Monday 23rd -->Wednesday 25th
School um very boring school to be perfectly honest as they are doing exams all the time now, 2 or 3 exams a day and them we go home. I go to either the computer room or the library and do my own thing during this time, Monday I went to the computers. Tuesday library and had my tutor come for part of the morning. And Wednesday the library again because the computer room wasn’t open. Came home and did my own thing both Monday and Tuesday which pretty much meant I walked through the park and wait actually I walked the tram line and all the shops along there… not all that interesting but it means I've explored that much more of the town. Wednesday I had brass band after the test for the day were finished. That was pretty cool. Fun and I think everyone was actually there which hasn’t happened a lot recently because of people needing to do stuff for assessment and all that jazz.
Thursday 26th February
Day off school today. So I decided to take advantage of the fact that Okasan had taught me how to get to Aeon and explore it. I had been there a few times but for particular things like going to the bookstore or the Jusco which is kind of like the hypermarket (like Coles and target in one). I wandered around there and didn’t actually find it all that interesting. It’s good though I can get stuff there that I haven’t found anywhere else to buy it… or it’s just cheaper/better there.
I bought another book. This time “Tuesdays with Morrie” by the same guy that wrote “the 5 people you meet in heaven” the book I bought and read in Tokyo. I got bored with the shops very quickly actually although those of you who know me know I'm not a window shopper, I like shopping with purpose, and with that done… that being I had checked the craft store out, I was rather bored and out of my element.
So I left however I decided I didn’t really want to catch the bus back… I felt like a walk… also I totally do not think it is worth 160 yen anyway. Instead I spent 100 yen at the first convenient store I came to on an iced coffee to enjoy on my walk. And huzzah I walked all the way home. I actually have no idea of the distance because Aeon isn’t on the map that I have. But it was a good hours walk, although I did pop into the 100yen store on my way to pick up a few things that I had seen at Aeon but they are cheaper at the 100store… most things are, lol.
At home I started reading but couldn’t get comfortable and was kind of infuriated by the fact that I was spending time inside on what turned out to be a day of fairly nice weather … still far to cold for my likings but not overly windy and not raining so it was a good day to be outside. And then I realized that it was almost 2 and I still hadn’t eaten lunch so back down to our department store where there is kind of a shop kind of a food court thingy in the basement (when I say food court I mean there are places that sell food but not to sit like our food courts back home) bought some lunch and headed to the park armed with my lunch and my book. I sat in what has quiet easily become my favourite location in the park. In the gazebo over the lake that’s off the little island. It must have been quiet the sight for the people that walked past me. Me sitting there freezing my but off eating my lunch and either laughing or crying depending on what the book was saying at that point. It is a great book which again I'm gonna suggest you all read, ahh I love that author, there was another of his books there, shall go get it sometime soon.
I then came home and did some knitting and when okasan got home we went and got my phone Yay!!!
Email on it is Sharnelle@softbank.ne.jp but I will still be using nellyblyrox@hotmail.com as well, and my number is 09094402971 (that’s without the country code which I think is +81 for Japan) Otosan had gone to Tokyo for business and would be away over night so Okasan and I headed out to an Italian restaurant for dinner.
Came home and I pretty much spent the rest of the night playing with my phone. It’s pretty cool, I can put it into English but then I can’t type in Japanese in the emails so I have it in Japanese (until I get very confused and put it back in English).
School um very boring school to be perfectly honest as they are doing exams all the time now, 2 or 3 exams a day and them we go home. I go to either the computer room or the library and do my own thing during this time, Monday I went to the computers. Tuesday library and had my tutor come for part of the morning. And Wednesday the library again because the computer room wasn’t open. Came home and did my own thing both Monday and Tuesday which pretty much meant I walked through the park and wait actually I walked the tram line and all the shops along there… not all that interesting but it means I've explored that much more of the town. Wednesday I had brass band after the test for the day were finished. That was pretty cool. Fun and I think everyone was actually there which hasn’t happened a lot recently because of people needing to do stuff for assessment and all that jazz.
Thursday 26th February
Day off school today. So I decided to take advantage of the fact that Okasan had taught me how to get to Aeon and explore it. I had been there a few times but for particular things like going to the bookstore or the Jusco which is kind of like the hypermarket (like Coles and target in one). I wandered around there and didn’t actually find it all that interesting. It’s good though I can get stuff there that I haven’t found anywhere else to buy it… or it’s just cheaper/better there.
I bought another book. This time “Tuesdays with Morrie” by the same guy that wrote “the 5 people you meet in heaven” the book I bought and read in Tokyo. I got bored with the shops very quickly actually although those of you who know me know I'm not a window shopper, I like shopping with purpose, and with that done… that being I had checked the craft store out, I was rather bored and out of my element.
So I left however I decided I didn’t really want to catch the bus back… I felt like a walk… also I totally do not think it is worth 160 yen anyway. Instead I spent 100 yen at the first convenient store I came to on an iced coffee to enjoy on my walk. And huzzah I walked all the way home. I actually have no idea of the distance because Aeon isn’t on the map that I have. But it was a good hours walk, although I did pop into the 100yen store on my way to pick up a few things that I had seen at Aeon but they are cheaper at the 100store… most things are, lol.
At home I started reading but couldn’t get comfortable and was kind of infuriated by the fact that I was spending time inside on what turned out to be a day of fairly nice weather … still far to cold for my likings but not overly windy and not raining so it was a good day to be outside. And then I realized that it was almost 2 and I still hadn’t eaten lunch so back down to our department store where there is kind of a shop kind of a food court thingy in the basement (when I say food court I mean there are places that sell food but not to sit like our food courts back home) bought some lunch and headed to the park armed with my lunch and my book. I sat in what has quiet easily become my favourite location in the park. In the gazebo over the lake that’s off the little island. It must have been quiet the sight for the people that walked past me. Me sitting there freezing my but off eating my lunch and either laughing or crying depending on what the book was saying at that point. It is a great book which again I'm gonna suggest you all read, ahh I love that author, there was another of his books there, shall go get it sometime soon.
I then came home and did some knitting and when okasan got home we went and got my phone Yay!!!
Email on it is Sharnelle@softbank.ne.jp but I will still be using nellyblyrox@hotmail.com as well, and my number is 09094402971 (that’s without the country code which I think is +81 for Japan) Otosan had gone to Tokyo for business and would be away over night so Okasan and I headed out to an Italian restaurant for dinner.
Came home and I pretty much spent the rest of the night playing with my phone. It’s pretty cool, I can put it into English but then I can’t type in Japanese in the emails so I have it in Japanese (until I get very confused and put it back in English).
Friday 27th
School again in the computer room this time while my class did their exams and then the school day was over at like 10:40, I headed home and got changed into some warmer clothes and headed off for a wander… and what a wander it turned out to be, I grabbed some stuff for lunch at the department store and headed to the tomb of Toshinaga Maeda just because its marked as a tourist attraction on my map and I hadn’t been there yet. Went there wasn’t all that interesting but it was an a pretty park kind of place and some very nice random Japanese men offered to take a photo of me in front of it and I talked to them for a bit, and like all Japanese people atm after I told them I was from Australia immediately quizzed me that my house and all my friends and family were ok with all the “mountain” fires. Although this time it was purely in Japanese. After that conversation I felt great having actually had a conversation in Japanese, and not feeling like a fool. I then went across the road to the Hankyuji Temple which was really pretty but I felt like it was wrong me being there with not another person in sight so I didn’t stay for to long nor did I take pictures because I'm always really carful with going to all the temples and shrines that are tourist attractions, while they are tourist attractions to me to the Japanese they are places of worship and I really don’t want to offend them.
I then decided to go to Aeon again really not realizing how far away from it I still was. but I went none the less, wandered round there again for a bit and checked out the supermarket… wanted to see if I could buy all the things I need for a particular recipe I want to cook sometime soon. Turns out I can so Yay! And then I walked all the way home coz I'm to dam stubborn to catch the bus. Although I have no decided that that is a bad idea and you should only walk either to or from Aeon not both ways… unless maybe you go there to see a movie or something where you get a decent rest between the walks.
When I got home I crashed for about an hour until okasan got home. I told her what I had been up to and she just looked at me like I was insane… wish I probably was for that walk but anyway.
I felt really bad at dinner time, because her and Otosan had sushi with raw fish, which she had bought pre-made but because she knows I still have a bit of a mental block to eating raw fish she had cooked me a different meal. Sashimi (raw fish) doesn’t actually taste that bad and the texture of it is ok, yet I really struggle to eat it purely because of the thought of hey this is RAW fish.
Saturday 28th February
I'm gonna start by saying happy birthday to Felicia, Lucy, Jack and Aunty Jo. Hope you all had a great day.
School again today, this morning was the last of the exams and then we had home class which today was basically a really thorough clean as it is graduation ceremony on Tuesday. I found this really funny to watch because it was actually quiet fun, we had the teacher and some of the boys standing on the windowsills cleaning the windows and at one point some of the girls closed the windows and locked them shut leaving the boys outside. And then opened them and pushed them off the window sill, quiet amusing really.
I then had band which was pretty standard, except for this one song where the 4 boys from band dance to it instead of playing, I found that so amusing I don’t think I actually played at all in the song.
Came home and had a cup of tea and more cake. Yes I do still think that there is such a thing as to much cake!
I then came up to my room to sort all my photos out and get this updated. I have now backed up all my exchange photos so far to cd. And then did a few hours of Japanese study. It’s hard it really is but it is getting there a lot of the time I find that I know words but not phrases which means I can generally understand what is being said to me because I can pick up key words and the tense of the sentence. But it’s really hard to put the words together into a sentence to respond to them.
Sunday 1st March
It really doesn’t seem like 5 weeks this whole thing is going too fast.
Had band again this morning.
Um came home and mended some more of my clothes… one was a re-mend because what I did last time came undone.
Went out for lunch to a tempura restaurant which was interesting, shrimp, fish, and lots of random veggies (tempura basically means you deep fry it)
We then went up the mountain to the ski resort we were going to stay at last week but didn’t because Otosan was to busy with work. It was really pretty and COLD but Otosan kept saying there is no snow. Which I thought was really amusing seeing as it was all white but I guess he means relatively, as it is the end of the snow season and even up the mountains it is starting to melt.
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