Weekend fun!

This past weekend was a good one! Quite eventful! Saturday was the sports festival but I didn't go... I decided that I needed to study! Keigo is a pain in the butt! why Japan would make up more polite verbs to go with their already polite society is beyond me! I had to learn I had to learn a more polite way to talk to people like teachers or old people. I figured that I might need some extra practice. When I was tired of doing that my friend Heather asked me to go shopping, which turned out to be us going to Namba for food and drinks. Namba is a cool place. I found Japanese hippies there... Not a big fan of hippies but they were all holding free hug signs, so I hugged them all. And when we came back around I hugged them again! At first there were only four of us but I called my friend Will who met up with later and he brought a friend too. So the six of us, only one was Japanese, joked and laughed and had ourselves an amazing time. And even though I had to get up early the next morning I didn't get back until 1 in the morning.
Sunday I went to Eiga Mura! Yasu, Shouhei, Justin and I went. Eiga Mura is located in Kyoto, and it is a place where a lot of samurai or old time movies were made. We got to walk into houses where movies were made and we even got to see prop set ups. I'm pretty sure I saw a famous actor but I couldn't tell too many people were in front of me. But Yasu said he was famous. They were filming a movie that day so I got to see about 30 seconds of the movie. It was only of a guy screaming for someone, but whatever I saw it. We got to watch a "Samurai" fight, which was really cool. After the demonstration they picked 3 people from the crowd to show a move to and I was one of them!!!!! I was a little nervous because I didn't think they would actually pick me but they did! It was me an old Japanese guy and another foreigner that was really tall and a little too excited. The guys talked a little fast but I got the gist of what they were saying. We got to do a little fight with one of the Samurai guys. We blocked the first attack and then do a little kind of dance-throw-him-back-thing and then the next time he attacks you, you cut his stomach and then he dies. When I went up the guy asked my name and where I was from. "America" and he jokingly said me too! He then asked me "suki na taippu?" (what's your type?) I wasn't expecting him to say something like that so I was a little confused. but I pointed and said that the guy in green was cool and then that caused an argument between 2 of the guys. Didn't really matter anyways! The guy in green was the one that I had to kill! And I did! It was awesome! After that we got a group photo with the samurai and walked around a bit. There some cosplayers there and Shouhei was excited because there were people dressed like storm troopers and one guy that dressed up as the emperor. What they were doing in an old Japanese looking village is beyond me. We also watched a 3D video there too, which was a little dumb but amusing at the same time. After we walked around a little bit more we made our way to the ghost house! I was with 3 boys and while we were going through the haunted house tell me why they screamed more than me and were pushing me to go in the front!?! G Z Whiz guys! It was a lot of fun! Afterwards we ate and then made our way back.
It has been rainy here the past couple of days which makes me sad because it's cold out... It's shame. I miss the hot weather. But I think there was an earthquake this morning... It was very small and not strong at all but I felt the building move a few times... It scared me a bit at first but it wasn't really anything to be worried about. No alarm went off so I'm going to take that as a good thing. I hope this weekend is sunny! Stupid rain! ><