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Rather eccentric blog of Melissa, an exchange student off to Utsunomiya, Japan. Join her as she blogs about her experiences in the land of the rising sun.
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Hey guys! I've finally gotten to a computer on which I can blog.

If anyone else of the exchange people is reading this right now, email me! send me your keitai mail! lol XD

Right now I'm at school, but today was a special day so I'm just hanging out here emailing people and beboing/myspacing/etc.
So my first few days in Japan were pretty confusing for me.. the flight from Brisbane to Tokyo was THE BEST lol. Me, Lucy and Andrew went so freaking crazy man it was so fun. Lol 'protein drink'... basically my water bottle filled with the most random crap imaginable... apple.. chicken.. plastic.. tissue.. milk.. coffee.. sugar.. salt.. ANYTHING WE COULD FIND. Dayum. So fun.
The landing in Japan was so confusing, I was heaps lost and tired so we basically took our CHANDELIERED bus to the hotel (yeah baby) and went to sleep. I bunked with Megan, my fellow Utsunomiyan buddy going to Bunsei.
The orientation was so boring lol, but the night before we left for our families Megan and I went so CRAZY.. haha.. GUREIPU YO!! grape yo!! Ha-do gei ! FUUUUUUUUUUU!!! haha. If anyone gets those jokes then you must be in Japan. haha. So good.
On the day we went to our families we went to Tokyo station and Megan, Tom and I caught the Shinkansen headed in the Utsunomiya/Kouriyama direction. 45 minutes of random fun. Megan and I got off before Tom as Kouriyama's the next stop over. Lol, tom, if you read this, hope you were entertained by random old japanese ladies.. bahahah.
My family is so nice. I have a little sister in year seven and a sister in year eleven, the same year as me. Yes, mom, they put me in year eleven here, and yes, I'll have a few classes with year ten as it's so different/difficult. We also have a dog called Gu-re chan, so cute, I'll post pics soon!
so during the past few days I've done:
*Shopping with sister.. drinks are so cheap no joke, like a dollar. food is cheap too, but I think it's a little smaller?? Vending machines are everywhere, I have like three inside of school and like five outside.. my schools in the middle of a forest too by the way
*Ohanami with sister and friends.. went to a theme park, ate KFC, took SO MANY fotos of sakura. so beautiful. I love :)
*gaikokujin touroku.. roughly translates to Alien registration.. yes. I'm an alien here and I have paper to prove it. LMAO. so lame. Ok, I'll stop. XD
So today was my first day at school... started with opening ceremony where I had to make a speech.. which i screwed, lol, of course. If anyones from my science class this year they know how wierd and.. humourous to watch my speeches get.. haahah.. except it was in really bad bad bad japanese hahah... XD I also made a speech to my class, and my teachers speech is tomorrow... So nervewracking I swear... Obento was good though, my mom made it for us this morning. Tomorrow I'm going to get up early and help her.
I have double art! So good. but only once a week. I also have calligraphy class with year tens (my actual year in australia.) I wanted to do music too but that would be pushing it.. lol XD
I'm so hungry right now, I want to buy some coffee from the vending machine... 70 to 100 yen... 70 cents to 1.00 ! GOSH ME LIKE!!! haha.
Japanese TV is so good. So funny. I have no idea whats going on or what they're selling but I want it. yup ;)
Miss you so much guys !!
I love you mom :)... send money
hahah :)

Ken