I much rather prefer writing my blogs in the morning. I'm too tired before bed and kinda just rush through them. -sigh- School's ruining that for me haha. Well, I'm not allowed to sleep in. I literally tried yesterday. They woke me up before 10. Sooo not cool. I finally had a small breakfast though! A slice of toast that had two strips of ham and cheese melted to it and a yogurt. That's much more better for my stomach. I was suppose to go to Badminton Club but Kanako [she's in the club] told me Friday not to 'cause it was a tournament. Hey, that was fine with me. I really didn't want to waste my day there anyway. I mean 12 to 4:30? That's a perfect day wasted. Sure, Badminton is fun and stuff but there's other things I could be doing, especially with the family, that's better than that. And I'm glad I didn't go.
To start things off after breakfast I was taken away to see a performance. I brought my camera to take some video but unfortunately I have none :( It was really neat too. There were a bunch of little kids playing the koto. It's a old instrument here in Japan and it has 13 strings and is omega long. I was going to take video but I was only there for like 5 minutes then we left. I didn't realize how short we were staying or else I would have started filming in the beginning. Then we were off and visited a junior high school next. Today happened to be their sports' festival. My school will be having one too but it won't be till sometime next year. [By the way, it was only okaa-san, me, and Tompi through all this] All I saw while I was there were these boys running and somewhere in the running there was like a slip-n-slide thing there. We were there only for like 3 minutes. Not enough time to capture video or pictures. Otoo-san then picked us up [we were walking] and we were then off to Mito City to look at trees. We didn't look at trees, I guess okaa-san just didn't know how to describe it. It was actually like a place were builders would go to by things for their homes. There were vendors advertising their glues, doors, tiles, and such. But this was like a one day thing. It was too hot too. The last song I heard before we left was Perfume's "Love The World". It's fun singing along to the songs you actually know.
Coffee here is pretty amazing and as far as I know it's only drank cold. I got this coffee, not sure what the heck it says, but its name is Blendy. I guess you can say it's a cold cappuccino. I want another right now haha. Our our way home we stopped at that crepe shop again. We visit there so often 'cause okaa-san's friend works there. I tried vanilla ice cream. I think America's is better. There more vanilla flavoring in it. Here, not so much. While there we went to the fish market again. Poor poor fish. There were these snails/slugs [they had shells with them] that were still alive and were squirting water. I wanted to rescue them :( That would have been funny though, the foreigner gabbing the tray of snails and suddenly running of to throw them back in the ocean. It is sometimes cool to be the foreigner here. The best part is is making heads turn when they're in their cars even when driving. That's funny. But sometimes in public places, it can get awkward. Especially the older people. They will stare at you. Even we you look back they'll stare. Then some other people see that you're looking back they'll stop but then look back once you look away. It just makes you self-conscious about how your hair may look or clothes even though that's not the case. You're just tall and different.
I did my shukudai [homework] when I came home. It's really the only homework I can do and that I'm expected to do. Japanese for my lessons every Tuesday. It was easy but writing katakana over and over again is stupid. Tompi was doing her's with me [I finally figured out her real name, it's Tomomi] and she had to write kanji. I actually want to learn kanji sooo badly but it can't be a priority on my list. I need to learn more vocab and work on my speaking. I unfortunately won't be with this family forever :( For supper we didn't have meat. It was like fried pumpkin. It is my new favorite food. Soo amazing~~!! Did you know orange pumpkins don't exist here? Pumpkins here are like green and has bubbles all over it. Well, I don't mean bubbles bubbles, it's just like there's pimples covering it. There we go, better description. Oh, and about the screens, I was over exaggeration. They do exist here it's just if the windows are barred [basically every window is] then they don't have them. After supper we went to a exercise park. Does America even have those? It was a public park where it had a sidewalk that circle the park for like 1 km and on some of the sides it had a training thing for like doing pull ups and crunches and such. I didn't get to walk the full 1 km, not even half. In the beginning when we entered the training thing and Tompi pulled me aside to do these stuff while the rest of the family walked. I am the weakest person. I couldn't do the pull ups or anything. The only think I could have done were sit ups but I was too tall to do them, the seat/laying pad was too small. Then she made me dash from tree to tree against her. I can not runnnn. I did badminton because it doesn't involve much physical exercise! I cheated. I didn't run the full dash, stopping midway then to the other tree. It was fun.
When we were done she decided to to catch up with the family. She ran. I sat waiting for them to circle back around. When they came into view her and Ai were racing to me. I forget who won. Then we were off to Kasumi, it's the grocery store here. Otoo-san drove there while the three off us walked. Walking during the night is the best. I love it. On our way we saw a dead cat on the road :( Kowai sou [poor thing]. And I'm not sure if there's peanut butter here. Like, on our way while waking I tried to ask them that but they didn't understand what I was asking. They didn't understand what peanut butter was [They understood my Japanese]. So then I tried to explained it, that's where me not knowing Japanese kicks in and we're all there trying to get each other to comprehend what we were saying. Ai's there with her cellphone trying to get the English words for me [Japanese cellphones have a Jap-Eng dictionary in them] but even when they understood that you spread it on bread they didn't know what I was talking about. It was the funniest thing. We were all laughing and stuff. The most fun parts with the family is when we are trying to understand each other. It gets so confusing but we never give up until it gets too funny. At Kasumi though I think I found the peanut butter. It looked like it and it even had a picture of it being spread on bread but the color was lighter than America's. I told them I'll just get it shipped here so they can try it. Then we watched Men In Black. It's amazing how many American films are dubbed and showed on TV here. The Terminal [movie with Tom Hanks staring] was playing last night as well. The TV gives you the option of Japanese, English, or both at the same time. We tried to do both before with The Scorpion King but the Japanese overpowers. I watch it in Japanese with them only trying to remember how the movie went haha.
And so was my exciting adventure yesterday. -sigh- I'm seriously not gunna go to Badminton Club often. It's a waste of my time spent here, especially away from the family where it's more FUN. I'll only go like 3 times a week. My school only lets you join one club too. Every student is allowed only one club. I also found out that my school only does it's school festival once every three years. This happens to be its third year, I got super lucky being able to experience this. It's this Friday and Saturday, Wednesday and Thursday we set up. I'll be having video for these days, hopefully while we set up as well. But definitely during the festival I will. And I finally got pictures of Yuzu! Kawaii [cute]!!
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