Exhaursted

I'm so exhaursted. Today we had to run 11 km (6.8 mi) for kendo club. At first I seriously considered skipping, but then I thought "Ive never run 11 km before." So I did it. I made it in just over an hour. Which is slow, but who cares. It was actually kinda fun and not as hard as I thought it would be.
We ran around this park kinda far from school and through obligatory green tea fields and whatnot.
On the second lap, I was running with Sakimoto and Ikuzaki and we kinda got lost but it was fine in the end. Then we went back to school and I rode my bike downtown with Satomi, but she was going home and I was going to meet Laurent and Addison. Then we met Josefa, and then we randomly met Chisako and Saemi. So it was fun.
I came home and we saw this show on TV about the top 10 souvenirs that foreign tourists buy in Tokyo... and I was watching it and everything was like "So what?" I've realized now how accustomed I am to living in Japan. Things that foreigners ooh and ahh over are nothing special to me; they're things I see or use nearly every day. The no. 1 souvernir was ninja shoes. And I was watching TV and thinking... "what..." Because those shoes, for me, aren't ninja shoes. They're the shoes that every construction worker and laborer in Japan wears. I see them all the time when I pass construction on the way to school, etc. etc. Those shoes just happen to be passed down from the traditional ninja shoes. There were other souvenirs they showed that have a real purpose in Japan, but the foreigners just buy them because they think they look cool. (For example, headbands. Students wear headbands while taking exams or doing sports events, and I've worn them before and it's nothing special to me now.) I suspect it's the same for amulets and whatnot. This morning, Kei was making an amulet for her university exam and I'm so used to constantly being surrounded by them that it was like "Oh, ok... it looks really nice..." and that's all.
Yosh I gotta go... I'm so exhaursted and I have to get up early tomorrow, because I have some Rotary thing. It's in Gotemba, a town near Mt. Fuji. (Again, any foreigner would be amazed at the prospect of being anywhere near the fabled mountain, but I'm in the area constantly and can see it from school on a clear day. Yes, I love Mt. Fuji because I think it's beautiful, and I am looking forward to seeing it again, but it's like "Oh. Mt. Fuji. Been there, done that, climbed it, bought the traditional walking stick." I'm more looking forward the amazing funness that Rotary Exchange weekends always turn about to be!)