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.

I took some Nyquil this afternoon. It's been half an hour already.
I'm trying not to fall asleep so I went on Xanga. I'm not sure if the medicine has already taken effect. My head is hurting a little bit and I'm feeling a little drowsy, but that might be because I needed some weekend sleep. I'm hoping it's not the Nyquil. haha
wish me luck, please.

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I'm already worn down for the week..