Now that I have my new handy dandy camera and the memory card I stole from Peter...here are some pics of my favorite places! Harajuku and Shinjuku!


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9 days.....

9 days until I come home! I can`t believe how fast the semester went!

oh and here`s a quiz stolen from Krystle ^^

Your 2005 Song Is
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Man! I have been crazy busy lately! I went to Yokohama with my host mom a couple weeks ago, and that was really fun ^^. We went to Chinatown, which really didnt look too different from the rest of Japan...lol with the crowded streets and Asian people...LOL. But we had yummy Nikuman and bubble tea. Then we went to an old cruise ship that carried ( Read more... )

So my weekend was very very busy XD. Friday I was still feeling alittle under the weather, but I went out with some of the JSPers to La Pausa and had some yummy food and some drinks. On Saturday I woke up to go to the Tokyo Jazz Festival in Shinjuku with Katie and Eric. We got to Shinjuku, found the venues where the festival was and had to buy ( Read more... )

I became Japanese. I watched a television program...in Japanese...and cried. All the people on the TV were crying...my host mom was crying, and I cried.

So I had a very busy week last week. Last Saturday I went out drinking with my host family..which was ok. Then we went to Karaoke and it was ridiculous. My host dad was out of control and it was funny XD Sunday I just kind of lounged around and didnt do anything productive. Monday was halloween, but my host family (mom and sister) and I went ( Read more... )

So Disneyland was lots of fun, it was pretty much the same as the American version....only in Japanese >.> LOL. I had some yummy Honey Popcorn and went on Space Mountain!!! I was so happy because the last few times I have been at the one in CA, its been closed :( so i was happy! Unfortunately, it rained alittle and my camera ran out of batteries ( Read more... )

So today....my alarm went off at its normal time, and i give myself the obligatory extra 15 minutes of sleep. I wake up, only to realize that my body refuses to move. I groan, thinking, damn, I must be more tired than I thought, but I need to get up. Next thing I know, my host mom is yelling to me about the time and I realize that it is now 8:20 ( Read more... )

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So I have been a busy bee the last couple of days. Last Friday was really stressful because I had my Japanese midterm >.<; During the oral part of the exam, I did really well and my teacher was like " You speak Japanese very well and very naturally! Why don`t you speak in class more?!" LOL...I couldnt really say because calss is boring and I`m ( Read more... )