Somehow, one way or another, Tomoko ended up strangling me into doing Kareoke. On Tuesday night she was like, `so...what would you like to do tomorrow?` `I dunno, whatever you wanna do.` `Kareoke?!` me choking.....`um, well, oh ok..I guess` `Nani?` `Kareoke wa kowaii!!!` `kowaii?! nande?` `becuase I don`t like singing in front of people!` `Demo, kareoke wa daijyobu!` me shaking and starting to pull my hair out, `daijyobu jya nai!!!!` But the next day we went anyways. Turns out riding a bike down the street is more scarier than kareoke. I was plum terrified. We left at around 11:30 and met her freind Shaori on one of the street corners. Then we all biked down to the kareoke place. I haven`t ridden a bike and quite some time, and I have never riddena bike on a side walk with lots of people walking and on bikes and next to cars on the street. They kept laughing at me the whole time because I was so clumsy riding. So, we got to the Kareoke room and ended up reserving 3 hours. Wow, three hours goes way too fast. It was fun, and not so scary, but I still don`t like singing in front of people so don`t ask me any questions, like what did you sing Haven? I`ll get embarrased.
After that we walked down the street and guess what we did? No really guess, its easy, I always to it with Tomochan. Purikura!!! That was actually one of the funnest times, becuase I managed to add fake eyelashes to all of us in one piture and do my hair with a blond bob. It was kinda cute actually. I should go blond.
Then we walked in and out of show shops. Shoes in Japan are amazing....ly expensive! No, they are amazing. So cute! I just want to buy everything in sight! Also, I`ve been trying to take pictures of people walking down the street wearing cute or cool clothes or something like that, but I have also been taking pictures of girls shoes. So any Japanese girls out there wearing cute choes, watch out! If you go in a shop there might be an American girl in there taking pictures of your feet!
After this, what we did next was TONS of fun! They took me to see their high school. They have both just graduated, so that`s why I was able to go stay at Tomochan`s house. It was kinda scary becuase it was really quiet and empty. It was about 5:00. We took off our shoes and started climbing thye stairs to the first row hallway of classrooms. Then we heard something. `oh my gosh, what`s that?` Peaking around the corner, `eek! its so and so sensei!!!` We ended up playing a game of hide and go seek from any of the teachers we ran into. Tomochan was hilarious. Here is the senerio. So, your walking down the hall way and you see a teahcer standing there, he has probably noticed you, but you don:t want to talk to him or him to see who you are, do you 1.) run to the nearest wall and hide up against it, even though you`ve already been spotted. or 2.) turn around and start walking quickly the other way like you never noticed them and your on an important mission. Tomoko did 1.) and me and Shiori did 2. It was pretty funny. We saw the teacher and then Tomoko just flattened her self against the wall. After running around like this for awhile, we finally mannaged to get out of the building, which was a LOT harder than getting in. We walked past the tennis court were there was an extra curicular game of tennis going on that lots of boys were playing. There was about 6 tennis courts and about 40 or more boys in tennis uniforms. We didn`t exactly blend in. SO while walking innocently past on of the teachers there spotted us. But since we were just going for a walk around the mountain (the schoool is right up against a mountain. There is a trail that goes up the mountain around the school that the kids run three times a week) he said that was Ok.
After that we cycled back home. That night the whole family actually ate together, because her dad came home early from work. His english was actually quite good. She says that her practices his english every night, but she doesn`t know why. We had sushi! It was SOOOOOO good!!! I mean like mouth watering I think I`m in heaven when I`m eating good! Tearah, you wouldn`t have liked it.
Right now I am at my first host families house. I took a train here this morning at around 10:00. I`ll probably stay here till next Friday or Saturday.
Oh ya, Tomochan can also play the piano. I asked her to play it last night, I even said Onegaishimasu!, but I forgot that in Japanese houses you can hear everything inside and out, and since it was 11:00 at night she didn`t want to bother the neighbors. But she played it in the morning and it was really beutiful. She was considering getting her degree in music but now she is going to get one in English and hopefully become a translator.
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