There's nothing special about today :/ But I came home from club today and I totally forgot about this but Okaa-san says to me, Obama won. Huh? What? Seriously?? YES!!!! I was rooting for Obama for those who didn't know. So I saw some clips on the news but that was about it. To tell you the truth I'm seriously not interested with that stuff. But damn, he won by A LOT. That's pretty upsetting for McCain.
So, lately I've been addicted to this new discovery. Her name is Aira Mitsuki. I was on a friend's myspace page and I heard the song "China Discotica" from her. Then I started checking out more of her songs on YouTube, holy crap. She's amazing. Why haven't I heard of her before? And just today I got addicted to two more of Ami Suzuki's songs. Her song "Can't Stop the Disco" is great. Gosh why is techno jpop so addictinggg~~??? First it's Perfume, then it's Capsule, now some more?? I'm telling you, it's like a drug for how much I have a single song on repeat. I'm going to blow out my eardrums >_
Sunday, I kinda helped making curry for something. Okay, so all I did was STIR the curry. I still helped >_< My Otoo-san has these random days where he and his workers sit around a house he made (or for this day next to a building where he had SOMETHING inside, I have no idea what) and if there's people interested they come to look. I guess it's technically like open house. But we had a BBQ basically all day. I mean, we ate the curry with a bunch of people (who were really just friends of theirs) and they hung around till like 9 at night. We were cooking something on the grill all day, and then made more for supper time. It was nice to sit around a warm fire when it got dark though, it was freezing all day. Yes, I was sitting out there, too.
Monday I didn't have school. All of Hitachi didn't have school because it was like a cultural festival holiday. I was told last Wednesday from one of the English teachers that I should go to the festival 'cause tons of foreigners in the area go to it. I actually thought my host parents would have took me so I wasn't going to say anything about wanting to go. Not that I cared if I didn't anyway. But in the morning I was told we're talking a picture. I heard the words Ojii-chan (grandfather) and Obaa-chan (grandmother) pop in their conversation so I knew we were taking a picture with them. If I knew exactly what kind of picture this involved I would have brought my camera, thank god I had my keitai. So, after I picked out what to wear, I'm told I need to wear my school uniform. Heh? So, the entire morning I was confused about what we were doing. Ai had her uniform on, too. Okaa-san was dressed nice, but Tonpi was just in normal clothing (but she doesn't have a school uniform yet anyway. That's only for junior and high students. She's in her last year of elementary now). We went to some PROFESSIONAL photography studio and at this place Tonpi was dressed into a kimono. See, if I knew it was this I would have brought my camera >_< Yay for the keitai to rescue me! Look how cute she looks!
So, Tonpi got her photos taken all pretty and such and then Ojii-chan and Obaa-chan came all dressed up. Otoo-san was with them. We were taking a PROFESSIONAL family picture as well. I'm capitalizing "professional" because of the fact that I was in these. It just stunned me. I mean, I'm technically NOT part of the family. And yet, here I was taking a family picture with them. I couldn't grasp it. Remember that family picture I posted before I came to Japan in my Host Family album on here? We took the same exact picture, the only difference is that Tonpi is wearing the kimono not Obaa-chan, and Koudai and Taichiro aren't in this one. I felt really kinda like, honored to be taking it with them. I just hope I didn't ruin it on them >_< Like, I was told to keep moving my bangs from my eyes. I need a hair cut. But, now I know I'm definitely carved into their lives. Not sure by how much but I'm there. And it's really... honoring.
Ai's birthday is tomorrow, November 6th. She's going to be 18. Tuesday I actually thought her birthday was on the 5th, so after school I walked all the way down to the 100 yen store to by markers and poster board to make her a picture. I had to got to two stores actually. And I never did find poster board so I was stuck with cardboard. I kinda wanted to give something, ya know. I gave her that Ayumi Hamasaki cd last month. So, actually, that day during school my classmates had tests to take so me and Pat were stuck in the library all day. She helped me come up with a design and pictures to put on it then when I bought the stuff I drew the design on it and Tonpi helped me color it later that night. I was surprised when I came home that day to see that the couches were no longer in the living room. Even the table is gone. Instead now, there's a different table sitting in the middle of the room. It's those tables with the blanket and you can put your feet under it and there's a heater under there as well. It has a name but I forgot what it is right now. I'll take a picture for my next blog of what the living room looks like now. This is Ai's birthday poster.
A plus with that is that because of the heater it's making the house a little warmer as well haha. I think I stunned Okaa-san with me going to the stores and getting supplies and making it for her. No one knew I was doing it, or did they know I went to the store. But that night actually went really well though too. Like, everyone just seemed in a happy mood. And I was told that this Saturday I'm going to some festival with Otoo-san. A very traditional like thing, and I think I have to participate. There's two bad things about that. 1] I won't get much video 2] it involves wearing some weird outfit and I have to pull my hair back in a creepy way. And it's supposed to be super cold. Fun.
Then Today Tonpi was unusually super nice to me. Like, all talkative and stuff. This NEVER happens. She sat at the dinner table next to me for a period of time instead of at the living room table with Okaa-san like she usually does. She was teaching me volume (those math problems) from her workbook. Then she was asking me what were the English words for some things then writing them down. This NEVER happens. NEVER. So, today went well too, I suppose. haha The super niceness will disappear tomorrow haha. Still, for the rareness it makes me happy ^_^
Yesterday Mizuki started calling me Hatori for some odd reason. And she hasn't let up on it yet. Gosh, I don't understand anythinggg. And now, I'm popular among Hattori's friends. He sent me mail saying they think I'm cute, and then he sent Mizuki mail saying I'm known as the American Beauty to his friends. Crap. Hazukashii (embarrassing). Mizuki was laughing. Glad she found it funny haha.
I'm getting my haircut tomorrow as well. 'Bout time haha. So, it's going to be (hopefully) completely different^^
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