International Fiesta and a Mail Mix-Up
Hello, its been a while!
I have been SO busy with school, which I'm a little sad about because it's my last semester. While all of my friends are still in the same place, I'd like to hang out with them more. I've been making new friends though! I decided to participate in my school's International Fiesta this year, which is a dance competition between all of the international student associations on campus. I'm on the Japanese team and if we win we will have a 3-year winning streak. Pressure's on and the practices are really tough... 3 hours a day every day! I've been extremely sore considering I haven't done any kind of exercise in a long time, haha. So my days generally go like this: Work at 9, class until 3:30 or 5, dance practice, come home, ice my knees and shower, do homework while contemplating how miserable my body feels, go to bed. Fiesta is on February 29, less than two weeks from now, but already I'm losing sleep while getting all nervous about it. I'm sure tons of videos of our performance will be on YouTube, so I'll link them all. :)
In more Japanese news, Molly and I have an interview with the English language school Aeon. We will be going to Chicago to be interviewed in a group first and then individually if they like us. I hope to be placed somewhere near my host family in Tokyo. The interview is from noon until 8pm one day! I don't know about the individual interview. I'm kind of nervous :( I hope that Molly and I have a chance to be placed in the same office or very close to each other.
And one final funny story: My host mom sent me a package earlier this month and told me that it was a Dentsu calendar that she got at the beginning of the year. It took a while getting to me because she sent it to my parent's house and my mom sent it to me here in Buffalo, but when I finally got it I was excited to look at the calendar. Inside the package was a lovely note from my host mom, some candy, calendar stickers, and these two really weird-looking ceramic cats. Obviously not a calendar. Confused, I e-mailed my host mom and sent her a picture of everything in the package. I was SHOCKED when she wrote back that she had never seen those cats before in her life!! After examining the box, I noticed that the brown tape she used was on one side, but there was clear plastic tape on the other. We figured that customs must have been examining packages and accidentally switched my calendar with these weird cats. So now someone has my calendar, and the cats are sitting on my kitchen table. I will definitely be sending my host mom one for her birthday, haha.
I have been SO busy with school, which I'm a little sad about because it's my last semester. While all of my friends are still in the same place, I'd like to hang out with them more. I've been making new friends though! I decided to participate in my school's International Fiesta this year, which is a dance competition between all of the international student associations on campus. I'm on the Japanese team and if we win we will have a 3-year winning streak. Pressure's on and the practices are really tough... 3 hours a day every day! I've been extremely sore considering I haven't done any kind of exercise in a long time, haha. So my days generally go like this: Work at 9, class until 3:30 or 5, dance practice, come home, ice my knees and shower, do homework while contemplating how miserable my body feels, go to bed. Fiesta is on February 29, less than two weeks from now, but already I'm losing sleep while getting all nervous about it. I'm sure tons of videos of our performance will be on YouTube, so I'll link them all. :)
In more Japanese news, Molly and I have an interview with the English language school Aeon. We will be going to Chicago to be interviewed in a group first and then individually if they like us. I hope to be placed somewhere near my host family in Tokyo. The interview is from noon until 8pm one day! I don't know about the individual interview. I'm kind of nervous :( I hope that Molly and I have a chance to be placed in the same office or very close to each other.
And one final funny story: My host mom sent me a package earlier this month and told me that it was a Dentsu calendar that she got at the beginning of the year. It took a while getting to me because she sent it to my parent's house and my mom sent it to me here in Buffalo, but when I finally got it I was excited to look at the calendar. Inside the package was a lovely note from my host mom, some candy, calendar stickers, and these two really weird-looking ceramic cats. Obviously not a calendar. Confused, I e-mailed my host mom and sent her a picture of everything in the package. I was SHOCKED when she wrote back that she had never seen those cats before in her life!! After examining the box, I noticed that the brown tape she used was on one side, but there was clear plastic tape on the other. We figured that customs must have been examining packages and accidentally switched my calendar with these weird cats. So now someone has my calendar, and the cats are sitting on my kitchen table. I will definitely be sending my host mom one for her birthday, haha.