time flies
I honestly don't know what to write, considering this is one of my times i don't know exactly what I wanted to type here. So it will be short:
I switched host families twice. I was technically in one house for only 2 weeks but it didn't fly well and they got me moved to my last host family a month early.
The trip with mom and melinda was grand. I honestly didn't think I would of been able to even go or see Tokyo if it wasn't for them. i am an sincerely grateful.
from going on the trip i have learned, fun things to do/stuff i like is all in tokyo. but kyoto is alot more relaxed, easier and im closer to all my friends here. XD; plus ive become proud of my japanese with kansai accent/dialect. it's makes everything funnier.
rotary act is awesome and i don't know why i didn't have fun with them before now. Im sorta mad about that because I have less than 2 months left here and it's just now starting to be fun. I'm getting the hang of things, things are routine and Im fine with that, as long I as I get to do that one or two things i really enjoy once in a while, Im happy.
And a note about self critisism(sp?): if your always saying your language skills are terrible, it's always a nice suprise to found out you knew something all long and so your skills are better than expected. makes me smile all the time, but it does take a lot of restrengh to see others with high levels of profiency and it makes it seem like trying to strive there will be impossible.
going on exchange has made me aware that photography IS a form of ART. before, i didn't get it.
i will / want to post photos are here, but that takes a long. :__: Maybe soon I will.
My rotary speech keeps changing. I think for now it's a 10min speech on June 14th ((before it was 30minutes on June 21)). As will all speeches I am deathly terrified. Doesn't matter how perpared I am, etc. I get nervous regardless and I never understood what those teachers back home meant, saying ' it gets easier the more you do it." HA. no it doesn't. *ducks*
I think I'll be able to fill up alot of time with photos... and if I talk a minute about each month I should be ok. : / And my rotary jacket leaves less to be desired. (i have a lack of decoration on it. not like those other exchange students. *rolls eyes*)
and as the time counts down to me returning home, I am both sad, and grateful. I have missed my good buddies, but I really enjoy the Japan lifestyle here and all my host families, friends and people I've met. I wish I could just live or go to school over here, but I keep getting signs or people saying, "uhhh impossible!/stupid/you could do better" but maybe it's just I've 'become one' or something weird like that with japan, but it really makes me happy to live here and eat my bento. : )
I wonder what the job market is like for translators.... I hear the art field is just killer and you need to really LOVE ART to be successful in it. : /
I switched host families twice. I was technically in one house for only 2 weeks but it didn't fly well and they got me moved to my last host family a month early.
The trip with mom and melinda was grand. I honestly didn't think I would of been able to even go or see Tokyo if it wasn't for them. i am an sincerely grateful.
from going on the trip i have learned, fun things to do/stuff i like is all in tokyo. but kyoto is alot more relaxed, easier and im closer to all my friends here. XD; plus ive become proud of my japanese with kansai accent/dialect. it's makes everything funnier.
rotary act is awesome and i don't know why i didn't have fun with them before now. Im sorta mad about that because I have less than 2 months left here and it's just now starting to be fun. I'm getting the hang of things, things are routine and Im fine with that, as long I as I get to do that one or two things i really enjoy once in a while, Im happy.
And a note about self critisism(sp?): if your always saying your language skills are terrible, it's always a nice suprise to found out you knew something all long and so your skills are better than expected. makes me smile all the time, but it does take a lot of restrengh to see others with high levels of profiency and it makes it seem like trying to strive there will be impossible.
going on exchange has made me aware that photography IS a form of ART. before, i didn't get it.
i will / want to post photos are here, but that takes a long. :__: Maybe soon I will.
My rotary speech keeps changing. I think for now it's a 10min speech on June 14th ((before it was 30minutes on June 21)). As will all speeches I am deathly terrified. Doesn't matter how perpared I am, etc. I get nervous regardless and I never understood what those teachers back home meant, saying ' it gets easier the more you do it." HA. no it doesn't. *ducks*
I think I'll be able to fill up alot of time with photos... and if I talk a minute about each month I should be ok. : / And my rotary jacket leaves less to be desired. (i have a lack of decoration on it. not like those other exchange students. *rolls eyes*)
and as the time counts down to me returning home, I am both sad, and grateful. I have missed my good buddies, but I really enjoy the Japan lifestyle here and all my host families, friends and people I've met. I wish I could just live or go to school over here, but I keep getting signs or people saying, "uhhh impossible!/stupid/you could do better" but maybe it's just I've 'become one' or something weird like that with japan, but it really makes me happy to live here and eat my bento. : )
I wonder what the job market is like for translators.... I hear the art field is just killer and you need to really LOVE ART to be successful in it. : /