Okay, here's the deal: You go to sleep now and I'll take those extra 13 hours of day to do everything I wanted to do today! What?! Why can't we switch?! My day disappeared on me! I'm not kidding! One minute it's 1:30pm the next it's 5:30pm... Then one minute it's 9pm, the next minute it's quarter till Midnight?! What?! That's not fair! I went to classes today, was late to my speaking JPN and missed my vocab quiz... dang it! I ran late doing my interview with my speaking partner for my paper due thursday so therefore, couldn't do my quiz of vocab I knew... Of course.
Then I went to Hirakata station to find the church, found it and got some info on it... Japanese, Portuguese, English, and Spanish... you wanna guess what languages are not being spoken THIS weekend? Of course, oh well. Then went to Book Off- bad idea... it is the "Second Time Around" of Hirakatashi. . . Well, I got 4 CDs for 2200 yen. That's actually a REALLY good deal considering which CDs I found! I wasn't feeling well again so when I finally made it home- was sooo tired, my vision was getting fuzzy- I got an offer to go to an electronics store with Toru-san and Chihiro. I said yes but wasn't very coherent so we decided it was best if I stayed home since my head hurt too... I ended up falling asleep on the floor and then woke up to take another nap in my room. I interviewed Toru-san for my paper, his knowledge of English is much smaller than I thought originally... so that took FOREVER! Then I came to my room and was checking over my cds and putting them on the computer and then facebook happened and well, bad news bears... it's after midnight. Well, I did shower and was awoken from my incoherent state of bumpersticker hunting by Kimmy thankfully. I might have been there all night otherwise...
But yeah, going to study for my RWJ class quiz and my SPJ class vocab quiz... dang, and I'll prepare for my meeting with my psy partner tomorrow. We're a bit behind on that project too. ACK! Why couldn't Spring break have been longer with more time for not doing stuff requiring leaving my room? Why must I be so SOCIAL?! Not this week!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Now I'm finished!
Oh Saturday!
I have not left the house and have enjoyed it thoroughly! I slept and chatted with Jon and Kimmy for about 2.5 hours... oops, sorry for keeping you up late! It was really nice but I got too hungry and had to get on with my day. I got lunch eventually and hung out with the children, making origami things. I made a sweet shuriken but it fell apart and now I'm missing a piece... I'll have to make another part... but yeah. I've been uploading pictures and relaxing and updating the blog as you all have noticed. I organized my room again but I might look into doing something else productive by the end of the night. Either scrapbook my journal or write! I've hopefully FULLY charged my camera. I don't know what exactly I'm up to tomorrow but it will be interesting probably. I don't plan on being in the house all day tomorrow too!
I have not left the house and have enjoyed it thoroughly! I slept and chatted with Jon and Kimmy for about 2.5 hours... oops, sorry for keeping you up late! It was really nice but I got too hungry and had to get on with my day. I got lunch eventually and hung out with the children, making origami things. I made a sweet shuriken but it fell apart and now I'm missing a piece... I'll have to make another part... but yeah. I've been uploading pictures and relaxing and updating the blog as you all have noticed. I organized my room again but I might look into doing something else productive by the end of the night. Either scrapbook my journal or write! I've hopefully FULLY charged my camera. I don't know what exactly I'm up to tomorrow but it will be interesting probably. I don't plan on being in the house all day tomorrow too!
I'm Home to Japan!
Okay for Friday:
In the morning, we were still in Seoul, Korea wandering our way around. We packed our bags and checked out of the hotel, grabbed some breakfast in which I used my airplane BR's spoon with breakfast. Mwahahaha! I collected things! Well, we were off to our next place which had a guided tour in English at 11:30 so we booked it over and bought our tickets in. $3. Yeah, I loved it! But then we realized, this tour wasn't for the village... it was for another Palace... Oops... well, we had to go with a tour guide in this palace so we just went with it. This lady was not going to mess around. Her suggestions weren't suggestions and she would tear into you if you did something against the rules... I heard about this one guy who was trying to sneakily take videos after she said, "no video recording"... oh man... it was ugly. But since this place was very similar to the other palace in some areas, Cassie and I wandered around with the group discussing our story ideas and different techniques. It was fun, Lindsey and Jackie joined in too. So... every one of us wants to write something... well, Cassie wants to make it a comic but still... O.O weird...
So we got out of that at about 12:50 and we sprinted our way back to the hotel which was supposed to be a 20 minute walk from there. We made it in plenty of time and we tried to spend some more of our won on a vending machine because it's not worth much anywhere else... But yeah, we got back and boarded our bus and spoke with our guide in Japanese again. They collected everyone else and took us to some place where we could buy stuff in yen(!?!) and get it Duty-free? maybe? Well, I had been sleeping before we got there so was groggy the whole time and missed my opportunity to buy my Korean metal chopsticks. Then again, it was in yen so not as cheap as originally thought.
After that, they shuffled us to the airport and we ran around there getting lunch since none of us had eaten anything. I managed to get omurice, the random rice omelet thing that my host mom made one time. Not nearly as good as hers and they put mustard on it... the picture didn't look like that. So I mostly ate the rice inside and gave the rest to Cassie and ran off to use my remaining won 6000 won more BR. I got two scopes of ice cream: Lovestruck strawberry and almond bon bon. Both tasty... we were in a hurry so with the aid of a spoon I downed that cone in literally no time at all! Even Cassie was impressed and she eats really quickly... So with that we wander toward the gate but Jackie and Lindsey go to 7-eleven to spend their last won, so Cassie decides to visit this gift-shop for people and well, I didn't think about that... I saw two cute hair bands and I got them but I paid in won and yen because I didn't have enough won to cover the whole thing. That was weird.
Well, afterwards we went through security and got to our gate, on our plane and into Japan. The ride back wasn't as good, nor was the food but oh well. We picked up Cassie's bag from the baggage claim, got through customs, and took our trains home. Cassie finally bought her cake from Yodoyobashi station, I wonder if it was worth breaking her diet more? I got home and missed dinner so just put away all my stuff, got a shower, and relaxed. I chatted with Miwa-san for a bit in Japanese. I think my Japanese was pretty good, although a few words escaped me. Curses! Basic vocabulary! But then I went to bed so I could chat with people in the morning. It was fun and now I'm relaxing and catching up and trying to keep warm!
I guess it is only March still... Oh well. I'm finished for now! Finally! Have fun catching up! I'll be looking at pictures and playing with my new pretty stuff~
/BYE\
In the morning, we were still in Seoul, Korea wandering our way around. We packed our bags and checked out of the hotel, grabbed some breakfast in which I used my airplane BR's spoon with breakfast. Mwahahaha! I collected things! Well, we were off to our next place which had a guided tour in English at 11:30 so we booked it over and bought our tickets in. $3. Yeah, I loved it! But then we realized, this tour wasn't for the village... it was for another Palace... Oops... well, we had to go with a tour guide in this palace so we just went with it. This lady was not going to mess around. Her suggestions weren't suggestions and she would tear into you if you did something against the rules... I heard about this one guy who was trying to sneakily take videos after she said, "no video recording"... oh man... it was ugly. But since this place was very similar to the other palace in some areas, Cassie and I wandered around with the group discussing our story ideas and different techniques. It was fun, Lindsey and Jackie joined in too. So... every one of us wants to write something... well, Cassie wants to make it a comic but still... O.O weird...
So we got out of that at about 12:50 and we sprinted our way back to the hotel which was supposed to be a 20 minute walk from there. We made it in plenty of time and we tried to spend some more of our won on a vending machine because it's not worth much anywhere else... But yeah, we got back and boarded our bus and spoke with our guide in Japanese again. They collected everyone else and took us to some place where we could buy stuff in yen(!?!) and get it Duty-free? maybe? Well, I had been sleeping before we got there so was groggy the whole time and missed my opportunity to buy my Korean metal chopsticks. Then again, it was in yen so not as cheap as originally thought.
After that, they shuffled us to the airport and we ran around there getting lunch since none of us had eaten anything. I managed to get omurice, the random rice omelet thing that my host mom made one time. Not nearly as good as hers and they put mustard on it... the picture didn't look like that. So I mostly ate the rice inside and gave the rest to Cassie and ran off to use my remaining won 6000 won more BR. I got two scopes of ice cream: Lovestruck strawberry and almond bon bon. Both tasty... we were in a hurry so with the aid of a spoon I downed that cone in literally no time at all! Even Cassie was impressed and she eats really quickly... So with that we wander toward the gate but Jackie and Lindsey go to 7-eleven to spend their last won, so Cassie decides to visit this gift-shop for people and well, I didn't think about that... I saw two cute hair bands and I got them but I paid in won and yen because I didn't have enough won to cover the whole thing. That was weird.
Well, afterwards we went through security and got to our gate, on our plane and into Japan. The ride back wasn't as good, nor was the food but oh well. We picked up Cassie's bag from the baggage claim, got through customs, and took our trains home. Cassie finally bought her cake from Yodoyobashi station, I wonder if it was worth breaking her diet more? I got home and missed dinner so just put away all my stuff, got a shower, and relaxed. I chatted with Miwa-san for a bit in Japanese. I think my Japanese was pretty good, although a few words escaped me. Curses! Basic vocabulary! But then I went to bed so I could chat with people in the morning. It was fun and now I'm relaxing and catching up and trying to keep warm!
I guess it is only March still... Oh well. I'm finished for now! Finally! Have fun catching up! I'll be looking at pictures and playing with my new pretty stuff~
/BYE\
Full Day in Korea!
Here's March 25th!
Bad News: My nails are driving me "bat-crap* insane", my camera battery died-I think it might be time for a new one since I charged it the night before coming here, I spent a lot of $, I had the spiciest meal I've ever had & hopefully will ever have, and I probably should have bought a pair of shoes. It was freezing cold-literally snow/sleet-and poured on us too!
Good News: I've got a lot of cool pictures, stuff, and gifts; I'm half done with my 1 gift each rule, we got to see a lot of this area of the city, we took a cab for SUPER cheap, wandered the shopping areas, tried new food, got delicious Baskin Robin's Lovestruck Strawberry- it had REAL cheesecake in it-not Japanese cheesecake! I also learned a lot about history today. I bought a larger umbrella for $3. Yay! Cheap things in Korea! The train cost $1 and was super nice and clean.
BUT! Seoul smells bad- sewer bad! I also got paranoid about our room service and when I returned... Gene was not on the bed! I about flipped out when I did a 180* turn and saw him sitting on the TV. My heart skipped a beat. Everything was fine but man did I momentarily freak! I bought some cute clips for $1-3 and one can go with my Kimono! Yay! Almost have it all collected! I only converted $100 to won and I'm doing great! Yay me! Much better than when I went to Spain... oh, Spain... how I miss you... but I got a little make-up, jewelry, gifts, and an umbrella and I'm proud! I'm so glad I came! It's been a ton of fun even with people getting into arguments and fights. I had to solve them for the good of the trip and apparently everyone wanted to room with me... feeling special much? >.> <.< Oh well, we check out tomorrow and are going to see a tour at a traditiona Korean village. I'm sure that will be fun- maybe I'll use my phone camera since my regular is dead. Nooo! Good night!
PS: Oh yeah, we got burgers for dinner as some fastfood joint and I managed to get something tasty, yet greasy. Oh wait, nothing special there except it was edible to me and my particular needs for burgers... ^_^*
Bad News: My nails are driving me "bat-crap* insane", my camera battery died-I think it might be time for a new one since I charged it the night before coming here, I spent a lot of $, I had the spiciest meal I've ever had & hopefully will ever have, and I probably should have bought a pair of shoes. It was freezing cold-literally snow/sleet-and poured on us too!
Good News: I've got a lot of cool pictures, stuff, and gifts; I'm half done with my 1 gift each rule, we got to see a lot of this area of the city, we took a cab for SUPER cheap, wandered the shopping areas, tried new food, got delicious Baskin Robin's Lovestruck Strawberry- it had REAL cheesecake in it-not Japanese cheesecake! I also learned a lot about history today. I bought a larger umbrella for $3. Yay! Cheap things in Korea! The train cost $1 and was super nice and clean.
BUT! Seoul smells bad- sewer bad! I also got paranoid about our room service and when I returned... Gene was not on the bed! I about flipped out when I did a 180* turn and saw him sitting on the TV. My heart skipped a beat. Everything was fine but man did I momentarily freak! I bought some cute clips for $1-3 and one can go with my Kimono! Yay! Almost have it all collected! I only converted $100 to won and I'm doing great! Yay me! Much better than when I went to Spain... oh, Spain... how I miss you... but I got a little make-up, jewelry, gifts, and an umbrella and I'm proud! I'm so glad I came! It's been a ton of fun even with people getting into arguments and fights. I had to solve them for the good of the trip and apparently everyone wanted to room with me... feeling special much? >.> <.< Oh well, we check out tomorrow and are going to see a tour at a traditiona Korean village. I'm sure that will be fun- maybe I'll use my phone camera since my regular is dead. Nooo! Good night!
PS: Oh yeah, we got burgers for dinner as some fastfood joint and I managed to get something tasty, yet greasy. Oh wait, nothing special there except it was edible to me and my particular needs for burgers... ^_^*
Friday, March 26, 2010
Spring Break BBQ & Blues
Okay, so I warn you this will be a long one because it is catching up on lost time! It's actually taken directly from my journal since I didn't have convenient internet access while in Korea.
March 24th,
"So I can't believe it. My break is half over and I haven't had any real chance at all to update my blog. On Monday, I went to SPA World with Cassie, Lauren, and Lindsey before showing Lauren off to Hiroshima. It was in a word: Random. We literally walked around naked on this girls only floor of a large {hotel-like} building. There were lots of different European style baths- Atlantis (?), Spanish, German, Italian, Grecian, Finland, etc. Some were just plain baths, some were ice baths, saunas, salt saunas, Milk & honey, bubble, and herbal. I've never taken so many baths in my life in such a short amount of time. Nor have I seen so many naked people I was really uncomfortable for a long time. I would get better for a whie then be blantantly reminded we were nude in public and feel weird again. I managed to get salt in some wounds, get a waterfall back massage, and have an old Japanese lady help me handle the practically "ice" bath. It was really, well, fun but random. We also got to run around in pink tunics with no pants in public-sexist (haha) and weird- the guys got pants and were blue... We got purikura in those clothes and got some ice cream to help us cool off. It was delicious! I'm still uncomfortable about it but I would like to explore the Japanese style baths next month.... unfortunately, they will be expensive then... not $10.
Tuesday- I should not have gotten out of bed. I went all the way to the government building and forgot my passport- so everyone got their stuff but me- was broke, missed my buss to start it off, thought my international bank card was dead, realized how much $$ I've spent and how horribly expensive it is here. I'm used to free fun stuff at friends' houses- not $10 Karaoke 2 nights in a row and $5 to get there and back, and eating out 5 days in a row... then leaving for Korea... I got home to an empty house after believing I was going to lose my phone # because my prepaid plan expired on the 24th- next day(today), and I cracked. All I had to eat that day was a bread slice that morning with honey because I couldn't open the strawberry jam jar... It was about 7pm at that point. I was just soo frustrated and scared and it rained on me all day... that always helps- NOT. Lindsey had to pay my way home so I could have $ for the bus. I was UGH! I got $ & a prepaid card & chocolate & found out my phone would be fine & my ATM card was fine & cheated and called Jon while he was asleep to leave him a message, hear his voice, and spend some of my soon to be expiring $. I felt better by the end of the day & procrastinated packing with collecting things to journal, uploading pictures, talking to Lovelies, and anything else I could (including starring music in iTunes again). Oh, another thing that knocked my day was I started it all off by finding out I wasn't accepted into this RP website my friend was a part of... REALLY? I was like "you've got to be kidding, fine. If I'm not good enough for them, I won't do it. I want it for fun, not for a job. I mean really- a full application?" It didn't bother me too much at first but it did eat at me for a while once everything else went down the drain.
But yeah, then WED happened!
I woke up early & ran late but still beat the bus by a light to the stop so SCORE! I ran there with my bag of everything (bookbag) for the next few days: clothes, toiletries, trinkets, music, cube, Gene, passport- Yeah! I met Lindsey, got $, and went to go buy my permit to keep my gaijin card. $30 difference for single re-entry! Woot! (Double that and you get the multiple option)... It only took 15 mins waiting too. We collected everyone, got Subway for lunch-which was actually more delicious here oddly. But we got to our next train in Namba after buying our last treats before expensive airport stuff. We got there with plenty of time and went to check out some shops. Of course, I only get good ideas for bdays & christmas gifts when I'm in a tourist trap... I managed to say- wait until we come back! See how much I spend & see what I want for who... ...{edited for spoiler content}... No! Look for useful things! Well, the plane ride was fine but I had issues keeping my passport on me at all times when I have to stow my only bag... We found out guide easily. I remembered the name of our tour guide agency! Yay me! The meal on the plane was yummy & I started a game of chess after attempt to nap but we were landing before I could finish. I will beat you Medium chess computer! Oh, we (Jackie, Cassie, Lindsey, and I) all learned how to make fun messages on our phones with colors and pictures and animations. If you have gmail, I can send them to you and you can see it! I wish I could show the rest of you but I'd have to get a video I think. I'll look into it back in Japan because the phones don't work here in Korea.
But yeah, I got pictures with Gene & of stuff and rode a bus going 80 mph... I guessed right! It was scary though... drivers there are TERRIFYING! They don't stop! Red is a mere suggestion and there are huge intersections with no traffic lights or signs at all! We then spent an hour being cranky with each other, trying to find and decide where and what to do while our guide was there with us. After that we fought over who to room with and met back with our guide who showed us to food places. The funny part was she spoke NO English so we were all getting good Japanese practice there! We did well and got toriniku (?) for dinner since we couldn't find anything everyone liked at first at 10pm at night... It's all you can eat meat you grill at your table. The waitress happened to walk to our table hand us a menu and say "good evening. Here's your menu." We did a double-take! Perfect English all dinner and paying. She was amazing and a comfort after so much mental stress and other stress about tomorrow. She was so nice. The food was GREAT too! Beef and pork- it was so sweet with cinnamon or something... and we got spicy salads and lettuce and daicon- a Japanese radish thing & onion soup thing & Kimchi and slices of garlic and bowls of rice. It came out to $15 but SOOO worth it. Then we got ice cream parfaits which in the States would have been $4-7 but were 1,500 won --- which is less than $1.50. ^_^! They were huge and cholaty and delicious and we ran into someone from school in our hotel who gave us useful korean words and recommendations. I will not eat octopus, especially if it is trying to escape while I'm chewing... ewww... Cool but ewwww... I'm rooming with Cassie and we are getting up early with a full day of walking and riding the train tomorrow. Oh,
I will get a picture of the money later. I can't wait! Heh, almost forgot- I tried a bit of a small green pepper at the dinner place and well, I got a video of the reaction. You should have seen it the first bit of the garlic clove slice. Hah, it burned!
Well, bed now finally! Good night!"
I'll put up the next day's entry next...
March 24th,
"So I can't believe it. My break is half over and I haven't had any real chance at all to update my blog. On Monday, I went to SPA World with Cassie, Lauren, and Lindsey before showing Lauren off to Hiroshima. It was in a word: Random. We literally walked around naked on this girls only floor of a large {hotel-like} building. There were lots of different European style baths- Atlantis (?), Spanish, German, Italian, Grecian, Finland, etc. Some were just plain baths, some were ice baths, saunas, salt saunas, Milk & honey, bubble, and herbal. I've never taken so many baths in my life in such a short amount of time. Nor have I seen so many naked people I was really uncomfortable for a long time. I would get better for a whie then be blantantly reminded we were nude in public and feel weird again. I managed to get salt in some wounds, get a waterfall back massage, and have an old Japanese lady help me handle the practically "ice" bath. It was really, well, fun but random. We also got to run around in pink tunics with no pants in public-sexist (haha) and weird- the guys got pants and were blue... We got purikura in those clothes and got some ice cream to help us cool off. It was delicious! I'm still uncomfortable about it but I would like to explore the Japanese style baths next month.... unfortunately, they will be expensive then... not $10.
Tuesday- I should not have gotten out of bed. I went all the way to the government building and forgot my passport- so everyone got their stuff but me- was broke, missed my buss to start it off, thought my international bank card was dead, realized how much $$ I've spent and how horribly expensive it is here. I'm used to free fun stuff at friends' houses- not $10 Karaoke 2 nights in a row and $5 to get there and back, and eating out 5 days in a row... then leaving for Korea... I got home to an empty house after believing I was going to lose my phone # because my prepaid plan expired on the 24th- next day(today), and I cracked. All I had to eat that day was a bread slice that morning with honey because I couldn't open the strawberry jam jar... It was about 7pm at that point. I was just soo frustrated and scared and it rained on me all day... that always helps- NOT. Lindsey had to pay my way home so I could have $ for the bus. I was UGH! I got $ & a prepaid card & chocolate & found out my phone would be fine & my ATM card was fine & cheated and called Jon while he was asleep to leave him a message, hear his voice, and spend some of my soon to be expiring $. I felt better by the end of the day & procrastinated packing with collecting things to journal, uploading pictures, talking to Lovelies, and anything else I could (including starring music in iTunes again). Oh, another thing that knocked my day was I started it all off by finding out I wasn't accepted into this RP website my friend was a part of... REALLY? I was like "you've got to be kidding, fine. If I'm not good enough for them, I won't do it. I want it for fun, not for a job. I mean really- a full application?" It didn't bother me too much at first but it did eat at me for a while once everything else went down the drain.
But yeah, then WED happened!
I woke up early & ran late but still beat the bus by a light to the stop so SCORE! I ran there with my bag of everything (bookbag) for the next few days: clothes, toiletries, trinkets, music, cube, Gene, passport- Yeah! I met Lindsey, got $, and went to go buy my permit to keep my gaijin card. $30 difference for single re-entry! Woot! (Double that and you get the multiple option)... It only took 15 mins waiting too. We collected everyone, got Subway for lunch-which was actually more delicious here oddly. But we got to our next train in Namba after buying our last treats before expensive airport stuff. We got there with plenty of time and went to check out some shops. Of course, I only get good ideas for bdays & christmas gifts when I'm in a tourist trap... I managed to say- wait until we come back! See how much I spend & see what I want for who... ...{edited for spoiler content}... No! Look for useful things! Well, the plane ride was fine but I had issues keeping my passport on me at all times when I have to stow my only bag... We found out guide easily. I remembered the name of our tour guide agency! Yay me! The meal on the plane was yummy & I started a game of chess after attempt to nap but we were landing before I could finish. I will beat you Medium chess computer! Oh, we (Jackie, Cassie, Lindsey, and I) all learned how to make fun messages on our phones with colors and pictures and animations. If you have gmail, I can send them to you and you can see it! I wish I could show the rest of you but I'd have to get a video I think. I'll look into it back in Japan because the phones don't work here in Korea.
But yeah, I got pictures with Gene & of stuff and rode a bus going 80 mph... I guessed right! It was scary though... drivers there are TERRIFYING! They don't stop! Red is a mere suggestion and there are huge intersections with no traffic lights or signs at all! We then spent an hour being cranky with each other, trying to find and decide where and what to do while our guide was there with us. After that we fought over who to room with and met back with our guide who showed us to food places. The funny part was she spoke NO English so we were all getting good Japanese practice there! We did well and got toriniku (?) for dinner since we couldn't find anything everyone liked at first at 10pm at night... It's all you can eat meat you grill at your table. The waitress happened to walk to our table hand us a menu and say "good evening. Here's your menu." We did a double-take! Perfect English all dinner and paying. She was amazing and a comfort after so much mental stress and other stress about tomorrow. She was so nice. The food was GREAT too! Beef and pork- it was so sweet with cinnamon or something... and we got spicy salads and lettuce and daicon- a Japanese radish thing & onion soup thing & Kimchi and slices of garlic and bowls of rice. It came out to $15 but SOOO worth it. Then we got ice cream parfaits which in the States would have been $4-7 but were 1,500 won --- which is less than $1.50. ^_^! They were huge and cholaty and delicious and we ran into someone from school in our hotel who gave us useful korean words and recommendations. I will not eat octopus, especially if it is trying to escape while I'm chewing... ewww... Cool but ewwww... I'm rooming with Cassie and we are getting up early with a full day of walking and riding the train tomorrow. Oh,
I will get a picture of the money later. I can't wait! Heh, almost forgot- I tried a bit of a small green pepper at the dinner place and well, I got a video of the reaction. You should have seen it the first bit of the garlic clove slice. Hah, it burned!
Well, bed now finally! Good night!"
I'll put up the next day's entry next...
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Den Den 2010!
Okay,
Friday- finished exams, played piano found on campus, walked to Hirakatashi with Lindsey to get her Gaijin card-she's offical now!-, went to Karaoke with Erin and Rasmus and some others, then went home and to bed!
Saturday- slept in! Most of the day... went to the seminar houses and played around with everyone before going to dinner at a Korean BBQ and then more karaoke! It was a beautiful day but downpoured on us by the time we left Karaoke... meaning, I left my pants, bike, coat, and sweater at the seminar house and took the bus home...
Sunday- cold, talked to Jon, went to a Den Den Town street festival! I was in costume! People recognized me! I was sooo excited!!! Yay! Got lots of pictures but not on my camera, sorry all! But yeah, it was cold so I had to get back to the seminar houses with everyone to collect my stuff and throw it on and bike back home... I was warm wearing shorts, pants, a skirt, a button down blouse, a black awesome coat, and my red wool coat... I did have my black knee high socks on too! Yeah, I was the essence of wearing as much clothing as possible... >.>
Oh well, it was useful. I wasn't cold anymore! Well, I got back and have skyped with my parents so yay! Now I can go to bed!
Actually, we discussed a few less peppy matters so just keeping my family in your hearts and prayers would be really appreciated right now. No super serious worries but every little bit of prayer helps! Love you all!!
Night! (oyasumi!)
PS: weird thing, I ran into my teacher at the street festival... it was kind of amusing... >.> <.< Kind of... Oh and I tackled one of my friends who I didn't realize was holding a can of coffee and spilled it over the both of us. I came out fairly unscathed! But I defended his chair from another customer later at dinner, so we're even (I hope)!
Friday- finished exams, played piano found on campus, walked to Hirakatashi with Lindsey to get her Gaijin card-she's offical now!-, went to Karaoke with Erin and Rasmus and some others, then went home and to bed!
Saturday- slept in! Most of the day... went to the seminar houses and played around with everyone before going to dinner at a Korean BBQ and then more karaoke! It was a beautiful day but downpoured on us by the time we left Karaoke... meaning, I left my pants, bike, coat, and sweater at the seminar house and took the bus home...
Sunday- cold, talked to Jon, went to a Den Den Town street festival! I was in costume! People recognized me! I was sooo excited!!! Yay! Got lots of pictures but not on my camera, sorry all! But yeah, it was cold so I had to get back to the seminar houses with everyone to collect my stuff and throw it on and bike back home... I was warm wearing shorts, pants, a skirt, a button down blouse, a black awesome coat, and my red wool coat... I did have my black knee high socks on too! Yeah, I was the essence of wearing as much clothing as possible... >.>
Oh well, it was useful. I wasn't cold anymore! Well, I got back and have skyped with my parents so yay! Now I can go to bed!
Actually, we discussed a few less peppy matters so just keeping my family in your hearts and prayers would be really appreciated right now. No super serious worries but every little bit of prayer helps! Love you all!!
Night! (oyasumi!)
PS: weird thing, I ran into my teacher at the street festival... it was kind of amusing... >.> <.< Kind of... Oh and I tackled one of my friends who I didn't realize was holding a can of coffee and spilled it over the both of us. I came out fairly unscathed! But I defended his chair from another customer later at dinner, so we're even (I hope)!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Attack of the Dust Bunnies!
I know I haven't posted lately but that's because I've been getting through my midterms! I've also been getting really bad headaches everyday this week and I'm not so sure it's from lack of sleep. I put away my obi because that still has an "old" smell to it and makes the room smell bad when I leave the door closed... and after I get back from my last exam and lunch with everyone I'm going to hardcore clean my room. I've been trying not to use the heater lately (it got cold again), so it doesn't blow out anymore dust...
The week we had Gakuto's bday on Wed, which I forgot about until I lay passed out due to a headache and was awoken with a start because Wed night the kids have golf practice... and there was definitely loud noises and voices. There were only 2 more children and their mom... wow. She was nice and could understand English sentences but I'm not sure she spoke it, she didn't anyway. But that was fun and I went around after changing my hair that day. I got a bunch of interesting responses! You can see a picture on facebook later this weekend! But yeah, I got through my written exam today AND rode my bike on wet ground/in the rain... not doing it again. I was petrified the whole time... but my pride of not wanting to spend money was too great and Lindsey had me walk with her in that direction so laziness set in.
But yeah, that was scary; although, at the scariest part... not a single car was behind me... for an abnormally long length of time. It was weird. There was a line of cars on the other side but no one was behind me (I kept checking) while I went on. The entire time I had this long stretch of road with no sidewalk... It was a miracle! I'm telling you. So I made it home, wet but safely. I hung out with the family a bit after they all got home. I had tried to pass out again but just laid there for a while until I couldn't any longer and I heard the clinking of dishes. I really think this will improve once I clean the room and my sheets. It's hard sleeping on the ground where all the dust is... my futon isn't very thick to lift me up. Oh well, I've got 2 sets of plans for Karaoke this weekend and then I'm going to a street fair so I can be in costume for my first time! It'll be interesting and hopefully fun too!
The week we had Gakuto's bday on Wed, which I forgot about until I lay passed out due to a headache and was awoken with a start because Wed night the kids have golf practice... and there was definitely loud noises and voices. There were only 2 more children and their mom... wow. She was nice and could understand English sentences but I'm not sure she spoke it, she didn't anyway. But that was fun and I went around after changing my hair that day. I got a bunch of interesting responses! You can see a picture on facebook later this weekend! But yeah, I got through my written exam today AND rode my bike on wet ground/in the rain... not doing it again. I was petrified the whole time... but my pride of not wanting to spend money was too great and Lindsey had me walk with her in that direction so laziness set in.
But yeah, that was scary; although, at the scariest part... not a single car was behind me... for an abnormally long length of time. It was weird. There was a line of cars on the other side but no one was behind me (I kept checking) while I went on. The entire time I had this long stretch of road with no sidewalk... It was a miracle! I'm telling you. So I made it home, wet but safely. I hung out with the family a bit after they all got home. I had tried to pass out again but just laid there for a while until I couldn't any longer and I heard the clinking of dishes. I really think this will improve once I clean the room and my sheets. It's hard sleeping on the ground where all the dust is... my futon isn't very thick to lift me up. Oh well, I've got 2 sets of plans for Karaoke this weekend and then I'm going to a street fair so I can be in costume for my first time! It'll be interesting and hopefully fun too!
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