I apologize for not posting a blog wayyy sooner.
I'm hardly on the computer anymore for reasons such as 1) I have nothing to do on it 2) I'd much rather sleep or 3) I'm just too lazy to sit down and type one up. But recently those reasons haven't been the cause. College is. Which really sucks. I was telling my friends here about my issue (I'm not going to go into details) and they're just telling me to study harder. Pfft, I wish it was that easy. For those who don't know, to get into college here in Japan you take whatever school you want to go to's exam and if you pass you're in, if not you have to try a new school or wait a year to take the exam again. Then you can fully blame it on yourself if you don't pass it. But when you have to leave your acceptance in the hands of someone else, things don't look good. I'm getting a teacher recommendation from my homeroom/English teacher here in Japan, Suzuki-sensei. I'm hoping that will help me out A LOT since my SAT scores aren't what Pittsburg Uni. wants. But enough about college. It's pratically been a month. What have I've been doing?
Can't say there was that much.
Yesterday was one of those nights (it's 12:47am now) where I was just glad to be here. With such awesome friends. It was raining (still raining now) and me, Tomoka, Nozomi, Asako, and some other girl all go to the same bus stop so we had to get there after Kyuudou (I didn't ride my bike 'cause of the rain so this is always rare). Tomoka's umbrella somehow broke and I was offering mine for her to use (I didn't need it) but she insisted her's was fine. It had a hole on the top of it. Please, no good. We hid under this building area until my bus came and there were garbage cans there. I kept telling Tomoka her umbrella died (I wanted to say, "it's time to let it go now", but with limited Japanese knowledge that wasn't possible, all I could think of close to that was "it died") and I pated the garbage can. I look down at my hand and it was COMPLETELY black. I freaked out, ran to some wall-like object thinking it was clean and ran my hand down it, that made it worse so then I rubbed my hand down a real wall it left a hand streak like something you'd see in a scary movie. Everyone was laughing. Hard. In the end i had to collect water from a puddle just to wipe it off. But I was just screaming, "doushio?, doushio?" (what do I do?) until I thought of the puddle idea. Funny as hell. And, that's when I think now, how much I'm going to miss these new friends of mine.
Nora is leaving tomorrow.
Back to Germany. Two days ago in Sadou Club she had to say goodbye and when I saw what was done, it just made me dread the day. Nora made these goodbye/thank you posters for the club and the two teachers in charge, and the club members wrote letters and put them in this cute case for her. I just wanted to burst into tears. And I'm not even leaving. Or maybe it's because this will be the last I'll see her. I never knew anyoe from Germany and even though I never thought I was that close to her I guess there was just a bond that they say exchange students feel for each other because of the relation that you ARE exchange students. I'm going to miss her. I have to write her a letter and give it to her at the station on Saturday when she leaves. Me, Pat, and a girl from Sadou, Koiko, went to do karaoke and purikura with her as like a sayonara (goodbye) party. Karaoke was tons of fun as always. Me and Pat went half on a gift for her. We bought this big Hello Kitty picture frame thing that was more like a stuffed animal and we put a picture of the 3 of us in it.
So, that just made me think today of how much I'm going to miss my Kyuudou friends and my classmates. I've became really close with Okaa-san, Yumi, ad Kanako ever since our seats were changed that day. We went to Katsuda the one day and saw the movie "Mirrors". You know, that scary one in America. It was in English too which made me happy. I thought it would have been Japanese dubbed but there were subtitles. And that movie was SCARY. But, it's just making me see that even though I still have all these months, I have to say goodbye. And I've also noticed something important. The reason why I think me and Kanako have become a lot closer. Language. Kanako is pratically a genious in English. And that's the secret. When you can communicate with others it makes things so much easier. And actually, she's the only person were we can even make jokes in English classes that no one else understands. Because we can both make up something stupid. That's how important language is. And I really respect that knowledge.
As for my new family, I haven't said really anything about them. Did I even mention their names? I think so...
But they're cool. I've grown adjusted to everything now. Two nights ago we were playing Nintendo 64. Geeze, everyone has those haha. But I found out that Misa reallyyy likes Pokemon. Yuuta got accepted to the high school in Mito. I found out that I don't get new shoes when I become a san-nensei, which I'm sad about. Our school has 3 colors but whatever color you enter in as as a ichi-nensei you keep that color until you graduate. I was hoping for red shoes in a few months >_<
That's about it I suppose. I'm tired anyway. I'll post another one soon. Sorry I took so long to type one.
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