Seriously guys what is up with the lack of comments. I am starting to think MAYBE YOU LOT HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT ME. You don’t want me to think that… do you?
Okay, so all this week I have had the cold from hell. Actually, I still have the cold from hell. It like feels as though my chest is splitting open every time I cough. And I couldn’t go to school or kyuudo. SERIOUSLY, HOW WIERD IS THIS I ACTUALLY WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL LOL. And obviously I want to go to Kyuudo. I really want to write a blog in Japanese just to show off to you people but my stupid keyboard has issues, and won’t turn into Japanese despite being a Japanese keyboard. It has issues with its race, poor thing.
Okay ow, I just coughed and it really really hurt. WAAAAAH.
So like, despite being in Japan I am developing a love for Korean music. It’s just so, so, soooooo much better than Japanese music. Here’s one that I can’t stop listening to, because it’s so awesome and so sad. It’s wierd this is totally not the kind of music I’d listen to at home. I’ve started really getting into like, hiphop and R&B. Shhh, it’s peer pressure guys seriously. Anyways, this is Haru Haru by Korean boyband Big Bang. It’s quite an old song but it’s still popular over here, haha.
Anyways, because I’ve been ill, I don’t really have much to talk about. I had an awesome time on Senpai’s motorbike, by the way. Motorbikes are so FOR ME. I just loved the feeling off going so fast and the wind in your face and everything. It was pretty awesome. Anyways, I was feeling pretty homesick on Wednesday, sooooooooo I wrote down all the good memories of summer. <3 Enjoy, guys!
discussing Eurotrip with everyone, mooching off Hattie’s discount
going to the zoo with Isla, Stew, Jenny and Euan and never being so hungry before in my life.
EUAN’S MINI-SODA!!!!!
Everyone jumping off the roof at Leuty’s party.
Going over to Stew’s for an intense Brawlover.
Going over to Stew’s for an intense Yugiohver.
GUYS & DOLLS!!! Shh, guys, it was practically summer.
Hattie, Kathryn and I’s shopping splurge after the exam results.
NOT MEETING UP WITH RACHEL ONCE. D8<
visiting Zoe for the first time and Hattie’s flowers in the cancer ward incident.
Cat, Jenny and I hanging out at that awesome cafe after visiting Zoe.
Planning the board game fest haha.
ANIMA PIZZA PLUS GOSSIP GIRL EQUALS <3 <3 <3
The girly sleepover where we read boymags LOL.
Leuty’s awesome half-naked girl playing cards.
Stew and Jenny playing YGO… on my stomach.
Somehow meeting up with everyone randomly in town and spending hours at the bus stop waiting for everyone’s bus…
Binging from Tesco goodies.
Not going to the Fringe at all. WTF????
Jenny’s house party and the LEWIS INCIDENT.
Throwing tennis balls at Jenny’s brother’s window after being locked out… because of me.
LIZZIE FUCKING MCGUIREEEEE
INTERLUDE: why does it feel like all summer was spent at Jenny’s house LOL
Kathryn’s home-made Rocky Road.
GETTING CONTACT LENSES.
My last Hibs game. ;__;
Discussing Eurorail… AGAIN.
JENNY’S FOUR DAY BRAWLOVERRRRR
and playing more Mario Kart than Brawl.
The ‘magic fence’ in Rainbow Road and laughing for like, fifteen minutes straight
“WHAT ABOUT KICK THE CAN!?”
becoming practically nocturnal
trying to get people into Superchick
CHINESE TAKEOUUUUTTTT
pictionary!!!
Yuichi’s hilariously vague drawings.
Euan’s hilariously awful drawings.
The failed game of charades.
JUST HANGING OUT TALKING ENGLISH OH MY GOD
The mini-Tesco. And buying supplies which were esentially coke and muffins
Watching Labyrinth with Isla, Sarah, and Saywood just to fangirl David Bowie.
PERSONA with Jenny, Sarah and Saywood– and my thumb cramping after pressing ‘X’ too much
Everyone looting my room at my leaving party
Hugging everyone gooooodbyeeee
BAWWW I MISS YOU GUYS. And hey, don’t you think there was a lack of alcohol this summer compared with the rest of the year? Or is that just me LOL. Anyways, I hope I can make as many good memories here in Japanland. So that when I get back I can write a list of all the amazing things that happened to me here. <3
Also, also, also. THIS http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/563/cardgames.png IS JUST SO BRILLIANT ON SO MANY LEVELS. SOOOO MANY LEVELS. And I just walked to my nearest vending machine to get my weekly coca-cola fix and I just realised that I live near tonnes of creepy-looking warehouses. Like, reeeaalllyyy creepy looking and old and everything. And I was just like WOAH HOW COME I NEVER NOTICED THIS BEFORE. Waaah, I can see them outside my window they’re gunna haunt me~~~~
OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE OH MY GOD MY HOST BRO JUST GOT A MOTORBIKE
A motorbike. That’s like, a bike with a motor. And he has one. I have never been so jealous and in awe and irritated that he’s not old enough to give me a lift in my life. Kensuke why are you seventeen you bastard. You could have magicaly grown two years. Geez. Not that it really matters because on Sunday my senpai is letting me ride on the back of his bike. Senpai is the most awesome Japanese guy ever, just FYI. We made a promise and everything and he said I can kick him in the nuts if he breaks it.
SOOOOO I have no idea what to write about. Part of me says Camp Tokyo II but first breaking news breaking news breaking news.
HOSNAP. IT’S A ONE PIECE MOVIE (OF WHICH I UNDERSTAND THE LIKE, FOUR WORDS OF THE TRAILER). I should stop being obsessed with One Piece. Instead I should vent my obsessions in relatively normal things like shoes or something. But I’d rather watch a One Piece movie with the crew in mafia garb than have a large collection of heels. WHY WAS I BORN SUCH AN ABNORMAL GIRL? Being in Japan has taught me that being an OP nerd is not a bad thing. Too bad that when I come back to Scotland it automatically becomes uncool again.
So. Camp Tokyo II was a rave. It made me realise just how much I miss being funny and understanding other people being funny. Seruiously. Now, whenever I’m doing something at school I think how much of myself I could be if only I was speaking English. Right now, English defines me as a person– without English, I’m not me. I think that’s the same for everyone and their native language. Being in this country has taught me that language is probably the most important thing in the world. Communication and all that jazz– it’s raised my motivation to master this language… but unfortunately I probably won’t be able to by the twelfth of December which is when the One Piece movie comes out. WHYYYYYY
Shut up about One Piece, you stupid fangirl.
So, to begin the trip I went to my area rep’s house. My area rep, Akone, is awesome– and I had my first sleepover here with fellow exchangers Melissa the Mexican and Nicole the Australian. Why are there so many Australians here? SERIOUSLY. And everyone keeps asking if I’m Australian and I think it’s because all the Ozzies come to Japan. I miss British people. We are so not the same as the rest of the western world. >:[ Anyways, talking English for three days was amazing and the first night it was such a novelty that we sat up all night and talked haha. Though, both of them have fellow exchangers in their school where as I am all aloooone. I’m the first exchange student Kashima highschool has had for ten years. THE PRESSURE, GUYS. I’m not even a very good one. So, we had to get up at six to catch that damn plane and I nearly made us miss it by forgetting my contact lenses at Akone’s house haha OOPS. That was the start of me being the biggest idiot for the entire trip. People told me it was ‘charming’ and ‘part of my personality’. UH YEAH KAY THANKS GUYS. We actually ended up having to spend four hours in the airport at Tokyo which was ridiculous because we could have spent that time shopping at Harajuku (we had the choice to go to either Akihabara or Harajuku but what is nerdiness compared to SHOPPING HELL YESSSS). At Harajuku I met up with Bec and Poppy again (not Ada because she’s a cheap loser) and it was soooo awesome seeing them again, haha. So we all took purikura (little photo sticker things), joined by a german girl called Alessa who I briefly talked to at the first orientation. There was also a new Brazilian chick called Mariana who lives with Isato. So jealous! They’re both lovely people so they must have soooo much fun every day. ;~; No fair no fair. But what am I saying my host family is awesoome~.So anyways, at Harajuku me and Nicole had like, five minutes left basically and we were stressing because we were in Harajuku and WE STILL HADN’T BOUGHT ANYTHING, WHAT THE ONCE IN A LIFETIME CHANCE. So we both impulsed and I bought a really awesome really Harajuku-y black skirt and she bought this cute winter jumper thing. <3
A lot of the time on Friday everyone was just like I CAN’T WAIT FOR DISNEYLAND I CAN’T WAIT FOR DISNEYLAND which is understandable because hello it is Disneyland. Disneyland exceeded expectations. I can’t quite explain how much I love the Disneyland atmosphere it’s just so carefree and happy and I totally want to live there. Or work there or something. Everyone decided that I would be Stitch if I was to work at Disneyland haha. Melissa would sooooo be Jane from Tarzan. Anyways, we met up with Nicole’s Australian (AGAIN) friend called Amber who was just so much fun and bubbly and stuff. I remember when we were waiting in the line for the Thunder Mountain ride (you know that one in Western World with the train that goes super fast that I fell asleep on at Florida Disneyworld OTL) and she basically told us everything that’s happened to her on this exchange– she’s had six host family changes totally not her own fault and stuff. It’s like woaaah. So many PIEE-ers have horror stories to tell, and I’m kinda glad that I have like, the coolest family ever haha. Family on exchange is so important, I’ve finally learnt. My host ma keeps telling me how much she loves me… which is awkward because we’ve only known each other for like three months haha. Anyways, Disneyland… god it was just so much fun. And it was Halloween special which made it even more awesome. Rachel, if you’re reading this, our Disney roadtrip… it’s happening, okay. Seriously– maybe not everywhere but at least to America or Japan… RAAACHHHEELLLLL. So like, the deja vu I got there was really wierd too. Like when we went on Splash Mountain… all the memories of my childhood came like flooding bac. God, I loved Brer Rabbit haha. AND SITTING NEXT TO MARIANA ON THE RIDES WERE AWESOME BECAUSE SHE COULD TRANSLATE LIKE, EVERYTHING FOR ME. Except she didn’t know what crocodile was in Japanese. It’s wani, just for your information. Spelt in katakana. Mariana, if you ever look at this, aren’t I just so educational??
Anyways, I miss Disneyland. Maybe I can convince my host family to take me again >___> I’M WORKING ON IT
On Sunday we visited Akasuka which is like a very big Japanese temple. It was really, really cool. And Melissa, Mariana and me stayed and watched this little parade with a dragon and geisha and stuff. It was so Japan, and I have a video of it and everything but I have no idea how to upload it to this computer. Not cool. Sunday was also the day when we were all meant to go home. WAAAH YOU GUYS I MISS YOU SO BAD. But apparantly a Japanese proverb is that people always meet twice. I really, really hope that’s true. I’m definitely going to see Melissa and Nicole again seeing as they live relatively near me, and Melissa might be staying at my house for a few days~~~~ yaaay. HEY MELISSA YOU FINALLY GET AN ONII-CHAN. WITH A MOTORBIKE.
My host brother has a motorbike.
Sorry, I just thought I’d mention that again.
Sooo, sorry for the lame review of Camp Tokyo II. It was a loooot better than I made it sound, and if you wanna see photos just check out my facebook, www.facebook.com/dwarf.chorus. Da, if you’re reading this, you’re not allowed on my facebook sorry D8< SOOOO WHAT SHOULD I TYPE ABOUT NEXT. I ALREADY DID MY DAY AND EVERYTHING. DAMN, BUT I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN TO FINALLY UPDATE THIS BLOG (studying japanese does not count stfu).
OH YEAH. I’ll talk about my adventures at the hot air balloon festival! Like always, the Kashima festival boffs were called up for another mission of greatness– to sell hot potatoes at the hot air balloon festival (and masks, but no one cares about the masks because for once I wasn’t working at that stall). Anyways, Tuesday was a national holiday for Japan except not for me because I spent the whole day making potatoes and selling them. But it was fun. I hung with my host cuz Rumi who is like the little sister I never had. I discovered that my school is like the ‘good’ school of Kashima where all the clever people go and that Kensuke’s school is where all the dumb people are. This made me laugh. Sorry Ken. <333 YOU’RE NOT STUPID JUST SPECIAL. Speaking of Ken, he actually never goes to school. He’s such a freaking lazy delinquent. But it’s cool. My fam says that I can skive school whenever I want… dude, this is the best family ever. I’M ALLOWED TO SKIVE SCHOOL. Not that I’m going to because unlike my Japanese siblings I find school extremely enjoyable. Mainly because I have kyuudo. Kyuudo. I’m still not over kyuudo. It is the best thing about Japan except One Piece Eiichiro Oda ditch your wife and marry me please of course I’d say yes.
Anyways, the balloon festival was really cool. The funny thing about Japan is that it feels almost video-gamish at times. Because music changes constantly. Like, I’ll walk into a convenience store and there will be this sort of bouncy music and then I’ll go back to the festival and it will be a different wordless music that sounds like a freaking midi and I’ll just randomly walk down the street and ANOTHER TYPE OF MUSIC WILL PLAY. I’m waiting for someone to come along with their own background music. Anyways, the hot air balloons were awesome– I could sit and watch them for ages. There was an elephant shaped one, a Doraemon shaped one and A PIRATE SHAPED ONE. Dude, how cool. Then at night there was fireworks and the balloons put on a show– they would like, time their flames so that the balloon would light up and it was like a huge helium disco and my host grandparents let me skip work to watch for a while (I also watched some awesome motorbike stunts and played with a puppy bawww).
By the way, I was also working on Halloween. Halloween was such a disappointment– I freaking love that holiday and Japan doesn’t even celebrate it properly. I had my own mini Halloween party with a lot of Calpis water at midnight watching Umineko. Which was really scary at night. OOOOOHH, KIKI STOP BEING SUCH A NERDDD. Being a geek is wonderful and people should try it more often instead of condemning it to the bottomless pits of social outcastery~
Today I think I turned a little bit Japanese. Like, I actually folded the toilet paper. I folded the toilet paper. Into a little triangle. What is happening to me.
Despite this, I am still constantly called a yankee. It’s not my fault my classmates don’t have guts and I do. D8< YANKEE JANAII YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It’s wani, just for your information. Spelt in katakana. Mariana, if you ever look at this, aren’t I just so educational??
