2nd host family

Ayano got swine flu so right now I7m with my 2nd girl called Misa :D Had a lot of fun with her these days, we went to a game centre, did some shopping and we:re going to Disneyland tomorrow! Her dad and little brother speak English fairly well so I'm feeling less language tired these days :)

But physically tired? Um hell yes...sleeping on a futon isn[t too comfortable, and theres a lot of walking around every day. PLUS they go to school on Saturday WHAT THE HELL!

Gotta go sleep, 5:30 start tomorrow -_}____^

FREAKIN KEYBOARD!!

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xo

spot of trouble

Ayano has swine flu so 1) I have nobody to talk to except my okaasan and 2) I have to change families tomorrow

ahhh

xo

hello from tokyo

It:s been a crazy trip and excuse my typing because these keyboards arent exactly what I:m used to and I can:t be bothered finding the apostrophe....

Day 1 was Tokyo Tower, Asakusa and Harajuku - basically A LOT OF SHOPPING! I bought a pikachu plushie, a frog coin purse (cos you gain coins like crazy over here), a new bag (the one I brought here... the zip kinda died), 2 voodoo doll keyrings (maybe for friends) and a realistic looking donut keyring :D

Today was school and meeting our host girls, my girl is really sweet! Her mum is really lovely as well, both very patient with my crap Japanese...their house is also HUGE compared to what I imagined! They have the most adorable sausage dog called Cookie who runs around the house wearing a jumper and opening the sliding doors with his face HAHA. her younger sister has swine flu and the dad is in Germany so the mum is mostly upstairs looking after the younger sister, and I:m all alone on the bottom floor in a room to myself :) Ayano and I did a bit of timtam slamming, which she found difficult LOL...and dinner was also awesome, purple potato wth!! It tasted sooo good, and so did everything else. I felt bad for telling my host mum that I dont eat fish and prawn (but i eat sashimi and tempura) but hopefully that saved her from cooking me things I don:t like

anyways I:m off!

xo

日本 in 24 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK SO I NEED TO SLEEP IN ABOUT HALF AN HOUR

Getting up at 3am will be a serious killer, taking a 6am flight to Sydney and then off to Tokyo! I won't be blogging from anywhere, but I'll keep a journal and take heaps of photos and post stuff up when I get back!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG etc

Hopefully my host families will like me =/ and hopefully I'll like them...

If not, then I believe 3 packs of timtams per family is a sufficient bribe :)

xo

FREEEEEEEEEEEDOM!

GMA SUCKED CRAP HAHAHAHAHA WHAT A JOKE...GUESSED HALF THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND MADE UP ANGLES IN THE EXTENDED RESPONSE

OH WELL, NO MORE FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I CAN BURN THE BOOK AND ALLLLLL MY NOTES

(nah I'll probably accidentally set the house on fire)

So I don't really know what to do with myself right now...I still can't find comfy black flats, but I now have a HUGE suitcase we borrowed from Susan that I can fill up for Japan

IN FOUR DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xo

4/7!

English and Psych down!

Context prompt for English sucked, but I bullshitted my way through an imaginative piece anyway...psych wasn't fabulous but it was better than Jap :D

chem and gma to go :( I'm still deciding whether I should make chem AWESOME and completely fail gma, or spread my efforts out and barely pass both of them

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never knew it was possible to be indecisive about failing HAHA

xo

this time next week

I'll be in Japan D: (I think)

So yesterday we went shopping for gifts and travel things, and we got EVERYTHING! Sheepskin x2, Propolis x4, koala purse for the little sister, pen+keyring for the little brother, and cool notepads for my host sisters (plus the bookmark, jewellery and lollies we bought last time)

Mum won like $20 in the lottery and bought me a travel journal...the most awesome one everr!

I have English and Psych exams tomorrow and I spent the whole day doing chem HAHA

I figured I can't study for English, and I have 3 hours after the exam to study for psych....never underestimate the power of cramming.

Chem is a guaranteed almostfail, and gma is a guaranteed fail, but screw gma cos Sam and I have $5 on whoever has the better shit mark :D and I really want $5. (and also cos I'm not doing the damn subject next year)

at least this time tomorrow, it'll be 3/6 done!

xo

HOST FAMILIES!

FINALLY GOT THEM FINALLY GOT THEM FINALLY GOT THEM FINALLY GOT THEM!!!

First host sister is named Ayano :D she's a month older than me and I'll be living with her, her mum, 14 year old sister and her dog...apparently her dad's on a business trip in Germany or something

get this - she's in the baton twirling club O.O pretty excited to see that in action LOL

Second host sister's name is Misa, and she's a month younger than me...has a 14 year old brother and no pets :( but she sounds EXACTLY like me! Fully into her piano/musicness and that's all I could understand....there was something about a concert audition on December 6th, so whatever that is, I'll be there for it :D she loves to travel as well, so I hope that includes travelling to the shopping centre with me...........heh

VIV IS SO LUCKY, SHE GOT A HALF FRENCH CHICK...WHO HAS A SISTER CALLED SOPHIE AND A DAD CALLED PHILLIP WTH! THAT'S MY NAME...AND MY DAD'S NAME D: though it's funny that Viv will be more asian than her Japanese host sister lmao I BET SHE'S SUPER PRETTY OMG JEALOUSSS!!

I am so beyond excited right now that I don't even care I bombed out on the Jap exam

one down, five to go!

xo

LIBERATION

MUSIC 3/4 IS OVER FOREVERRR!!

Good times :D

But even better that I don't have to ever think about Carmina Burana (unless it's this) or Summertime (unless it's this) EVER AGAINNN

I would SO be out chillin right now except for the fact that's 35 degrees (THANK GOD THE EXAM WAS IN THE ONLY ROOM IN THE SCHOOL WITH AIRCON :D) and I have the Jap exam on Friday :(

10 days til Japan!!

xo

DANGG

IT'S TOO HOTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Mum packed me a 400mL water bottle today...today of all days!! She usually fills up a 600mL bottle and I hardly drink it because it's a cold day, and today just HAS to be 34 degrees and i just HAD to have a babybottle

Diana and I spent 5 minutes at the vending machine trying to feed her crinkled $5 note into the machine...just so I could get me something to drink (all the taps have either brown water, or hot water D:)

I'm not exactly sure how I managed to get through a day without morphing into a puddle of water, but I'm home with the AC on and life is a whole lot better :D ya think paying $20k school fees every year would mean our school has AC, but nooo....

In other news, 2 more nights of "studying" for music and then I have ABSOLUTE FREEDOM (except for my unit 1&2 exams....HAHA WHAT A JOKE)

AND THEN

JAPAN EXCHANGE!!!!!

xo

motivation

I need it.

Music written exam is a week away and I've wasted my entire 4 day long weekend watching Disney TV shows and going back and watching season 1 of Lost

No reason why...just cbf doing anything at all =/

Scoured the whole of chaddy the other day in search for a pair of shoes because my black flats are falling apart, and I'm off to Japan in a month and I suppose it would be nice if I had footwear...found a really nice comfy pair from Zu though

For $130...and the right shoe didnt even stay on my foot when I walked :(

I summarised a few of my notes for music though, it's just that I didn't take it in and remember anything at all :( Would be really great to have a cram session with Steph and Jeff since their set songs are the same and they go to different schools...except it looks like we all have unit 1/2 exams at different times and blahblahbalhabaldkj

I'll just convince myself that everything will work out in the end...yeah...mmhm...right...

xo

ps happy birthday linda for tomorrowww :D (and erika. and happy birthday amanda for the other day. and happy birthday lisa for soon. and etc etc)