Wednesday, May 14, 2008

And then today..

And then what happeend today?
I had schooool. First Current English (interesting, we're researching the Olympics and stuff), then Gym (volleyball! UBER FUN! :DDD I love volleyball seriously), then English Grammar (boooooring), Japanese history (exhaaaaaausting, something about the different rankings of Buddha statues or something and then the teacher started going on about some woman he met in Kyoto...), LUNCH (best class of the day, played volleyball with a bunch of people in the gym), then two hours of FREE PERIODS because the Spanish teacher wasn't here today. So that was a really fun afternoon. Then I saw Laurent, and we threw a frisbee around at the Hamamatsu Castle Park. So that was really fun.
And then I ran into some kendo friends, that was fun and interesting.
Then I came home. And ate.
And listend to a CD a friend at school (Sai-kun) lent me... but actually did that before eating.
And Then I also started packing for when my family comes and we go sightseeing together...
Tomorrow I have Rotaryy meeting ugghhhh boring and then I'm going hanging out downtown with two former classmates, Taka and Ikean after school :).
Oh yay but I have calligraphy class with Saka-chan, yay... and Rotary means i don't have to go to Japanese history class, which is seriously the bane of my existence, because I feel like I should pay attention cuz it's like a cultural experienec blah blah, but it's so difficult and I just sit there staring at the clock ahah.
I get to ride a bullet train on Friday, so excited, I've been on like 23432 bullet trains but I can never get tired of it haha.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

久しぶり

Note-- I was actually supposed to publish this yesterday, but I had a problem with the computer, so I'm publishing it now. So it's all a day old haha.


Okay, I haven't done this in literally a month. So what's been going on? Basically everything.
Last week was the Hamamatsu Festival; that was really amazing. In the morning, I went to go see the kites; and at night I joined the parades and stuff downtown and then later on in my neighborhood.
I'm at school now, waiting for Shaki, then we're gonna go downtown to meet Laurent (who's back in Japan, btw), and then later Fuyu and Sakiko Maria, and we're gonna have dinner together, or play frisbee at the castle, or I don'T know what.
Today we had earthquake information session at school.
During English class, we had to do these exercises summarizing long paragraphs and I felt so depressed because my English sounded so stupid and there are so many things I forget how to say and/or do.
We had Jpaanese history class today; the only thing I got out of that was about some guy who had four images of the Buddha on his head and then he zapped away arrows with them. Oh, Japan...
Last weekend, my host family and I went to seriously the nicest hotel in the world's Italian restaurant. Haha it was so much fun! I met the chef, from Italy, and he speak Italian, Japanese, Spanish, French, and English, all fluently. I was so jealous. Even though he could speak English, for some reason I was inspired to speak to him in French, and so we were speaking in French for a while, and he had a really Italian accent haha.
So school is really fun, actually really really fun. Classes are so boring, like anywhere else, but it's just fun begin here with everyone. It's so relaxed compared to my American school; I'm so glad I got placed at this school, it's famous for being the least strict school in basically the country.
My school's festival is coming up soon (Jun 7, 8), and so we made a video as part of our class exhibition about stress, we made it yesterday, and it was really fun!
Ugh I'm serious I don't speak anything at all right now... I'm going to have to attend like ESL classes in the usa, I'm serious. Or at least brush on New Jersey mannerisms and things like that, cuz theyve all gone down the drain haha.
And my mother, brother, and sister are coming to Japan this Friday, for three weeks. That should be interesting...
O I'm really hungry. I really want to eat ramen. I'm really bored. Why is Shaki's school so far from mine?
Blha blah blah blah blah.