Concentration 20

Last night I had a pretty weird dream. For some reason, I was able to go back in time, to when Anna-san was a teenager. I think it was because she didn't love me in the present, so I was going back in time to make her love me then. In the beginning I was kind of like a ghost or something, because I think I was invisable, and only became visable to her after I kissed her. After I became visable we talked a lot together etc, and I tried to take her back with me, but she wouldn't fit in the time machin-like shadow thing, which swallowed up only one person at a time, so I ended up staying with her. At one point she watched a video of this American group with all these many many kids, called 'too much American pride' or something, which I realized was the place she would end up getting the idea for B.B waves from. She lived with her mother and father in Florida (I remember wondered in the dream when she would move to Okinawa), and we walked and talked in the Floridean landscape, and at one point I accidently let it slip that in the future her dad would practically disown her and she would have her own school.
then we were at school (I think that from this part of the dream on I was a guy.) Some guys at school were playing on my motorcycle or car or tractor or whatever it was, and it exploded and one of them died. Everyone blamed me, but I shouted that I was innocent, so they all started chanting 'innocent!!' and I didn7t get arrested. but then Anna-san told me that it was worse this way, because as I hadn't been formally prosecuted by the law the people that had a grudge against me would be free to punish me as they saw fit. We tried to make a run for it, but in every car we tried to escape in someone was hiding with some kind of weapon. I think i woke up after this.
The dream is kind of discombobulated, especially because the first half and second half don't seem to really have much connection. But I actually can tell where some of the parts come from. The whole Anna-san as a teenager thing is because I found out yesterday that her last song from her 2 single long stint as a teen idol in the '80s has been released on a CD, and so I ordered it. (now I will have all four songs! Yay!) The innocent/trial part is probably because I was reading the trial seen in Harry before I went to bed, and the last part is from the news program I watche dlast night about car theft.

On the other hand, last week I had an...er...interesting dream taking place in RainbowLand, featuring the Color Kids (from RainbowBrite) which I can only explain by saying strange forces must have taken control of my brain, and manipulated my dreams, because that was just on crack

(Post from Friday night because host family's PC was down)
Today I got to class just as exercises were ending. I slide in next to Emi-chan and was in time for the last stretch. After, she turned to me with a smile, 'Ohayou!'. We did a one armed hug, which definately shows how much closer the class has all gotten, because before there never would have been a moment like that between me and Emi-chan, where I got the hug vibe.
Then Anna-san announced that we would start with a Battle. For some reason, she asked me if I'd done Battle before. (Maybe because we've only done regular one on one Battle once or twice, as opposed to Group Battle) I said yes, and then regreted it a little and wished I 'd said no, so I could have heard her explain Battle (again?). After being asked twice (LOL) we all formed groups of two. I was with Emi-chan. We did a battle to Party with Fun Factory, which was very very short for some reason. Then Anna-san told us to change partners, and asked people to partner up with Atsushi and Yuuta. (is it robbing them of their individual identity to call them AtsuYuu? Because they're always together, and 'Atsushi and Yuuta' is just so long...) We all laughed nervously and incredulously, but eventually they got partnered up with people. I partnered with Otagawa-kun. Anna-san was quite pleased because except for two groups, we were able to have all boy-girl pairings, which just shows how many guys we have now. LOL Odagawa-kun and I danced to some Latin-esque song that I didn't know. It was a lot of fun, since he was really into it, which made me try really hard to. (I just wish I could move in more ways. I feel so limited. Stupid Body.) Afterwards he said that I was very cool and American styled and he wished everyone could have seen me. LOL I guess it was complimentary, although I didn't feel I had done anything cool looking or original to warrant it.
Then Anna-san announced that we would do something choreography today. She told everyone to split into 'Beginners' who went with Namio, and 'Advanced' who went with AtsuYuu. (She admonished us not to chose by looks, causing Namio to go into a monologue about his good looks, and also tell us that there would be candy.)I went and joined the Beginners team, who was made up of me, one of the OLs, and one of the new girls. Emi-chan tried to join, but Tomoko-san (and apparently AtsuYuu) made her stay in Advanced. Namio told us that if we were good, we'd get a reward. LOL He explained that we would be doing House, which was composed of mostly steps, and was from the late 80s and 90s, coming after Hip Hop. House, it turned out, is also a lot harder than it looks. Our dance was composed of three parts, each of which we had to do many many times. In fact, we had so much trouble with the first bit that Namio decided it was too hard and went through a phase when he said we'd drop that from the dance and that it had just been the warm up. (Anna-san: Pretty long warm-up!) but we convinced him to use it, because we'd all worked so hard on it. The song we did it to was originally the 'Now that we found love what are we gonna do....' song which was changed by Anna-san to the slower 'Good Vibrations.' (you know the one that goes ' I'Ve got some Good vibrations...sweet sensations!' or something)
Namio is actually a good teacher. He keeps his humor, and his concern for the audiance (or in this case the students), putting in jokes like 'Got it, baby?' and trying to say 'relax' in English (causing Anna-san to scold himt that he was doing the pronounciation for 'L' not 'R') while also taking the time to help everyone individually, and go over things step by step. On the other hand, I was so glad that Anna-san was there helping us, because she, being former chief instructor and all, is an even better teacher, and helped me understand things I couldn't with Namio. She really is an amazing teacher. Aside from how easy to understand she makes things, the best thing about her (and Namio has this too) is that she managed to never make me feel like an idiot for taking so long to get the steps, and continuously messing up and using the wrong foot/arm. She took all my clumsiness in stride, patiently going through things step by step with me, breaking it down into just the feet, etc, and smiling encouragingly and making the occasion conspiratory grimace with me. Working on choreography always makes me feel clumsy and slow, but with Anna-san, it didn't matter that much. It was still special and fun, because she was there, helping me.
Then we showed our dancing to each other. The Advanced group did was I swear was AtsuYuu's dance from the Live. (the music was the same, at the very least). It was very hard, and most people couldn't follow very well. (Leading Atsushi to whisper apologetically to Anna-san on the bus, 'Anna-san, I guess that was a little too advanced?')
Then, after Anna-san's cheerful 'I thought that it wouldn't be a bad thing to have lessons like this once and a while' during which I realized that we just learned this dance for the lesson, and it's not leading up to and big choreography for some Live or anything), we did cool down exersises.
Then we retreated to the Locker Room, where we changed, while Tomoko-san told us funny anecedotes about her class (she teaches English to chuugaku ichinensei's), for example how they raise their hands and ask about something that has nothing to do with the lesson at all, or, after she's spent the whole semester teaching them about 'B type verbs' (which are apparently 'am' 'is' etc) when she asked this week 'Can you tell me which B verb goes here in this C sentence?' the kid asked 'What's a B verb?' LOL
Then I told them about how I'm doing arubaito as a tutor, and how hard it is. (you don't know how much self-control I just had to use not to type 'kaiteikyoushi') Anna-san, who was over by the mirror, doing makeup or something, asked if I was teaching English. I said I was, and explained about how Akiko-chan is at such an elementary level ('What is this?' 'It is a book') that it's really hard for me, because I'm a native speaker, so I don't remember learning that kind of early stuff. She agreed that it must be hard. Although I felt my explaination fell felt as I realozed half way through that Anna-san, having learned English at 3, is pretty much on the same footing as I am.
Anyway, before the kateikyoshi conversation, at one point I looked over to realize with a start that Anna-san was standing shirtless right next to me. By accident I caught her eye, and she smiled at me. I smiled (albiet probably a bit ackwardly back). I actually managed to focus on a bit of her chest today and not her bra; I wonder if I should feel ashamed by that as I made actual eye contact with her. But I'm really not oggling her lecherously, it really is a simple 'Wow...Anna-san = pretty....' kind of thing. It actually felt more...I don't want to say 'intimate', that's too strong a word, with too many sexual connotations, but..ok, well, I guess it felt almost too intimate to be smiling back and forth with Anna-san standing so close in her bra. As in the 'I'm not worthy!' kind of way. LOL Also, I wonder if she was embaressed by it. Today she wore olive green khaki pants and a wide leather belt, along with a tight back t-shirt. Very cool.
I sat behind Anna-san an her Okaasan on the bus. Atsushi came, and made a move as if he was gonna sit down next to me, but ended up sitting across the seat. Then Namio did made a move to sit with me, thought better of it and said behind. It was kind of weird. LOL (Yuuta ende dup sitting next to Atsushi, of course ;) )
On the bus ride Tomoko-san said how Yamada Yuu (former Actors student, ex-member of Y'z factory, made up of three Actor's students,who couldn't sing so well (they kind of had a Post-SPEED yelling style going on, from the era when B.B was just genki and enthusiastic and not really talented), yet had the distinction of having two songs on their album written by Anna-san under the name ANNA. Currently a model for CamCam magazine, and quite a good one, if I must say). This lead the Boyz to tell Anna-san how they apparently ran into three or four fellow ex-actors students in Shinjuku. (Interestingly, Namio said 'It was like an Actors reunion!' And then quickly remembered himself and added 'Former...Former...') Atsushi and Yuuta gushed effusively about one of the ex-members named Yukito-nii, and how cool he was, after Anna-san asked if he was still dancing.
At one point, Anna-san had her hand resting on the seatback, so I got a very good look at it for the first time. She had very pretty hands, with pretty, short oval nails, painted sparkly tan-pink. I really wanted to touch her hand, and had to strongly fight back the urge. The same for the urge to touch her hair... Oh how I love Anna-san....
Other highlights from the bus ride include:
Namio exclaiming that he found Tama-chan (the seal everyone in Japan's gaga over) prompting many 'There's no river here!'s
YuuAtsu saying something I didn't understand teasingly about weasels and whatnot, and causing Anna-san to laughingly chide them (mayeb they were teasing her?) 'Sonna kote iuna!' (Don't say that!' )Which then somehow followed into Anna-san scolding her mother about something (I couldn't hear what) in a low, motherly tone of voice, like you'd use to tell a child right from wrong, 'Sonna koto iwanai no!' (We don't say that.)
Also Namio babbled about wanting to do some thing I didn't catch to make us laugh, but having to hold himself back because he didn't want to lower people's view of Love Junx, but no, he had to, on his pride as a man, he needed to make us laugh..., until Anna-san told him to think about not bothering people (hito no meiwaku o kangaete!) after which he start muttered 'a nuisance....I mustsn't do it because I will be bother people...' as if he was trying to convince himself.
Namio, as the bus pulls up to the Eki. 'What a great field trip!'
Also, Atsushi, suprised at soemthing Anna-san said as they walked to the Eki, jumped back and mutter 'Uso!'. But his jump back was the two-step. LOL
Today I realized that Hyper is the only class I could do choreographed dance in and not die of self-hatred and lack of self esteem. Although, I decided on my way home that I would love trigonometry if Anna-san taught it to me. Or rather, I would love the experience of being taught trigonometry by Anna-san, if not the subject itself.
On that note, I am going to take a page from LiveJournal and put a song for the day, and what not. (hee hee I made two puns! I'm lving up to the Weber legacy! Er... sort of...)
Song: Damn, I wish I was your lover. (Sophie B Hawkins)
Song 2: Born to sing, born to dance (BB WAVES)
Mood: *dreamy sigh* Anna-san...suteki....