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Eri

12:15pm ChST Friday 24 March 2006 (day 13148)

Talked with Eri a lot this morning; cried about Peter, meditated, talked about me chasing women and stuff. She said I wasn't learning from my history, which pissed me off because it's true, but I am getting better. We talked through that and it's all good.

She's a cool girl. Mike is really lucky.

Memorial for Peter Orwen

11:57am ChST Friday 24 March 2006 (day 13148)

Peter (and Peter's Band) brought love, music, light, genkiness, fun, joyful, beautiful energy to our voyage between Seychelles and Mombasa. He and Kumar were shot on 21 March (I believe). Kumar died quickly; Peter died some days later. Today the passengers were informed about the shooting and Peter's passing.

12:14pm ChST Friday 24 March 2006

I just heard a rumor that George (was shot and) died as well. Wow.

Speech contest

2:18pm ChST Friday 24 March 2006 (day 13148)

Ugh. My guts are all awash in butterflies with the speech contest, and I don't mean about doing my speech. Well, not totally. I'm mostly worried about the competition itself; I think everything is all lined up to go, but I have a fear that people are going to be all, "hey Rob what about this? and this? and this????" and I'm going to be like, "I dunno; I don't care.." or worse, that the decisions I make will be wrong or perceived as wrong.

What silliness.

7:25pm ChST Friday 24 March 2006

The first half of the show went well; Matt and Yuuka saved my ass a lot, and Matt wasn't really impressed with that. I basically didn't delegate anything and tried to do it all myself and wasn't able to do it. It's just so impossible for me to speak up in the GET Meetings; I feel so shut down every time I try. What the fuck is that about????????

But also, the fuckin' person who said she would help hasn't helped, but wrote her speech while we were getting ready for the competition, and not only that, is like, "I've got something to say so my speech is way long, so don't ring the bell and cut me off at 2 minutes." (which was the agreed-upon time limit for all speeches). Grr.

Right now I'm in a killer-samurai-warrior mode, ready to destroy anything that gets in my way, though that's greatly muted by the desire to maintain some semblence of sanity and mindfulness in this process.

As a result, I notice myself completely

completely

completely distracted from chasing women around the boat, (except that I notice I'm distracted from it); I don't care about Emi, Tomoe,.. haven't even thought about Saki in ages. Who were the others? Rei? Over it. Rie? Over it.

Man, I'm in a fuckin' rough mood.

7:30 now; time for a fast dinner then back to the speech contest.

SUPER special thanks to Kellie and Pepe for getting the awards printed.

Speech contest winner!

1:33am ChST Saturday 25 March 2006 (day 13149)

Running around crazily near the end of the speech contest, during which time I presented my speech, which was partially memorized, and partially forgotten, but I said はるばる and 右往左往 (in the form 右往左往してしまう事がありました) which I imagine was part of what the judges described as superior grammar structures. In short, I won the best Japanese speech award!!

I was really happy to win, though not particularly surprised because there were only 4 Japanese speeches, and other people either didn't memorize or didn't deliver the speech in a semi-natural manner.

Except that it's 1:41am, and I would like to get up and meditate tomorrow (at 7:30, but fuckit, I won't because it's only) with the hopes that えり will be there, though we didn't schedule anything, now is a pretty good time to transcribe my speech here.

nihongo speech

1:43am ChST Saturday 25 March 2006 (day 13149)

皆さんこんばんは。GETの路武です。
１９７０年にアメリカね生まれて、りょしんと　おとうとと TEXASに住んでしました。
ALASKAについでTEXASはアメリカでニ番目に大きなしゅうです。AMERICAの南ちゅおぶにあります。
TEXASはHOLLYWOOD映画のCOWBOYで湯名です。

１８００年だいこうはんにTEXASでは牛のねだんが安かったけどAMERICAのほくぶでは高くうれました。
そのため、ほくぶに牛を持って行ってうる仕事が生まれました。
その仕事をする人がCOWBOYです。

COWBOYは何千とうも牛をつれてはるばる何千キロというみちのりを行きました。
牛があるいている時には
　　きけんな川をわったたり
　　あぶないどぶつがねらってたり
　　かみなりがなったりして
牛が右往左往してしまう事がありました。
だからCOWBOYはつよいせしんを持っていたのです。
１８９０年から電車がとおったのでCOWBOYの仕事がいらなくなりました。
今COWBOY仕事がないけどCOWBOY FASHIONが人気です。
ぜひ、TEXASに行ったら、COWBOY HATをかぶてみて下さい。
ありがとございました。