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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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Yesterday I headed into Tokyo to help out with a special orientation camp in Yoyogi, Shinjuku for Japanese exchange students heading into America and Canada. It was seriously the best fun ever, and I can't wait to go to the next one and the BBQ too :D

Well I woke up at like, 6 am, took the 新幹線 (bullet train, i hope the kanjis right, I'm trusting the computer on this one hahah) to Tokyo and met up with Mami-sensei, Saoirse from Canada and Jonathan from America. Oh, and Panda came too. Oh yeah. He walks backwards now. (inside joke. haha) We then took a train into Shinjuku and met up with the others, turns out that it was only me, Georgina and Nicolas from Australia - the others were from New Zealand, Canada and America (ok, only Jonathan was from USA and Saoirse from Canada and the remaining 4 were the New Zealanders, which I find amusing because out of all the 80 japanese exchange students there only like, ten were going to New Zealand and NONE going to Australia.) Yoyogi, or at least the part that we went to anyway, was possibly the quitest part of inner-tokyo. Hahaha. So I am yet to see the real Tokyo, what with its hustle and bustle and people everywhere and the sweat, oh god, the sweat... ahahahha. I HAVE seen Tokyo station, but only the milder part leading to the Shinkansen(bullet train) that heads off to my city, Utsunomiya.

anyway, enough of the boring bit....

and so came the part of actually entering the bustling room full of japanese exchange students, and surprise surprise, my friends from kaisei high Akane and Natsumi were there :D SO COOL! We screamed, my gosh the biggest びくりした ever, hugs all round, oh yeah ;)
After my friends and i had stopped screaming, I headed to the front of the room where I had to sit with my fellow foreigner exchange students and ask and answer questions in japanese. It was so much fun, it seemed to go really quickly... Lunch came, I met some of the coolest people ever, then after that I had to help out Hiro-kun (yeah, hiro kun, taka kun was there too! they were all there) and his group with roleplaying. I met two of the coolest girls from Hiroshima ever, got waayyyy too many new mobile fone emails (like around 25? 30? they just took my fone and passed it around, doing that infrared thing) and I'm getting emails from people I had no idea existed... LOL! and all the japanese girls wanted a foto with new zealander dominic in which I had to assist them with... ... ... no comment ... ... ... ... ... ... heheheh
and so came the time where we actually had to leave... dang, I didnt want to leave at all, it was so much fun... I really enjoyed talking to the future exchange students :D and so we said our goodbyes, took fotos, hugged, and finally left. The shinkansen ride back would have been lonely if not for all the mail i was receiving, hahahah. I think I'm going to be just that little afraid when I finally open my first fone bill of the exchange.. ehehehe #innocent face#

hmm, better finish up now, I think badminton training starts in like... ten minutes... oh yeahhhh ;)