For the last time i moved families on Sunday. I was again filled with sadness in regards to leaving but full of exciting anticipation at what lay ahead. This family is lovely! I share a room with my host sister, sayumi and it is a really pink room filled with disney characters and hello kitty. I have two younger sisters who i talk to more than anyone else and my mum is so caring! My grandparents are great and my host dad is really nice and also has a good taste in english music which i discovered when we were driving on my first day when we were listening to `footloose` and `eye of the tiger`.
I ride a bike to and from school again, this ride is 5km each way and it goes through the busiest parts of the city so the ride is really interesting but i admit i almost got hit by a car today. I am grateful i had so many driving lessons before i left to come here because it really does help and i think it has saved my life!
Today we had a dancing test which was actually so great. I had no idea we were doing a test but turns out we were so we all had to get up in our groups of about 5 and perform this one disco kind of dance to the class. I was so embarrassed at first seeing that i don`t understand instructions and hence i only know how to do it by copying so i am not very good at all but i love my class so much and me and aki were stuffing up a lot but the girls watching just kept clapping for us and everyone had an awesome time.
My english has become terrible. I talk so stupidly and yesterday we were eating tea when on the news we all heard an english voice. The thickness of the Australia accent hit me and i was like, `How Australian does he sound!`. It was kind of awkward though because he was having a massive go at the Japanese `scientific` whalers and what he had to say wasn`t so friendly and i was wishing so bad that there weren`t Japanese subtitles translating every word he said, but of course, there were. They then went on to ask me if we ate whales and i said no because the whales are our friends. (That was the only way my Japanese could explain it!) But they were quite... i forget the word, oblivious to Australia`s outrage and told me that they eat whale often except it is unfortunately a bit expensive....
On Friday I am going Kareoke-ing with my friend from school and doing Purikura, it should be great but means i have to find my way home which again could be interesting. I have also been given my shinkansen tickets for getting to the airport! How terribly sad, it is only perhaps 23 days until i am home! Looks like i will be getting in at Adelaide on Sunday morning and am spending the wee hours of the morning in Sydney airport for a while, on my own which should be exciting, I will be buying anything but oolong tea and talking with the staff and enjoy the fact that no body will be watching my every move because I will blend in for the first time in 3 months!
Best be off, going to watch my little sisters dancing lesson tonight. Love Mel x
5 comments:
Wear something bright is the only tip I have for the bike riding, your new famliy sound nice. I'm not sad you have your airplane tickets, it will be so exciting to see you and catch up.I hope you don't get a whale farewell dinner.
love you lots aunty Linda
people can't eat whale. or well, if they eat horse there they might just feel whale isn't that bad either. i think they eat a lot of whale in norway though. the weirdest thing we eat in sweden is moose, i have never had it though.
enjoy the last time you have there in japan now melissa! i cant wait to talk to you again though, i have missed you so much! and then everything should be back to basic again. execpt that you're home from japan and i will have returned from the neths! i am leaving for düsseldorf (which is in germany if you didn't know...) on wednesday the 6th, it's less than a week left before i go. I AM SO EXCITED! i am home from greece and don't even need to put away my suitcase before going to the netherlands. I will have visited 4 countries in one week! :D (greece, sweden, the netherlands and germany)
i will check your blog till i leave and of course while i am there too! have a great time lovely, you deserve it, and watch out for the cars and all on your way to school!
love, emelie xox
Dancing contest! That's great! I'd pay to see you do your rave amongst the little Japanese girls. I CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TO COME HOME!!!! I need to talk to you face-to-face so badly... I've been deprived. Not too long to go! I'm counting down the days in my diary.
I love you and I'm so excited about seeing you again!! Can you tell? Love you, Mel!
Love, Steph.
xox
PS: I'm friends with plenty of whales, glad you let them know.
hey,
how was karaoke and purikura?
i cant believe ur leaving so soon!! make the most out of the last days you have here, im sure you already know that, but yeah!!
anyways, blog again soon and keep bloggin whilst ur in aus!
love giant!
xox
I heard at school today that it is only about 20 sleeps to go. Wow!! Make sure to make a list of the things you want to do before you come home, i.e. buy my Japanese teacher some chocolate, eat gyoza, buy my Japanese teacher some chocolate, take photos of home room friends, buy my Japanese teacher some chocolate. You know, those mushroom biscuit thingys with chocolate on them. Well, we learnt all about relative clauses today and the girls disappeared half an hour after the lesson started to have their 2nd injection. Today was my first day back at school after 17 days in bed from minor surgery that went wrong. Long story... Erika's English is awesome now and she has certainly come out of her shell. She is already half way through her stay here. Oh well, I had better enjoy the peace and quiet in the classroom for the next 20 days while I can. Hee hee!!
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