Time to catch up! I mean it!
Ugh.... Still mad at myself for getting so behind....... But I will correct this!
First off, I guess I do have something to write about for Thursday.... I wanted to watch the Olympics, specifically the figure skating. I wanted to watch the short program........ Which NHK (by the way, I was wrong... There are quite a few more news channels, but they aren't commercial free like NHK) was broadcasting live.... Meaning 3:00 AM our time on Wednesday morning. Well, I wasn't going to school Wednesday...... So why not? I stayed up and watched.... In my room, of course. I really liked Kimmie.... The 16 year old skater for the US. She did awesome, but not good enough, I guess. I ended up going to bed after 3 hours.... "Short" program? Not really. I enjoyed watching what I saw though...... Then I slept in, and didn't really do much on Wednesday........
On to Thursday. Back to school after a week long absence! The morning was dull for me... I'm still not totally sure what was going on.... Going over the tests, it seemed.... But the day after the testing? Is it possible? I suppose. I just sat in the back working on my Japanese....
After that we went out to play dodge ball. Practicing for the big tournament. ;) We had until 10:30 to play.... At 10:30 we were off on a trip! We walked to a nursing home to go visit the elderly people! Of course I really couldn't communicate.... But that's OK. I worked on some of those crazy metal puzzles that have two pieces and you have to get them to come apart.... Those are fun. There were lots of different ones, and I only mastered one. I also played Othello with this guy who I think had a really short attention span and didn't understand the rules at all.... Oh well. I kind of felt bad about winning, but that's life.
After that we walked back to the school and had lunch. After lunch I stayed inside and helped punch out these English flash card things. While I was doing so I was "found". I don't know if these 1st graders had been looking for me recently or not, but apparently they "found" me. I think it was the same girl (and friends) who were staring at me while we cleaned the bathrooms..... But anyway, they "found" me and hung around trying to communicate for a while. There was quite a bit of random talk about how to say things in English/Japanese.... And apparent surprise at me being able to speak a little Japanese.... That surprises people for some reason. Seems to me that if I'm in a Japanese school I should be able to at least speak a little, but I guess that isn't as evident to the 1st graders..... Oh well.
After that I helped clean the classroom, then we did.... Umm... What did we do? Oh yeah! We went down to the computer lab! The slow slow PC computer lab! The whole 2-monitors-in-1 thing kind of annoys me, but then slow slow PCs do too.... But hey, it's internet.... Some of the kids looked at my blog, but not being able to understand it kept them from being too interested...... I tried to post, but apparently blogger.com is blocked. So I played some networked typing game with some of the other people.... That was interesting. To our understanding you just punch 1, 2, and 3 really fast and hope for the bests. I also helped some people practice romaji... :p Really typing Japanese, but it's kind of the same thing.
After that I came home, and not much else happened. Just the typical dinner, bath, and whatnot.
Friday.... This should be interesting. Friday morning of course I'm up and off to school, after breakfast... The figure skating medal ceremony was on.... Japan showed it with pride, as on of their skaters earned herself a gold (and she totally deserved it too! :)).
When I got to school, it was out for dodge ball practice.... Why? Because it was the day of the TOURNAMENT! :) We played for a bit, then it was inside. People got changed into their gym clothes, then it was off to the gym for the games! :) Some people talked for a bit, then the gym was divided into two with a big net thing and the games began! I was on the girls 6-4A team.... I think I said before that the boys and girls don't play against each other, and the 6th grade has 4 classes (I'm in 6-4). For dodge ball each class had two teams, and A team and a B team. That kept it down to 11 people per team and allowed everyone a chance to play (of course several people were on both teams). To keep it to 12 games the A teams only played against other A teams and B teams against B teams. 6-4A (girls) were in the first game.... We won, though I'm sure I was not very helpful. It was funny when I was running backwards to try to escape the ball, got hit, then fell over though.... The teacher behind me was laughing, and I was laughing.... Some other people asked if I was OK, which of course I was. Falling over is nothing new to me. I ended up out and failed to earn my way back in.....
Maybe now would be a good time to explain the differences between dodge ball in the US and dodge ball in Japan.... First off, there's only one ball here. I love that part. Also, if you get hit, you go outside the boundaries of the opponents area. You basically have free roam outside their boundaries (as long as you don't cross into the outside of your team's boundaries!) and can play from there. It's kind of hard to explain.... Maybe if anyone actually cares I can make a model. Anyway, you play from there and can earn your way back in by getting someone on the opponent's team out. It makes it a bit harder, because you have people surrounding you on all sides... I think those are the only differences I've really noticed. Also, some people start "out".
Anyway. I failed to earn my way back into the main game.... But we still won. I can't remember for sure who we were playing against.... I think it was 6-3.
I didn't really keep track of what games happened when, and who won what... I'm pretty sure 6-4B played a couple games before 6-4A was up again.... I sat back and watched those.... I was tired, though, and kept nodding off a little bit. When I wasn't hacking, anyway. I still had my cough, and playing dodge ball probably wasn't a huge help to that.
My team played two more games.... Not in a row, but we played two more games. I'm pretty sure it was 6-2 that we played against for our second game, and beat. I got out again (I am not a good catcher, and my reflex is to block.... It was an easy catch, but my reflexes didn't agree. Grrr....), but was able to earn my way back in by pure luck.... An attempted and failed catch.... Yes! We won that game, which was awesome!
After that 6-4B played their last game.... I'm not sure if it was directly after or not, because I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to the order of things. But I know 6-4B won all their games! YAY! :)
Our last game was game #11 out of 12.... I think it was against 6-1. I got out pretty early on, unfortunately.... I was trying to grab the ball before the "out" person from the other team got it, failed, was hit while trying to get up to escape, and then tripped over myself and fell. It was a strange process that I still don't really understand... I think I tripped over my arm, but I'm not sure how. It was an easy out though, for the other team.... Darn. I once again failed to earn my way back in, and unfortunately we lost the game. That put us at 2 wins and 1 loss, same as 6-3A.
Lucky for us, we already beat 6-3A!!!! :) That put us at #1!!!!! 6-4B also was #1, of course, because they didn't lose a game! That was the girls, of course.... The guys weren't as good. Both A and B teams were #3. Us girls are just better, I guess. ;)
After that some people talked again, then we went back to the classroom.... I was cold, so that made me happy. I didn't bring my coat to the gym for some reason or another, so I ended up being cold... But it was fine.
We did some math for a while.... Yay! :p I did some fraction stuff, then did some compound functions in my notebook, just for fun...... Then I realized I couldn't remember for sure how to multiply polynomials, so I did some trial and error to see if I could or not (I could).
Then it was lunch time.... We ate lunch, then i stayed in again and we played a game.... It started as a game where we try to pull each other across a line.... But then some little kids came in, and it just became pulling people around and stuff.
After that I helped clean the classroom again.... Then they went to home ec. I went too of course.... We wrote letters to the people at the nursing home. I wrote one in English.... Because I could. I didn't really know what to write, so I just wrote some stuff and went with it. The home ec teacher seemed impressed, or something.... I'm not really sure what.
After that we went back to the classroom, I got my stuff, and went downstairs. I found an umbrella in my shoe.... I guess Tomoko dropped by the school with umbrellas for us.... But umbrellas annoy me, and I had my coat (coats protect better than umbrellas, and are more convenient!), so I stuck it in my backpack.... I don't know how many times I'm going to have to tell people I don't need an umbrella.... Oh well.
So I got home, and of course basically did nothing for the rest of the day.... That's me! :p Well, I watched a re-airing of the figure skating finals.... Awesome! And I talked to Kento quite a bit.... Got in quite a few games of Boggle too.... At games.com. That's what Kento and I do while we chat.... :p I finally forced myself to go to bed at 1 AM, after talking with Kento for a while.
Got up today for Japanese class... Was forced up, really. I knew I had to go, but couldn't convince myself to get up... Finally my grandma got me to get up. I ended up running a minute or two late because I had to devour some strawberries really quick.... Not that I mind devouring strawberries... ;)
So I went to the class, and it went well of course.... We worked on some adjectives stuff from my text book.
After that I came home and had lunch..... With Nanako and Yuutaro. I also watched them play Nintendogs.... Fun stuff. :p I'll have to see about getting a DS when I get a job.... :p I'm kind of sold now, especially when I found out there are DS/Nintendogs bundles for about $150.... Not as bad as I thought. I think I'll get one when I go to OSU.... It wont be as fun or cuddly as Ret, but it can be my surrogate, I guess.... ;)
After lunch Grandma went to something.... Something about teaching Japanese, I guess. I talked to Kento, played some Boggle, talked to my dad... The usual. Until about 7:30.... Then it was DINNER TIME!!!! :)
I say that with such excitement.... You might be laughing at me now.... But you must understand, this was no ordinary dinner. This, my friend, was PIZZA!!!! :) But not just any pizza, but the best pizza of all.... Seafood pizza!!!!! :) From Pizza-La. Which is a funny name. But their pizza is fantastic. Expensive, but fantastic. There was a seafood pizza for me and a teriyaki chicken pizza for the kids... I had a piece and a half of the teriyaki chicken pizza, which was pretty good.... Not as good as the seafood though! :) I shared a bit with Yuutaro, and then there was some left over (that Ryusuke ate... And one piece my grandma ate), but I ate a lot of it..... I got pictures too, so when I get caught up on my pictures those will go up.... :) Then I played some Nintendogs (I played frisbee.... Fun. :)), got a bath, then typed this up..... After researching the price of a DS.... ;)
Yes! :) I succeeded in getting caught up, and it' before midnight, so I did it today... Yay! :) It may not have been as thorough as if it were more recent, but that's OK.... I think this is plenty long. :p I hope you managed to read it all without falling asleep a time or two.... Which by the way I should be trying to do pretty quick.... Maybe I'll do some sudoku then head to bed. I'm into the demanding section of my sudoku, so it's getting tougher.... It's taking me a couple days to do some of them.... I'm starting to fear the "Beware! Very challenging!" section.... ;) It'll be fun, I think.... :p Drive me insane, maybe, but fun. :p
First off, I guess I do have something to write about for Thursday.... I wanted to watch the Olympics, specifically the figure skating. I wanted to watch the short program........ Which NHK (by the way, I was wrong... There are quite a few more news channels, but they aren't commercial free like NHK) was broadcasting live.... Meaning 3:00 AM our time on Wednesday morning. Well, I wasn't going to school Wednesday...... So why not? I stayed up and watched.... In my room, of course. I really liked Kimmie.... The 16 year old skater for the US. She did awesome, but not good enough, I guess. I ended up going to bed after 3 hours.... "Short" program? Not really. I enjoyed watching what I saw though...... Then I slept in, and didn't really do much on Wednesday........
On to Thursday. Back to school after a week long absence! The morning was dull for me... I'm still not totally sure what was going on.... Going over the tests, it seemed.... But the day after the testing? Is it possible? I suppose. I just sat in the back working on my Japanese....
After that we went out to play dodge ball. Practicing for the big tournament. ;) We had until 10:30 to play.... At 10:30 we were off on a trip! We walked to a nursing home to go visit the elderly people! Of course I really couldn't communicate.... But that's OK. I worked on some of those crazy metal puzzles that have two pieces and you have to get them to come apart.... Those are fun. There were lots of different ones, and I only mastered one. I also played Othello with this guy who I think had a really short attention span and didn't understand the rules at all.... Oh well. I kind of felt bad about winning, but that's life.
After that we walked back to the school and had lunch. After lunch I stayed inside and helped punch out these English flash card things. While I was doing so I was "found". I don't know if these 1st graders had been looking for me recently or not, but apparently they "found" me. I think it was the same girl (and friends) who were staring at me while we cleaned the bathrooms..... But anyway, they "found" me and hung around trying to communicate for a while. There was quite a bit of random talk about how to say things in English/Japanese.... And apparent surprise at me being able to speak a little Japanese.... That surprises people for some reason. Seems to me that if I'm in a Japanese school I should be able to at least speak a little, but I guess that isn't as evident to the 1st graders..... Oh well.
After that I helped clean the classroom, then we did.... Umm... What did we do? Oh yeah! We went down to the computer lab! The slow slow PC computer lab! The whole 2-monitors-in-1 thing kind of annoys me, but then slow slow PCs do too.... But hey, it's internet.... Some of the kids looked at my blog, but not being able to understand it kept them from being too interested...... I tried to post, but apparently blogger.com is blocked. So I played some networked typing game with some of the other people.... That was interesting. To our understanding you just punch 1, 2, and 3 really fast and hope for the bests. I also helped some people practice romaji... :p Really typing Japanese, but it's kind of the same thing.
After that I came home, and not much else happened. Just the typical dinner, bath, and whatnot.
Friday.... This should be interesting. Friday morning of course I'm up and off to school, after breakfast... The figure skating medal ceremony was on.... Japan showed it with pride, as on of their skaters earned herself a gold (and she totally deserved it too! :)).
When I got to school, it was out for dodge ball practice.... Why? Because it was the day of the TOURNAMENT! :) We played for a bit, then it was inside. People got changed into their gym clothes, then it was off to the gym for the games! :) Some people talked for a bit, then the gym was divided into two with a big net thing and the games began! I was on the girls 6-4A team.... I think I said before that the boys and girls don't play against each other, and the 6th grade has 4 classes (I'm in 6-4). For dodge ball each class had two teams, and A team and a B team. That kept it down to 11 people per team and allowed everyone a chance to play (of course several people were on both teams). To keep it to 12 games the A teams only played against other A teams and B teams against B teams. 6-4A (girls) were in the first game.... We won, though I'm sure I was not very helpful. It was funny when I was running backwards to try to escape the ball, got hit, then fell over though.... The teacher behind me was laughing, and I was laughing.... Some other people asked if I was OK, which of course I was. Falling over is nothing new to me. I ended up out and failed to earn my way back in.....
Maybe now would be a good time to explain the differences between dodge ball in the US and dodge ball in Japan.... First off, there's only one ball here. I love that part. Also, if you get hit, you go outside the boundaries of the opponents area. You basically have free roam outside their boundaries (as long as you don't cross into the outside of your team's boundaries!) and can play from there. It's kind of hard to explain.... Maybe if anyone actually cares I can make a model. Anyway, you play from there and can earn your way back in by getting someone on the opponent's team out. It makes it a bit harder, because you have people surrounding you on all sides... I think those are the only differences I've really noticed. Also, some people start "out".
Anyway. I failed to earn my way back into the main game.... But we still won. I can't remember for sure who we were playing against.... I think it was 6-3.
I didn't really keep track of what games happened when, and who won what... I'm pretty sure 6-4B played a couple games before 6-4A was up again.... I sat back and watched those.... I was tired, though, and kept nodding off a little bit. When I wasn't hacking, anyway. I still had my cough, and playing dodge ball probably wasn't a huge help to that.
My team played two more games.... Not in a row, but we played two more games. I'm pretty sure it was 6-2 that we played against for our second game, and beat. I got out again (I am not a good catcher, and my reflex is to block.... It was an easy catch, but my reflexes didn't agree. Grrr....), but was able to earn my way back in by pure luck.... An attempted and failed catch.... Yes! We won that game, which was awesome!
After that 6-4B played their last game.... I'm not sure if it was directly after or not, because I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to the order of things. But I know 6-4B won all their games! YAY! :)
Our last game was game #11 out of 12.... I think it was against 6-1. I got out pretty early on, unfortunately.... I was trying to grab the ball before the "out" person from the other team got it, failed, was hit while trying to get up to escape, and then tripped over myself and fell. It was a strange process that I still don't really understand... I think I tripped over my arm, but I'm not sure how. It was an easy out though, for the other team.... Darn. I once again failed to earn my way back in, and unfortunately we lost the game. That put us at 2 wins and 1 loss, same as 6-3A.
Lucky for us, we already beat 6-3A!!!! :) That put us at #1!!!!! 6-4B also was #1, of course, because they didn't lose a game! That was the girls, of course.... The guys weren't as good. Both A and B teams were #3. Us girls are just better, I guess. ;)
After that some people talked again, then we went back to the classroom.... I was cold, so that made me happy. I didn't bring my coat to the gym for some reason or another, so I ended up being cold... But it was fine.
We did some math for a while.... Yay! :p I did some fraction stuff, then did some compound functions in my notebook, just for fun...... Then I realized I couldn't remember for sure how to multiply polynomials, so I did some trial and error to see if I could or not (I could).
Then it was lunch time.... We ate lunch, then i stayed in again and we played a game.... It started as a game where we try to pull each other across a line.... But then some little kids came in, and it just became pulling people around and stuff.
After that I helped clean the classroom again.... Then they went to home ec. I went too of course.... We wrote letters to the people at the nursing home. I wrote one in English.... Because I could. I didn't really know what to write, so I just wrote some stuff and went with it. The home ec teacher seemed impressed, or something.... I'm not really sure what.
After that we went back to the classroom, I got my stuff, and went downstairs. I found an umbrella in my shoe.... I guess Tomoko dropped by the school with umbrellas for us.... But umbrellas annoy me, and I had my coat (coats protect better than umbrellas, and are more convenient!), so I stuck it in my backpack.... I don't know how many times I'm going to have to tell people I don't need an umbrella.... Oh well.
So I got home, and of course basically did nothing for the rest of the day.... That's me! :p Well, I watched a re-airing of the figure skating finals.... Awesome! And I talked to Kento quite a bit.... Got in quite a few games of Boggle too.... At games.com. That's what Kento and I do while we chat.... :p I finally forced myself to go to bed at 1 AM, after talking with Kento for a while.
Got up today for Japanese class... Was forced up, really. I knew I had to go, but couldn't convince myself to get up... Finally my grandma got me to get up. I ended up running a minute or two late because I had to devour some strawberries really quick.... Not that I mind devouring strawberries... ;)
So I went to the class, and it went well of course.... We worked on some adjectives stuff from my text book.
After that I came home and had lunch..... With Nanako and Yuutaro. I also watched them play Nintendogs.... Fun stuff. :p I'll have to see about getting a DS when I get a job.... :p I'm kind of sold now, especially when I found out there are DS/Nintendogs bundles for about $150.... Not as bad as I thought. I think I'll get one when I go to OSU.... It wont be as fun or cuddly as Ret, but it can be my surrogate, I guess.... ;)
After lunch Grandma went to something.... Something about teaching Japanese, I guess. I talked to Kento, played some Boggle, talked to my dad... The usual. Until about 7:30.... Then it was DINNER TIME!!!! :)
I say that with such excitement.... You might be laughing at me now.... But you must understand, this was no ordinary dinner. This, my friend, was PIZZA!!!! :) But not just any pizza, but the best pizza of all.... Seafood pizza!!!!! :) From Pizza-La. Which is a funny name. But their pizza is fantastic. Expensive, but fantastic. There was a seafood pizza for me and a teriyaki chicken pizza for the kids... I had a piece and a half of the teriyaki chicken pizza, which was pretty good.... Not as good as the seafood though! :) I shared a bit with Yuutaro, and then there was some left over (that Ryusuke ate... And one piece my grandma ate), but I ate a lot of it..... I got pictures too, so when I get caught up on my pictures those will go up.... :) Then I played some Nintendogs (I played frisbee.... Fun. :)), got a bath, then typed this up..... After researching the price of a DS.... ;)
Yes! :) I succeeded in getting caught up, and it' before midnight, so I did it today... Yay! :) It may not have been as thorough as if it were more recent, but that's OK.... I think this is plenty long. :p I hope you managed to read it all without falling asleep a time or two.... Which by the way I should be trying to do pretty quick.... Maybe I'll do some sudoku then head to bed. I'm into the demanding section of my sudoku, so it's getting tougher.... It's taking me a couple days to do some of them.... I'm starting to fear the "Beware! Very challenging!" section.... ;) It'll be fun, I think.... :p Drive me insane, maybe, but fun. :p
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