After that, I felt relief. I didn't have to bother them again. They were free, and I was happy. Tonpi got her room back, too ^_^ When the grandmother told me that day I met her about the house being too far away to ride a bike, she wasn't kidding. I didn't realize how far away it really was. I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm amazed I'm still in Hitachi (I might be over exaggerating). I'm so far away from the school, from Ito Yokado, from everything I used to know. I don't even think there's a karaoke place around me. Now that sucks (I'm addicted to karaoke now). And I was then there. I'm now a Kawamata. When I first arrived at the house I thought they owed a company as well since I saw the sign but in the end I found out that there's no business there, it's just a small shop (if it's still operational). My family consists of the grandmother, the grandfather (I don't think I'll ever see him because he never comes from his room for unknown reasons), the dad (I've only seen him once so far and he seems to work late all the time if he ever shows up), a younger brother, and a younger sister. They are both chuugakusei (junior high school students).
So, about my house. It's nothing like the last one. Actually, where I live is all wayyy too inconvenient. I don't have a bed. At first I thought, "oh, this really sucks", but after sleeping on the 2 futons she gave me it was just like a bed. Really comfy. And I'm much warmer, too. One of the first things they did for me was bring i a heater. I haven't used it though and I don't think I will be, no need to. My room consists of two rooms. There's the room where I sleep and there's a dresser in there, then there's the room next to it where there's a small table, the heater, a small TV, and two other dresser-like things but they're not for my use. Only the tops of them. Where I sleep there's sliding doors so I close them when I go to sleep. From the other room, they sorta called it a "study room", you exit that door and it leads to the kitchen and living room. It's half and half. There's a piano there as well and I was supposed to use the internet there but just today they got a different cord that's much longer (the cord they had anyway wouldn't work) so now it's in my room. The family doesn't spend much time down here. They have TVs in their rooms so they don't hang around, that's what I was told and I can now understand. The bathroom is inconvenient. It's all the way upstairs and it's not one of those cool toilets either. It's just a normal toiet with no special butt washing buttons. I don't really like where the furo is. It's right next to the kitchen.
Before I came to this family Okaa-san told me to help around a lot since it's only the grandmother. I now see that. Yuuta (the boy) and Misa (the girl) were helping out a lot. I went to a few stores with Obaa-chan (grandmother) and Misa and then we stopped at a relative's house. Remembering back on that first day with the Fukaya's I didn't quite know how to start up a conversation. I wasn't as good as I am now with my Japanese. But I found it easier when I tried to talk with Misa. Knowing the language: very important if you wanna talk. Then today I went back to school. I had no idea what I was doing. New bus, new route, new problems. I was fine in the morning. Obaa-chan walked me to the stop and I saw there was another girl from my school there so when I saw her get off I got off as well. It was after Kyuudou that I had a problem. I didn't know where my stop was so I could press the let-me-off button and it was dark outside. I did get off the wrong stop too. But thank god I only got off at the stop before my stop. I was worried I'd pass it up. But even going to club is inconvenient now. I ride my bike to club, ride it back to school, then I have to walk for like 5-7 minutes to get to my bus stop. My last bus stop was right in front of the school. Tomoka walked me to the bus stop today to make sure I got on the right bus. haha she mails me asking "Daijyoubu?" (are you okay?) (everyone was trying to help me out, and they get worried easily...) and when I sent her back saying, "no, I got off too early", she I guess freaked out then she called me all worried and stuff. At the point when I mailed her I didn't realize how close I was to home.
We were at the store yesterday and I NEED a winter jacket. The jacket I have isn't good. I saw a cute red one that I think it was on sale, I was going to buy it, Obaa-chan buys it. The price on t=it said something like 4,300 yen. That's too much for her to pay and I'm sure if there was more to the sale it wasn't THAT much. So, she bought me that. And yeah. This is my new family. In a way I'm really glad to start over, really glad to finally be gone because now I can start over and I don't have to be in their way anymore. And I think there's a good chance I'll be able to lose weight now. At the Fukaya's they gave me soo much to eat, especially sweets,and here already dinner and breakfast is small and my bento was too. And they don't really eat sweets here so I see. I know I'll like it. I just need to adjust. Besides, tomorrow I'll be seeing Okaa-san, Otoo-san, and Tonpi again. I have to go to a Rotary dinner. It think it's the New Years party, or it's not... I'm not sure what it's for. But if it's a dinner all 3 of them will be there for sure (Ai probably has work). I'll deffinitly be seeing them again from time to time. Otoo-san will be inviting me everywhere.
Oh! And I totally forgot about this other New Years tradition here! It wasn't until I received one yesterday from Ikumi that I remembered. For New Years you always send out postcards. It's tradition. And every morning on January 7th EVERYONE eats this rice porridge (Otoo-san called it porridge but it just looked like rice soup to me) for breakfast. It's tradition. It's kinda creepy thinking while you're eating it that everyone is eating he same thing as you. Creepy.
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