Koukannikki

Last night I went to bed early because I had a headache. I think I was dehydrated because free, clean water is so hard to find in this country! Plus I swam a bunch and lost water then.

So I got a lot of sleep, yay! But when I woke up it was raining and that always makes it so hard to get out of bed!

We had soup and toast for breakfast, so I tried the hachimitsu today. It was really good! I don't usually like honey, but the honey here is way sweeter than in the states, so it was nom.

Then I used the other two pieces of the bread I bought yesterday to make a sandwich. I was talking about how the bread in Japan is way thicker than in America. Then Yuko laughed because the bread I had bought was a chocolate danish! I hadn't read the packaging and thought it looked like wheat bread. But she was all like, "you're putting peanut butter on chocolate??"

I was thinking girl haven't you ever tried a Reese's cup? Chocolate and peanut butter are made for each other!

But yeah, I hadn't realized I was making a pb&j on chocolate swirl bread lol. So I put the peanut butter and strawberry jam she had on and then put the breads together and it was humungo.

Yuko laughed and told me you don't use those types of breads to make sandwiches. I was like "oh well". I didn't think now would be a good time to bring up the fact that I had made a pb&j sandwich on chocolate chip melon pan, haha.

Anyway, then Yuko laughed and called me an "omoshiroi hito" (funny person).

(See how thick it is???)

It was pouring when I left which made for a fun bike ride. It was really nice waiting for the train, though, because the platform is covered by a metal roof and the rain falling on it sounded really pretty. But yeah, rain sucks unless I'm in bed trying to fall asleep.

We were squished on the JR today. I was next to this blonde, white dude listening to really loud rap music and I could hear every word of it. Smh.

So in class we were learning "to omoimasu" which means "I think" and we had to make guesses about Kondo sensei, using it and Mutsukawa sensei said we could make guesses about him too if we wanted.

So I said "六川先生は彼女がないと思います。"

Which means "I think Mutsukawa sensei doesn't have a girlfriend" and everyone cracked up!!

But yeah it turns out he was married so it was awkward. Idk why he doesn't wear a ring then...

After class, I ate lunch with all my friends and had misokatsudon, yeeaaaahhh! Everyone congratulated me on getting the bunny plate and told me how proud of me they were haha!

Then Esteban and I headed to the library to finish watching Spirited Away. He was able to finish it by 3 and left for class without me because I was at the best part of the whole movie (where they're flying up in the sky and Chihiro's crying and all that) and wanted to stay and watch it. I had to stop it literally like 5 minutes before the end, or I would have been late to class. But I checked it out to go watch at home tonight.

Then we had class. Everyone had really interesting things to contribute to the discussion about Spirited Away, some of which I'd never thought of before. I talked about the various things in the Japanese version that are missing in the English version and vice versa.

Like all the funniest lines in the English version (i.e. "not spicy enough" and "now that's an esophogus") don't exist in the Japanese version and were added in the English one for comic relief I guess.

Sensei also talked a bit about pink movies (what porn is called in Japan) haha.

Then class was owari and I walked through the rain to the train station. 

So after posting those pictures of Free! yesterday, for some reason I decided to make one my wallpaper on my phone. 

(Cute, huh?)

But then I realized that every time I slide to unlock, it looks like I'm like stroking the guys crotch, so I think I'm gonna take it off...

I'm kind of interested to know what actually happens in that anime aside from guys flaunting their stuff. But I've heard it's really weird and has a lot of guy-on-guy action and that's not really my thing... So idk.

On the train home the guy next to me was asleep and when I stood up at Ichinomiya, he woke up with a jerk. Good thing I woke him up, because it turned out to be his stop! It was still pouring when we arrived so I biked home in the rain and my legs got soaked. :(

Sad life.

When I got home, Miya was writing something really long in a notebook and I saw at the top she had written her friend's name, so I asked her if it was a letter.

She told me it was a koukanniki. I didn't know what that was, so I looked it up. It turns out it's a diary you exchange between friends. Miya and her friend Natsu write to each other in it. And they write a lot!! Miya counted out all the pages they'd written so far and there were 38!! I asked when they started and she told me in October of last year!

So cute! I told her I had one of those with my friend in middle school too! Yuko told me they're really popular in Japan among young girls.

Then we had dinner: spaghetti. At dinner Yuko exclaimed that tomorrow's the end of February already. Miya was all confused as to why there wasn't a 29th day, haha. I asked how to say "leap year" in Japanese and Yuko told me it's "urudoushi", but I found out there's no word for leap day!

I told her that my parents got married on leap day and she thought that was awesome! Then she told me her anniversary is Christmas Eve and asked me when I want to get married. I had no idea so I just made something up.

I was like "tabun 26" ha ha. Then I realized holy shit, that's in like 5 years...

Anyway, after dinner I watched the end of Spirited Away, ate way too much chocolate, and studied for my vocab quiz.

It turns out next Friday works better for a lot of people for karaoke, so it was moved to next Friday. That's when I'm drinking with Keiichiro, but Taylor was all like "you can come afterwards!"

Ha yeah, when I'm (hopefully) shitfaced, I don't think so. But I was considering it. But then Yuko told me tonight I wouldn't be able to anyway because if I only left there at 5 am, I'd get home after the time to leave for strawberry picking. And I'd rather do strawberry picking.

I do really want to experience all night karaoke (especially when I found out it's apparently a nomihoudai too and that's a deal for $20), but I think singing for 7 hours will get old after a while haha. Although Taylor did say she was going to bring movies. Ah well. I'll see how everyone likes it and then maybe we can do it again another time.