Australians hello,
How are we all? I hope you are enjoying life, i know i surely am. This week has had some hurdles to overcome and some down times regarding some aspects of life back home, however i will put them aside for this evening and enlighten you all with some lovely tales of Japanese adventures.
Well, i suppose the first lesson you can be taught is that, from my experiences, Japanese weather is crazy. Today when i woke up, the sun was shining, the ground was warm, i even became hot riding to school. Later on we experienced sunny but raining and then cloudy and warm, then cloudy and raining. We had one random rumble of thunder and then it was back to clear again. It was clear when i got on my bike and left school. However, by the time i was home, i was again saturated and looked as if i had just been running around playing chasey with a tornado.
I am starting to not get stared at so much at school. I am making such good friends here in Tachibana. Trying to remember everyone`s name is hard, they always ask me! I have three lessons of calligraphy a week which i love! The teacher knows a word or two of english but one of those is `freeze`. It is such a harsh word and i ran the brush right over my page when she jut randomly said `freeze`! Yumi Sensei had obviously been speaking with her and she said she didn`t know why i got so scared when she spoke english but it was funny when she finally realised what she was saying meant.
If someone asks me how tall i am, my friends always jump in and answer as fast as they can, before i get the chance, i think they are proud to be friends with someone who is 177cms tall!
This weekend i have to go to school on the Saturday. We have an open day (this is from what i can gather, often i think i am on the right track and then something completely random will happen!) We have heaps of Biology lessons and in the afternoon parents are coming in to watch us learn, they will think i am so strange, i don`t know what to do but pretend to look as Japanese as possible, it could be tricky.
Australian mothers, you are 100% outdone when it comes to packing lunch boxes. I am sorry to say, but it is a fine art over here and every one has such gorgeous lunches, i will take many pictures. The only issue i have had so far is the way my host mum slips grapefruit into mine. I can`t help the face that i get when grapefruit enters my mouth, it is so disgusting, i hate the way they look a little like mandarins!
As well as school this weekend, I know that my family and i, of course, are going to either a temple or some other place which i am not sure what it is, but it is our plans. I will tell you all about it!
I will leave it at this, i love hearing from you, your comments always make me smile!
Love Melissa xxx
5 comments:
HAHAHA, grapefruit you must love that stuff not, may as well eat a lemon lol. its good to hear your enjoying yourself at skool. and im sure you will have a lot of trouble trying to look japanese at the open day lol, but i hope you have fun. its a shame to hear about the rain only falling wen you ride your bike but iam sure it will cum to a stop soon enough lol. well keep smiling and make the most of every day you only have 56 left lol
xoxo Love You Lots Love Luke
I still envy you... GOOOD! I would KILL to get a chance like that... But no! I am stuck here... Aah well my dream "exchange" will come this summer (if you havent heard (I bet you have) that emelie is coming to the Netherlands and a month later I'll be returning the favor and visit her in Sweden :D)
God and now I am embarrased about my lunch every day... Its usually not even more then a sandwich with cheese... GOD DAMN THOSE EUROPEAN MUMS!
Well I should be off as I mentioned I still have several books to read! Ooh and speaking of Harry Potter. I have read them both all in dutch and english but reading it in its motherlanguage is SOOOO much better. Not to mention the names that get translated with everything Seriously Hermione Granger becomes Hermelien Griffel or another exsample is proffesor Albus Dumbledore becomes Albus Perkamentus (I mean come one how lame is that?!).
Well anyways... Harry is yelling for my attention. I'll see you later!
- Michel
Melissa, it's Andy here. Man i'am jealous, your so lucky...not bout the sick thing, but sounds like your getting better already. Go the Jap drugs, they sound brilliant, reckon you could get a pack through customs?... Soi'm unemployed, and i've just left my Uni course. I'm hopefully going into education mid-year...yeah that's right, i'm gonna be a teacher:) Go the Blogs, i get excited now when i check them:) Good luck:)
hey mel, i can just imagine you, towering over them all lol
bradford is here and he says hi
well, gd 2 hear ur havin a ball and il talk 2 u soon
love rach xoxo
(and bradford)
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
on behalf of all us Aussie mums, there is nothing wrong with what we put in school lunches. Yippee!! You can teach the rest of the class calligraphy when you get back. I had ぎょうざ for tea last night. とてもおいしかったよ。Only 56 sleeps to go? Wow, how fast is this trip going? Have you made friends with any of the students who were at Tatachilla last month? Gotta go. The Bold is about to start. Hee hee.
Your former favourite Japanese teacher. sniff! sniff!
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