bathing will never be the same again

I’m really really bad at updating this.  I was awesome at updating this when I first got here, but lately I’ve been lacking.  I’m sorry :(

Monday night was absolutely terrible xD  None of us did ANY homework last weekend, so we all stayed up suuuuper late to finish it.  I didn’t go to bed until like, 4.  But that’s also because I was talking to mommy and Falcon on skype :)  And then for our photo class we went to walk around Kanazawa by Maruei Market and Takashi came with us and we all walked around and took pictures.  And then Ele and Tyler went to the club but I was too tired so I never went.

Oh wow wait, I have to go all the way back to Sunday?  Damn >.>

Okay, well Sunday we went with Sari and Mami to Kanazawa Eki, where they have this huuuuuuge department store.  That’s the thing, by the way.  They don’t really have malls in Japan.  They have department stores.  HUGE ones.  Like, six or seven feet tall.  And there are millions of different shops and they’re just all spread out through the floors, and there aren’t really any doors to any of the shops.  They’re all just kind of big and open.  Some of them have walls, but mostly you just wander from one store to the next.  It was a lot of fun, and we ate lunch at this Italian restaurant where they had the most amazing honey toast.  So wonderful :)  I absolutely loved it.  And we had a lot of fun with Sari and Mami :)

And I don’t really remember what we did on Sunday night… hmm.  OH!! No, I remember.  Sunday night Savannah came over and watched HanaDan because she was watching the Japanese one and had nooooo idea what was going on.  I need to finish watching that with her.

I also need to clean my room.

So on Tuesday in class we were all completely dead from staying up super late and our Senseis were like, “O.o??” 

Then Tuesday was the first time I went to fight club.  Oh.  My God.  SO MUCH FUN.  I love it.  We did conditioning and stretches and stuff and I was in SOOOOO much pain for the next few days, but it was really awesome.  We were working on… taijutsu?  That day.  So, defending yourself when your enemy has a weapon.  Specifically, a katana.  Before we did that though we were practicing tumbling and doing all these rolls, and Ele wasn’t doing it because she was scared, I guess.  So, the one time she finally does a forward roll, she ends up kicking me HARD in the nose.  I was totally okay; no blood or anything.  But it’s just kind of suuuuper funny.

I love my club.  By the way.  They’re so very awesome.  I like them a lot.  When we’re in club they’re all really serious about it, but afterward they loosen up and talk to us.  We were talking story with them for like, an hour after practice on Tuesday.  And Mami is in that same club with us!! And girl is bad ASS.  I love it.  So we invited them to go eat sushi with us, and they were all, “Oh yeah, sure.  Tomorrow.”

So Wednesday after school we went to club again and we were practicing ON THE ROOF.  Barefoot.  And it was fine while the sun was up, because the sun was actually out, and it was a beautiful day.  We were practicing with these long spear-like sticks that were flattened and curved at one end, because it’s like a spear with a katana on the end.  Bad.  Ass.  But after the sun started going down it got really really cold >.>  And I think I caught a cold >.>  So after practice we were going to sushi but Takahashi Captain didn’t come with us.  But we went to sushi and it was super fun, and then when the bill came the guy that was highest rank TOTALLY snipped the bill and told us it was only 500 yen because the Captian had given him money to pay for the meal o.o  And he didn’t even go!!  That’s so ridiculously amazing.  We have to take them all presents on Thursday when we go back.  OMG.  So I was taking pictures of them with my DS and playing with their faces and put cat ears and whiskers on one of the white belts, and showed it to everyone and they all went “Ah, neko-chan neko-chan!!”  And he put up his hands and went “Nyan!”  And I died <3 <3 Sooo cute.

Thursday morning we left to go to Yamanaka Onsen.  I.  LOVE.  It’s so amazing there.  They picked us up from the train station and took us to the hotel, and when we got there we went straight to the onsen. I loooooove it there.  It’s so beautiful, and since I like being naked anyway it was totally perfect.  You go into the room and wash yourself, and after that you go into the hotspring, and it just feels SO wonderful.  All my baths from now on will be sub par. I really want to go back.  Like, right now.  And THEN we had this AMAZING crab dinner that they set up for us, and then they set up our beds for us and everything!  I went into the onsen three times while we were there.  It just felt soooo amazing.


Edit: THEN ON THE WAY BACK, I FOUND A PURIKURA BOOTH IN THE TRAIN STATION!!!!!  Apparently there's one at 109 in Korinbo too.  I will go.  With nihonjins.  It's my goal  :)

I’m so glad it’s Golden Week.  I want absolutely nothing to do with school right now.  Rob-san is bringing over one of his students in like, six hours.  And I think I should have at least four hours of sleep to be functional for that.  So, I’m going to cut this short.  And try to remind myself to update more often and more thoroughly.  I just have no time for computer-ing anymore.  Ele says it’s a good thing o.o

Jaa <3