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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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Home room is in three minutes.
Oh god, why oh why did I suddenly get struck with the urge to blog with homeroom in just three minutes? Such is the schedule of my day. I think I've been on the computer way to much this week so I don't think I'll be back today, however large the desire is to research the courses I will take in year 11 and 12 and which university to go to. I always seem to be doing these kinds of things to myself, six minutes to go, that force me into my uncomfortable zone and make me think and feel awkward and strange and goodness knows what. For example, five minutes left, I have chosen to come to Japan on exchange and spend a year away from my loving family, friends, personal computer and cable tv. On top of that I've elected to join one of the most craziest training clubs ever (poor badminton sensei, i skip it too much in order to research my upcoming subject choices/bebo/myspace alot). Four minutes left. On top of that, I cannot speak very good japanese at all, so usually I have been known to confuse certain words together (like that time I said unko instead of anko, rather hilarious results ensued.) I guess this is just the way I live my life, three minutes left, the way I prefer to exist, always out of my comfort zone. Or maybe I'm just crazy. Oh, don't be silly, Kenjie, you've been crazy for a very long, long time. See? The amount of commas in that previous sentence proves how crazy you really are. Two minutes left. And the fact that you've managed to write this much in eight minutes has probably got something to do with it. Strangely, you've become rather eloquent and skilled at conversing in third person to yourself whilst all the while speaking in Japanese every day. One minute left. I guess you should log off now. The clock has finally turned 1620, time for final homeroom.

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

Fallen in love with FLYLEAF.
Awesome band.
best time to listen is when you're in a park, its raining and you're freezing your butt off, but theres a nice tree or something and you want to get sick anyway so you torture yourself in the rain. 'I can feel you, all around me.'
Oh hell yes.

I should go to badminton, can't be bothered today.

Maybe I should go... ... ... maybe.

alright, I'll go tomorrow. When I feel like it.


My god I want to play basketball, really really really do.