That was fun ^_^ well, at least in the beginning. It got boring in the end and I couldn't wait to leave. But I'll start it off with the morning. So, it was Saturday. I wasn't sure if I was taking the bus to school or not [at normal time] or if I was getting a ride. Communication didn't go so well for some reason at breakfast. I became completely confused and in the end I came to the conclusion that otoo-san was giving me a ride. I was still in my pjs and then a rang came at the door. It was the girl who always picks me up every morning to take the bus. Crap. Tonpi gets me to tell me she's here and I'm freaking. I wasn't dressed! I rushed to put on my uniform [yeah, we had to wear our uniform to school then change in the classroom. It made no sense to me why] and dashed to the door. Wow, that sure was record time putting that uniform on. Result: I almost made her and me miss the bus. The bus came like a minute after we arrived. I go to school, get changed, down to the parking lot to our beloved [haha] Takoyaki stand. I unfortunately didn't get to see any performances :( the entire time, except one but it wasn't too special. It was the girl who sang in English. But I really wanted to get video of the two girls playing the shamisen (;_;) gomen nasai [I'm sorry].
I didn't have to work in the beginning so me, Ayami, Shiori, and this other girl [she helps me tons during school telling me what we're supposed to be doing, but I don't know her name :( but her nickname is Ramosu] went walking around. Ramosu was actually working but she just had to advertise, which you'll see in the video, about our stand. I had fun in the beginning. Just looking around and such. There wasn't as much as I expected and it definitely wasn't as elaborate as I hoped. What was I hoping to expect anyway? I unfortunately didn't get to go into the haunted house. There was two of them! But my friends don't like scary stuff, unfortunate for me. It was wayyy too hot. There was a coffee stand, a yakisoba stand, tapioca [is that spelled right?] stand, but I'm sorry but I need to complain about tapioca here. They say it's tapioca pudding. No. This "pudding" was a freaking DRINK with these balls in it. Those clear balls were the tapioca. So, when I read and ordered "ichigo miruku" [strawberry milk] on the menu for tapioca pudding I wasn't expecting strawberry milk being poured into a cup then these tapioca balls being dumped into it. That is NOT tapioca pudding, and it tasted terrible too! I mean, look at this picture! This is tapioca pudding to these crazy people!
Okay, so then the tapioca turned brown when put in the liquid. But seriously, does that even look good? I drank the milk but threw the tapioca in the gomi [garbage]. We also went into a classroom that called themselves Alice's Kitchen. I have no idea what I ordered. It was good if the jello wasn't in it. The Japanese sure have weird taste buds [then again I'm the weird one to them haha]. It had snow cone in it and fruits and the jelly. Sounds good, but it was just that jelly... ick. I played Water Archery and Step And Go, you can see the classrooms on the video. Water Archry was just you were given a squirt gun and you had to aim at a paper target. Fun I suppose haha. It was. Then Step And Go was a badminton game. You basically just had to knock down tubes with the birdy. There were three rounds and I did horrible on the second. Then it was off for work! Takoyaki making here I came. It was actually really easy. I got the hang of it after a while. I was making some pretty takoyaki ^_^ But it was soooo hottt~~ I was going to die from the heat if my hand wasn't burnt before then.
I noticed that students from other schools wore their uniform to this even though they didn't have school. I really don't understand it. When Ai and Saori [Yuko and the others didn't come haha] came to pick me up they were in theirs. When we were walking to the mall I asked them about it and they couldn't really explain. You just do it. Before the mall we went to a restaurant called Gusto. I wasn't really hungry but I got food anyway. I got a pizza. A mayonnaise and cheese pizza. Who the hell cooks mayonnaise in a pizza? I was a little worried even though Ai kept telling me "it good" with her English. It actually was reallyyyy good. One of the best pizzas I had. Things were awkward. Too quite and I didn't like it. Saori went to the bathroom and I HAD to do something so things wouldn't be like this. My pizza came with a bottle of Tombasco sauce. Do you know what it is? It's made in America, it's hot sauce, unbelievably hot hot sauce. I put a few drops into Saori's drink. Ai lost it laughing. She kinda blew it when Saori came back and saw her laughing. She then suspected something was done. She made me and Ai taste her drink before she did. We did and we had to hide our expressions after the taste got us. It was TERRIBLE. And I only added 3 drops in it. She then drank it and when she tasted it she immediately grabbed Ai's drink. haha it was funny and of course she didn't expect me. Who would, the foreigner?
At the mall we went straight to the arcade. Student from my school were even there, and I only knew that because they had their uniforms on. I'm even more confused now. Why the heck would you go wearing your uniform out when you have a pair of jeans and a T-shirt to wear? It puzzles me. But it's how it is here in Japan I guess. I felt out of place there since I still had my class shirt on. People knew where I was from and I wasn't wearing my uniform like I'm "supposed" to. I now realize why [well it seems like] Ai doesn't have much a variety in clothing. They wear their uniforms everywhere. Even today [Sunday] I saw girls wearing their uniforms and there were no festivals or school today, today's a holiday for god sakes. But we went into a Purikura and took some photos which I'm very happy to own ^_^ If I get enough throughout the year I'll buy a Purikura album like I see many people have. haha but those things are filled. You need to collect them from yearsss. We'll just have to see.
And my camera had a tragic experience at the festival. Before it even started Ayami dropped my camera in the parking lot. I almost died. I was scared it broke or my screen cracked :( I can't survive without it. There would go all my photos and videos to post. I lucked out though. It couldn't have damaged in a better place. It was at the bottom corner of the camera where the sliding thing for the battery isn't. I have a Casio Exilim EX-Z9. Now there's a nice dent there. But thank god that's all that happened. My whole day would have been ruined if I couldn't get and video OR pictures. At supper Yuko called Ai to and during that she asked to talk to me. Oh my god. It was so funny. Yuko, I'm sorry Yuko, you are the worst Japanese person I met at speaking English. I don't even think anyone could be worse than you. I have no idea what she was trying to tell me. I think she said she had a confession to tell me and that it was she loved me. If she said that in Japanese I would have understood perfectly. Geeze, she made it so difficult. If anyone knows Ashley Jennings she reminds me of her, a lot. But it was terribly funny. Japanese speaking English, funniest thing in the world.
The day ended with the three of us being complete idiots. Me, Ai, and Tonpi. I don't even know what happened. If you know me I tend to mumble to myself. We were in the, I call it the game room but it's really not that and I was actually talking to them, half in English and I was just mumbling. Ai started coping me as did Tonpi then. I was tireddd, sorta, so I couldn't really stop. They had a laughing fit. Then there was a sketchbook on the floor and we were doodling. Well, my doodles were kinda like scribbles and of nothing. They found that funny and then every time I drew something they would copy. It was a laughing fit all night. I was even laughing, mumbling for them to shut up and such. It was too funny and my description probably sounds really stupid haha.
Here's my video ^_^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D08sehvD52Y
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