Japan Blog 69 Let's catch up on Things {PART 2}

弓道部 / Two weeks ago was our final Kyuudou taikai (for the san-nensei at least) we all went and I took pictures since it would be our last. The ni-nensei made this awesome star-goodluck thing that must have like 500 small paper cranes hanging from it. They even made us a heart strap to put on our bags or somewhere that says in Japanese to "goodluck, hit the target!" well, that's not the exact meaning but close to it. Really awesome (picture below). Thing is too, we won! It's been awhile since Hitachi Niko won into the finals. And since we won, that meant that our school would participate in that Sunday's taikai! If we didn't win we wouldn't have participated. But unfortually that had to be the following Sunday. That Sunday was me and Nocchan's trip to Tokyo, RIN TOSHITE SHIGURE!!! So, that Sunday me and Nocchan went but we had to leave early, like 1-ish. So we didn't get to see the entire thing. In the end though we didn't win the taikai on Sunday, but in Ibaraki-ken our school placed #6 (^^). At the Sunday taikai Akko brought in UNO cards to play. I wanted to build a card castle when they were done. And I did. You should have seen it! I used ALL the cards (except 2 but that can't be helped) and it was sooo tall and awesome. As I was working on it, messing up, rebuilding, people were watching me. Then the pictures snapped away when I was done. Look at this thing! I have some weird obsession with card castle building. I love doing it. And I can't stop. And that was my last 2 taikais. It was a lot of fun, and I'm going to miss them.












































ひろくん / Not much on this one. But after the Saturday taikai I met up with a ichi-nensei from Mito Ichiko, a reallyyy smart high school in Mito. His name is Hiro and he is CUTE♥ We took purikura together, and I surprised my friends who were still hanging around in Mito when they ran into me. I got a longgg stare from Yuka and her friends and then Nozomi (not the one I went to Tokyo with) asked me if he was my boyfriend when I stuck in the elevator with her and another friend. Embarrassing, haha. But I had fun^^ Picture of us in my album.

あっこちゃんの家、ひっこし / This coming Monday I'm going to Akko's house for 2 weeks. I probably won't have the internet at all. Two weeks with no blogs, no contact with America. I think it's going to be a lot of fun though so I'm excited. And I wanna be somewhere new for a little bit. Even the cigarette smoke is starting to bother me. Her dad knows English which is pretty awesome, but not really a good thing, depending on how much he wants to speak it with me. I say that now but in truth if he chooses to speak it with me I probably won't mind since he's the only one who knows it. Akko sure doesn't haha.

テスト / We have tests starting tomorrow. Yesterday I really felt like a student. I went to the library with Shiori (Lettuce), Kanako, and Ramosu to study. I tried to study math but yeah, I gave up after awhile and read Sailor Moon. Today Ikumi said she'd stay after school and teach me math if I wanted. YAY! So, Ikumi helped a bit today. Not sure if I'll fully get everything for the math test Tuesday but I'm gunna try. After the test I'm heading to Yokado to buy the new Perfume CD! Really it's to be released on Wednesday but since I preordered it I can get it a day early. Then after that I'm going to karaoke with Tomoka, Nojiri, and Asami (if others come, not sure). And some time after the tests we're going to the Book Market to find the Sailor Moon mangas! Exciting, right?

クラスマッチ / I mentioned about the Class Match awhile ago. I said my class was going to make Yattaman costumes and that I was super excited. A few weeks back we changed our mind because it would be difficult to move in it and the materials would be expensive. So we decided to do costumes from all different countries. We have a group of Cowboys, Arabians, Mexicans, and the Japanese who are wearing yukatas. I'm in the Cowboy group just because I wanna do it and it'll match me (haha). Kanako came up with the idea that we should have water guns with us. Not everyone is doing that but I agreed with her so we're doing it. It's going to be a lot of fun, only issue is that I've never sewn in my life. Making this costume is going to be hell. And Japanese dodge ball is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from American dodge ball. And I must say, for only throwing one ball around it's VERY scary. I'm doing dodge ball in the class match. When I signed up for it I didn't think it was different from American dodge ball. Japanese dodge ball is like American prisoner dodge ball. You have people in your area and then you send 4 people out to the other teams area on the outsides. The goal is to get everyone in the inside out. But if you're in the inside and you get hit out you're not "out", you move to the other teams area with the other outside people of your team and you try to get that team's inside people out. You're never "out" in this dodge ball. You just move to outside if you were inside. Sounds confusing, right? Just think of it as prisoner except when you hit someone from the prisoner's line you don't go back in.

And that was my 2 part blog catching up on a variety of things. I'll try for one more before my 2 week absence. YAY SAILOR MOON!!!