back to the real world…

I’m really bummed out that Golden Week is coming to an end :(  It’s been so nice to not have to do anything at all.  And I really mean that.  Like, after we went out to lunch with Rob-san on Saturday, we did absolutely nothing for the rest of the day.  And Sunday.  And Monday and Tuesday too.  We really didn’t do ANYTHING.  But then, these past 24 hours have been pretty packed with amazingness.

We were waiting around for the Tokyo people to come back on Tuesday night., just waiting and waiting and waiting.  Kazuki and Keiichiro showed up and they were hungry so we went to Keiichiro’s house to have noms.  He made us okonomiyaki and there was also this soup that tasted kind of like curry that was really spicy.  And then we went to the conbini and had ice cream :)  I swear, I eat WAY more ice cream here than I do at home.  I think because it’s so easily accessible. 

When we got back from Keiichiro’s house Hideki was here.  And then more and more nihonjins just kept showing up.  And then Rob-san showed up.  And I was thinking that it was all a coincidence that all our friends finally showed up again on the same day, but apparently the people that had gone to Tokyo had planned a karaoke night but no one told us.  Then the Tokyo people came back, and we were all SO HAPPY to see them.  ^.^  I’m really glad they came back :)  And then we all went to karaoke.  Our nihonjin friends put us all in their cars and we drove to the karaoke place, which was like, 5 minuets away.  By car.  Then we sang karaoke.  From about 12 to 4 in the am.  It was absolutely AWESOME, AND I sang Japanese songs.  Lots of Arashi.  I really really loved it :)  It’s totally school related too.  It’s an exercise in reading fast.

We were supposed to go to the zoo the next day, except everyone went to sleep at 5 and woke up at like, 12.  So that was out.  But then we caught a train to the beach instead!!  It was really really good to be at the beach again.  I missed it so much.  But the water was FREEZING.  So I didn’t go swimming.  I did draw in the sand though, and we took lots of pictures on multiple cameras :)  We met these two high school girls too, because they kept looking over at us so we asked them to take a picture for us, and then they still kept looking over at us, so we called them over and talked to them.  They’re really adorable <3  Then when we were leaving the beach we saw them putting on these gigantor heels.  I don’t understand that... all the girls here wear high heels.  I mean, I know you’re short, but that can’t be comfortable...

We ate at this burger place for dinner that had fabulous Engrish, and then went to Baskin Robins for dessert :)  After that Takaki came over and brought as an omiyage.  It was mocha wrapped in azuki beans.  So AMAZINGLY delicious.  I love.  Then we stayed up really late and watched Anastasia and I painted nails :)

And now, I have school in two hours >.>  I want my vacation back.  We had so much fun...