Oasis 21!!

Guys you don't know how much I've missed bananas. But I got to eat one this morning, yay!

(I missed you, banana)

When Emma and I went to Lawson's yesterday, they still had the banana bunches but they weren't 105 yen anymore. :,(

I should have gotten a second bunch but I like savoring my bananas and having one a day, so I was afraid they'd all turn brown.

What I've been seriously craving lately is pancakes. Japan doesn't have Sunday morning brunch. :((( And no Ihop.

I miss pancakes so so so so much.

Anyway, this morning I was really, really tired and went back to sleep after my alarm rang lol. But I woke up when Yuko called me to breakfast at 6:45! I guess she couldn't wake up either.

I ate really quickly so I would have made my usual 7:47 train but I thought I had time so I decided to get ready really slowly, so much so that Yuko called "Keito, daijobu?" a few times.

But whatevs I still made my 7:57 rapid train. And when I take that I still get to campus 20 min early.

This girl on the subway (I like the subways better because it's all school age kids - a lot of college students, while the JR is mostly salarymen) was studying with this red clear thing. She had all these fill in the blank sentences and had written them in black and blue with the answer in the blank in orange. So when she put the red thing over it, she could read everything but the answer.

It was so cool!! I want one of those.

In Japanese reading and writing class this morning, we wrote katakana. I had a lot of trouble with シ (shi) so I had to write it a bunch of times. So I had a ton of smilies on my paper haha.

I thought of a good way to rememeber the difference between シ (shi) and ツ (tsu). Shi means death, and when you die, your body goes in the ground so the one with the smiley going down is shi! 

Get it?

And Kandou sensei showed us this. Tsu goes to the left and Shi goes to the right.

Kandou sensei told me my now was kawaii. I think she likes me! Which is good because I'm pretty sure Mutsukawa sensei does not haha.

Then it was lunch, hooray! I got an awesome lunch from Lawson's and then met up with Minju, Deanna, and Rana and we all sat with everyone else who hadn't gone home yet in the cafeteria by the gym.

I finally got a nikuman from Lawson's (meat bun). I'd been wanting one so badly but always forgot to order it until after I'd paid already.

(My lunch)

(とてもおいしい sushi and inarizushi)

(肉まん)

And Minju's beautiful ケーキ!

It was only 80 yen from the cake shop. I have to go there some time! 

(((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))

I also bought my knives for Hanga class. I really like how they were pastel colored and came in a glittery box. I'm sure the guys loved it as well. ;)

And then in Hanga I turned my beautiful wood block from last week into a piece of shit woo.

Ugh it looks sooo bad!

Minju, Emma, Rafael, and Esteban are in Hanga so it's a lot of fun! It's good for stress relief too haha.

It rained while we were in class, but it was sunny when we got out, so since i had time, I decided to go back to Sakae to get my book. :)

Most of my friends were going to the orientation to use the campus gym. I didn't want to go because you had to go out and buy new sneakers in order to go and anyway you don't need the orientation to use the pool.

When I got to Sakae, I paid the 200 yen and exited the station into Oasis 21.

This turned out to be bad because I was lured into a 300 yen shop and ended up buying these super cute star tights that were on sale for 210 yen!

I hope they fit me. They're for people up to 165 cm which is about what I think I am, so cross your fingers!

(For Bridget. Dinosaurs by the ice rink)

Sahty wan (31 = Baskin Robbins)

Then I went upstairs to see the pool! It was sooo pretty!!!

(Ice rink below. Some of my friends went skating there this past Sunday and said it was like skating on plastic lol.)

I got these Spanish tourists up there to take a picture of me. Then they took pictures with me. It was super awks.

Then my jam (Demons by Imagine Dragons) started playing over the loud speaker and I was like yeaaahhh. 

Gotta love Japan!

After Oasis 21 I headed to SoftBank. I forgot to take a shot of Oasis 21 from the  outside, I'm so mad! But I'll be back. ;)

At SoftBank there was this lady who spoke English with a British accent. She was so nice and gave me a bunch of information about three different things I could get to use a phone in Japan. They were all super expensive though. Ugh.

I spent longer there than I wanted to, so it was already 4:50 by the time I crossed the street to the building behind Sunshine Sakae where Book Off is.

And my book was gone! :( it wasn't where I hid it or where I had originally found it. So I guess someone bought it. I was so sad since it was a really good deal, 3 books in one.

I ended up buying 3 other books. One, Voices of a Distant Star, is one of my favorite books! I have it in English at home, so I'm really excited to try and read it.

Then I got a book of 7 love stories and another manga. I'm going to try to read them! 

When I bought them, I got a coupon for 20% off in February, so I'm going to go back and buy the game I wanted (it's only 950 yen!)

(Voices of a Distant Star, the 7 love stories, and the other romance manga)

I stopped by Daiso quickly to find the bow I hid gone as well. But I didn't buy anything there.

Then I took a bunch of pictures with my phone (rawr I forgot my camera!) because Sakae is so freaking beautiful - I love it!

(Illuminations)

(Ahh some of the Ferris wheel compartments had pink lights!)

(I love this pic. Sakae was lit up pink for a few secs and it was awesome! I think I should forget about programming and become a professional photographer, ne?)

(A heart!!!)

きれいですね！！

I'm in love with this city! :)

When I got off the train at Ichinomiya, Esteban saw me and caught up with me. He was just getting back from the gym orientation and he told me there were monkey bars in the gym! 

I told him I bought manga in Sakae and he was interested because he likes manga. I told him they were all girly, romantic manga but he wanted to see them anyway haha.

I got home finally at 6:30!

For dinner we had a bunch of stuff, including fish with bones!!! Ahhh. That's not okay in America, but I guess it's cool here?

Yuko taught me how to eat correctly with the meal tonight because it was a ton of different bowls and plates. I wasn't allowed to rearrange the plates or bowls and some I had to hold up and some I had to leave on the table but put my hand on. And I had to use effing hashi (chopsticks) for everything.

Like I don't like fish enough to sit there for five minutes slowly tearing it apart with chopsticks (not able to use my hands) to get the bones out. Ugh.

But it was an interesting experience to say the least! And the food was good. :)

Ugh I have soooo much homework and I have I have to go memorize another stupid dialogue. :(

Until tomorrow! (^_−)−☆

Btw I'm going to karaoke with my friends after school tomorrow!!! I'm soo excited!

(((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))