News

Taurus

I hated this car. It covered the roads for years. My parents threatened me with it as my first car. The once repulsive Taurus that was finally retired is being returned to production by Ford. Not only that, they are claiming it’s got top of line blind spot radar to detect cars in those hard to see spots. Welcome to the 21st century Ford, Japanese automakers have been placing that in cars for years now.

The Return of the Taurus

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The Job

Tag, Your FACE.

So tag is a pretty big game here at my school. The 8th grade make their morning dashes in the halls dodging one another, running into walls and other stand-byers. There’s an occasional smack to the face or so. They stop for maybe 2 seconds to admire the red hand print showing up, laugh about it, then continue on. I guess all that fun is the reason why they sleep in class…. or maybe it’s the English.

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Food

School Lunches

So here’s a great story for you! I have school lunch. At 3.50 a pop, it’s a little expensive since I have it 20 days a month. Usually it’s a side dish, bread/rice, a main dish, milk, and… well…. dessert if you could call it that at times. I have had all sorts of interesting concoctions. I mean concoctions in the nicest way possible,… no… you can guess what I mean….. I have eaten cabbage, tofu, Japanese pumpkin, carrots, fish, and rice in more ways than you can trip, fall, and land on a rock with your backside. By far the pumpkin soup is AWESOME. The fish with bones was a little weird at first (sure fish have bones….. but you eat the bones with the fish…). But the day I had my rice staring back at me…. I couldn’t handle it. I almost lost myself and after the first bite, forget it. I really try to be open, and I eat everything,… I mean everything, to at least show I’m a “team player” as work would put it. That day too I ate everything…… Now most of you are probably wondering “What the heck?” Well I will tell you the heck part. My rice had tiny,… little,…. white,…. fish. I’m talking the whole fish. Super tiny. And they aren’t tasty. They put those suckers in my rice. Now any gajin here would know what I am talking about. Ninety percent of them would probably gag. For all of you back home though, I have no pictures because I think my teachers would most likely take offense to it. And so the food section racks a second post! I’ll try to post more just for you Ainsley ;).

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Complicated

Realizations

After some thought and plenty of time to ponder on it, I finally came to a realization. I always got caught up hanging out with my friends and having great times, but there always seemed to come a point and time when those times ceased. Well, of course, we all have had it happen at some point. It’s just the way of things it seems. I had it in my head that I was to blame, but reality is we are all slowly changing into something different from before. We find new people to interact with and the old is moved to make room for the new. This isn’t a bad thing, just the way things work. I hope that everyone reads these posts, but I know it only goes to a certain level. Everyone uses their facebook, text messaging, or whatever other preferred method to keep in touch. All in all, I wish everyone good luck and I will continue to update this as regularly as possible.

 Side note: Now there were people asking for pictures and making comments about mattdinofrio.com. Of course it is not up yet, but the design is in progress and it should be up fairly soon. For now I will post the occasional picture here.

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