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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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Im back from Oosaka guys, and yes, it owned. Oooohh yeah :D
but seing as I did some other interesting stuff before that, I'm going to backtrack a bit...

The weekend before Oosaka I volunteered to go on a camp in Shiora, run by the local YMCA english department. It went from Saturday to Sunday and I spent it with kids mainly around the age of eight or nine and with two ALTS, an Aussie from Blue Mountains, Brooke, and a pommy. I forgot his name but he was interesting. He'll forgive me. Anyway it was pretty fun, I enjoyed it, the bathrooms were rank and the toilets were worse but I had fun playing soccer/volleyball/cricket with the kids. We made camp curry :D

After the camp, I helped out at the YMCA's Australia day, run by Brooke. Was pretty fun, cute kids, minties, damper, Aboriginal dot painting and very horrible Aussie country music. I enjoyed myself. I better have, the bike ride was 40 minutes both ways.

After Aussie day, I went to the summer festival in Utsunomiya held on Orion Doori. It was so good. Massive. Heaps of people, heaps of stores, I got to eat karaage, there were people carring those giant thingies to the temples and shouting and there was definitely drunks. I got to wear my Yuukata too. I'll post a pic when I can be bothered. :)

After the festival I went to Ibaraki to see my relatives again, pretty fun, got to ride eight trains to get there and back, and this time i rode my bike and caught the bus too. All by myself ^^ My cousin Aiko and I sat back and watched 'The L Word' seasons one to three, I skyped with Pranamie and my parents, I got fed Tim Tams and Filipino food. I loved it. Can't wait to go back :)

After that, club club club blah blah blah... and then, OOSAKAAAAAA (L)(L)(L)

It owned. I mean, the 12 hour car ride to get there, the heat, the sunburn, the overcrowdedness of it all... It meant nothing. I loved it. Seriously need to get back down there again. And my host grandpa was awesome, he owns a drinking bar - yes, alcohol. The house was pretty old too, japanesey. And on the tuesday I went to Universal Studios, oh hell yes. Also went to Sakai city, got to see all the massive moving things, bought stuff, ate yakiniku (mmmm) and took lots of photos. I loved it :)

So yeah, I got back from Oosaka last friday, went out and watched Dark Knight on Sunday with mie and took purikura, then got back in to club today. Dark Knight was so good by the way, new favourite movie. Anywho, from today, I have... club club club, and a camp on the last two weekends of august. Going to Kanagawa this saturday for camp, going to see andrew :O! Apparently he cut his hair. I dont know. I definitely cut mine :(


bye bye :)