Whoops, I forgot to post my schedule last time. Try to forgive me. so here`s the schedule of my typical day Monday through Saturday.
5:45 am: wake up to get ready for school.
6:40 leave house to catch train at 6:44
7:18 switch trains
8:00 arrive at Matsudo Shinden station. 25 minute walk to school(and thats when taking all the shortcuts and walking quickly)
8:40-3:00 at school. then at 3 repeat the same travel plan as above only backwards to get back home by 5:20
5:30-have dinner.
6:30 do dishes, then study japanese and do homework
8:30take bath and get ready for bed
9:00watch tv and go to bed at 10
yup, thats basically it. now to discuss my past few days with school being cancelled(for me) cause of tests. So the day before yesterday was my host mom`s b-day. We had a celebration BBQ with the neighbors yesterday. I also went to a fish market, which was awesome. There was uni and tako and roe, all freshly caught that morning. We ate that fish at the BBQ. It was delicious. Oh, and I saw Two and a Half Men on tv in japanese. It was really quite hilarious. I also saw Battlestar Galactica. Today, I got up early (6:00 again) to go to the flea market with my host mom to sell things. We were there until about 1:00. The flea market was pretty cool. On the first of every month, a bunch of people go to this place and sell things. I bought an entire manga series for 200 yen! So cheap! After that, I went with my host mom and her friends to a meiji style cafe. The uniforms for the waitresses were really cute. :) I forgot to bring a camera though, so I didn`t get a picture. :( Saaaaadd. But if you look up the Meiji Era, I`m sure you could find it. The meiji restoration era is right when guns were first being introduced, swords were banned, Japan turned into a government, and japan started to become westernized. So the uniforms are a cross between like 19th century europe and yukatas. I learned all of that from the manga, rurouni kenshin. See? Manga IS good for something. Ok, question time. I do help with the cooking some, but it`s mostly just prep work. I`m sorta busy, so I usually don`t have time to cook. No, I haven`t met the grandkids, I`ll meet them sometime this week though. My room is just a tatami mat room. Its bare except for a wooden table, a wooden chest of drawers, and a built in shrine, which isn`t that interesting either. Yeah I`m in walking distance of places. Bakery, Karaoke, Grocery store, restaraunt, futon store, trainstation. But I`m not allowed to go out on my own except to school, so it doesn`t really matter much. You really think I look cute in my uniform? I think I look like a catholic schoolgirl. Everyone else is cute, though. The weather here is pretty cool for summer time, but the japanese people think that it is very hot now. Everyone carries gloves and a hat and a umbrella and a fan and a handkerchief with them. Which is not as awesome as it sounds cause the stuff isn`t fashionable. I can`t wait for the ipod. So you figured out the address ok? I was worried. Well I gotta go so one last thing I can`t upload pics on facebook yet cause this computer dont have java script. bye.