor have both been running this year and Naomi and I decided to go see the boys run. It was overcast and raining occasionally. Thor ran first, then Anton ran with the other NIS 9th Grade boys. After the races we went to the Tama Lodge to buy American junk food and have lunch in the US Military restaurant. The line was really long with all the kids buying candy, potato chips, Gatorade and popcorn. But the price was right and the restaurant served a good Philly steak sandwich.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

NIS Food Fair & Anton's "15 on the 15th"




Saturday the 15th was the annual Nishimachi International School Food Fair. All in all a great success again. Naomi sold her goods in the gym, Anton and Thor hung out with their friends, and Paul helped empty the booths of food and drink.

It was also Anton's 15th birthday, so we went to dinner with the Jones at La Jolla in Hiroo for a Mexican Feast.

Friday, October 14, 2005

Toko Shinoda Show or Norman Gets His Jollies




Norman Tolman was up to his usual tricks at the Tolman Gallery produced exhibition of Toko Shinoda's works at Shinsei Bank's head office. Mayumi Jones joined Naomi and I for the opening party and dinner later. At the exhibition we had fun talking with Pam Mori and her son. In the end we got a shot with Shinoda herself.

I counted our Shinoda prints: one quite old one call Magnetize, two large ones from the mid 1980s - Illusion and Rhapsody - and one in the guest toilet gallery in our house in Izu with a nice green brush stroke.