This Week

Wow, I haven't updated in a long time, but it doesn't really seem like that many people are reading/commenting. Whatever.
Anyway, this week was AMAAAZING. Last Friday, I went to a Sri Lanka-Japan friendship night. I met the mayor of Hamamatsu and the ambassador from Sri Lanka to Japan. I ate curry and watched traditional Sri Lankan dancers. It was so amazing! I didn't get to talk to the mayor, but I did steal his dessert.
The next day, I went to see a concert of traditional Japanese instruments. IT was very... traditional (aka twang twang twang). But it was really really fun. Then I sang karaoke with Max and Laurent for three hours. Max and Laurent are two exchange students at my school. Max is French and Laurent is Belgian. It's really good because we speak exclusively in French, so I definitely won't be losing my French this year. I've been learnign a lot of new French words, too, mostly slang, like 'truc' which means 'thing' or 'thingymababbor' or 'whichamacallit.' Its basically the best word in existence.
On Sunday, my family took me out to dinner for my birthday. We went to a Japanese-style steakhouse where the chef makes it for you at your own table. It was incredibly delicious. My host parents bought me a bottle of DIOR eau de toilette for my birthday. inyau suru! (It smells good!)
Monday, my host mother and I went to the Museum of Musical Instruments. THat was fascinating. They had all those funky Baroque instruments with 234 pegs and 23532 strings and bodies shaped like cancerous pears. Then we went to an Indonesian restaurant for lunch.
Yesterday was my birthday. I walked into the classroom during lunchtime and everyone screamed HAPPY BIRTHDAY! They had written HAPPY BIRTHDAY in huge colorful letters on the board. They popped confetti and everyone had signed a card that a girl had made and they gave it to me. IT was soooooo sweet!
Then today I hung out with Max, Laurent, Kei, Miwa, and Yuuka (Kei and Miwa are school friends, Yuuka is a girl who went to Australia a few years ago with Rotary). We sang karaoke and took purikura, and then Max bought me dinner for my birthday.
Tomorrow I'm going shopping downtown with my host sister Shiori and her best friend Lisa. The shopping here is SOO AMAAAAZING!
I'll try to post pictures soon.