Hello hello.
Up until now nothing much exciting has happened, just went to school and to cheer... man cheer was tough! >< First we do about 15~20 minutes of stretches, then help the other person stretch. Then first year students get to go running, and do physical training like 60 sit ups, 60 push ups, 60 jumps, and a bunch of other stuff. At first it really tired everyone out, but lately everyone's been getting a lot better... including me! :) We learned a lot of new cheers, and I've missed four practices (three due to being an exchange student and having to do stuff like go to the ESS club which was asked for their Welcome Party, which was fun, we played hangman and no one could guess my word, giraffe. One being due to the fact that school was done for me at 1ish one day, and the other because I switched host families. ><) , but I learned all the cheers just in time, because Sunday we're all going to cheer on the football team.
School is pretty good, other than I can't understand Contemporary Japanese at all. That's okay, Japanese students can't, either. :)
Really weird thing happened though - I was eating a banana, and like, 10 girls took my picture. Apparently I'm cute when I eat bananas. So I called Oda over and told her, so she took my picture with the banana too.
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| Just amazing, amiright? |
I switched host families last Saturday.
I share a room with my new host sister, Risa. There's Obaachan, papa, and mama as well. It's a thin house but three stories tall. It's closer to the school than the last one! :)
I was supposed to switch on the 30th, but... I bought tickets to a Morning Musume concert in Hiroshima for the 29th so my new host sister took me. We got on the bus the night of the 28th, and arrived at like 6:00 am on the 29th. God that was awful. Nothing was open, so I got to eat delicious McDonald's breakfast.
There was some time before the concert, so we went to Miyajima on the ferry... after waiting a few hours, anyways. Took the ferry at like 9:10.
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| Leaving for Miyajima~ |
We got to Miyajima and the first thing I saw was lots and lots of deer. I was happy.
I got pictures of the deer, pictures with the deer, and pet the deer.
And watched the deer eat some lady's handkerchief. ^^
After the deer, we ate some shaved ice and went to the shrine which name I have sadly forgotten. ><
We didn't go in though, we walked around and then walked around more parts of the islands, then I had some corn and we went back to Hiroshima Station. (ferry - walk - train) And went to starbucks for a snack.
After Starbucks, we took a taxi to Alsok Hall. We arrived at like 1, and there was already soo many people! So we quickly got in line for goods, but when the hall opened at 2:30 we still hadn't made it to the front of the line, but we were close, so when we entered the building we got to go to the one inside. I got a Niigaki Risa shirt, a NR fan, NR picture and a Tanaka Reina picture, and then two green glowsticks. It was kind of funny, after buying everything Niigaki "and two glowsticks, please"
The girl at the counter was like "....Green?" I was like, LOL.
So after that we had to ask a nice "Onii-san"(as said by staff member, LOL) how to use it because it said don't snap it but you had to snap it anyways so.... yeah.
The concert was epic! Everyone's faces were really small, but you could tell who Tanaka was! :)
I was on the second floor, in the back... kinda sucks but, whatever. :)
We went back to Kyoto by shinkansen, which was nice. We ate first, though.
Since then I've just been going to school, my friend's birthday's coming up so I'mma bake him cookies. Then my birthday is coming up too!! May 23rd. x3 I'm super excited! But I feel really old ;~;
That's all for nows~
