Bad Emi! Bad bad Emi!
I forgot to post AGAIN! Grrr... Yesterday, of course. Then I've been putting it off today. Not sure why.
Anyway, first off, Sunday. Since I didn't write much on Sunday. Sunday was a lazy day for me. I really just hung around the house all day. Slept late, got up and ate brunch, used the computer.... I think that's about all I did. Until the evening of course, when I went to the Bible study... That was fun. Allen (one of the crazy British guys. :p) couldn't make it this week, but the guy that missed last week came... He's from the Pacific Northwest too. :p
Anyway, we talked about sharing our faith.... I ate lots of peanuts.... I couldn't stop eating peanuts. They were so good...... And then I got home around 10:00. Went to bed, some internet stuff, sleep.
Monday morning... Up early for school. Ugh. School is all right, but the word early is evil. Ate some melonpan, which is delicious. It's bread, and it's so so good... Sweet, round.... Delicious!
I walked to school with Yuutaro. When we got there I found out it's volunteer week, so everyone was out doing stuff.... So I went and helped sweep the walkway. Then it was inside for class.
They started with talking... Teacher talking, students talking, I'm not entirely sure what was going on. Then they moved their desks around... I stayed in the back, and some people were "arguing" (jokingly, I think) about who could sit in front of me. ;) I feel loved.
Then they did social studies.... This was immensely odd for me. I THINK they were talking about 9/11.... 9.11 was written on the boards, and I heard "terrorist", "America", and "New York" a few times. So after coming to this conclusion in my mind, my mind wandered.... To 9/11. And I relived some strange memories.... I didn't know what the WTC was before that.......
Anyway, I have been finding it hard to concentrate, as demonstrated by my mind wandering after hearing 9/11... I know I have to listen to pick up the Japanese, but it's hard.... It's hard to pay attention when I can't understand... At all.
After social studies, the students made cards... In groups.... To teachers. I think.... Something to do with a farewell party, but I didn't catch what (6th graders graduate from Elementary school.... I think in March). I just sat and doodled... They were drawing food, so I grabbed my notebook and just started doodling stuff.... In my special style that I call "8 years". My art looks like it's done by an 8 year old. Everything has a happy smiley face.... And looks very cuddly. People thought it was cute, I guess.... I could probably draw better if I wanted to, but I like "8 years".
After that was science. The air cycle.... It's not called that here, but from the handouts, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out... ;) A scientist, maybe, but not a rocket scientist. :p So I filled the stuff in with the help of the person in front of me (because even though the teacher was writing in hiragana for me, I couldn't see that far).
Then we ate lunch. Lunch was fun.... The ALT (American Language Teacher), who is from Hawaii, came and had lunch with us. :) She has family in Salem, so she's familiar with Oregon... ;) And with OSU too! :) So we talked for a while.... It was fun.
I'm now remembering a dodge ball game before lunch, but I don't remember when.... It was too cold for me to care much anyway. ;)
Anyway, after lunch was another dodge ball game..... These kids LOVE their dodge ball. This dodge ball game was AWESOME though. We had a TON of people playing.... I kept getting run into. But it was lots of fun. Teachers were even playing! My team won both times, though I'm sure I was no help. I put the word "dodge" in the name "dodge ball".
Then we went in and cleaned. I like cleaning stairs A LOT more than bathrooms... I'll put it that way. It wasn't bad... But still. I also said hi to Yuutaro, who was helping clean his classroom (which happened to be right next to the bathroom I was helping clean).
After cleaning, back outside! Cold... I'm not a fan of cold. It was PE time though.... Not my favorite subject. It is kind of fun that they do monkey bars and stuff for a warm up... too bad I have 0 arm strength. I did climb the rope thing they have, and the jungle gym.... I'm a climber. No doubt about that. That's the only place my athletic skills exist. The soccer was no fun to me... Not enough coordination to control the ball... I kept going out of bounds. :p The game of dodge ball (ANOTHER one) wasn't bad though....
After that it was back upstairs to get ready to go home.... Get our stuff... And go home. Yay. Even though school is alright, it's always fun to finally be able to go home.
No one told me the plan for what to do though. Yuutaro's class finished earlier, so I wasn't going home with him... I didn't THINK I was going home with Nanako, but I wasn't sure. I would have been able to find the house alright, but my teacher was concerned about it.... So we found Nanako and I did end up walking home with her. Tomorrow I'll be fine though. I kind of tested myself yesterday (telling myself where to turn before we got there, to see if I was right), and I did fine.... So not a problem.
After we got home, I basically got to relax. I was tired, so that was good. My grandma wasn't home yet for some reason, but she got home not long after us, and then I ate a snack. Gotta love the deliciousness of a cheese tart! And then some takoyaki... Yum! Yuutaro played MarbleBlast Gold a little bit (he loves that game), then I got my computer back and basically messed around on the internet for the rest of the day. Filmed my pilot/intro for my podcast.... Tried getting that to Kento... Messed up Mail, had to set up POP mail again..... It was interesting. :p
Well, it's getting late, so I better make my account of today quick. Not a problem, since today was quick. Got up late again... Yay for Tuesdays and Sundays! Used my computer for a while, then had brunch. Computer for a few more minutes, then we left for my Japanese class. We walked! :) For the first time in a while. I'm starting to like all the walking... I'm not wimping out as much anymore. It makes me feel good about myself. ;)
Japanese class was alright... A bit frustrating for me though. Saturdays are better, because they're 1-on-1, and my teacher is an English teacher. I'm a question asker, so it's rough when I can't really communicate with my teacher. It doesn't help when I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what we're doing anyway. I was doing alright near the end though, so it was OK. I'll admit I was pretty frustrated though. I really need to understand things, or I get annoyed with myself. I am so determined to understand, and if I don't, I want to ask why, and be able to understand.... At least in a class. That may be why I'm so ahead... I'm not afraid to ask questions.... In fact, if I don't get it, I pester and ask questions until I do... :p So this Japanese class has been something new. I don't mind not being able to understand Japanese in general too much.... But when it's a Japanese class that I should be able to understand, it's frustrating.
So, enough about me and my quirks that frustrate me.... After class my grandma and I walked to the store.... And bought chocolate. Strange thing.... I had a dream about chocolate cake last night. I know there was more to it than that, but that's all I can remember. So after class we have tea and some snacks, and today we had chocolate cake........ It seemed a bit odd to me. So I told my grandma that I had a dream about chocolate cake last night, and she decided we should buy chocolate... Or something. I'm not sure what was up with that.... It was interesting.
So anyway, we bought chocolatey stuff. I'm certainly not complaining. I guess I'm having chocolate stuff for breakfast tomorrow.... Good plan. :)
So... We came home... And... What did I do after that, anyway? Oh yeah! I had told my grandma I wanted to buy one of the really cool tamagochis they have here now! It just so happenes that Ryusuke was going to Kanda today, so we asked him to pick one up for me. I got to pick out the color and all that good stuff from a book Nanako and Yuutaro have.... Fun. :p So I'm getting one of the awesome tamagochis with wifi and stuff. I'm excited about that. :) I don't know when Ryusuake is coming back, so I'm not sure WHEN I'll get it.... But eventually!
After that, I got online. Talked to Kento for a bit, then did an IM chat in Skype with Kento and my dad. My dad is buying a mic tomorrow (which is today there now....), so hopefully we'll be doing group conferencing soon!
I also tried to get my pilot/intro for my podcast to Kento.... He'll be hosting it on his iDisk for me. And setting up my feed.... It didn't work though, so I guess we'll be figuring it out tomorrow. Which is today there. Whatever.
After that... Well, we ate dinner, I got a bath, I did some kanji, I goofed off online.... Good day. :) I also joined the podsafe music network, now with an official OK from C.C.Chapman to make my very unique and strange podcast! I had to clarify some rules to make sure I could do what I want to do with the music.... If I said what that is, I'd spoil my secrecy... ;) But it's very unique and is yet to be done. Yay! So I joined the network, and have been listening to and downloading some songs I want to use. I've got some GREAT ideas and am really excited about them! :) So stay tuned, and hopefully I'll be sending people in the direction of my feed soon!
That's about it for the past few days. Sorry I haven't put any pictures up in a while. I'll try to do that tomorrow, if I don't end up having a long conversation with Kento and my dad or something.... Maybe I'll at least put a picture of my tamagochi up. The one I'm hoping to get looks awesome....
So yeah, that's it for today. I need to head to bed so I can get up early again tomorrow.
G'night!
Anyway, first off, Sunday. Since I didn't write much on Sunday. Sunday was a lazy day for me. I really just hung around the house all day. Slept late, got up and ate brunch, used the computer.... I think that's about all I did. Until the evening of course, when I went to the Bible study... That was fun. Allen (one of the crazy British guys. :p) couldn't make it this week, but the guy that missed last week came... He's from the Pacific Northwest too. :p
Anyway, we talked about sharing our faith.... I ate lots of peanuts.... I couldn't stop eating peanuts. They were so good...... And then I got home around 10:00. Went to bed, some internet stuff, sleep.
Monday morning... Up early for school. Ugh. School is all right, but the word early is evil. Ate some melonpan, which is delicious. It's bread, and it's so so good... Sweet, round.... Delicious!
I walked to school with Yuutaro. When we got there I found out it's volunteer week, so everyone was out doing stuff.... So I went and helped sweep the walkway. Then it was inside for class.
They started with talking... Teacher talking, students talking, I'm not entirely sure what was going on. Then they moved their desks around... I stayed in the back, and some people were "arguing" (jokingly, I think) about who could sit in front of me. ;) I feel loved.
Then they did social studies.... This was immensely odd for me. I THINK they were talking about 9/11.... 9.11 was written on the boards, and I heard "terrorist", "America", and "New York" a few times. So after coming to this conclusion in my mind, my mind wandered.... To 9/11. And I relived some strange memories.... I didn't know what the WTC was before that.......
Anyway, I have been finding it hard to concentrate, as demonstrated by my mind wandering after hearing 9/11... I know I have to listen to pick up the Japanese, but it's hard.... It's hard to pay attention when I can't understand... At all.
After social studies, the students made cards... In groups.... To teachers. I think.... Something to do with a farewell party, but I didn't catch what (6th graders graduate from Elementary school.... I think in March). I just sat and doodled... They were drawing food, so I grabbed my notebook and just started doodling stuff.... In my special style that I call "8 years". My art looks like it's done by an 8 year old. Everything has a happy smiley face.... And looks very cuddly. People thought it was cute, I guess.... I could probably draw better if I wanted to, but I like "8 years".
After that was science. The air cycle.... It's not called that here, but from the handouts, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out... ;) A scientist, maybe, but not a rocket scientist. :p So I filled the stuff in with the help of the person in front of me (because even though the teacher was writing in hiragana for me, I couldn't see that far).
Then we ate lunch. Lunch was fun.... The ALT (American Language Teacher), who is from Hawaii, came and had lunch with us. :) She has family in Salem, so she's familiar with Oregon... ;) And with OSU too! :) So we talked for a while.... It was fun.
I'm now remembering a dodge ball game before lunch, but I don't remember when.... It was too cold for me to care much anyway. ;)
Anyway, after lunch was another dodge ball game..... These kids LOVE their dodge ball. This dodge ball game was AWESOME though. We had a TON of people playing.... I kept getting run into. But it was lots of fun. Teachers were even playing! My team won both times, though I'm sure I was no help. I put the word "dodge" in the name "dodge ball".
Then we went in and cleaned. I like cleaning stairs A LOT more than bathrooms... I'll put it that way. It wasn't bad... But still. I also said hi to Yuutaro, who was helping clean his classroom (which happened to be right next to the bathroom I was helping clean).
After cleaning, back outside! Cold... I'm not a fan of cold. It was PE time though.... Not my favorite subject. It is kind of fun that they do monkey bars and stuff for a warm up... too bad I have 0 arm strength. I did climb the rope thing they have, and the jungle gym.... I'm a climber. No doubt about that. That's the only place my athletic skills exist. The soccer was no fun to me... Not enough coordination to control the ball... I kept going out of bounds. :p The game of dodge ball (ANOTHER one) wasn't bad though....
After that it was back upstairs to get ready to go home.... Get our stuff... And go home. Yay. Even though school is alright, it's always fun to finally be able to go home.
No one told me the plan for what to do though. Yuutaro's class finished earlier, so I wasn't going home with him... I didn't THINK I was going home with Nanako, but I wasn't sure. I would have been able to find the house alright, but my teacher was concerned about it.... So we found Nanako and I did end up walking home with her. Tomorrow I'll be fine though. I kind of tested myself yesterday (telling myself where to turn before we got there, to see if I was right), and I did fine.... So not a problem.
After we got home, I basically got to relax. I was tired, so that was good. My grandma wasn't home yet for some reason, but she got home not long after us, and then I ate a snack. Gotta love the deliciousness of a cheese tart! And then some takoyaki... Yum! Yuutaro played MarbleBlast Gold a little bit (he loves that game), then I got my computer back and basically messed around on the internet for the rest of the day. Filmed my pilot/intro for my podcast.... Tried getting that to Kento... Messed up Mail, had to set up POP mail again..... It was interesting. :p
Well, it's getting late, so I better make my account of today quick. Not a problem, since today was quick. Got up late again... Yay for Tuesdays and Sundays! Used my computer for a while, then had brunch. Computer for a few more minutes, then we left for my Japanese class. We walked! :) For the first time in a while. I'm starting to like all the walking... I'm not wimping out as much anymore. It makes me feel good about myself. ;)
Japanese class was alright... A bit frustrating for me though. Saturdays are better, because they're 1-on-1, and my teacher is an English teacher. I'm a question asker, so it's rough when I can't really communicate with my teacher. It doesn't help when I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what we're doing anyway. I was doing alright near the end though, so it was OK. I'll admit I was pretty frustrated though. I really need to understand things, or I get annoyed with myself. I am so determined to understand, and if I don't, I want to ask why, and be able to understand.... At least in a class. That may be why I'm so ahead... I'm not afraid to ask questions.... In fact, if I don't get it, I pester and ask questions until I do... :p So this Japanese class has been something new. I don't mind not being able to understand Japanese in general too much.... But when it's a Japanese class that I should be able to understand, it's frustrating.
So, enough about me and my quirks that frustrate me.... After class my grandma and I walked to the store.... And bought chocolate. Strange thing.... I had a dream about chocolate cake last night. I know there was more to it than that, but that's all I can remember. So after class we have tea and some snacks, and today we had chocolate cake........ It seemed a bit odd to me. So I told my grandma that I had a dream about chocolate cake last night, and she decided we should buy chocolate... Or something. I'm not sure what was up with that.... It was interesting.
So anyway, we bought chocolatey stuff. I'm certainly not complaining. I guess I'm having chocolate stuff for breakfast tomorrow.... Good plan. :)
So... We came home... And... What did I do after that, anyway? Oh yeah! I had told my grandma I wanted to buy one of the really cool tamagochis they have here now! It just so happenes that Ryusuke was going to Kanda today, so we asked him to pick one up for me. I got to pick out the color and all that good stuff from a book Nanako and Yuutaro have.... Fun. :p So I'm getting one of the awesome tamagochis with wifi and stuff. I'm excited about that. :) I don't know when Ryusuake is coming back, so I'm not sure WHEN I'll get it.... But eventually!
After that, I got online. Talked to Kento for a bit, then did an IM chat in Skype with Kento and my dad. My dad is buying a mic tomorrow (which is today there now....), so hopefully we'll be doing group conferencing soon!
I also tried to get my pilot/intro for my podcast to Kento.... He'll be hosting it on his iDisk for me. And setting up my feed.... It didn't work though, so I guess we'll be figuring it out tomorrow. Which is today there. Whatever.
After that... Well, we ate dinner, I got a bath, I did some kanji, I goofed off online.... Good day. :) I also joined the podsafe music network, now with an official OK from C.C.Chapman to make my very unique and strange podcast! I had to clarify some rules to make sure I could do what I want to do with the music.... If I said what that is, I'd spoil my secrecy... ;) But it's very unique and is yet to be done. Yay! So I joined the network, and have been listening to and downloading some songs I want to use. I've got some GREAT ideas and am really excited about them! :) So stay tuned, and hopefully I'll be sending people in the direction of my feed soon!
That's about it for the past few days. Sorry I haven't put any pictures up in a while. I'll try to do that tomorrow, if I don't end up having a long conversation with Kento and my dad or something.... Maybe I'll at least put a picture of my tamagochi up. The one I'm hoping to get looks awesome....
So yeah, that's it for today. I need to head to bed so I can get up early again tomorrow.
G'night!
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