Everyone's so nice that I'm starting to wonder if they're gonna invite me into a cult... it could happen...

OMG, EVERYONE IS SO NICE!!! People came up to me when I was having lunch and started (trying to) speak to me in English. A girl I met yesterday, today handed me a 'nice to meet you' note with her email address in it, Kawaii!! I'm not sure if my message got through though, so I'll try on the computer next.

I went to art club today also. Tanoshikatta! My host sister introduced me to one of the members in her year and it made me automatically a part of their group! Ara! They were all so nice, but slightly out of the ordinary, which I was glad to find so easily. They mostly spoke to me in English though. It was ok, it made the conversation easier, and I still spoke in Japanese mostly. It was a lot easier than in Cooking class, where the seniors in our group just decided to not speak English at all. It took 20 minutes to translate their questions and another 10 to figure out how to answer in Japanese -.-; I feel like I know more Japanese already though... mostly cos whenever I hear a new word that sounds important and repeated, I write it down and look it up. I usually can't remember what it means afterwards, but it makes me feel smarter, maybe.

Japanese and morning worship make me so sleepy... About ten percent of people in the auditorium fell asleep during worship, and not subtly either. At least two people in our group fell asleep too. You could tell because you could hear them drop their music ^^ (Ahem Jess and Sam)

In English, they messed up, so we got there at the wrong time and walked in unexpectedly. We ended up attempting conversation with the class, doing our self introductions, and playing hangman (the hangman was a cat though, cos Zoe thought a hanging man would be too gruesome to people who hadn't played the game before).

There's more to say, but I won't bore further, so Ja Mata ne.

Homestay for a short while (my English is deteriorating faster than my Japanese is improving).

Ok, so I'm pretty much doing my mini homestay right now. It's with the family I'll stay for a long time with though. They're so nice! It's mindblowing ^^

So basically thus far, I've been to Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, and back to Tokyo again. It's been really awesome. I've loved Tokyo the most though. Hiroshima and Kyoto were good but Tokyo is ichiban. Right now I'm listening to ARASHI on my host sister's cd player. Yes, that's right Kate, ARASHI. There was this shop in the market outside Asakusa on the first day FULL of ARASHI stuff. Mind blowing. There were watches, fans, posters, stickers, keychains, everything.

I won't post anything more right now but know I'm doing well and more interesting stuff will happen later. I'll also put photos up soon.

日本に行きます！(I'm going to Japan!)

Started packing so I thought I'd start blogging too. My bags are wayyy too heavy right now. I'm definitely going to have to pay for them being over the limit. I blame homework DX

To summarize my trip: First I'm going on a school trip with 24 other senior Japanese students all over Japan, then I will be staying in Japan for another term as an exchange at the same school as my peer and friend Sarah (http://jjjapanesejourney.blogspot.com/)

So, follow me and my travels through Japan... but mostly Tokyo.