Wow. Three months already!!!

October 31

Happy Halloween!!! I felt like crying the entire day. No costumes. No trick-or-treating. Not too much candy... a;lksdjfl;kadjsf

At least I got to talk to more people in my class today as a result of me passing around chocolate. I also talked to other people from different classes. Although I don't know any of their names.........

But oh well. At least I got to talk to more people!

November 4

So I went to the Saga Balloon Festa yesterday :) I took tons of pictures and talked to this awesome band called Skunk Shot Booster. They're seriously awesome, and I guess they just kind of recently released their first album. So check them out if you can! There were tons of hot air balloons and that was really awesome too. When they started flying, I was watching the music stuff, and all of a sudden, I turn around and there were like five billion hot air balloons. I was just like "!!!". But yeah it was pretty awesome.

Today, I went back to school... (Yesterday was some holiday so we had no school...) and it was boring, like usual. I talked to this one person in my class that I hadn't talked to a lot before. I also talked to this other person I met about a week ago because I saw him around school during cleaning time. I talked to this one other person from the class next door because he came to talk to one of the guys in my class and while he was standing in the doorway, he started talking to me. I still don't know his name though... Haha. I always feel awkward about asking, because then it'll be like "Yeah. So I've talked to you tons of times now... but I've still never asked you your name. So what is it?". Although I guess it's kind of his fault... since he never properly introduced himself in the first place.

So unfortunately, there's been tons of bad news for my host family in the past few days... Yesterday, my host parents went to the funeral of a close family friend. Today, my entire host family is going to the funeral for one of my host sister's basketball teammates' father's funeral. He passed away at 2 AM this morning because of a hit-and-run. So yeah. It kinda sucks. I'm at home alone tonight while they're at the funeral (or I guess it's not a funeral... it's something else? I don't know what it translates to though.....). My host family keeps telling me to take a shower, but I don't want to take one until they leave. It just seems kinda weird and sort of wrong if I'm taking a shower while they leave to go to a funeral..........

But yeah. So that's kind of what's been going on lately.......

November 5

So today's Wednesday. Yeahhhh!!!!!!!! I mean... there's Hexagon. And Best House. And Red Carpet. Yeah. I'm just talking about TV and all.

I also need to sign up for the SATs... but I have to wait until I call my mom... so yeah..... What should I do?!

November 11

11/11. Yay.

I guess?

Haha. Today's Celeb to Binbo Taro was amazing!!!!!!!

And the other exchange student is leaving on the 14th!!!! Nooooo!!!!!!

Today was the uniform check day. Today I seriously just sat there. It was incredibly boring. And people kept telling me to go up just for laughs. And I was like "Um yeah no thanks?". Because I'm sure if they really wanted to, the teachers could pinpoint everything that I was doing wrong. For instance, me having piercings. And a perm. And my bangs being waaaaaaay too long because they're not cut above my eyebrows.

And so on and so on. 

So I finally have a way to communicate with my counselor back in America, so that made me happy..... My school email doesn't work anymore and I thought that that was the only one that goes through the school systems (since my emails sent from my personal email sometimes didn't go through to my teachers), so I was really worried. But apparently my counselor totally gets my emails fine. So yay!

But what sucks is that I'm getting zero credit from my school here... so I can't get anything back at home. But I'm going to ask my counselor if there's ANYTHING I can do... Like bring home work or something. Because I'm totally listening to my English classes....... Kinda. Sorta. Occasionally. And I'm kinda sorta attending my PE classes as well.... although I end up watching for the most part. Ohhhh. And then my calligraphy class! I totally have many many many papers that show how hard I've been working during that class!!!!!!!!

So I TOTALLY deserve credit for at least THOSE classes, right? Yes exactly.

I don't know... I think that's basically it for updates?

Oh. Other than the fact that I'm finalizing whether or not I'm going to Japan during the spring. And right now, it's looking like yes. Yes I am. :)

November 24

Ok. It's been a waaaaaay long time since I last wrote... but there hasn't been much that's been going on... I'm moving houses in about six days or so... I'm kind of nervous, and I've been packing all my stuff up again. I'm so scared. I have so much stuff that not everything is fitting in my stupid suitcase haha.

In other news, it's freezing. Way freezing. 

It's raining again today... my host family's aunt/cousin is over. And my host sisters are crazy. They want to play badminton outside. I guess it's not raining right now, but still. It's freezing!!!!!

I really don't to, but I don't want to be a party pooper either. a;lsdkjfal;kdsjfl I'll just use my personal statements as an excuse.

Now how am I supposed to explain that exactly to my host sisters... Since they know next to no English, it'd be hard to just say it in English and get them to understand, but it's kind of hard for me to explain what it is in Japanese too... so I don't know. 

I went to karaoke yesterday with my host family. We went from 9 to 12. Yes. At night. It was crazyyyyyyy. And the of course, we get back and everything but then we need to go and take our bathes and such. So I ended up going to sleep at about 1:30 because I had to dry my hair for half an hour using the blow dryer because I didn't really want to catch a cold. Actually, I already have, but... I didn't want to catch even more of a cold? Does that even make sense? ......

Anyways. I hate my personal statements. It's not going well at all....... I keep rewriting everything because it's going so horribly. And then there's no one that I can ask for help because no one at my school has been to an American college before... even my ALT has only been to a Canadian school... I believe. 

Anyways. I think I'll go now.... bye bye.

November 27

At school right now. It's like 10:45. We get out of school at 1:30ish today. Because of testing. Yay!!!!!!

Well, I'm just sitting here bored though because I don't have any tests to take or anything. So it's just reaaaaaally boring right now because I don't really have anything to do but study and such. But I really don't want to study anymore. So I was watching Ryusei no Kizuna up until now, but my math teacher was in the library so I had to stop because obviously, I don't think I should be watching dramas while I'm still at school...............

Mmmmm........... Yesterday, I had reaaaaaally good ramen. Like seriously, it was amazing haha.

And I'm excited for this year's Kohaku. It seems good :)