2 posts tagged “war”

(from left to right) Me (Daisy from the Great Gatsby), Jon (The Karate Kid) and Natalie (Marilyn) dancing up a storm at a books/movies dress up party.

I love this photo of Phil and I, it's just so over-the-top happy (p.s I'm actually sitting on his lap in reality he is taller than me!)

My sister and I in front of the massive ship that was washed up on a nearby beach during an enormous flood. This ship was a really big thing in our town, you can't really get an impression of it's enormous size from this pic.

A picture of sumos mid body slam. My uncle took me to a sumo training place during my stay in Tokyo. It was pretty amazing.
A picture of some of those paddle duck boats on a pond in Tokyo, I think the colours and the light in this one are really pretty. I also love the detail of the funny little bows around their necks!

Me inside of one of the ducks.

Karen and I in our Mickey Mouse hats after Disneyland.

A temple covered in lights during the night time illumination festival in Kyoto.

A lantern during the illumination festival. The lanterns in the distance are the trail you're meant to follow.

A picture of a bamboo forest during the illumination festival. It's a bit blurry but I kinda like the effect of it :)

Tokyo Tower and the moon.

Me and geishas in Kyoto (my aunt and I decided we think these are actually tourists dressed as geishas but it's still a cool pic!).

A random pic in Kyoto, I think the star shaped leaves look cool against the reflection of the trees.

A pretty park in Tokyo

My uncle and I and our rickshaw driver in Ueno, Tokyo. A macro close up of cranes at Hiroshima's Children's Peace Monument, which is the one built after Sadako's death.

I just started reading this one and I have to say I'm really enjoying it. At the moment I'm only a couple of chapters in but the writing is so beautiful I'm already hooked. His descriptions and style just brings the story alive. It's about a young girl living in Nazi Germany who develops a love of books, she steals them from book burnings etc. It's really clever how so far it has been told from the point of view of the mythological character death, especially when the story is told in a time period plagued by death and suffering.