♪~It's rainning, it's pouring...~♪

I've been enjoying soccer club a lot lately. I'm not sure what has changed, but there are times when I actually don't want it to end. It could be because me and 2 other girls are the only ones who ever come, so we don't do all that much... ;)

The field where the soccer club practices is split so (the better) half is where the guys practice and then us girls practice on the other half which is also a sort of baseball diamond. Today we saw the baseball team lining up on the edge of the field, so we were worried that they were gonna take it over. We quickly ran over and (only 3 of us) stood there with our soccer balls kinda staring down the baseball club. I heard kowai (scary) from a couple of them, and none of them wanted to come over. XD Eventually 2 got up the courage to bring the bases over, and we continued kinda glaring at them and were saying (not directly to them) that this where the girls practice, and they have their own baseball diamond to practice on.

They were mostly ichinensei (1st years), which could be why they were so intimidated by 3 ninensei (2nd year) girls, but they chose not to practice there and went back to their own field. Victory~! ;)


Unfortunately it started pouring rain. It came on really fast, so all of us (us 3 girls and the 10 boys), all at once ran into the school. Because we still wearing our spikes (cleats) the 13 or so of us were all standing on this really small mat cause we arent allowed on the regular floor with them XD. The guys kept trying to push each other out. XD

It got really bad, so we ended up running around the school and up and down 3 flights of stairs a bunch of times.

I'm going to Tokyo tomorrow with my host sis and host mom, so will post about that next week!
I'm exhausted, so it's off to bed.
Oyasumi ~^^~

The land of Salt

So from the 24-26, Gus, Helle and me went to Noto (northern ishikawa) to stay with a AFS family. They have twins who are going to the US this summer on exchange.

 They live near the very top of ishikawa, so it was a bit of a drive to get there. On the way we stopped at a couple places. The main thing Noto is known for is salt. There were soo many salt making places along the way! Everything in Noto was soooo green!

weird tree and lots of rice fields

Salt making place

Salt soda, which was actually kinda good ;p

We got to their house, and then went for okonomiyaki! Definitely one of my favourite foods! :D

The next next day, we went hiking up to this french lighthouse. That spot was also the very center of Japan!

center of Japan!

After, we went for a well deserved swim in the ocean. It was pretty, but kinda cold, at least for me. Everyone else thought it was fine... guess I'm just a wimp XD. We had to get out after an hour or two, because that was when the jelly fish come in o.O...

Island that looks like a cake

That night, one of their friends and her son came to visit.  She was half american/half canadian who had lived in Brazil for part of her childhood. She'd been in Japan since she was 17! It was kinda cool to be able to talk to someone from my country. She also talked to Gus in Portugese. Her son was about the same age as us, who was half Japanese and living in the USA going to (boarding school) high school there. So cool, the kind of people you meet. After dinner, we played with fireworks for a bit and then they went home.
The next day we got up, said goodbye and then they dropped us of at the station and we took the train home, by ourselves ;).

I leave for Hiroshima and Kyoto summer camp in 2 days, and wont be back until the 15... so i won't be posting for the next little while.

July has been super busy!!

Sorry I haven't been able to post in awhile, I have been super busy. It's been summer holidays since the 20th, but I still go to school almost day for soccer club. ITS SOOO HOT!! Everyday is at least 35*C! I've gotten tanned quite a bit (at least for me it is). You just stand outside and start sweating like crazy. Everyone carries a towel with them XD.

Since I'm going to Hiroshima in August, AFS took Helle, Gus and me to watch this really old movie on Hiroshima. We were the only foreigners there, and like the only young ppl too. It was sad, tho we didnt understand alot of it. We kept thinking that this would be really awkward if we were american, tho some of the people probably thought we were. White ppl=american in Japan (most of the time).

We hung out after, and since it was soo hot, we decided to go watch Toy Story 3! It was all in Japanese, and we were so proud at the end of the movie when we realized we understood most of it! \(^o^)/ It was a cute movie too :).

I've hung out with (exchange) friends soo much this summer, when I'm not at club ;). Gone to karaoke alot!
My homeroom at school, including my host sister went to Australia for a 3 week homestay, so the last week or 2 of school was helping them prepare for that XD

I also went to Noto from the 24-27, but that will be in the next post :)

Not a very eventful post, sorry. Busy and super tired and would like to go to bed :)

Tests...again...

Japanese school is all about tests...

Anyway, my homeroom  teacher told me I didn't have to take any tests... but I have chosen to take Korean. I don't know if I mentioned it earlier, but I am taking Korean at school. I think its my favourite class, because I am actually learning something, at the same time as everyone else. The teacher is awesome, cause he actually treats me more or less like an average student, asking me as many questions about how to read/write_____ and say the self introduction, as everyone else.
I am not trying to brag, but I think I'm actually one of the better ones (other than the only guy) in the class. Some of the korean pronounciation sounds nothing like Japanese... more like english, which gives me an advantage.

For the test, all we had to do was read about 20 phrases and the teacher timed us. To see who went first, (there are 10 in the class) we did "jan ken pon" or japanese rock paper scissors. I unfortunately lost, and ended up going first. I thought I did really bad, cause it seemed to take forever.
However, we got our marks back, I got the only 100%! I can't believe it! I was the fastest (3:15) and the only one to read everything right! The guy sitting next to me saw my mark, and proceeded to steal my test and showed it to the rest of the class ~.^

I feel, like I could actually do well in this class :D

HAPPY CANADA DAY!!

2 posts in 1 day! WOW!

Just wanted to wish everyone an awesome CANADA DAY! I will go to school like normal, since I'm in Japan XD.
I've realized since coming to Japan how proud I am to be canadian. I've become very patriotic, which I didn't think would ever happen. I love Canada... from all the nature/wildlife (to the maple syrup, eh?) to the soooo many different cultures and people that call the Great North home ;).

Here's 2 songs to help celebrate Canada/being Canadian!

Birthday!

So technically yesterday was my birthday, but I didn't get a chance to post this.

class wrote on the board

At school yesterday morning, my host sister dragged me to the library when we got there to "study english". She didn't let me go to class first, so I was suspicious that they might be planning something. Sure enough, when I came back to class, everyone was there, and they had written on the board. They all sang me Happy Birthday and gave me a little notebook that everyone in the classed had written in. I also got some little random presents from ppl and the 2 ALT teachers :) I tried to act surprised, but I got really emotional when they started singing Happy Birthday, so I don't know if it came across that way. I'm gonna really miss these guys...

I celebrated my birthday that night with my host family. I got a CD from my host grandma, and a yukata from my host family :) I skyped with my real family today (tho there it was still my birthday XD).
I also got a haircut today. They cut soo much off! Like 8cm! Tho I wanted it shorter, maybe not that short... but I actually like it. It will take a while to get used to though.

Kinda bad picture, taken on cell phone

I thought it was gonna be kinda a hard day, like homesickness wise... but it turned out really great :)