This morning, as well as on the way home, I finally started to read my manga on the train! It's super taihen, but I'm ganbatte-ing!
In class today, Mutsukawa sensei told us to look outside because it was snowing! Ahhh yukiiii!!! He asked me if I like snow and I was all "I love snow!"
Between classes today, Natalia brought rice pudding that she had made! It was soooo good. She had a cupful for each of us and cute colored spoons for us to use. I got pink. :) She gave one to Mutsukawa sensei too.
Then we had to walk downstairs to the computer room for the reading and writing portion of class, which we had with Kondo sensei. On the way, Dylan was saying how a bunch of them from the dorms are going to the penis festival on Saturday. I was like "I'm going to the penis festival too!" Then I realized how loud I'd said it. And right as we walked past the open door of the 400 class all my friends are in! I looked in and saw Rafa and Scout looking at me and cracking up, haha.
We had reading and writing in the computer lab because we were doing typing in Japanese today. I rock at that, so it was pretty tedious. Then we wrote an thank you email to sensei and an apology email to a Japanese friend.
And then it was finally lunch time! On the way to the cafeteria, I saw snow on the ground outside! It must have snowed a lot while we were in class!
I got misokatsudon, of course, and then sat and ate with all my friends.
When we finished eating, I looked outside and it was pouring snow! But I went to the bathroom and when I came out, the snow had stopped falling. :(It started again while I was in calligraphy, though. But the windows in the calligraphy room are super foggy, so we couldn't see it.
Today we wrote 花鳥風月
(kachoufuugetsu), which means "beauties of nature". I really like this word!
It's composed of the kanji of all the best parts if each of the seasons.
The first is hana, flower (for spring). Then tori, bird (for summer). Then kaze, wind (for autumn). And finally, tsuki, moon (for winter). So beautiful!
We were given four different ways to draw each of the kanji and we picked our favorite ways. I chose the ones that looked most like the actual kanji. Because some just looked like weird wiggly lines and you could never guess what kanji it was supposed to be!
After calligraphy, I walked through all the swirling snow flurries to the tea house.
(Today's okashi. It was green mochi with yellow decoration. Inside was anko. It's okashi for the beginning of spring!)
We got to stir the tea ourselves in tea ceremony today! It was cool! I was really good at it.
After class I went to my locker and then headed home through all the cold. It's funny how in Japan it snows when it's sunny and a warmish forty degrees, but when it's freezing and cloudy and in the thirties, the snow's gone!
When I told Yuko this weekend how it had snowed Friday, she was really surprised because she hadn't seen it snowing!
When I got home, Miya told me it had snowed today and taught me the word for snowflake - yuki no kesshyou, because a snowflake had landed on her!
We had noodles with cabbage and soup for dinner and salad with mashed pumpkin.
Yuko talked a lot with me at dinner, which was nice. I talked about my presentation I have to do Friday. Miya and Yuko were talking about how Miya wants twins when she's older so Yuko asked me how many kids I want and what genders lol. I said two boys and one girl (the youngest one).
Then I did homework. Ughhh we had so freaking much tonight for some reason!
I rode my bike to the MM library today...I imagine that that is the distance you travel each day to get to the train (or is it further?)
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Nah, it`s less. About the distance to Epiphany I think...
DeleteBut wow! That`s awesome, lol