Sunday morning I spent some time working on an essay for Japanese class while Jeff went out to Myoudani again to look for something. His host mother served us ramen for lunch, which was really good. She even flavored mine with miso and his with something else because she knows he doesn't like miso. Apparently, while he'd been gone, he'd been ( Read more... )

( Party time continued )

Okay, I know I'm way behind on this and stuff. Basically, since last Friday, I've been staying with Jeff's family because my host mother went on a trip to Germany. (I never figured out exactly why she was going, but oh well.) She's going to be gone until next Tuesday, a total of 11 days. I've had to accustom myself to Jeff's family's schedules, so ( Read more... )

Tonight (Thursday) I went with my mother to a choir concert in Sumiyoshi. We got there almost an hour before it was supposed to start, so she decided she wanted to get a drink, and not just a vending machine drink, either. She took me in this tea shop and ordered herself an apple drink with ice cream or sherbet or something in it. I took a look at ( Read more... )

( Pictures of my home area )

On Saturday, Jeff and I went to Osaka for the day, since I needed to go there anyway for my recording job that evening.
( First stop: DenDen town )

It's been a pretty ordinary week, although it seems like it's gone pretty fast, actually. I was going to update on Wednesday, but there wasn't much to say since we've gotten into a routine of classes and stuff. It turned out that we didn' t have a vocab quiz on Monday since we hadn't gotten a schedule, but then we had almost a double quiz on ( Read more... )

Today was a lot of fun, if a bit confusing at first. Last night I'd arranged to meet Jeff's host parents near the station so they could take me to get that bike I won. We were trying to figure out how much I'd have to pay and where and stuff though because I couldn't really read the letter they'd sent me. My host mother read it and told me I'd have ( Read more... )

( Japanese cell phones )

09/20/04 1900 ( Read more... )