Apologies for the randomly abrupt end to the last post.  I was in the study room and Kyle and Christine walked by to go to our study pal session, so I had to go too.  Hmm, where was I?  It`s hard to concentrate and think right now because the TV is right in front of me and Japan and Colombia are playing...Nakamura!!!  It`s 0-0 and intense so me trying to remember stuff right now probably won`t go so well.  At any rate, karaoke and sticky pictures with Katsu, Shohei and our old T.A. Taka was a lot of fun.  I put them on my DS, iPod and cell phone along with the others we did the other two times in Namba so I`ll always see them. ^_^

 

Today was sooo great.  We had the study pals in the morning then there was supposed to be an assembly but it got cancelled.  Two students got the measles...which has been a big problem lately, many universities have closed because of it.  Here, many parents don`t get their kids vaccinated so it`s still pretty bad.  If more students get it at our school, they`ll cancel classes, which I really don`t want to happen because then I can`t say goodbye to everyone.  I did get Katsu`s and Shohei`s e-mails today though so that`s alright.  We ran into them pretty randomly at the end of the day, which made it even better.  So anyways, because the asembly was cancelled, we had like 3 hours of free time so me, Kyle, Christine and Holly all went to the train station to eat lunch at a German restaurant/bakery called Die Gute.  We had salad, pasta and cake and a parfait...mmm.  Then we did a little bit of shopping.  When we got back, we had one class and then the day was over.  But we promised to do a voice recording for a teacher so we did that...and ran into Katsu and Shohei because Shohei had to write a quiz for that teacher.  After that we went back to the station and did more shopping.  I bought these Hello Kitty things for my two cousins that are visting Canada in August.  I also bought a Japanese CD, which just so happens to be Shohei`s favourite band.  Haha, I`m a loser.  But they are really good, they were being featured in the store so I listened to them first.

 

So, back to writing about the past week.  I bought a really nice yukata...it`s a light turqoise blue with sakura and gold fish and the obi is pink with a sakura pattern.  On Friday, there was a lunch party for all the international students.  The four of us got seperated to sit at different tables to interact with different people and they needed English speakers for this quiz they were having.  My table along with two others ended up getting the most questions right and won this enormous bag of chips, which my table decided to give to me!  The one girl told me to bring it back to Canada...which I definitely am not doing...I let the kids eat it.  Everyone at my table was Chinese or Korean and the youngest guy had to take a picture with me on his cell.  During that, Shohei was walking around, helping out since I guess he volunteered or something.  I kept trying to get him to give us the answers to the quiz but he wouldn`t do it.  XD  When he was over at Kyle`s table, talking with him, Kyle told him that I think that he`s cute and Shohei told him that he thought I was too but Kyle mentioned me having a boyfriend so Shohei got depressed.  Haha...stupid Kyle.  These two guys at Kyle`s table were hilarious though, they were pretending to hit on him and after they were telling us how they think he`s hot and a lot of other stuff that put us three girls into tears.

 

I already talked about Saturday, so on to Sunday!  I had to get up at around 6am so that I could get to Namba station to meet Date sensei and the others for 8.  We ended up riding these bikes around Kyoto from temple to temple from around 9:30am until 7:30pm!  It was so tiring!  Christine was hilarious because she hates bikes, especially the big ones they have in Japan and the streets are so narrow and busy with people.  At one point, she actually ran into some parked bikes and made a domino-effect.  It was hilarious.  I loved it there, we went to Gion, which is the famous geisha district.  We didn`t see and geisha but we saw some maiko during the day.  The temples were gorgeous,  especially the Golden Pavillion Temple.  I bought a few things and Date sensei treated us all to the most delicious and fresh tempura for dinner.  It was such a great experience. 

 

Hmm, I`ve been on here for a while, so I`m going to get off.  Maybe I`ll think of other things and do another post tomorrow.  Gimme feedback!  Like the pictures?  Anything I should take pictures of before I leave?  Home soon! 

 

-Sharon