Iro iro mono!

So on Thursday to Saturday I hung out with the Sri Lankan kids. We went to the Suzuki motor factory. That was absolutely amazing to see cars being built. Then we went to the Yamaha grand piano factory. Did you that they have a machine that hits each key 300 times to condition the piano? They also use different types of wood and different types of humidity depending on the dryness level of the country theyre intending to send the piano to. So yeah that was cool.
Friday was some strange old customs checkpoint (kinda eh.) Then an aquarium with fish (well yeah of course what else would it have.) Then some thing where you could see a lot of things from the top of a thing. And then the zoo. And then I went downtown for Max's birthday. And there I met up with Josefa, Addison, Laurent, and Yuka, so that was fun. Josefa is, like, amazing. She gives me my Latina dose of humor and all-around amazingness. I'm so mad she has to go back to Chile in February. Then I met up again with the Sri Lankans and showed them downtown.
Saturday was Mount Fuji area. It was really nice because there was some snow on top the mountain. We went to some strange kid park where they had fake snow because they wanted to show the Sri Lankans snow. I hate fake snow its stupid. So we went sledding on the snow and it was nothing like Beaccuachlah (however you spell that park's name) Park back home.
I was talking to Wang-san, the university student from China that Rotary sponsors, the whole time because she came with us and I had been so tired of speaking English for the past few days with Gogs, Moley, and Wolfsey (the Sri Lankan kids' nicknames). She tried to teach me how to say "Great wall of China" in Chinese. It was so difficult and i totally forget. That's the great thing about going with Rotary; because Rotary is so diverse and international, you meet people from all over the world and it's just amazing.
Anywayz, Saturday night I slept a lot because I was tired from my long day and Sunday I went to church with Kei and Sakiko. It was really good. Then we helped out distribute clothes and food to the homeless. I'll next week too with Kei and Sakiko.
Today I went to school! Because it's Monday! Today some Australian students visited the school. They're in Japan for two weeks and will be at my school tomorrow too. They were all about 14 or 15 and my homeroom ate lunch with them. Then my homeroom left for their normal classes. Then the Australians put on kimonos and we made bookmarks for some reason. It was kinda annoying because they were all like 7 years old but Laurent and Max were there so it was fine.
Then I had kendo! Yay! Before kendo, I'm always like "ugh I dont wanna gooooo" but during kendo Im like YAY KENDO! Kuno-sensee wants me to take some kendo exam in February, and I'm like "haha no." Well, I didnt actually say that, I said "zenzen dekinai."
Oh tomorrow we're making food in HomeEc class! Yay! I actually can't stand the food we're making. Its called Iforget but it's this Japanese thing where they mix meat, oysters, noodles, lettuce, ketchup, cheese, and like tractors and flowerpots. You take one bite and youre like "woooooooooooooooow this is like wooooooooooooooooooooooow overwhelming taste MUCH" and youre like full and then its like "wow this is actually really disgusting."
Looks to be a normal week ahead of me; but, as always, I never really know... :)