So on a whim I decided to Wiki an old manga I used to read and mock in middle school... one link lead to another, and then read about "Please Save My Earth" (which.. wasn't the manga I mocked..) I remember reading the first book in middle school because a friend who sat across from me in one of my classes carried the book around that day. After a while I decided that the plot was too difficult and weird to follow.

Anyways, in some part in the beginning, there were these guys who talked about them sharing the same dream. This took me back to a few weeks ago when Tony, India, Kiyomi and I were talking about weird phenomenons and stories that we've experienced and heard about (the conversation started with the ghost in the school's third floor boy's bathroom). Anyways, the the manga mainly triggered India's story.

When India was small, her friend's grandmother died. A while later, the friend held a slumber party between six-ish girls, including India. There was a life-sized doll in the next room that they slept in. (I think the doll was given to her by her grandmother before she died.) That room was also next to the kitchen. Anyways, India slept a couple girls away from the friend that night. This is where the dream began.
In the dream, India looked up from her sleeping area at the room where the doll was in from some reason. (I think that India said that it was because she saw a person's silhouette moving in the room) And the area where the doll was supposed to have stood was empty. She met her friend nearby and they both went into the room together. They saw that the doll was broken into pieces. They got scared that they were going to get in trouble since the doll was a precious doll especially since it came from the grandmother, so they spent time trying to piece the doll back together. In the end, they could not fully finish piecing the doll so they swept up the remainders and placed it on the kitchen counter. After that India and her friend crept back into bed together, and clung together because they were scared.
When India and her friend woke up, they saw that they were hugging each other. (Remember that India originally slept a couple girls away from the friend? India somehow shifted over the other kids and together the friend and India hugged) Then India asked, "did you just have the same dream I did?" The friend agreed. However, the doll was still intact. India recalled going over to the friend's house again. This time the doll was in the friend's room. Apparently, India was still a little creeped out from that experience, but the friend wasn't.

Hm this makes me think about the recent stuff we have learned in psychology class about dreams and the subconscious mind. This experience is a little more bizarre and off from my learnings.
Okay have a nice sleep!

I met my pen pal today!

During 1st we practiced Beautiful Day by Arashi while the JNHS Jrs. blew balloons and prepared for undoukai.

2nd period comes! The bus came like ten minutes late but everyone was really excited and cheering when the Japanese students arrived. Some of the name cards for the Japanese students took.. very little effort (well.. at least it was something..) but lot of the handmade name cards were very nice! ... mine was Totoro-themed. Ayano-san looked so much like my friend Linna hehe. Then the MCs (Carmen, Taylor and on Miyakonojo Nishi's side was Togo-kun) Washington principal and the Miyakonojo Nishi's kouchou (principal) talked.. and then we sang. And then the Japanese dtuents went to sing... oh my god. They owned us at this so bad. One girl was conducting, and another was playing piano.. and they were separated girl-boy.. so organized and when they sang it was like watching a real choir group sing. It was SO GOOD. They put us to shame. But they liked our singing anyways, so it's all good. They were so adorable! all of them! So polite and modest and everything!

HR- toured her around the school while struggling to say the right things in Japanese...

3rd/4th Undoukai! It was too wet outside so we had to play in the cafeteria. 1st group (us) did the ice breaker.. group human bingo which was um.. a little messy but interesting. 2nd group did Orange ribbon which is kind of like the three legged race but with a ribbon wrapped around four people.. and we switch our ribbon to the next group in our team after we run. 3rd group did this ball passing race. 4th group did balloon popping war. We couldn't do the 5th group because it was water balloon stuff and we were indoors.. mm hmm.

Lunch- everyone got two cookies, chicken tuna croûton celery lettuce ???? wrap, chips, water, carrots, apple. I liked the wrap, but a lot of the Japanese students didn't like it. My host ate some but I don't think she finished it. It was so freaking filling too.. I couldn't even finish it. People kept going to Ayano-san and talking to or hitting on her and she was so friendly to them. Well actually all the students were very friendly. They were surprised to see we had purikura here.

5th- I was in this group that did the Sorry Sorry dance. made so many mistakes lol. Then choir came in and sang two songs. Then Miyakonojo Nishi students practiced their presentation with us, I finally hear my hostee speak English yay! Her group's topics are Kimono/Yutaka.

6th- I went to Benson's class because there was a Miyakonojo Nishi group doing a presentation about decoden (phone decorations) and pimped out stuff haha. I actually.. enjoyed listening to their Japaningrish. It was cute, really. I think that's how we must sound when we speak Japanese with our American accents bleeding through. Their thoughts about our school is that we have so much more freedom than they do, and that they like our school and it's so big and pretty (SERIOUSLY??)

7th- Oh no they're leaving! Lots of pictures taken, gifts exchanged, addresses exchanged. Bye bye Ayano-san and other Miyakonojo Nishi people!

I might post up some pictures for once because this day was EPIC. I took Liza's camera to take it.. Liza domo arigatou for allowing me to use it. I really want to go to Japan now ...to view their school...

Yoshi! So I got her big rice krispie bar, reese's pieces, Ghiredelli chocolate (from sister), starbursts, cable car ornament (from mom.. I should've chose something cuter but NO I wanted accurate..), SF magnet (from Yuki), homemade Ne-Yo CD (from Yuki again), and I think that's it.
God.. they put me to shame again. Ayano-san gave me konpeito (sugar candy), Hello Kitty aburatorigami (facial oil blot paper thing), various candy in a small Hello Kitty zippered container, Anpanman brand agesen (some sort of rice cracker bits) in a Hello Kitty giftbox (I think she likes Hello Kitty..), Japanese spring postcard, eraser, lead pencil.. wait wah? It's got instructions for some reason. Oh! And the chopsticks that the school gave us are so pretty! Mine is black with white and pink sakura flowers on it.

I hope she had fun. Now that I look around the pictures and stuff from other people they seem so much happier. @_@ And Carmen and them did so much more than I did.