My Vegetable Garden: 1 month later.

The vegetables are growing, growing, growing! No signs of any real produce yet, but I can see some budding and signs of early stages of the real product! In about a month, they will be growing their actual edible products, so I'll be waiting patiently for that day! Here are some pictures I took today:

The whole garden after 1 month.

The giant green beans!

The carrots and cucumbers, nicely growing.

The slowly growing bell peppers and onions.

Recent Happenings

Just wanted to update you all on my life :)

First of all, I had the AEON Corporation interview this past weekend. AEON is a company which has established English schools all over Japan and is a very popular and respected English learning school in Japan. Saturday was the initial interview, in which I had to prepare a 30-minute lesson plan and then perform 5 minutes of it in front of a group. I passed that stage and had a follow-up interview the next day. That went pretty smoothly as well so I hope I impressed the recruiter and they consider me to be a teacher! I have to wait 2 weeks for the results. If all goes well and I am accepted, I will most likely be teaching English in Japan as early as July or August!

In the mean time, I now work at Nordstrom in Ala Moana selling desinger handbags: Burberry, Versace, Marc Jacobs, Car Shoe, Chloe, etc. It's such a different job than I am normally used to, because of the commission and selling aspect, but its a great learning experience. I also get to use Japanese a lot because we get quite a lot of Japanese tourist as customers so I enjoy communicating and exercising my Japanese language knowledge. If any of you shop at Nordstrom (in any department) or want a designer handbag, please let me know and I will be more than happy to assist you!

My friend from Japan, Kohe, will be visiting me for a week from April 6-13. I'm excited to do touristy things and show him around Oahu. We are lucky enough to stay at the Hilton Hawaiian Village the whole week so that should be relaxing and fun, as it always is when I stay there. 

I've never felt this happy and positive in my life before. It seems like everything is finally falling into place. Last year, I came up with a word for the year and that word was "patience". I was patient the whole year in all aspects of life: work, school, family, friends, and life. And now, it seems as if that patience has finally paid off and everything is blending together smoothly. My outlook on life has definitely changed. I am much more positive, confident, motivated, grateful and outgoing than I have been in the past few years. I am so appreciative of God, my family, friends, and my life. I'm definitely a "brand new me" and I'm so ready to take on the world!

My Vegetable Garden: 2 weeks later.

The garden is blooming! Every vegetable has shown growth this week! The green beans are still the biggest of them all, the cucumber leaves are growing steadily and the carrots and bell peppers are slowly coming around. There's a slight problem though... the carrots are too close to each other and won't have enough space to grow underground so I need to transplant them soon. When they grow a little larger I'll spread them out a little more.  The weather has been great lately - it has been raining at night and sunny during the day - optimal weather for plant growth! I'm so happy that this project is moving along so well :)

The full garden.

From L to R:

Bell Peppers, onions and carrots.

The cucumbers.

The giant green beans!

Keep coming back for updates each week!

My Vegetable Garden: 1 week later.

After one week, my garden has grown tremendously! I'm soooo happy! Every morning, before the sun hits it, I water them carefully. So far, the green beans have showed the most growth, the cucumbers next, the carrots after them, while the bell peppers and onions are slow to grow. I'm sure they'll come along sooner or later, but I'm so proud of my garden thus far!

The cucumbers, about 2 inches tall.

To the left, the bell peppers (no growth yet).

In the middle, onions, little hairs sprouting.

On the right, the carrots, a lot of little hairs sprouting.

The green beans! 

Big growers! About 5-6 inches tall.

Side view of the whole garden.

My Vegetable Garden!

Today I started my own vegetable garden! I planted cucumbers, onions, carrots, bell peppers and green beans. I've been wanting to do this project for a while, but never had the time. My whole point of doing this was to go GREEN by eating what I produce, use organic products and keep growing these vegetables indefinitely. I'll keep you updated as they progress and grow.

The cucumbers and green beans.

The bell peppers, onions and carrots.

All my little babies!

YUME GA ARU.

I have a dream... that is, to move and work in Japan. I'm one step closer to that dream, as I have an interview for a company to teach English in Japan! I'll be working hard until April 4, trying to perfect a sample lesson plan and to gain the confidence to perform it in front of people. I've never wanted to do something so badly, as I do with wanting to move to Japan. My visit last month to Japan was such a tease and it made me want to make my dream come true.

YUME GA ARU! GANBARIMASU!

Fall Blues.

It just started to get cold here in Los Angeles. It's quite weird to think about jackets and sweaters when it hasn't even gotten cold yet until late October! Last week it was still in the 90s.... Anywho, this weather excites me for many reasons: dressing up, lazy days watching movies, eating to stay warm, exercising from all that eating...but most importantly, the cold weather means its almost Thanksgiving and Christmas! 

After 2 months of being in LA, I finally felt a little homesick yesterday. All I could think about at work was laying out at the beach, walking my dog, going to a neighbor island and relaxing... My heart and soul will always be lost in Hawaii. I can only imagine how amazing the 13 days will be while home in December. 

I can't let my mind wander too far to the Pacific though... I need to keep focused for another 2 months and live life in LA :)