My Baby!

So I thought it was about time that I showed a photo of my board, so here it is! An Earthwing Superglider; it's really solid (well I guess all boards don't flex for me since I'm super lightweight) and I've been practicing on the bike paths around my dorm until I'm comfortable enough to go around campus where there's lots of people and cars. I get a lot of funny looks from passing people but I've only been on the thing 5 times so far and I've never skateboarded/surfed/snowboarded in my entire life. Give me a break!

I've decided to call my board Dubhán (pronounced DUV-an). Yes, I name all my precious things. My white macbook is called Kouki and my black bamboo fun tablet is Takeshi. :) But I've decided to call my board Dubhán after a black horse that appears in the story I am currently writing; stubborn, strong, and hard to tame, but reliable and well-worth the wait once you gain his trust. Let's hope that I can do that soon, it's getting warmer out and I want to take this baby out for a ride!

自分のロンスケの写真をまだ撮ってなかった！

早速キレイなうちに撮っておかないと。。。

と言ってももうかなり泥まみれ。

外はまだ雪解けでビシャビシャ。

多分これからももっと汚れるんだろうな。（笑

ちなみにこの子をこれからドゥヴァン(Dubhán)と呼ぶ事にしました。

ドゥヴァンは今私が書いている小説の主人公が乗っている黒い馬の名前。

Dubhánはアイルランドやスコットランドの古い言葉で『黒い』と言う意味らしいです。

頑固でワガママな馬。でも強くて懐いたらほんとに頼りになる。

何となく似てるなぁ〜と思うのは多分私だけ？

やっぱりお気に入りの私物に名前を付ける悪いクセが止まらない。。。

stop-motion animation!

お久しぶりです！最近ブログに何も書いてないなぁ。。。っと思ったらヒマな時間がないからだとやっと気がつきました。最近友達に勧められてロンスケを始めたのです！

ちなみにアメリカではこれはロングボードと言ってサーフィンとはまた違うもの。

日本語と英語の微妙な違いはめんどくさい〜。。。

簡単にいえばデッかいスケボー。たのしいです。転びまくってます。

しかも夜中一人で練習。（涙）

昼間は人が多すぎて危ないから練習にならずって感じです。

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宿題でストップモーションアニメを作りました。早速youtubeにうp！

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Hmm, not much updating yet again. I'm finally not sick anymore! All of my free time has been used to go outside and practice longboarding for the last week or so. For some reason I'm not very good at pumping... but I guess I just need practice. I've actually only been outside maybe 4 times with my board, and it's always in the middle of the night where there aren't too many people to bump in to.

In other news, I've been busy making stop motion animations for my art class. Here's one of the finished products! It's hard to draw every panel, I can't imagine having to do all those drawings like in real animations...