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一ヶ月だけかかったけど、もう日本の生活にほとんど慣れた。私の日本語は全然ペラペラじゃないけど、電車とかコンビニとかレストランにも、もう慣れた。アメリカに戻る時、カルチャーショックを経験するかもしれない。でも、日本へ来てから、本当に親切な人だけに会った。先生方と学生方と日本人、みんな親切だし、よく手伝ってくれるし、それにもし私は質問があったら、いつも親切な説明してくれます。先生方はいつも学生達のために易しいと面白いレッスンを考えてくれる。時々、テストを受けた後で折り紙とか他のクラフツを持ってきてくれる。それに私の日本語はもう少し上手になったと思う。少なくとも、文法が少し上手になった。ｗで、昔より今長い文を作れる。

先週末はとても忙しかったｗ金曜日はゲームセンターに行って、ポップン18（ザ・ムービー）とBlazblue（ブレーズブルー）をやった。とても楽しかった＾＾IIDXもあるけど、本当に上手な人がダブルスをやっていたので私はちょっと恥かしくて、やらないことにした。

土曜日は新しい友達と名古屋に行った。実は学校から友達は私に紹介してくれた。彼女も嵐が大好きだから、すぐに仲良しになった。ジャニーズの店に行って、11枚嵐の写真を買った。グッズはあまりなくて、私は沢山お金を持ってこなかったので、11枚しか買わなかったｗ。それからカラオケ館に行って、約4時間歌った。嵐とかPERFUMEとかNEWSなどの曲を歌った。帰ってから、寮の友達とバーに行った。寮の友人のご主人は次の日にタイワンに帰るから、ちょっと皆で出かけた。あのバーは凄かった、本当に。本当の日本のバーと思う。バーの人は皆浴衣を着て、畳の部屋で遊んだｗ。それに凄く丁寧な言葉を使っていた。でも、私たちは多分ちょっとうるさかったと思うｗｗまあ、、楽しかった。寮の友人と彼女のご主人はあのバーによく行くから、バーの人を知ってると思う。

日曜日は買い物をしたけど、この書き込むはもう長く過ぎになって、やめたほうがいいと思う。

英語で書きたくないｗｗまあ、、このままでいいと思う。またね

Sorry for the neglect :x I don't know why I keep putting off entries and such. I'm just busy studying, and worrying about money.

Well to start off.. we got 5 new people into our dorm this week, so it's definitely become much more lively around the house, which is nice. I had bought a whole bunch of flour, milk, and eggs so that I could make pancakes cuz I was kind of craving them. I didn't really know what to do with the milk, cuz there was so much of it.. so I suggested a pancake party lol.



( Pancakkkesssss )

On Thursday I was invited to go to the cafe nearby that has the parfaits, "Cat's Cafe". There was a group of about 10 people going to eat the giant 4,100 yen parfait that that offer there. I agreed to join them, and we walked in the super humidity. When we got there, we sat and immediately ordered the parfait.



( Let's see.. it took us 10 minutes to devour it.. )

After we did the parfait, Young and I went to the magazine/music/manga/video game store in the mall. I was planning on getting the newest Potato, and the newest volume of Nodame Cantabile. I went to the magazine section and got the Potato..






The poster :D


I'm wondering if I am over doing it?? rofl

Anyway, I ended up wandering around the music section to see if they got anything in used..


I've given up trying to find the limited edition of this, but they had the regular edition USED. The Arashi section in the used section is always empty. So... I had to ^^;;


I also found this in the used "clearance" section for.. get this.. 260 yen. It's the DVD/CD. I couldn't believe it..

Anyway, they were all out of the most recent Nodame volume. Which makes me sad, but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, as it's one of the most popular mangas in Japan.

So then on Friday... I ended up hearing about an arcade with a few fighting games and such that was (sort of) nearby, and wanted to go check it out. There was another group of people going, so I tagged along with them. There's actually 3 arcades (that I know of) around here.. one of them I met them at and it was tiny and totally run down, so we ended up walking to the other side of the city (sort of lol) to the other one that they had been to. It was not huge, but it had a lot of fighting games and some rhythm games. They had Pop'n Music 17 The Movie, which made me happy.



( I ended up spending 300 yen trying to figure out the menu, cuz it was really strange. In the end, I figured it out.. )

On Saturday, I went to meet a friend that aichijet introduced me to. She also likes Arashi, and so we chatted and.. went to the Johnny's shop :x Oh boy.. I know where it is now, so... >_>;;



( I restrained myself, I swear. )

After the Johnny's shop, we ended up going to a karaoke place and singing for like 4 hours.. It was about 900 yen for unlimited time and 1 drink, which wasn't bad. I'm sure if we went later, it would have been even worse. But it was so nice to karaoke with someone who knows Arashi--let alone Japanese songs in general.

After I came home, it was one of the dorm mate's husband's last day in Japan, so we went to their favorite restaurant/bar to celebrate. It was really cool.. you get your own little tatami room with a table, and then they had really delicious looking pizza's that I'll have to get eventually.

We learned some really silly Taiwanese games, including one called "Seaweed", so for the sake of things we called it "Nori" since everyone knew how to say that lol. What you do is play rock, paper, scissors until someone wins. Then the person who wins has to pick "high", "medium", "low", or "out to the sides", and say "NORI NORI NORI NORI". If the person who lost does the same move as the person who won, he or she loses. XD If you don't, you go back and forth trying to get the other person to do the same move as you. It's basically to see people make fools of themselves. xD

Tadaaaa. XD It was super fun, and we made the waiter play the game with us as well haha.. he was really funny.

Anyway, on Sunday I went to the Aeon mall with chop_sockey, Young, and Tsumin. It's Raechel's last week in Japan, so she wanted to go shopping for some omiyage and such. I wanted to get a macha frappe to try.


It was nummy :D

There's also a Mister Donut in the mall, and I kept hearing all these amazing things about it.. they were having a sale for everything for 100 yen, so I decided to go for it.


But I got too much and I could hardly finish it haha. (The donut holes were 100 yen for the whole thing)

After we shopped around with Raechel for a while, I had planned to go to a movie with a few people. So me and 3 other people went to see Gokusen :D It was expensive, so I don't think I'll get to see another movie while I'm here, but seeing a Japanese movie in theaters was on my list of things I wanted to do in Japan. It was a cute, but predictable movie. Kame of course was in it, but for some reason I didn't realize that Miura Haruma was one of the main characters, which made me happy! Oguri Shun, Narimiya Hiroki, and Hayami Mokomichi also made guest appearances :D No Matsujun, but I was expecting that.. still was a little disappointed that he didn't surprise me by being in it for like 3 seconds at least XD;

Anyway, like I said it was cute, but I think a very good choice for someone learning Japanese. Not a whole lot of weird terminology that I needed to know to get the plot of the movie.

I also watched Buzzer Beat on Monday, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be :o so I'll be watching it again next week. Of course Arashi no Shukudai-kun was watched.. Arashi in baby outfits is hilarious. XD

And now this post is going to be finished because it is long enough already haha.

So... please look forward to the next extremely long post xD;;

Hi everyone I’m taking a lunch break now so I thought I’d write again Like usual.

This weekend was super fun! On Friday after class we went to Mystic and played Cosmic Bingo, which of course none of us won, but it was still fun.

Then on Saturday I went with TJ to eat brunch with his old 8th grade geography teacher.. lol she was pretty awesome and I wish I had an awesome teacher like her in 8th grade too. Then we relaxed and did some errands, and then in the evening we spontaneously went karaokeing. None of them were the Japanese music types though so we sang English songs. Then afterwards we went to Sonic and waited an extraordinarily long time for food .. came back home and watched 3 Ninja’s in HD from the free HD movies on demand thing lol. That was awesome.. and it’s great to have a working TV in the living room again.

Then on Sunday I had planned a little get together with some JE fans. :D We met up at United Noodles and shopped around while katzichan got lost We had like an hour to kill before Midori’s opened, so we went over to the Target nearby and just went crazy in the toy section.. pressing all the “TRY ME” buttons to see lights flash. Hannah Montana sing, or a scary horse make magical noises, neigh, move it’s head up and down AND SPIN ITS TAIL IN A CIRCLE. IT WAS THE SCARIEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN LOL...

Anyway, we got over to Midori’s finally and we had originally gone there to eat their Okonomiyaki because they serve it on Sunday’s as a special... well they weren’t serving it this Sunday.. I cried.. but that’s ok, we all got some good food, I think.

Afterwards we lost one of our members but she had to work in the morning on Monday I guess.. so we went to a Karaoke place in Minneapolis near Washington Ave.. but we stopped at Tea Garden beforehand.. which was yummy! I miss Tea Garden.. but I only need one more punch before I get a free drink... lol took me long enough. Anyway, we sat and watched some stuff on katzichan’s laptop (AKA TIME DVD aHdjklahjkdag;dgh) and fangirled... we probably scared the rest of the customers in the store, but OH WELL.

Anyway... so we karaoked.. and it was awesome. AND THEY HAD A DBSK POSTER THERE AND I DIED OMG sujaeya.. IT WAS FROM THEIR ‘O’ PROMOTIONAL STUFF I THINK I SWEAR I ALMOST TOOK IT OFF THE WALL RIGHT THEN AND THERE.. Actually I was tempted to ask the guy if I could buy it off him.. but I didn’t ;; The karaoke place was slightly more ghetto than the one that is near my place, but it was still awesome and they had like 10 more songs than the other place LOL.. like ONE LOVE! We sang it and when it got to Jun’s solo part I yelled, “JUN SOLO” and we all started singing in the most nasal-y voice we could attempt.. LOOOL omg I died. That was priceless.

But yeah, karaoke was great. Lots of screaming and dancing and being dorks. I wanna doooo it again *cheer*

So I tried to watch AnS this morning because it’s their 100th episode and I knew they were gonna do something special... (well I thought they would.. wouldn’t you? ) well, lately they haven’t been starting it on time.. I don’t know why.. but it’s like News Zero goes until like 10:30 (12:30 JP time) which I suppose I don’t mind because Sho is on it lol. They did their thing on 24hr TV and it was weird because we saw them doing the same thing on last week’s AnS except from a different perspective.. it was really strange Anyway, I wanted to watch it but I had to leave for work before it started... oh well.. I guess I’ll watch it whenever someone uploads it.