[And yes, most of these times are approximations]
5:30am - Wake up. Actually light out = good. Don't need alarm clock. Mad skills
6:00 - Have breakfast. Mmmm... scones that I baked for my family yesterday are tasty.
6:23 - Loiter around house getting stuff together.
6:26 - Get rushed out of the house by Noriko.
6:31 - Catch first bus. Lose track of time. Catch train. V. tired. Try to sleep.
6:47 - Notice gigantic venom-spitting hornet clinging to ceiling above my head.
6:51 - Working on breathing.
6:52 - Move slightly to the right so hornet is less likely to fall on my head.
6:55 - Keep sending shifty glances in direction of hornet. Has not moved, but is clearly not dead.
6:56 - Hope it will not die and fall on my head.
6:57 - Maybe I could skillfully dodge its attack and squish it viciously with my foot.
6:58 - When will we get to our stop?
7:25 - Phew. Get on school bus. Too many buses.
8:09 - Arrive at school. Swap nice black outdoor shoes for my only other pair: bright pink sneakers. It's a good look.
8:20 - Time for 20 minutes of tests, and for me to read my cheesy fantasy novel.
8:50 - Chem. class.
8:51 - Teacher asks if I understand. That's a joke.
8:56 - Trying to understand something involving ions and in another language is akin to having brain mashed with small wooden meat tenderizer.
8:57 - Or taking the AP Physics test.
9:40 - Am 153 pages into my book.
9:50 - Time to learn how to play the Japanese flute.
9:54 - Easier than Western style flute.
10:33 - If I have to play Do Re Mi one more time...
10:50 - Can chill in computer lab while class happens. Yay for internet.
10:55 - Check Myspace/Facebook/Email. Nothing.
10:56 - Try to listen to music on Myspace. "Error: JavaScript not enabled." Cry inside.
10:59 - Attempt to blog.
11:02 - Wah, all text turns to Hiragana. Cannot fix. Blogging is an epic failure.
11:04 - Resort to handwriting.
12:33pm - Make nifty origami things in my Japanese culture class.
12:35 - Stabbed hand with paper shuriken.
12:38 - Was chatted up by a girl from my school who had just returned from a year in London. Spoke v. good English, complete with heavy British accent.
12:40 - Exchange Girl keeps saying "Really?" in a v. English way. Quite amusing.
12:44 - Can't find Noriko. Am eating my obento alone.
12:48 - Am now eating my fishy rice and other tasty food with English Girl and her friends.
1:22 - Ran around trying to find Noriko.
1:28 - Found Noriko. Apparently she eats lunch in our classroom. Whoops. My bad.
1:32 - Have actually participated in class! Was instructed to read a bunch of stuff in English so the class could repeat after me.
1:36 - Why did they clap after I read? It's not like it's difficult for me to speak English. Am rather embarrassed.
1:37 - Oh yeah, drama diction skills at work.
2:22 - Almost done with book. Will make it last!
2:31 - Have been demoted to show-and-tell item in junior high English class. Anna-the-English-Speaking-Trained-Monkey.
2:32 - "Seattle? Oh, Mariners? Ichiro?" Every single time. Almost makes me wish I watched baseball. Feel so left out of my own culture.
2:33 -Can't lie. Am totally enjoying the spotlight.
2:46 - Book reading time. Apparently there's nothing else I can help with.
2:58 - Done with second book in two days. Need more books.
3:00 - Seven periods in one day is too many. Too short to get anything done, too. Miss block periods.
3:01 - Am hungry again.
3:02 - Every single class I've been in, the kids have gotten a test back. Am glad I don't have to take tests.
3:30 - Miss my book. Must find English bookstore before I resort to The Complete Works of Shakespeare or the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Too heavy. (Though I have been wanting to read those again...)
3:32 - Hate waiting. Have done so quite frequently today.
3:35 - Got nifty tour of school. Cooking classrooms, sewing classrooms, bio and chem and physics labs.... this school is actually really big. And some parts are really nice and new, and some are really... ghetto.
4:10 - Spent a while chatting with one of the English teachers in the library. Have noticed my English is quickly becoming broken "I Speak Bad Engrish" English, to match my conversation partners. Must remember how to speak the mother tongue.
4:14 - Feel like exotic zoo animal. Small Japanese school children from the Junior High keep staring at me.
4:16 - Am still freaked out by the reality of venom-spitting wasp.
5:00 - Noriko had a question about math, so we're all chillin' with the teachers in the room where all the teachers' desks are.
5:30 - Bus time again. School day is way too long.
Later - Slept on the train home. Thankfully no wasps.
6:47 - Grocery shopping. Again. Every single day.
7:02 - Home after shopping.
7:59 - Dinner. Am coerced into trying fermented soybeans that smell really horrific.
8:00 - Am not the only one who finds smell repulsive. Yet they still eat them.
8:02 - Soybeans not so bad, if you don't breath through your nose. However, do not intend to have more.
9:00 - Mmmm, "manly" Pocky. Apparently, dark chocolate is for men, according to the Pocky package. "Men's Pocky. Bitter chocolate."
9:24 - Ponder the meaning of life, the universe and everything while folding laundry and watching a Japanese TV show that's like a bad soap opera mixed with the West Wing, with a healthy dash of hi-larious sound effects.
9:41 - BATH TIME. >.<
10:02 - Blog time
11:06 - Sleep.
Host Family: (apologies for the blurriness)
2 comments:
Wow, what a day! Thanks for taking the time to share, sweetie... it's almost like being there with you!
Yes. This was amazing. Every few points added a new idea to respond, of course the last being the family pics, but that was outshone by the small little flip for joy. You remembered west wing. Yay. ^^
No point in hiding it, I am really looking forward to reading this ever more. ^^
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