i didn't post it but... yes i went to japan xD
i originally was gonna go from the 28th to the 4th but.. then my host family was like STAY UNTIL THE 6TH so i changed the date.
which really sucks because i was stressing my face off with how i can work around thier schedule.... guess.what.
I COULD HAVE STAYED FOR LIKE A MONTH IF I WANTED!!!!
but.... it's okay XD
ignore the typos, i'll fix them later, it's 2 in the morning now. ;] fixed ;]
so i arrive, and i am looking for my host mom in the airport. my host mom is like.... amazing. if you've ever met me, here's a comparison, she's EXACTLY like me only older. same with my host sister.. only younger.
so i don't see her in the airport when i walk out of the gate. so i'm like FML bc i plane was 30 minutes early.
so i head over to a paid phone, on the way i hear "JESS!" screamed and i'm like O_O; and i turn around... no sign of her... so i'm like... jetlag much?
so i head over to the phone and i call her. and she picks up 'moshi moshi' and i go "OKAASAN!!"
...we sat there on the phone like
OKAASAN!!!
JESS!!!
OKAAASAAAAN!!!!
JESSSSS!!!!!!!!
for about 5 minutes until she was like " okay i'm in the airport!" and i was like.... DOKO YO?! and she said she'd find me so i hang up and i see her walking towards me.
i could have cried i was so happy to see her again. i cried when we landed in japan, it was like a breathe of fresh air and being there with my kachan was just the icing on the cake.
so we take about an hour train to ebisu, and she's like "lets get something to eat" so we go to this cute little cafe by atre, and sit and wait (suitcase and all xD)
i had no idea what we were waiting for, but i got used to not knowing what was going to happen last summer, so i go with the flow with them. after about 30 minutes my okaasan is like "OVER HEERE!" and i hear
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!...
in the middle
of
a
TINY
cafe
i was like O______________________O; and turned around to see my host sister running to me in her little sailor school uniform. omg i started crying, she was crying, we were both screaming and hugging each other, i thought the cafe was gonna blow up.. or kick us out.
even though japanese people can be like no touchy, thats not the case with my host fmaily.
i dont care what you preach about japanese people being distant, because my host family breaks that mold ten fold.
i should have said this in the beginning though. XD
so any remarks about how thats weird, japanese people aren't normally like that, you've only known them for a year that doesn't happen..
keep it to yourself ;]
ANYWAY
we eat these amazing fruit and yogurt mixtures and head home
i meet the dog
yada yada yada
i forget what we had for dinner XD
NEXT DAY
i head over to yotsuya where my old school was, one because i visited the school, two because a smbc (japanese bank) is there and i'm more comfortable going to that one than another one in ebisu.
so i cash my travellers checks and head over to my old school.
it's not a japanese school, it's a communications institute, bobby valentine went to it.
anyway.. there are the new afs kids there on foreign exchange sitting there looking at me like "who the efffffff" and i poke my head in and i see one of my old sensei's in the office and i'm like
"MASAKI-SENSEI!!!!!" (i know.. masaki xD)
and he looks up and he's like "UWAAA!!!!! NANI!! NANIII!!!!!"
and he jumps up and he's like "NANDE! NANDE?!" all happy XD and the kids are like... "what... the.... O_O;"
so he calls his dad overr, yamauchi-sensei and sensei was like "OMG JESS!!!" and they take me into a back room and i get tea (omg DX i hate that tea mannnn NO SWEETNESS i got used to it but omg DX it was worse than my moms lipton :/)
anyway, my one sensei sasaki-sensei walks by and she stops and she's like "JESS! OMG!! HISASHIBURI! YOU DYED YOUR HAIR!!!" (i'm a blonde now)
and i was like XD arigatou~~!
omg i was so happy to be there
long story short, i helped teach a class, they made me lecture the newbs about studying and then told me to come back tomorrow to meet my favorite sensei furue-sensei
she's awesome. she would incorporate arashi into the lesson just for me XD
they do this thing with pictures and you have to say the name, and what kind of nationality they are. she brought a picture of sho and i was like THAT ONES MINE, NO ONE DO THAT ONE.
;]
anyway i go home and spend time wiht my ka-chan
next day i head over to ici around lunch time and my favorite sensei was there and i was like OMG!!!!! and we were both soooo happy and surprised to see each other.
i love her O_O no joke
she's adorable
she actually studied in ny for awhile, don't ask me where, she never told me. but she was close enough to go to mitsuwa.
i swear if i ran into her, all of ny and nj would have known xD
anywho we go out for lunh, i got curry, it was really good, and we talked about last year and i told her all about nycc and karaoke, and she said how she missed my afs group because this new group is boring and quiet XD it made me love her more.
okay, then i went home and i went shopping and i got everything, crazy moon re, and other cds. i slowly wanna collect all of arashi's singles and albums, not le but re and stuff bc... le would be impossible XD
anyway next day i visit icu. i'll post pictures later.
the campus is beautiful. it's the college for me. i cried again being there. i'm a big crybaby xD
it's... amazing. there's not much to say about it though :/ i need pictures XD
http://www.icu.ac.jp/index_e.html
visit the site.
anyway, the next day.. i believe.. i hung out with nari!!! ;]
in asakusa.
and here's another longish story.
the place began with a 'k' and it was by ueno, my train was stopped to let people off and it was taking a long ass time to lose the doors.
and another train dropped people off.
i look up to watch the people (creepsta much)
and i see this boy that srsly looks about 20, i mean huge, built, wide shoulders and a broad chest. he was wearing a plaid trucker hat hiding his eyes (!!!) and a red sweater. he tilted his head up to see something, idk what, he was facing me, so.. if it was me he was looking at i'll probably collapse. anyway, i see the chin, the lips, the neck, the hair.. and i realize.. as he walked away....
that was yuto nakajima of hey! say! jump.
for those unfamiliar... he's this little sucker
(follow the link bc i can't get the picture on here)
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii287/duane-chan/hey%20say%20jump/1_646296278l.jpg
DON'T BELIEVE THE CUTE FACE
HE LOOKS LIKE HE COULD KICK MY ASS AND EAT IT AFTERWARDS
HE'S HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii287/duane-chan/hey%20say%20jump/a9f945b0a95b47efcda1c82bb8e954ee123.jpg
im not joking. after seeing that coming off a train, i'm lucky i'm not still on it sitting there huddled in a corner screaming for sho.
anyway. nari and i go to a shrine... the smart smoke avoided me.
here's the story for that. it's incense believed to make you smarter *cough*... XD so we walk over and i breathe it in a little bit then the wind starts blowing it the other way. so we both move over to the other side and i was in the middle of the smoke.. and not getting any of it.
wanna guess way...
IT WAS GOING AROUND ME
the smoke was literally avoiding me. the SMART smoke was avoiding me.
so which nari says "you really are jaiba"
then i got badfortune.. ripped the paper by accident.
here's that story. you have to rock this case back and forth until you get a stick, you look at the number on the stick and go into a drawer with the number labeled on it. then you get a peice of paper in the drawer, and it reads good fortune or bad fortune. nari got good fortune, and jaiba got the bad fortune. so i was freaking about it, crumpled the paper because your suposed to fold it, so i crumpled it long ways, then i see that everyone else folded it nicely and tied it O_O;
whoops. so as i try to tie it, it rips.
so....
i'm screwed for life XD
we took pictures with cute girls, met an indie band (nari got the demo) went to the johnny's store, etc. it was a blast :]
ANYWAY i go home, tell my host sister about yuto. she confirms that yes that was yuto i saw, her best friend sees him everyday on her train home (lucky bitch) and she said. he's mean and has a bad character.
dissappointing. such a baby face.
BUT I BELIEVE IT! HE'S LOOKS LIKE HE COULD SUMMON THE POWERS OF THE UNIVERSE AND USE THE TOKYO TOWER AS A TOOTH PICK!!! (he does have big teeth, but that wasn't a joke at that xD that was for lack for nothing witty to say.)
i did visit tokyo tower also.
it was scary, they have the panels to walk on that are made of glass, omg... scary... SCARY my ka-chan made me do it DX
but what i thik is cool is, you can go to the tokyo tower at night. it lights up, but it's virtually dark inside, so you see all of tokyo lit up. *nudges future boyfriend* TAKE MEH
the rest of the days i lazed around and just hung out with my host family. basically bonding time. it was amazing, i wish i was back with them now.
<3