Remember me?

Hellooo, amigos!! It's been a while since I posted my last blog post.

Do you still remember me? my blog? Smile with Vivian?

Just in case, I took a quick self-shot for my readers who almost or already forgot about me. "Hello!" 

Thank you for always checking my blog, every one!

I was very surprised and very happy to know that there are people who have been visiting "Smile with Vivian." A huge THANKS to all of my readers for giving me a huge SMILE ヾ(^∀^)ノ happyyy

So...

What have I been doing without blogging for a while?
I have been shopping, shopping, and shopping. I also have been working, walking, and walking.
I have been decorating the apartment, cooking, and so on!

My skin has been getting a lot of sunshine and getting really really dark day by day.

Then,

• I randomly saw some of my friends. They told me that they read my blog posts and complimented my blog.
• I read comments that you wrote on my blog posts. These comments were just some normal comments about what I wrote. But they brought my eyes some tears because I have never thought I would get some comments on my blog.
• My hermana told me "You are lazy!" because I told her that I hadn't updated anything lately.
• I saw some viewers visiting Smile with Vivian every day.

What am I doing?
"I need to blog! I want to share with my readers what my international life is like more and more!"

You guys woke me up again!

Thank you!

What have you been up too?

Well, my break is over. I am back to Smile with Vivian now( (●´ω｀●)
There are many things that I want to share with you guys. hehe
I'm going to do my best to write as often as possible, so.. Please come back to read my new updates!

I love you all!

Thank you for stopping by (*^-^*)
Hope you have wonderful days. Talk to you veeery soon♪
hugs

:)

Weird Questions?

Hellooo, amigos!

Since I came to the US, I got many many questions that I couldn't answer. It was mostly because of my lank of English skill at the beginning, and then, I just realized that it might be because "The Question is WEIRD!!" Apparently, Japan is known as Sushi, Samurai, Ninja, Geisha, and Anime. So that, I get many questions about these things.

Q. Have you seen Samurai?
No, I have not. I believe they don't exist any more. To be honest, I grew up with samurai movies and TV shows, so I am in love with "bushi do". If you meet a true / real Samurai in Japan, please leave a comment immediately to let me know.

Q. Do you eat sushi everyday?
No, I do not. I believe almost 100% Japanese don't eat sushi everyday. There are many more delicious food in Japan. Sushi is like a cake. (This is how I explain about sushi to people) haha We basically eat sushi at special occasions, and also, we eat it when we want to eat it.

Q. All the Japanese people have crazy hair, right? like huge hair. blue, red, green, purple, or..
ummm... No? Not all of us do. I really couldn't understand what the person wanted to say about the hair specifically. Only little / tiny amount of people do. I assume the person was talking about people in Shibuya or Harajyuku? maybe? These two cities are the fashion cities. People are very fashionable.. too fashionable. Even Japanese sometimes can't understand their fashion style, but they are incredibly unique and have great fashion sense. It's not too much to say that fashion trends start from here(^^) You may see the "crazy hair" in the cities, but it does NOT mean that everybody has the same "crazy hair."

Q. Where do you put a sword in your house?
I couldn't help myself to say "WHAT!?" I had to ask the person to say the question couple more times. The person thought we still have samurai culture and all of us have samurai swords in our houses. Again, as I mentioned before, samurai unfortunately doesn't exist any more as far as I know. However, some people have Japanese swords in their houses. My family and I just don't own any.

Q. Do people do "seppuku" in Japan?
No, I really hope we don't do seppuku. You don't know what seppuku is? Click HERE to learn more about seppuku.

I personally enjoy these random stereotypical questions most of the time because it is interesting to know what "Japan" represents to people from other places.

Have you ever gotten any weird questions?

Like you can't help to say "uhhh.. what?"

:)

July 4th

Happy Independence Day, amigos!
What is the independence day? It is one of National holiday in the US. It's one of the historical day in the US. Since I am not good at explaining things, I recommend you to ask Wikipedia about Independence Day and American Revolutionary War. Wikipedia is really good at explaining all sorts of things in many different language! haha

How was your July 4th?

My 4th was very peaceful this year. I usually go out to enjoy the rides, events, foods, and fireworks with my Mexican family & friends. This year, Garfy and I were invited to a family potluck lunch / dinner. I brought a HUGE CAKE('ω')9. We had a very delicious meal with his family (*´▽｀*)happy!

Croquet
We went to play Croquet after that. My understanding of Croquet is that it's a fun yard game like a golf, but it doesn't take much space as a golf does. There are some hoops that we have to go through. hmmm... How can I explain this game? It's like playing a golf with 6-8 heavier and bigger balls in smaller space & hit them with hammers. Have you seen Antique gorgeous people playing a golf looking sport? It's that!! Okay, sorry, I tried (T-T )( T-T) here is Wiki for Croquet. I have never played that before + I am always (I will always be) bad at playing sports. I really didn't want Garfy to know my weakest points, so I had never played any sports in front of him. The time had arrived. Yes, I played. It was fun!!
of course, I was the last one to finish this game. haha 

 After that, Garfy & I went for a walk to see some fireworks, mini concerts, & rides for a little bit. My camera doesn't work at all after sun goes down, so I couldn't get any pictures there. I realized that I didn't get any pictures of myself. So here you go!

 July 4th is one of the biggest holidays in the US. In Japan, we can see fireworks everywhere through the summer as soon as the rainy season is over. If you want to see fireworks in the US, you have to visit the US on the July 4th! That's the day!
I had such a great holiday (´vωv`*)。ｏ０○
What did you do on the July 4th? Hope you all have a great 4th!!

:)

World Beat Festival

Hola, amigos!

Last Sunday, June 30th, Garfy and I went to World Beat Festival. A multicultural big event in Oregon! Have you ever visited the festival before? Many shops and little events represented many cultures from all over the world. It's just very interesting & fun♪ This year, World Beat Festival focused on mainly Japan. I heard that we could buy Soy Sauce Ice Cream there!!! I couldn't miss it!! Although Garfy was very sick, I asked him from my stomach (not my heart) to go to get the ice cream with me. A N D, Garfy is the kindEST person in the world (:ω:)

We got it. We got it. We got the soy sauce ice cream! ∩(´∀｀)∩☆∩(´∀｀)∩

Has anybody tried soy sauce ice cream before?

Vanilla ice cream × soy sauce. It actually tasted yum! Very rich taste. Surprisingly, Garfy really liked it!

 Bon dance (・ω・´) Of course, Garfy, our friend, and I joined to dance with them (+・ω・+́)ゞ Actually, I have never been to club or crazy home party with Garfy. So... this was my first time seeing him dancing. . him dancing Japanese traditional summer group dance. hmmm.. adorable (●-ω-●)/" My heart was like being a parent filming the kid performing a dance at sports' festival in kindergarten.

 It was very very hot & humid. I didn't put my sun block cream & my shoulder was a bit painful for a day or less. Don't forget putting "sun block cream" on your body, everybody! The Summer really has started ('U')

:)