So these past 2 days have been crazy awesome (although sleep has been somewhat of a miss..) Ok where to start. So now that school is over, people have been out & about.. Crazy typical teenager / student stuff.. heard one girl got a little too drunk and was last scene with an ugly Japanese guy next to the dorm..

Tara (34 years old) & her new 27 year old “hot japanese boyfriend”, Nyao (like.. Meow.. haha) have been having a ball even though he works 24/7. Turns out, she is his first ever girlfriend. As for me, I was downpoured on, but no biggie.. I cleaned a bit of my room and loved the reaction when the staff where checking it & saw my HUGE black bags tapes to the windows (that lead to the patio that I never use) and they were like, WHAT IS THAT?! I forgot that they really only speak japanese so I explained it all in english, they were like.. uhhh.. ok… whatever, & didn’t make me take them down to check my patio (haha.. *relief* because I still need them for the last few days).

Hmm, after grabbing a ton of oishi (delicious) tabemono (food) from the “combini” (stores with TONS of awesome foods and everything) I headed out for harajuku. (I had no idea I would go to Harajuku this much, I thought it was going to be Akihabara or Shinjuku, but everytime, it’s a riot.. :P)

I am on a mission for skirts. As usual, everyone is bloody sexy or just plain weird looking.. It’s scary when you’re used to it. So I stop by Mcdonalds to take a picture of all these girls freaking out at this “Kawaii” (cute) cat sitting on a fat guy.. (lol.. There’s really no other way to put it).. I learned something: no matter how ugly you are, if you have a cute cat or dog in japan, everyone will be like “AWWWWWWWWWW” or at least you’ll get in  pictures on tons of school girl’s phones  because of  the  cat.. HAHA..  Right then, I look over, and it’s Nayo & Tara!! I was like WOW! Dude!

So we were shocked we saw eachother in the huge crowd and wandered together. He took me to a crazy store that he frequents with rediculous prices (like all “high end”, “original” shops there) the store owner looked gay, but dressed absolutely fabulously, totally off the wall. With his awesome funny “guy liner” (his makeup was probably very expensive as were his clothes, even though in America people would be like wt heck?!!) Anyways, so nyao was sales talked by this owner guy to by this really weird (honestly cheapy) looking mask, but hell, support the locals.. HAHA.. I would have went for the rave bear claw myself..

So since it is their 3rd time out or so, and since Tara has failed to ask Nyao very important, “going out” questions, I took the initiaitve myself, with my broken, terrible japanese to try to ask him these personal questions.. HAHA.. Tara was floored but at the end, she was like, excellent now I know! (HAHAHA) The questions were:

• I figured out in Japanese class, testing it on one of the 18 year old punk volunteer Waseda guys, “Playboy… wakaru?” & it seems like Japanese guys all know that term. SO i used it on Nyao, something like this– It seems on myspace & your social internet sites you talk to a lot of girls— “Are you a Playboy?!” — tara almost fell of of her rocker laughing (she either doesn’t have the guts but I think it’s because she didn’t want to scary him away with the 20 questions game.. As for me, I don’t mind looking like an idiot trying to figure out how to ask these questions..)
• Have you ever had a girlfriend Response: No (shocked! competition here must be fierce!)
• Do you have STDs? (He didn’t understand STDs so I said Aids for example (”ee-dsu-” something like that) And he was like NOO! Then I pointed to Tara & was like good you two are good to go (I was joking) he thought that I said Tara has Aids!! It was so funny (like no offense to anyone out there) but Omgosh– we were like No No!! She is clean!! HAHA.. Then he figured out out crappy translation. The look on his face was priceless.
• So there was way more funny bloopers, like he asked me “What Omiyagi did you get people?” & I respond.. Uhhh yah, let’s just say he officially doesn’t know what to think of me, he thinks I’m a pervy, crazy chick– But, I like it that way! HAHA..

Later in the evening, after finding an awesome skirt,  I ended up meeting up again with Adam, the guy who translates for a big bank in Tokyo. It was freaking hilarious! He told me all sorts of crazy JET program stories. He treated me to another restaraunt– “HipHopPasta” is what he and his friends call it. He explained to me that the name “Viking” in the front meant “Buffet” because Vikings raid and all, so buffets are like that–  great idea. Anyways, so yah, all you can eat pasta & pizza place. It was so yummy, they had cakes, awesome pizzas, & more.. My favorite was the make your own crepe bar!! With ice cream toppings, cereal, chocolate, syrups, and the whole 9 yards.. Oh man.. It was great.. Then he showed me where I can get good Japanese stuff, for a fair price, and took me to a shrine right int he middle of the city — but it was super peaceful.. Really fun & funny as heck.

Then I came back to the dorms. Pooped but totally worth it..

So, I know this is older news, but I just uploaded my hostfamily video clip of my hostfamily okaasan (mother) putting on my yukata for me ^_^. The two other kids are her daughters. Very friendly & they new some English words from school. It’s a pretty long video, really all you need to get the jist of it is the first 2 minutes.

This one is me in their chiisai (small) but cool car listening to the same JPOP music over and over again.. But, I started to like it all a lot because the girl played it so much.. HAHA.. We were both dying from the heat.. My host family also had a major “Hair thing” & kept wanting to put up my bangs, which scared the crap out of me.. I could tell I looked funny to when a guy I fellow student also at the Matsuri saw me and just stared with a very disturbed look on his face.. Later I saw him, and my bangs were back to normal & he was like “Oh, by the way you look cute” (not in a flirty way, in that tone of voice, like “you were scarey..” HAHA..)

For more youtube videos my list is at: http://youtube.com/roadpoo

PS: I look super happy in these videos, but they lie! haha.. just kidding..

YAY!! Finally, the moment we have all been waiting for… The last day of Japanese class!!! I mean, it was great and all, but after having grammar, kanji & vocab tests EVERYDAY, it can get a little old *understatement*..

Now that I am free, my brain is in utter awe & shock. I don’t know what to do first. I mean, I could go drinking, I could just continue sitting here, I could eat more (but I don’t think I could possibly fit anymore in my stomach after all the maple-syrup bars I just ate, that is one thing that is so amazing that is actually a SWEET that japan makes and America doesn’t.. haha), or I could sleep.. (Every morning was 6:50 wake up time, and I didn’t sleep at perferred grandma hours.. HAHA)..

Hmm well, I’m pretty good right now, so I think I’ll stick with the internet option.. haha.. So I guess my plans now are to upload my videos of the last day of class (Me doing my crumby presentation, we all agreed in private not to memorize it, because we were fried & tired of so much work… HAHA..)

My little presentation is online! YAY, you can see it here:

And here’s a 3 minute clip of my sensei not understanding that none of us wanted to present at the farewell party because most of the people in my class were hung over or tired.. HAHA..

Wow, I cannot believe it, this probably will sound like some typical post that you’d read from a random foriegn exchange student, but this should be better.. So bear with me– HAHA..

Anyways.. Let’s see where to begin.. So I think I’ve done everything I wanted to do when I got here.. With the exception of a few things..

• Went to japan & got credit for college (!)
• Got way better at on-the-spot broken japanese (haha..)
• Ate at Mcdonalds way too much (and was able to get a cheeseburger for free when they messed up and gave me a hamburger, using only Japanese :P)
• Met up several times, with an awesome translator who has lived here for 7 years, works for a bank, and is really successful
• Stayed at a homestay for 3 days (and they spoke no english)
• Used the awesome toilets (ok, a billion times..)
• Got youtube videos (bad filming, but hey, I have proof of my trip ^^)
• Made friends
• Got “culture” (in Harajuku, I’ve probably explored all of Tokyo ALONE more than any other person on this trip, everyone is shocked.)
• Went to one of the best most high end Butler cafes (and didn’t understand like anything, because they only spoke in Keigo..haha.. I didn’t learn that until a week after the experience)
• Chilled out with navy guys & went drinking (Japan age limits are different. Plus, they carded me but didn’t understand my driver’s license at all..)
• Saw love hotels (wish I had someone to go with.. HAHA. j/k)
• Saw the hentai shops in Akihabara and Shijuku (they have some amazing drawing, I must say.. It seems all the lonely guys in there are one big happy family.. LOL)
• Totally figured out how to use the JR Train, basically all by myself (all the other people in this program only go out as groups because they’re scared of getting lost. But I figure, that’s the fun part– HAHA)

Yesterday’s adventure– Went to Shibuya in search of clubs with Jace & his navy buddies.. Pretty lame compared to America.. HAHA.. The streets were way more interesting.

Chinatown In Japan– I so wanted to hire this guy, only 20 bucks.. I wonder how long it lasts..

Hey, this was not my idea! Appareantly “Titty” is a fine name for a clothing line.. It didn’t even feature bras..

I appreciated this reminder of why I should not get completely drunk in Japan.. Ending up on the kitchen floor and getting awaken by the Japanese dorm manager (who doesn’t speak English) would not be a pleasant way to start my day..

Weird…

Went to Akihabara today, look who got off at the “Electric City”, I knew he was hiding something.. (haha)

In the US, Xbox 360 is the winner– In Tokyo, PS3 & the NDS have multiple aisles, and Xbox 360 has one slab of a corner.. haha..

This grocery store had individual electronic prices for wach item!! What a great idea.. Never need to change prices (but it probably explains why all their food was about 20 cents higher than other groceries.. Besides sale items).