I want pumpkin pie.
So, two days ago I've discovered something DREADFUL. Well, it's dreadful to me. I mean, what if one day I'm in the mood for chocolate milk? I go to the store and can't find any? What if that happened? THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CHOCOLATE MILK HERE. Whyyy?? But yeah. This place hasn't finished surprising me yet. And speaking of other weird stuff, I was watching AkitaTom's newest video on YouTube. He's been in an exchange student here in Japan for almost an entire year now and he's been posting awesome videos. But his newest one had him and Miki (I think it's his host sister) going to some oxygen bar in Nagoya. It was a bar where you pay to get fresh oxygen through your nose. It looked insane. I want to try it ^_^
There wasn't much to say about yesterday. Oh wait. Yeah, there's something. Running. We ran. Oh no. I gave up much sooner than last time. So, in the beginning I began running with Ayami, I abandoned her well before we even left the school. I figured that if I kept with a certain pace (a nice slow and steady pace that I can handle) I'd be able to accomplish this run through hell. But before that run started we were told to run 2 laps around the soccer/baseball field. Heh???? Insane, that's what this school is. But anyway, during the run of hell, I went at my own pace. Not even close to halfway I saw a group of girls who who gave up already. Yes! More losers like me! They weren't even from my class and we kinda started having a conversation. Now that's the way I like to do gym class^^ That stopped when one of the gym teachers (there's a guy and a girl) started yelling at us to start running again. One of them always follows but they wait a bit before they come after us. Two other classmates of mine joined us losers soon after and once we ran more because we were being yelled at we caught up with more losers who were all actually from my class. So then we all just walked together. How nice, right? Unfortunately Ayami told me we have to do this 4 more times. I'm going to DIE. 4 more days of this?? -sigh- I guess this is what I get when I complain about my weight :(
So, Halloween was yesterday. And it was fun to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas in Japanese haha. I gave out my bags of American candy. I wasn't paying attention to anyone but then I saw Ayaka freak out. She was holding her mouth screaming then sorta ran out of the classroom while the people she was with were laughing. I assumed she tried a warhead. haha oh my gosh. Before Halloween came I was giving them out to a variety of people. I can't tell you how much it amused me to watch their faces. Mizuki's was pretty funny and then I couldn't believe that she put 3 in her mouth on Halloween (I put 3 in each bag). She's crazy, my mouth would be on fire. The blue ones left people's tongues blue and they were showing each other. While I was giving out the bags people who had food/candy open with them felt a need to give me a cookie or chocolate as well. I ate too much, and there was TONS of food in that classroom that day. In between each class we have like 10 mins of free time. During one of those a group of people all sat on the floor behind me and had enough food for a class party but there was only like 7 people there. Can I say how non-strict Japanese high schools are? I'm actually amazed. I always heard and thought that Japanese high school were tough and such but they aren't. People bring blankets to school and wear them around the school, we can leave drinks on our desk (I just think we aren't allowed to drink them during class), people sleep in classes like crazy. In Japanese class I counted 14 people with their heads down asleep. I'm sure the classes are super hard if I was a student, but otherwise it's not strict at all.
And that night I was mailing Hattori for the longest time. I didn't stop until around 1 am when I just decided to pass out and sleep. Before I went to sleep though we planned to meet the next day, today, Saturday.
-sigh- So, I was happy to get to meet this guy. Happy to get out of the house and go somewhere. Happy to actually go on a train for the first time (he said he'd meet me at my train station and we'd go together so I don't get lost. He doesn't live in Hitachi). Happy to experience Mito and actually EXPERIENCE it. When I went to Mito with Otoo-san I never went to the mall area or even got to SEE it. Holy crap. Mito is HUGE.
So, about an hour before I was going to Hitachi station I asked him to send me a picture of himself so I could find him, even though I'm sure he'd have no trouble finding me, how hard is it to spot a foreigner? Well, I got his picture. And I immediately freaked. See why?
He's scaryyy looking >_< But, I was thinking in my stupid little head that "Oh! This is like the situation in Koi Zora! How awesome!" I was thinking that before I got the picture. Koi Zora is a manga here in Japan that my host sisters told me about. No, I haven't read the manga 'cause I haven't been able to find a English version anywhere. The manga was made into a movie and I found the movie English subbed online and watched it (it's not an anime). It's the cutest/saddest movie I've ever seen! I wanna tell you about the movie. Koi Zora is about this guy getting this girl he likes cell phone number and starts texting/calling her. She has no idea who he is but she begins to like him the more they talk to each other and he won't tell her who he is or show her a picture of himself. Then they decide to meet one day (they happen to go to the same school) but when she meets him she's freaked out because she accuses him of "scary" (I found him cute) and runs away. Eventually they get together and tons of things happen and now I'm not going to spoil the rest of the movie. Seriously people, watch it. It's a great movie, I promise you that.
So, we met at Hitachi Station. And actually, that picture makes him look more scary than he is. In person, he's not cute, but he's not horrifying either. He found me, surprising me from behind, and he showed me how to get my first ticket. I think I know now how to use the train system now but there's no way I can get my tickets only because the citys' names are in kanji. We talked a bit since we had like 15mins before the train came. He talked a lot the entire day. I'm glad. They say and I've asked people about this that most Japanese guys are shy. If he was that case things would have gone terrible. I seriously don't want to call this a date but, I'm going to say it. It really technically was. We were alone and I kinda burst his hopes at the end. I'm not there yet though. Hitachi to Mito is a little less than 30mis on a bullet train. That's what I was on. So, even on the train he talked. He new some English, his sentences mixing English and Japanese, but I'm actually impressed at how well I even understood him. Is my Japanese really getting better? Still, even him knowing some English helped me out. I gave Mizuki two warheads to give him on Friday and he had one of them on the train and ate it. Wayy too sour for him haha.
We got to Mito and then went to Mc Donald's, he didn't eat lunch yet. At Mc Donald's I found out that he smokes since he had to a few times during the day. I can careless though. And I'm not going to go into tons of detail just because this would become long and I don't feel like it. We went to do purikura afterwards and at the moment I'm having trouble getting onto the site so I can get them to post up here. Soon though. They came out really awesome^^ And then we played some games at the arcade.
Went to the book store to look at some manga. And there I found every single manga of the Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni series!!! Before I leave this country I'm buying them all. I love that series^^ (all time favorite). He showed me some, told me what they were about, then we went to Starbucks. Damn, was it great to have a caramel frappachino again. I haven't had Starbucks in like over a year. It was delicious^^ And then we went for a walk along the river there for about an hour just talking. On our way back though to Mito station he asked me if I had a boyfriend and what kind of guys I like. -sigh- well, thanks to this conversation he at least knows I'm not interested in him. I said I like my guys with their hair spiky (well, with my hands I tried to describe spiky). Yeah, he looked prettyyy disappointing. But it's not just the fact that his appearance isn't what I liked, there's one HUGE thing also blocking my way. NASCAR. This guys really really really likes cars and racing. He went to Florida to see NASCAR. He went to Germany to see German cars. His school specializes in mechanic stuff. He wants to work as a mechanic for NASCAR in his future. There is seriously a twitch in me when it comes to racing, especially NASCAR. I guess it's because I can't understand how people can watch a car drive in a loop for hours. And car stuff, I just hate hearing about it. Knowing that this is what that person likes it goes right through me.
While we were at Mito I think I saw Saori (Ai's friend). Let me rephrase that, I think she saw me. We were walking and then Hattori stopped walking and turned around asking me if I knew them. Huh? Who did I know? He said that those girls just said my name. I didn't even know people said my name. I turned around and the one girl was waving to me (they were still walking in the other direction). I was staring at her trying to think if she was a classmate or something. I couldn't figure out who she was but she OBVIOUSLY knew me. Then when she gave up waving and turned her face popped in my head. I feel bad for not realizing it was most likely her and just staring at her the entire time like an idiot. I would have liked to say hi. I'm pretty sure it was her...
But anyway, I now love Mito^^
The train home was more quiet between us, his stop is actually before mine but he stayed with me so I still wouldn't get lost^^ But I seriously did enjoy myself. He was fun to be with and it seriously didn't go as terrible as I thought it would. I had fun and that's seriously all that matters.
Later in the night it was me and Ai again. "Kyou wa nani o shita?" (what did you do today?). No one had any idea what I did. Only Okaa-san and Otoo-san knew I went to Mito (they had to take me to the train station and pick me up) and Tonpi and Ai weren't home in the morning when I woke up (Ai was at work, I have no idea where Tonpi was. Maybe school?). But they all thought I went with a friend, most likely Ayami again. Well, I technically did go with a friend haha. But she was a little surprised I went to Mito though... I think. And I showed her the purikura, shocked I was with a guy and asked me if we were a couple. Pfft! No. I said he looked scary. The purikura doesn't make him look as scary as the picture above. So, then I showed her that picture. She found that one a little bit. Then she went on, "kare wa suki?" (do you like him?). Noooo. I said again he's a little scary and asked if she agreed. She didn't fully agree with me. So, I kinda felt like the idiot that I'm too picky. But the whole NASCAR/car thing does get to me. That's no lie.
Besides, Friday there were 2 guys from the all boys school on my bus, and the one was actually cute, and before my bus stop he actually said hi to me, then when I got off he said bye to me. Sooo, I have time yet. My hole has been filled for the time being. Just knowing there's a guy I can mail every so often makes me happy.
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