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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, 久し振り!！
「no idea if that's right, who cares.」

Anywho, got some free time so going to blog a little bit...
Over the weekend, Megan, Lilly, Leigha, Erica, Georgina and I (did I forget anyone?) went up to British Hills in Fukushima to help out a junior high school from yokohama kanagawa with their camp. Basically, we had to listen to ALL of their self introductions in english (mind you, there's forty of them) and watch their presentations, but really they were awesome (mickey chan! harumi chan! akane chan!) and I LOVED the basketball club. Their presentations were so cute too, I got to wear a yukata, dance a festival song (cant remember the name but we got to yell out sora, sora, sora, sora for some reason and dance to this funky drum wearing a headband and this jacket with the happy kanji written on it), and play traditional japanese games (WHICH WAS FREAKING AWESOME). The japanese games group and I had so much fun, I stayed there for ages just playing with the daruma doll (SUPER DARUMA CHALLENGE! which involved two daruma dolls instead of one mwhahahahaha) so they gave me my very own daruma doll. HOW SWEET!! I loved them. They kept telling me I was 'berri kyuuto' and the school's camera man took heaps of photos with me and the girls (which I want cos theres an awesome one of me in a yukata). We went to a pub, played this awesome game with chips where we had to pass the chip from one person to another with our mouths (yes, they were incredibly fun) and they kept taking so many photos... I loved those kids. I also got to hang with utsunomiya buddy megan, georgina and lilly, which was pretty awesome as they're just so fun to talk to (hey meg, sorry for keeping you up talking till 3am! :3)

ok, i have to wrap it up here cos they just announced 'students must leave in ten minutes' and i've gotten the keyboard stuck on caps lock again so i have to hold down shift to type which is incredibly uncomfortable (not as uncomfortable as typing on my fone though, argh, so tiring!!)

until next time,
melissa