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So I've been meaning to make a stupid post for like a week now, it has had different intended topics, but they've all been stupid. Well, I think you guys will find this (or maybe just one part or this) entertaining.
At first all I wanted to do was complain about how I have no idea why I'm supposed to be in Japan. I don't know what the benefits of going on an exchange are anymore, learning the language, finding yourself, meeting new people, having fun? I don't know why I thought being in Japan would be more fun than America. (Wrong-o.) Learning Japanese seems pointless to me outside of Japan, since I don't want to work in business. I've definatly already learned a lot about myself though, I've learned that I could never take living in the country. I fucking hate it. I've also learned that I constantly need friends around, and that being in a strange, socially cold place like Japan's countryside makes me depressed. I don't know who to meet, all the high school students I know aren't very interesting and are too busy caring about school to have much of a social life. And there's no one else to meet, out here in the country. Everyone of college age goes to school in Tokyo. No one wants to live here. I guess you can tell I'm not having much fun. So being here for me is just a psychological game of perserverance. I guess I've learned that I definatly appreciate the USA.
But, that's not what I want to talk about anymore, more interesting things have happened. I moved to my second host family, and their house is more fun to be in. I liked my old family, but it's just the mom and dad and all their kids are grown, so I just sat on my laptop all day. But now they don't have wireless internet, so my laptop's only in my room, and they talk to me a lot. They also have an 8th grade girl and an 11th grade boy (I'm also in 11th grade :P) but I haven't talked to them much. I've been learning a lot more Japanese, and I have a sweet word to teach you guys! It's 酔っ払い! or yopparai. It means drunkard! My host dad is a self-proclaimed yopparai. In Japan, it's totally ok to list drinking as one of your interests.
Another good story (this is the funny part) is this: I suck at riding a bike and got in my first accident yesterday! I now have a scrape with the largest surface area of any injury I've ever had. At first I thought this had never happened to me because I never did much bike riding, but I realized that it's that I've never been stupid enough to ride around in a skirt. Damn school uniform. What I mean by accident is it was just me and the curb that caused it and no car or anything. I just crashed. So,
I sort of look strange, mostly because I just got out of bed and immediatly took that picture.
Also, Japan has so many mountains! So pretty!!
At first all I wanted to do was complain about how I have no idea why I'm supposed to be in Japan. I don't know what the benefits of going on an exchange are anymore, learning the language, finding yourself, meeting new people, having fun? I don't know why I thought being in Japan would be more fun than America. (Wrong-o.) Learning Japanese seems pointless to me outside of Japan, since I don't want to work in business. I've definatly already learned a lot about myself though, I've learned that I could never take living in the country. I fucking hate it. I've also learned that I constantly need friends around, and that being in a strange, socially cold place like Japan's countryside makes me depressed. I don't know who to meet, all the high school students I know aren't very interesting and are too busy caring about school to have much of a social life. And there's no one else to meet, out here in the country. Everyone of college age goes to school in Tokyo. No one wants to live here. I guess you can tell I'm not having much fun. So being here for me is just a psychological game of perserverance. I guess I've learned that I definatly appreciate the USA.
But, that's not what I want to talk about anymore, more interesting things have happened. I moved to my second host family, and their house is more fun to be in. I liked my old family, but it's just the mom and dad and all their kids are grown, so I just sat on my laptop all day. But now they don't have wireless internet, so my laptop's only in my room, and they talk to me a lot. They also have an 8th grade girl and an 11th grade boy (I'm also in 11th grade :P) but I haven't talked to them much. I've been learning a lot more Japanese, and I have a sweet word to teach you guys! It's 酔っ払い! or yopparai. It means drunkard! My host dad is a self-proclaimed yopparai. In Japan, it's totally ok to list drinking as one of your interests.
Another good story (this is the funny part) is this: I suck at riding a bike and got in my first accident yesterday! I now have a scrape with the largest surface area of any injury I've ever had. At first I thought this had never happened to me because I never did much bike riding, but I realized that it's that I've never been stupid enough to ride around in a skirt. Damn school uniform. What I mean by accident is it was just me and the curb that caused it and no car or anything. I just crashed. So,
I sort of look strange, mostly because I just got out of bed and immediatly took that picture.
Also, Japan has so many mountains! So pretty!!