Just a small bump in the road.

I've been avoiding making this post, lol.

At the end of May, nothing special really happened other than my birthday. I got a LOT of cake. Cake from my friend, cake from my family, cake from my teachers. It was all delicious cake, though.

cake from host family

cake from teachers

It was exam week, so I only had to go to school for three hours. I got TONS of presents. Presents from people I barely talked to! Lots of scrunchies, some Arashi's Nino pictures, a necklace, a handkerchief, Oda got me a giant stuffed Boo, host sister got me an eyebrow plucker thing (can't remember the word right now -.- ) and a hair.. thing. I dunno. It like swallows your head for when you're in the shower...? Haha. And I got cute PJs from my host parents, and a nice card from obaachan. It was quite fun.  That was the 23rd.
The next day after the exam, I was only there for 2 hours, and I went with my friend Hisashi to the aquarium!

I love this picture. Lol, it's face.

We got a picture done at the aquarium too, he was like "put on this hat!" and I was like "Wha- oka- where's your hat? fkdjfuidf" It was a cute octopus hat though.

After we went to the aquarium, we went to shijo kawaramachi for a bit and went to the arcade and he beat me at everything, the little bastard >.>
And he wrote "best friends" on our purikura, I was super happy. xD But he asked me if the kanji was correct, and I was like "LOL why are you asking me?" I knew the 友 was correct but I didn't know the first one. xD Probably asking me because all of our mails are kanji-filled :P

After Kawaramachi, we went to Kyoto Station to eat some ramen. x3  It was fairly delicious ramen, and there was a LOT of stairs, so I told him we should race up them and he kinda looked at me like "wtf?" and said let's just take the escalators. XD
Then we talked for like, half an hour or 45 minutes and we were like okay, let's go to Kyoto Tower! So we did, and it was beautiful. Except, right when we went, an out of town class (probably 30-40 people) of middle schoolers were doing a field trip

hoorraaay, shaky picture. x3

And after that he was taking me back to the station to catch me bus, we found a light show on the way, see above picture. lol.  Then we ran to catch the bus and I got on and he was waiting and I was like laughing and theeeen we saw all the middle schoolers come and start getting on the bus, so I was like ._____________________________.'' and he just laughed.

Then, the next Saturday I went to meet his parents because they're having an exchange student stay with them, but Hisashi had club so he was... absent. That was really, really awkward. But his parents were nice. We went and toured the beer factory, but being 18 and not 20, I could only have juice. : <
Then we went to their house and made gyoza, and then Hisashi came home at like 7:00pm with Gen and Hori.

Was quite delicious.

Alright, so stay with me from this point onward, please.

Due to certain circumstances, I have returned to Canada for a short while.
I've been here since the 5th of June, and I'll be here until August because JFIE and the school both feel that because I'm leaving partway through, when I return I should go to a different school. Dunno why. But I will be going back around the 23rd of August.
When I know where and which school and such, I'll let you know.
Before I left though, the teacher told me that my Japanese is as good as the people who have been there for 10 months, so I'm kinda bummed now because I wanted to get really, really proficient. I'll just work harder when I go back, but I hope it's Kansai because I speak Kansaiben.... and that would be awkward in other regions if it comes out. xD

Anyways, yeah, I'll be back in Japan in the end of August, so just sit tight and I'll update as soon as I can.