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Hello everybody

how's life?
My life is fantastic in every single way (:
I had a "holy crap I'm in Japan" moment today while on the train, it was crazy haha, I almost hate it when it hits me like that because I almost feel like crying, and it always seems to happen when I'm in public.
I really have been thinking lately that those who say they love Japan really don't even understand Japan enough to Love it. I'm saying this from my own experiance haha, I would know ;)
but really, what one loves about Japan is certain aspects, for me it was Music, Drama, and Fashion.
but when someone says something like "I love the life-style" or "I love the culture", really, they are  just interested in it, or like the IDEA of it. Because I can say, living here, it is, SOOO different then anything I could've imagined.
Like I can truely say "I love Japan" now. , I really think you have to live here to understand it, but I'll accept if someones just visited haha, to really understand the words "I love Japan". BEcause now, if i meet someone and they are like "OMG I LOVE JAPAN" and i say "Have you been there?" and they say "No" I will just feel like saying "then you don't even know!!" and it wont be in a rude way just a "you have so much more ahead of you if you are truely passionate about it!" Like, "you don't even know! so I hope one day you go and expriance it so that you will really know how amazing it is!"
anyways, I don't even really know how to express everything I mean, cause it's hard to understand myself haha :P

So, Last week hahahah oh man, that was eventful.
Let's see.

okay so, last wednesday, haha ohhhh wednesday, okay.
We went on a club visit to the Kimono and Tea ceremony Clubs.
it was really fun we got to put on kimono and then we participated in a mini-tea ceremony while wearing said kimono and ya it was really interesting and the tea was so good haha :)

Just us, being us.

After that me and stephanie deicded it would be a good idea to go shopping for our outfits for the sports festival (I'll talk about that later on) and then grab some dinner, are first idea was to go to the irish pub, but then we were like, eeeeh, thats expensive. so we decided to just go to a convience store, grab some food and a few cold ones and just chill at the river.

It was I gotta say one of the most relaxing days I've had, it was nice to just sit, and talk and relax and the river was so nice.

Now, I want to say, I had absolutely NO intention of drinking a lot, I just wanted to have a drink with my dinner kind of thing.

Apparently we drank more then we thought. (I think Japanese beer has something in it because we really didn't drink alot, like 2 beer each O_o;)

Anyways, we stood up and were like "....oh....we're drunk" HAHA. it was actually REALLY funny. we weren't really really drunk, I dunno everyone has their own standards for being drunk, I'd say we were past pleasantly happy though hahaha.
and then we had to pee really badly so we walk to the station (more like, hobble because we're both in heels)
and we find bathrooms
okay
if you guys aren't familiar with Japanese toilets, they look like this.

Ya squat and go

I finally realise that all thoes years of peeing in a horses stall paid off.

because I can use this baby while intoxicated, I think thats a feat.

Annnnyways,

So, we went to that irish pub, and then left, cause we were like, meh, too expensive hahaha

so we left, and then, were like, lets go home. hahahah

so ya.

like i said, we werent that drunk at all, esspically by that time, so I made it home all right, don't worry hahaha (I know you are probably shaking your head if you are reading this mom! :P and rebekah, and andrew , aand Dad, aaand nana hahah)

my host parents were laughing at me hahaha

OKAY MOVING ON

Thursday was so crazy I got so much homework it was innnnsane.

I forgot all about calligraphy club and went home -.-

ugh 

hahah spent all night doing homework

Friday night was more or less the same, I didn't go out with anyone or anything

I just kind of went home and then did homework and hung out with my family.

Saturday I slept in kind of late (9:30am hahahahha I'm so lame now)

And then I went, ate, watched stuff with my host brother, then went back up stairs and fell asleep for a few hours haha

found out after that my host brothers had falen asleep too so i didn't feel as bad

after i woke up we went to Arashiyama

which is SUPER pretty but, since we had the boys with us we kind of just wondered around and didn't stay too long~

I'll go again when its novemeber and the leaves start changing colour

Then on sunday we went to a park in Uji, and we just played there for like 6 hours hahhaa

it was crazy I was so tired

there was so much stuff for kids to do there so Reo and Joji were having lots of fun 

then we came home and I fell asleep at 9pm hahahahah

Today we found out lots of stuff at our monday meeting

SPORTS FESTIVAL NEXT WEEK!

Me and stephanie are playing badminton (we bought white t-shirts that I mentioned before, and we are gunna decorate them)

And then we are playing this game I forget the name of, with the staff of the exchange centre!! it should be so fun

I really don't thnk any other of the people on exchange (like the ones going to other countries) get to experance stuff like sports festival and School festivals hehehe 

also

HIROSHIMA THIS WEEKEND!

I'm SO excited

we are going to be going to the memorial sites of the bombings

and even talking to people who survived it

I'm going to be an emotional wreck all weekend but I think it's going to be an amazing experience and I will probably leave a changed person.

after the meeting me and stephanie went shopping and I bought a few things

and also I deicded I'm going to be a Ganguro (google it)

for halloween haha stephanie is gunna do my make-up.

Also I decided I'm going to NAGOYA~ weekend after next

im gunna stay with my friend yukiha (:

really excited hahaha

Anyways

Also excited for halloween international Party in Osaka~

okay thats all for now!!! :)