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Sorry it has taken me so long to write in my blog again! I have been a little busy! I did end up going shopping last weekend! I got an awesome shirt that is has English on it but makes almost no sense! I cannot wait to wear it! "Girl loves the heart. Feature of girls heart. You should be so lucky! Waiting for you. Take delight in your heart in 1987. I give you some love... It is nostalgic. Finding shining heart." It makes no sense at all! I'm pretty excited! It's long sleeved though so I want to wait until it gets colder out. I also got that baby mickey that I wanted! It is the epitome of cute! After shopping i went to Karaoke with some of the other people in my seminar house. The karaoke place was pretty awesome! We got a pretty big room and all you could drink! I sang like 3 songs with the Japanese girls that met us there! They were pretty excited that I knew some pretty awesome Japanese songs!
The rest of the week was just class and frisbee and hanging out with Tiki and Justin. On Wednesday I went to block Shouhei from catching the frisbee and we both jumped up into each other except I jumped into his back and I fell on my back and got the wind knocked out of me. It was worth it because he didn't catch the frisbee so the other team didn't score! Yay me! But I think it might have jarred my neck a bit because it hurts to move it. I played frisbee a lot this week because the weather has been so gorgeous! It's still nice and warm out and I couldn't be happier about it! I am in no hurry for the cold to start making its way over!
Today I am going to meet Jessica at the train station!!!!!!!!! I thought that I was gonna have to go by myself but luckily, because it's a 3 day weekend, my friend Yasu is going to the same train station so he can go home to Kyushuu. If not then I would have to get off one train and make my way to the subway and get on the subway to where ever Jess is! I had directions but I'm glad that I have someone with me that actually knows where he's going. And then from the train station Kae is going to pick us up after he class! This weekend is going to rock! I haven't seen Kae since I want to Kyoto with her and I haven't seen Jess since August the 16th! That is like a life time! Well Jess hasn't seen Kae since the end of May so I guess that is longer... Anyways I am really looking forward to this 3 day weekend! I have midterms in 2 weeks and I am not too thrilled about that...

Days Go By

The past couple of days haven't been too eventful. I have mostly just been going to school like a good girl. I did finally get my Gaijin (foreigner) card! So no I am a legal Gaijin! YAY! I played frisbee the past 3 days in a row. And I am not sure, but I think I pulled a muscle in my foot? Maybe? The outside of my foot hurts when I walk but not when I ride my bike. And because I am walking differently from that pulled muscle, I pulled a different muscle in my leg... Awesome, right? I still somehow manage to ignore it and play frisbee. Yesterday this one dude and I jumped for the frisbee at the same time and he landed on my foot (the one that hurts) and my toe ring cut into my toe. So that started to bleed. It was pretty awesome! It didn't hurt but it sure did bleed a lot. I was carried to a faucet and I washed it off and put a band aid on it and continued to play. All is good! That night (Friday) I was supposed to go to karaoke but like last weekend plans changed!!!!!!! >< But it's whatever because next week Jessica is coming down and we are going to party, dance, and sing all weekend!!!! YAY!!!!! Well anyways that night Justin and I hung out at Tiki's place and we watched movies. We watched the sequel to a movie we watched earlier in the week and another movie with Shibasaki Kou in it! They both had horribly depressing endings and I was tired and whined and cried about how Japan hates happy endings. It's ok though because I'm going shopping today and everyone (or maybe every female) knows the healing power of shopping. I have to go buy a new toe ring... my right foot is now naked... and long sleeved clothes, and that baby mickey mouse stuffed animal thing that is THE most adorable thing will ever see in your life! I might need to get a hairdryer too. We'll see!

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! ><

<3 Fun Times

So I have been here almost a month and I am going to have to say that even though I might be a little bit homesick I am in no hurry to come back home anytime soon. I mean I would totally miss all the fun that I have with all my friends AND my roommate! (ha ha) She totally said 5 words to me on Sunday! I vacuumed our room on Sunday and I asked her if she could move her futon. "Sure." I then vacuumed under her desk and she had to move out of my way so I said sorry. "It's ok." And then when I was done she said "Thank you." I think she might be opening up to me!!
Tuesday we did not have class because of the autumn equinox. So on Monday Heather (roomie from orientation week that talked to me), Yasu, Shouhei, Justin, and I hung out and played drunken Mario Karts and walked to 7 eleven. Heather had to leave early because she had to get back to her host family so the four of us made our way to a club that was between Justin's place and the 7 eleven. It was 5 bucks to get in and then you got a ticket to get a drink. I got starbucks liqueur on the rocks and shared it with Yasu, and Shouhei. The bar/dance club was maybe 2 times the size of my dorm room! It was so tiny! But it was cool, we still had fun. We frequently went outside so we could breathe because everyone and their moms were smoking! So we would go outside to breathe. And then we went to 7 eleven again around 1 something for the 3rd time! That night was awesome until This drunk Canadian kid slapped me for no reason and I wanted to smash his face in the ground! The guys I was with didn't see it so they did nothing! And then the kid tried to hug me which made me even more upset! Then Justin stood up and told him to leave me alone. He was a jerk! But the rest of the night was fun. The four of us made plans to go to karaoke. Shouhei and I are going to sing Daite Senorita together! YamaPi!
Tuesday was a little less eventful. I went with Justin to Saty (a mall) to visit Tiki at his first day of work. We both bought jackets which I am going to need soon because the weather is getting a lot cooler during the night... Fall... awesome... Then I returned and did homework! Yay! homework!
Wednesday was a good day. After class I played frisbee for a bit and then Tiki and I went to Justin's house. I told Justin to cook for us and he did so I got free food out of it. He made oma-rice(?), maybe? Well it was some rice dish with ketchup and an omelet with onions on top. It was actually really good! Then we watched a Japanese movie without subtitles. I understood the gist of it. And it was cute and sad... I cried... The parts that we didn't understand Tiki translated. It was a good movie. "Taiyou no uta" "The Sun's Song"
Today (Thursday), the Japanese students started classes. Random right? Thursday? The cafeteria was packed! But it's cool! Tomorrow I'm supposed to have lunch with Yasu and some of his friends who want to meet international students. It's sometimes strange because everyone stares at you here because you're different. Not so much in a bad way because if I smile and wave they blush and smile and wave back. Boy or girl doesn't really matter. But I like to think they stare not so much because I'm different but because I'm cute! ha ha Just kidding, but seriously. I'm really excited to meet new people on top of all of the other people that I have already met!