Ca să fiu în ton cu evenimentele English Version: iulie 2009

Yesterday I heard a song that I felt in love with. It's simple and has very nice lyrics. You can find the song here: Jason Mraz - I'm yours.
Here are the lyrics. Enjoy!

Well you done done me in, you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
Now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out I'll be giving it my bestest
And nothing's gonna stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some

But I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment, people dance and sing
We're just one big family
And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved love love loved loved

So I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

Do you want to, come on
Scootch over closer dear
And I will nibble your ear

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and I laughed
I guess what I'll be saying is there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

But I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours
So please don't please don't please don't
There's no need to complicate
'Cause our time is short
This oh this oh this is our fate I'm yours

Oh I'm yours, oh I'm yours, oh
Baby, do believe I'm yours
You best believe, you best believe I'm yours

I'm very lucky, but I already knew that! I've heard a while ago, before my trip to Romania, about a fashion contest, actually YUKATA FASHION CONTEST. I returned to Japan few days ago but it took me a while to get the telephone number of the organizers (HICE) and to actually call. So this Friday morning I called them to see if can still apply and, of course participate in the contest.

As the famous quote I love says “the day you do it is your lucky day”, Friday was my lucky day! I asked if there were any more places in the contest and I found out that I could only be on the waiting list. And I said to myself it's still ok... The nice lady I talked to asked my name and home country. After I gave her the answers she realized she knew me from the home stay program. So the 30 persons list in Yukata Contest suddenly became a 31 persons list :D Good I'm lucky!

Later I went to apply in person to the contest because I don't have a yukata and I have to rent it... I want to buy one, I just need to find one I like, which is not so easy even though there are a lot of shops selling yukatas. My taste in fashion is not easy to satisfy.

So Saturday afternoon I went to the contest. I found a yukata with some beautiful purple roses. Getting dressed was not so easy, but fortunately I had some help. The contest was not very difficult: we were asked some questions as our name, our home country, the reason for choosing the yukata, and the feeling we had wearing it. My only problem was that the last two questions were not necessary in this order... and the lady interviewing us was also asking other questions. Anyway it was finally ok; I managed to give good but short answers since my level of Japanese is still beginner... Then we waited for the results. First the Japanese children, Japanese adults, foreign children and finally they called us. We went on the stage and I was very surprised when I've heard that the big prize was won by number 31... It was me! I got a lot of presents, a new yukata and pair of geta, two invitations to go to Okura Act City, two trophies and so on.

It was a great experience and I might say I look really good dressed in yukata, don't I?!