携帯電話様

Due to the affection I was showing my new cel, my host mother provided me with a miniature chair with padding so that it would enjoy the meals with the family.  Also it was given the name keitai-sama.  Now I can watch TV, record TV, listen to music, GPS, and a whole slue of other things with my new baby.

Hi!

とても悪い天気

So it rained on the way home today. Almost had a wreck with a crazy motorist who turned left down the left lane (the bike lane). *fist shaking*

He apologized about 30 different ways which was pretty satisfying.

A good day when all is said and done. Each time the lady who does homestay stuff asks how I’m doing I am able to articulate more and more the actual experience.

Not much else.

それでは，また明日。

2 earthquakes

Woo.  That’s was all that happened in Japan today.

Not much to do at the ‘ol homestead

Having already finished my homework on Friday night there hasn’t been much to do.  Host-sister is going to a Beyonce concert in Nagoya tonight.  Nothing else really to report.  May get some work done, who knows.

Good day.

Not hard to top the standard set yesterday. Played go at くらしのがっこう (I think was the name). ながき先生 out of the blue said if I was interested I could come and play go if I wanted.

Met a really nice guy who’s name just missed being great by lacking the H. He was also from Texas so the world shrinks a bit more (he watched/helped with some of my game). Played a 3dan guy with a 6 stone handicap and was slaughtered. Joy! Though really I won the game because he moved a piece after he had let go of it. I made another stupid move later on which he tried to get me to take back but NO, I wasn’t falling for that trick.

Anyways, useful stuff like はし which we learned in the first class actually came in handy.

Anything Penny says is a lie. Note the date and time posted here. You’ll notice this is posted before any of her lies begin. Take anything she says with a mountain bike sized grain of salt.

Obento

So, everyone in class P is jealous of my bento I get every morning.  I can see the gleem in their eyes.   Anyways, I watched a drama with my host sister last night called 花嫁のパパ.  (Bride’s Father.. or Father of the Bride?) It featured all the good traits of a drama including overdramatic flashbacks with the music that screams.. well.. OVERDRAMATIC FLASHBACK OCCURING.  It featured Koizumi’s son as the main owner guy of a fashion industry.  It’s about some girl who just began work at said fashion business.  Anyways, her dad is “きびしい” (which my host sister repeated about 10 times.. so I guess he really is strict) so he won’t allow her any freedom in her social life etc etc.  Then he asks her if she wants to play catch (cause he is lonely? trying to revive the relationship he had with his daughter in the past?), and the music played (THAT music) which is the universal sign of “This event will be turned around sometime within this episode”.  And what do you know, she finds a lonely kid at one of the parties hosted for fashion stuff and he is all lonely because, yep, his dad won’t play baseball with him.  SO WHAT DOES SHE DO? Oh yeahhh, in her fancy new dress and the kid (who is supposed to be showing off a new line of clothes) go get dirty playing baseball.  Normal fall out occurs, she gets lectured, she starts moralizing the dad who wouldn’t play baseball.. realized her position as a lower employee half way through spiel.  She gets lectured.  Dad arrives.. (wtf?) … lectures the guy as well… realizes he is talking to her superior… shuts up.. etc..

Then maybe he sent a resignation letter for his daughter? Or something?

I didn’t catch the last part.  The she was like.. I’m going to get married.  The dad was all.. No.

fin.

Anyways, I really like my class so far.  All the teachers have been really nice as well.  I only remember Nagaki-sensei’s off hand.

I think a russian student and I will go get our cell’s on thursday after we get our temp alien card and national health insurance.  Besides that.. nothing has really transpired in the 2 days of classes that I’ve had.

Anyways, time for breakfast.  Ciao!  (I didn’t reread what I wrote so expect mistakes.)

Off to Japan

So I fly out tomorrow morning at 6:40 AM.  Packed everything up.. which has been the only real stressful part of the process.   Packing a suitcase appears to be my kryptonite.

Anyways, to Dallas then straight to Narita airport.  Then I navigate my way to Tokyo and train down to Nagoya. Finally I get a train to Okazaki where I suppose I’ll meet my host family and some Yamasa folk.

‘Till then! Ciao.