4 posts tagged “saga”

September 24

So I didn't get to watch Wanted the other day... but I did watch that Pako movie... there was this one part where I wasn't sure if I was supposed to laugh or cry. It was REALLY fun but REALLY sad and I really liked it... it's too bad I can't buy it because even if I do, I can't watch it back in the States. Unfortunately. I also didn't go to karaoke (good... my throat kind of hurt...), but I took more purikura with my host sisters.

I've also totally decided I'm watching the Kamen Rider movie. It's going to be hilarious. I'm going with the other exchange student, so it'll be a lot of fun :)

The other movies I'm watching while I'm over here: the Galileo movie, Homeless Chuugakusei, and I'm thinking of that Handsome Suits movie or whatever. But that last one is still a maybe.

I have to present my thing for health class tomorrow.... the homework that my health teacher gave only me. I've decided to do all of it in English, and if the teacher gets mad at me or whatever, I have a few arguments thought out or whatever. I mean seriously. I can't translate it! It's too hard..... so if he asks me why I didn't or whatever, I'll just tell him that. And that these are words I don't understand in English, so how am I supposed to know how to say it in Japanese. And that these hard words are OBVIOUSLY not in my dictionary and is he telling me to buy a new one or something and so on and so on and so on.

Gah! I found out that the other exchange student is joining the swim team so she's not going to be at ESS with me anymore D: I'm going to have no one to talk to!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow, I'm apparently helping out with a different Oral Communication class. Which will be............ fun? Well it's for another first year class, so I'm not sure.......

Speaking of first year classes... I passed by 6-kumi today and this random guy said hi to me again. And then when I returned his hi, I could hear a "Yossha!" behind me. And I was like "WTF?". That's also apparently the class that I have to help for tomorrow so... it'll be interesting.

I also have to study for the kanji test in two days. My Japanese teacher FINALLY told me that I was going to have to study for it..... today. Yeah. Thanks! I'd probably be able to do it if I had a WEEK. Two days? Yeah right.

Anyways. 2nd host family situation hasn't gotten any better, so that's just added stress. And I have two days (three?) to go before I reach my one month mark. It seems like I've been here soooooooooo much longer than that already...........

September 30

So I'm typing this at school right now...it's been almost a week since I last wrote. I haven't really had anything to say... nothing's changed, I haven't done much, etc. But today, I finally kind of have something that's worth writing about?

Well anyways. There's another typhoon on it's way. But I guess they're not sure if it's going to hit Kyushu or not. It's been raining a lot here in Saga, but that's been about it for now. It's cold... but not windy at all. Oh, and it kind of sucks that I'm still stuck in summer uniform because I haven't quite gotten my hands on the autumn/winter uniform quite yet. I'm supposed to get it by tomorrow for SURE though. And good, because I'm pretty sure I'm going to catch a cold at this rate...

I'm excited for tonight because tonight at 7, there's the Hexagon II SP, and Shuchishin is going to be performing their newest song :D

I wonder if I can sit through 3 hours of a quiz show though.... I never understand what's going on haha.

Anyways. Tomorrow is the beginning of October, which means that I really have to find my next host family soon. I'm really starting to get worried and I'm wondering if I'm not going to be able to find one.

I've been told that guys are all right too (as long as my parents in America say it's ok) and truthfully, I don't care if it's a guy or whatever. I'm just seriously wanting a person to say that they can become my next host family, because I really don't want to end up having to stay at a teacher's house or something like that.

I mean... I have to spend Christmas and New Year's with a TEACHER? ...Yeah. No thanks?

So anyways, I've been going around to a few other classrooms (mostly 1st years) and introducing myself, and then the teacher goes on to explain that I'm looking for my 2nd host family. 

Today's introduction was absolutely hilarious! I went into 1-4 and everything...... and then there's the question time. Of course, everyone's talking a lot during the time that I'm showing pictures, but when it's time for questions, no one talks! I swear... that's really annoying. So I'm trying to be helpful, so I'm like "No seriously though. You guys can ask me anything. In all the other classes, I've been asked if like... I have a boyfriend or what's my type or whether or whatever, so I really don't care..." And then this one guy (that I sorta know) was like, "What's the answer to that?!"

And I'm like "About whether or not I have a boyfriend?" *nods* "I don't have one." "Ohhhhh!"

I swear. The guys over here... Aren't they supposed to be SHY?

And then, there was this other question. This one guy said, "Well, Iinchou had this question... out of all the guys in this class, which one is your type? Face-wise?"

It was soooooooooo funny.

For their sakes, I thought seriously about it too. And I chose the guy who was sitting in seat number 9. And then I explained that I look at eyes and their smile. And then went on to say that I like tall, smart, and funny people. And then when I said, "And then... I'd like them to be older." all the guys were like "Oh....."

................ that was kind of weird, to tell the truth. 

But yeah. It was a kind of fun time... but I don't know if I want any of the girls to be my host family. They either talk too much or not enough and so it was either like... too annoying or too....... or well... not fun enough? Idk. Anyways, out of the few questions that were asked, the guys asked the most.

I may be going in to do a self-intro to 1-3 today as well, but my homeroom teacher (also the English teacher) doesn't know if she can use the communication room anytime else today.

I'm introducing myself to 1-7 on Thursday..........

I'm going to Fukuoka from Friday until Saturday. And Saturday is the Galileo drama SP!!!!! So I really want to watch the movie on Sunday...... but I don't know if I can find anyone to go with me. The other movie I want to watch is Ikigami.

Well I should probably get back to studying for my US subject SAT............... Ugh.

October 2

Ok so I'm in class again... I'm waiting to be able to introduce myself to the class that's sitting in front of me right now. Right now, the ALT teacher's being introduced so I'm currently just waiting and all but whatever............. Anyways. This class is just like all the others. They're kind of quite loud........ And it's awkward because people keep staring at me and yeah.

I still haven't gotten quite used to that and all. I've been studying kind of like non-stop the past few days.... for the SAT subject test in two days. I'm so incredibly nervous for all of this stuff. College applications and SATs and my host family not yet being decided. But this one girl from ESS offered to ask her parents for me. So that would be nice if she could actually host me. And plus she's a nice person so it'd be nice to stay at her house for Christmas and New Year's as well.

I can't really think of anything else that's happened the past few days. I don't really think that anything worth reporting has happened actually...

Oh. Other than the fact that there's another kanji test that's coming up so I have to study for that as well. 

Hm.... so I'm in front of a different class now... 1-7 now. Last period of the day... yes!!!!! I'm so excited... but then I still have club activities to get to and everything like that so I'm not exactly looking forwards to that...

You know, I haven't really been asked the question that I've been waiting for. I keep waiting for someone to ask me whether or not I know any celebrities, since I live in California and all. Anytime I go out of state and I mention that I'm from California, I get asked that question but I still have yet to be asked that question and all.

So I'm kind of surprised that that question hasn't been asked yet. And that I'm just getting questions about my type and whether I have a boyfriend or not and if I speak Kansai-ben or not. 

October 3

So tomorrow is finally the SAT test... I'm not exactly looking forwards to it. I've been studying like crazy for the history subject test, but I don't feel ready for it at all. And then on top of that, I'm also worried about whether or not I'll even be able to get on the train at all today.

I'm leaving school early today by the way... just to make sure I make it on time to the train station... and so that I have extra time in case I need to ask questions. Which I'm sure I will have to ask........

I'm going to have to find somewhere to use the internet, because I'm actually not sure where I'm supposed to be going once I get to the station. 

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I'm sitting in the library right now and I can see my math teacher just randomly wandering around in the room next door. I'm not exactly sure what room that is... but I also see my history teacher now........

I also see a Japanese version of the Guiness Book of World Records. Wow. Class just started now... I thought it had already started and everything.

But oh well.....

Oh! About my host family situation... so that one girl in ESS still has yet to ask her parents but she said that she'll get back to me with an answer later today. So I'm really extremely happy about that situation. She really is very nice and everything so I'm really hoping that she'll be able to host me. 

I have no idea what to do for the next few class periods. I think I'm just going to stay in here and study. After I'm done studying for the SAT subject tests, I think I'll just study for the Japanese Language Proficiency test or something like that.

And now there's some random teacher and a third year guy walking around and I'm kind of confused as to why he's here. I think he's going to be taking a test or something like that.

Ok. So I'm about to get on the train soon... or... semi-soon. I'm leaving in like 20 minutes. But I'm so nervous!!! I'm like wondering if I'll miss my train or if I'm even at the right place or whatever because I've never gotten on a train by myself. Even before, my advisor actually got on the train with me and asked the conductor person to tell me when to get off hahaha. I felt like a little kid, but whatever.

Anyways. I'm nervous!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I can't read any of the kanji so I have to rely on my listening skills.

And I just realized that it takes like 40 minutes to get there and that I have nothing to do.........

Maybe I should ask the people next to me what the kanji in front of e says. I really can't read it and it's starting to become a problem for me. 

I've been sitting here for abut fifteen minutes and I've been staring at the same exact kanji the entire time and I still can't figure it out!!!!

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Oh. But the view from the place that I'm sitting at? Yeah... I'm looking out and I'm like "Yeah. This doesn't look like the countryside."

I mean... there's apartments ALL over the place and stores and just... buildings. Businesses and hotels and apartments and they're all REALLY tall and everything. So I'm kind of just like...... even if they call Saga countryside, it's not the countryside that I imagined it to be.

But yeah it's a lot of fun... looking out though. Because there's this like advertisement TV screen thing for a pachinko place across the way. And even though it keeps playing the same exact thing over and over and over again, it's still fun to look at!

And I just found out today... there's a girl in 1-7 and a girl in 2-5 that are interested in hosting me. Hey! I see a foreigner!!!!! Sorry. 

Anyways. THey're interested in hosting me and that made me wayyyy happy. And relieved that there are some people that can possibly be my next host family. It took away a lot of the stress that I was feeling. And now I can concentrate on college applications and my SATs tomorrow morning.

Which I'm TOTALLY not ready for!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I need pencils, I just realized. Haha.

I wonder if I can ask my advisor for pencils...... probably not...........

October 5

Mm... so yesterday, I came home to Saga just... tired. In the morning, my advisor's husband was able to take me to the school and all. And then I got out and had to walk. To Fukuoka Tower... which is only about 15 minutes away, so it wasn't too bad. Then I wandered around for about an hour... I had lunch by the beach as well... and then I had to get on a 50 minute bus ride to the apartment complex that my advisor lives at. Since it was my first time on a bus, I felt stupid having to ask the lady next to me what I was supposed to do when I got off.

And of course, I was afraid I'd miss something so I turned my iPod off so that I could hear everything going on around me.

From the bus stop, I walked for about 10 minutes to get there... and then when I actually got inside... there were, of course, the kids.

I love her kids. They're really funny and sweet and cute. But when you've been up early and you had to take a test the first thing in the morning and you're extremely tired because you've been traveling nonstop for the past hour or so... yeah. They just sound noisy and annoying.

But we watched Ratatouille in Japanese. In their home theater on their floor... it was really cool. And then I showed pictures to her friend/kids and we went to go to Hakata Station so I could go home.

Since my friend who's stationed in Fukuoka was with us, I wanted to have dinner with her and we got okays from our host families. It took us a while to find some place to eat, so again, that meant walking. And to get to Hakata Station in the first place, we had to take two different buses.

And then there's that 40 minute train ride home. And I had to stay awake because I KNOW I would totally sleep through my stop.

When I got home, there was a 20 minute ride home and then I had to take a bath... and then I went up to my room to lay down and watch TV (Galileo SP). 

And then today, I got up and found it was raining (again) and I was totally bummed out because I had plans with the other exchange student today.

I ended up walking since I didn't want to take my bike because then I would get wet... since it's illegal for you to ride a bike with your umbrella open and I just didn't want to even RISK getting caught.

Of course, I could've played the "Oh I'm sorry... I didn't know... I'm American" thing.

But anyways. The place we were planning on meeting at is half an hour away from my house.... which isn't bad......

Anyways. I got there, we ate lunch, and then went to go watch a movie. The newest Kamen Rider movie, to be exact. :D (What? It has Sato Takeru in it!)

I've decided I'm watching the Kamen Rider series when I can... maybe I can rent DVDs or something while I'm over here. It's not like I have anything to do over the weekend.......

But yeah. I really liked it!

But yeah..... I bought a few things--including a cake!--and then I walked back home.

So I'm a bit tired today as well........ I should probably get ready for school tomorrow but I just don't feel like it....

My next kanji test is in five days so I should probably study for that as well but I don't feel like that either. And I should cut my bangs at least a little because the uniform check is on the same day, although I technically don't have to go to it. (But none of the teachers have told me that yet... the other exchange student did so I should probably go to the first one.)

I took more purikura today by the way (obviously, we had to :D).

October 6

Mm... today was pretty boring. I talked a little bit to my history teacher... he asked me if my second host family has been decided yet. Which is has been. And then he was asking me questions about my laptop. Which I answered.

And then I'm now at the McDonalds nearby my house... and I'm having a McFlurry.

Mm... what else happened today... well I was just talking a lot with the other exchange student. I had my calligraphy class again and it was hell. Once again. It's really hard doing it as a lefty!

Uhhhhhhh. I had my other class with the 2nd years today as well (business english) but I just basically sat there and did nothing but occasionally help. I feel bad now though because the teacher was really running all around and helping all these people and I was just sitting there writing stuff on my laptop.

Otherwise, I was just kind of sitting there and barely paying attention. Like always.

Oh wait. 1st years got yelled at again today. My legs still hurt from being forced to sit seiza style.It was really extremely horrible. And the teacher was standing right in front of me and I was like "ugh".

I really don't understand why I have to be there.... lucky other exchange student... got to leave when the third years did.

Oh. The other teachers are SO dumb though! I mean seriously they're telling the girls to stop ironing their hair or blow-drying their hair as well because it's going to turn their hair brown and all. And I thought that was SO dumb! I mean seriously? It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.

I was seriously about to start cracking up right then and there because it was just so ridiculous. I think I was actually kind of smiling a bit, but I was trying to not because, like I mentioned before, the teachers were standing right in front of me.

i don't think that would have been the best sort of impression to give these people...

September 19

Mm... the past few days..........

Eh. I don't know. I'm dealing with a lot of different stuff that I don't want to have to deal with. But I'm kind of getting over it... Whatever... Anyways. I've been asked to help with all three of my English classes all the time....

But whatever. It's kind of fun... sometimes.

On Sunday, I'm going to Jusco with the other exchange student. So that'll be definitely be fun! :D

Uhhh what else. Oh. My 2nd host family problems. They still haven't found me one so I've been asking around... but no luck so far.

There's been one person who's interested... but he's a guy. And his mom is against it or something. So who knows what'll happen with that.......

Anyways. I don't really have MUCH to say... other than the fact that the guy in my business english class had the most amazing socks on the other day...

Oh. And I'm going to Fukuoka in a few weeks. So that'll be fun too...

September 20

What I did today... I woke up kind of late, then I sat around the house until about 3:15, when I left to go meet my friend at school so we could go to Youme. He wanted me to tutor him in English because there's like an English proficiency test-like thing tomorrow. So yeah. I got there at four-ish.

And then I helped him for about an hour... and then he was just like "Mm... let's go walk around now."

So we did. I bought books! Yay!!!! I bought Kamiji's book... and Tsuruno's as well haha. And then I bought the Mediator in Japanese (for practice) and Takeru Sato's photo book. Yayyyyyyyyyyy.

He was looking around for a present to buy his girlfriend. How sweet is that? He actually starts looking a month before her birthday! Haha.

I also got ice cream. Again. Green tea and azuki. As in one scoop of each flavor haha. Not like... put together. It was so funny though. When I got it, the lady asked me if that was all and if there was anything else, and kept looking at my friend intently. And I'm like "No... this is it." And she's like still staring as she hands the guy at the register my ice cream.

Seriously. It was hilarious.

The Twilight series (Japanese version) was funny to look at. It's broken up into tons of smaller books, for one... like, they have 9 out right now. And then they have pictures in the book. James looked terrifying!

Tomorrow, I'm going to Jusco with the other exchange student. So I'm doing some serious shopping tomorrow :)

September 21

Oh God. Today, I took puricura and went to karaoke. Seriously, am I even me anymore?! Haha. Anyways. I had SO much fun today.

I bought barely anything... ish....... but then there was all that puricura. Is that even how you spell it? Probably not... whatever.

Anyways. That was a LOT of fun. Me and the other exchange student took sooooo many. And then we went to karaoke with two other people. I was told when I was a kid that I wasn't very good at singing, so I haven't really ever sang in front of other people since then, unless it was with a large group of people. But so I was singing a song with this other person, but she didn't know the words very well so it was just me singing at one point and she's like "Kanna-chan... you're good!". And I'm like "...really?"

But yeah. It was fun. Lots of fun. I guess I'm maybe going again on Tuesday with my host family, since there's no school and both the parents don't have work and so on and so on. So we'll watch Wanted, then go to Jusco and take puricura or something... and then go to karaoke. Which'll be lots and lots of fun :)

Ooh... the other thing... I was running really fast up the stairs because I had to grab something and I was semi-late to meet my friend.. and I tripped. And Japanese stairs are STEEP and have REALLY SHARP EDGES!!! My host parents heard me trip, but I acted like I was fine so they wouldn't worry. I checked later... my right leg isn't so bad, but my left leg was already swelling up. And I finally was able to check again and HOLY CRAP it swelled a LOT. It hasn't started to bruise yet, but it is DEFINITELY going to bruise tomorrow.

And today, it rained a LOT. This morning, at least... after a while it stopped raining. Haha. But when I woke up there was lightning and everything...

:) Well tomorrow's school again... I'm thirsty and I want to check my email. Really, really bad. a;slkjdf;alkdjf;alksjdf;kajdf;lkjaslkf

Maybe I'll risk letting my host family see my leg and go downstairs...

September 22

Today... back to SCHOOL. No school tomorrow though :) But classes today were BORING. Yet again.

I kind of reaaaaally hate going to school... but I guess that'll never change, no matter what country I go to.........

I ended up going to karaoke again today after school. I was just kind of talking about how I went yesterday during lunch... and then one of my friends was like "Let's go!!!". So we went.

It was so worth it :)

I'm definitely watching Wanted tomorrow, but I don't think I'm doing anything else with my host family... Too bad. I was shooting for karaoke three days in a row :D

Maybe I can take purikura tomorrow though.......

Hm. Still haven't found my 2nd host family, I'm planning on telling the guy who's interested thanks, but you can quit trying to convince your family now. I'm causing too much trouble for everyone on this one case... so I'm planning on just leaving it up to the company now............

I should really probably start studying for my SAT subject tests..... Why am I so lazy?

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Anyways. I'm just going to go now.... I want to take a shower. :)

September 8

So today, I went to go watch Hancock... in Japanese. It was pretty amazing. I understood almost everything :D Hahahaha instead of "asshole" they say "kuzu" (trash). I thought that was an interesting way of translating that particular part...

Japanese movie theaters, apparently, have you buy the tickets... but for particular seats. So... you can choose which seat you sit at. I thought that was pretty interesting... The only time I know that we can do that in California is if we're going to the theater or something, right? I'm not a hundred percent sure... but that's what I think.

Other than that, my host sister and I went shopping again... well... at least I went shopping again. I ended up buying like... zero clothes. I was looking for good shoes for a few hours, but I couldn't find any in my size. Apparently I have big feet for a Japanese person hahaha. Some person asked me what shoe size I was, but I only told them that I knew my size for the US and then they gave me an amazed look and asked me a bunch of questions.

I explained to her a million times that I'm studying abroad right now and that I was born and raised in the US and that I've never lived in Japan before so it's not like I'm coming "home" but she kept asking the same exact questions over and over again so I just eventually smiled and nodded. She's extremely young too...

So anyways, all I ended up buying were little gifts for friends. They're hilarious. They're pillows... Bread pillows. With faces. :D And then I bought myself a chair. It's tofu... apparently. And it has a face too... And then I bought keychains... pudding themed. And yes, these have faces too...

I'm sorry it's absolutely adorable though.

Mmmmmmmmm so Monster Parent and Shibatora finales are on tomorrow... I believe... and real school starts tomorrow as well. It should be an interesting day tomorrow :)

September 9

So I'm kind of writing this during class right now... my teacher already told me beforehand that I wouldn't have to participate because it would be too hard for me to keep up with... Apparently it's a computer class. But it seems much harder than any of the computer classes I've taken in the US...

They just had their test right now and they're going over the answers and I'm listening to what they're saying, but it seems amazingly hard. Just... goes into a whole lot of detail and everything.

Oh, before this, we had to go to some thing for the first years again... something about the future or whatever. Yes, the PE teacher that I already don't like was there... We seriously spent like 5 minutes sitting down, standing up, bowing, saying our greetings... because he wasn't satisfied. He spent another few minutes yelling at another student, and then later, when we were passing out papers, he smacked some guy in the head.

Yeah... I don't like him very much. I'm really glad I only have to see him twice a week.

But the thing is... today's meeting really has nothing to do with me. It's not like I'm going to a Japanese university or anything... and I'm a third year (here) not a first year, so it's kind of... pointless for me to be there. So I was kind of getting yelled at for absolutely nothing. So, in other words, I really didn't like that.

I'm supposed to be studying my Japanese right now. I don't feel like it. Kanji is horrible. Hm. What else do I have today... I think like... economics, English, Japanese, and math for sure... there's one class I'm missing.... oh no wait. That's the  class I'm in now haha. 

Let me just say... I think that Japanese textbooks are incredibly skinny. 

And I guess we're switching seats sometime.... Next class starts in about 10 minutes...... so I should go. I'm going to have to put my laptop away.

Oh. And I'm starting to get worried that my English is getting weird. Not written... spoken. I haven't spoken in English for a while now.... Gah! Haha.

September 11

So I just realized that I've still been writing that it's August. When it's not. It's September. Oops. So I went back and fixed it now, but.... Anyways. Finally met my PE teacher today... I ended up not having him yesterday for PE... scheduling mistake. But I ended up having him for health today and then PE tomorrow... But yeah. Two times is too much. Luckily, on both those days, I have something to look forwards to. On Thursdays, my history teacher. On Fridays my class with the 2nd years. Both are FUN. My history teacher didn't know who I was so he comes into class, points at me, and is like, "Who are you?"

And I'm like "The new exchange student..."

And he's like "What?! I didn't hear about this!"

It was soooooo funny. He's hilarious too. And he's been to like 30 countries, apparently. I really liked him. :)

And then... my English class with the 2nd years. That was fun. Really fun. So these two 2nd year girls and then my teacher come to pick me up, and obviously, they're treating me as a first year. And then I mention that I'm 17. They're like "Oh! So we're in the same grade!" And then I said, "No... actually... I'd be a 3rd year. I'm a year older..." They look at each other and they're like "OHMYGOD!" and then they started bowing and apologizing like crazy while kind of laughing nervously.

Jeez. The senpai/kouhai thing... I thought it sounded kind of cool, but I actually don't think that way anymore......

But anyways. Everyone was really fun and nice. There was a Q&A time... and I was asked if I had a boyfriend (no) and what my type was. When I mentioned that I looked (sorta) for pretty eyes... the guy who was sitting in the very front was all, "Do I have pretty eyes?!" and fluttered them jokingly. So I just said yes while laughing. He was really funny. One of his questions was simply, "How are you?" when everyone else was asking me harder questions.

I have that class again tomorrow and I'm really looking forwards to it. :)

But...... not so much to PE. Ok. So the PE teacher... wow. He called one of the guys up and then started poking him with a pointer that the last teacher had accidentally left behind, saying that his shirt buttons and his pants buttons weren't aligned, so he looked sloppy. He ordered these two girls to redo cleaning the blackboard, because it wasn't clean enough... although he didn't use it at all during the class.

And when he saw that I was just sitting there, not doing my work (work pages.... a lot of them...) because 1. I didn't have a textbook, and 2. I couldn't read the kanji anyways... he called me up. Not even by name, he just frowned and sat there and motioned for me to come up.

And then he asked me where my textbook was and why I didn't bring it. So I'm just like "Oh... I... don't have one... I was told to share with someone nearby me." He seriously expects exchange students that are only there for half a year to buy the entire set of textbooks needed for all these classes?! Is he crazy?! So then he's just like, "Oh ok then. Never mind. Just sit there." So I did.

I heard he's worse for PE. ;alskdjf;lakjsd;lfkjak;sjfakl;djf Great. I'm so glad that my PE periods have been cut down from two to one though... I don't think I could stand it...

I think I'm going to talk him into letting me just observe tomorrow... I don't know what to choose and what my host sister is doing seems a bit difficult. Apparently there's swimming, but then I'd have to buy an entirely new swimsuit (apparently, bikinis aren't allowed.....) and that's just bothersome. And... I don't know how to swim properly, so I wouldn't be getting a great grade or anything........ haha. Oh wait. I wouldn't get a grade anyways... but I'd probably get yelled at a lot by my PE teacher. So no thank you......

Mmmmm so I may seriously have to take a kanji test tomorrow. I DON'T WANT TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

Gr. I hate homework... but bookkeeping is kind of fun. :)

September 14

Weekend. Fun :) Well this entire weekend all I've really been doing is going with my host sister to her musical lessons. It's actually been incredible to watch all of them. They're all so young but yet they can still do everything so amazingly. 

My host sister is amazing at dancing... I've noticed. I haven't really heard her sing seriously... I've heard her sing with a whole bunch of other people... and such... but yeah.

Everyone keeps asking me if  sing. Which I don't. So it's been kind of awkward haha. But everyone here is way nice as well... well at least the people that actually take the time to talk to me are... Of course, there are a lot of people, so it's not like I'm expecting to be able to talk to all of them... I've talked to maybe like 15ish people. 

And another thing I've noticed since I've gotten here is that people keep telling me that I have a small face. No one ever said that when I was in America so that kind of confused me.

No school again tomorrow... so I'm way happy. I hate having to sit through the classes... I can't understand anything except for the English classes (I seriously have like 3 different ones... regular English, Oral Communications, and then Business English) and PE. Bookkeeping I'll understand if it's explained to me... and I vaguely remember what we're currently working on in my math class. I think it's like Algebra. But I hate the way the teachers act.......

Oh. PE is going to be FUN. For once. I know. It's amazing. Apparently at Japanese schools, they give you choices for what to do for certain seasons of the year. So the choices for these next few weeks are dance, kendo, and judo. Of course, I chose dance. Because, 1. I would have to pay like $50 for kendo and judo (equipment fees) and 2. Not even joking, my entire class decided on dance. And it seemed the easiest......

Actually though... we apparently have to group up into small groups, and then come up with a dance routine and then present it as a final grade. Do I REALLY have to? I can't get a grade... can I even really get it for credits or anything?

Oh mannn... I hate my Japanese class. I have NO FREAKING CLUE what's going on. Luckily for me (I guess) the teacher is the type that ignores me. So there's no way she'll call on me or anything.....

Gr. I'm way hungry... and it's only like 12:10. 

Ok. So one thing I've definitely realized is the fact that everyone is way majorly flexible. Well... I guess that's obvious. They're in a musical thing. They're going to have to be flexible. And they're also going to have to be able to memorize dance routines quickly. I swear... that should've been way easy to figure out. But I guess that it's amazing to watch anyways. Most are younger than I am. I think there's only like about 5 that are the same age or older. Two I know are older.... but I've only met like three others that were the same age as me... so yeah. Everyone else is younger. And like I mentioned before, there's like 40ish people. 

Sundays are harsh man...... Apparently it starts at like 9 (with individual practice time) and then they moved into voice lessons, dance practice, and then they have a break for lunch. Apparently they're moving into more... I don't even know what practice until about 5 and then after that people can either go home or do what my host sister is doing... continue on to go to tap dance lessons. So I'm here with my host sister until 8 PM.

I know. Crazy.

Ohhhhh. I drank the most amazing drink yesterday. Random, I know. But I don't care. It was amazing. It's Fanta. But not just any regular Fanta. It has jello in it. You shake the can reaaaaaally hard and then when you drink it, it has the drink... and then bits of broken jelly in it. It's sooooooo good. It made me laugh when I drank it haha. My host sister was like "Have you had this before?" and I told her yeah, because I thought it was just regular Fanta.

And then she was like, "Are you sure?" and then explained it to me. And then I was like "Woah."

And it was amazing.

:)

Oh. My host family and I watched Disturbia last night. In Japanese. Yeah. As in... dubbed. Not subbed. They really wanted to watch something. So they ended up getting that... I got my host sister hooked on Rent by the way...

So anyways. Disturbia went on until about midnight. I got up at 7 today... so that was interesting. It's a weekend. I wanted to sleep in... but if I didn't go with my host sister today, I would have nothing to do anyways. Like seriously... nothing. 

My other host sister is at basketball practice and my host parents would be in and out all day. So I'd sit at home all day and do nothing, most likely. I still have a while here, so I figured I'd just come once every few weeks or something. :)

so i'm staying in saga (not my choice at all...) with a family of four. i have two younger sisters!!! never had sisters before... but yeah. they're 15 and 12. oh. and i'm going to a school called saga commercial high school. if anyone has ANY information on this school, can you tell me? i'm really curious... well. ok. i'll admit it. i just want to know what the uniforms are like :)

anyways... i'm SO EXCITED!!!!

even if i wanted to go to kanagawa...

anyone been to saga? i REALLY REALLY wanna know more... i've been reading about it on wikipedia and all, but... yeah.......

anyways. just thought i'd update!

now... i'd better sleep.....

~Kanna-chan