In need of a cardboard box

Take an exchange student who also happens to love Japanese sub-culture and j-pop/rock. Take her to Japan for a year. Place her in a Japanese music store. Watch her go crazy. Now place her in a second hand music/game store where everything is much cheaper. Watch her go insane. Let her do this sporadically for about 5 months.

Watch the stack of CD's grow...and grow.... and you end up with something like this:

...I put my DS in there for comparison.

I need a big box to send things home in. Now. Haha! p(^_^;;)q

On a different note, my kyudo club is nearly extinct. People hardly ever come to training, and as it is now it's Kuramura and me training outside. He' left the school's dormitory, and it now takes him 2 hours to go home... so naturally there'll be times when he can't come either. And we're trainig outside where it's cold. The other's won't show up until we start training in the dojo again, but that might take some time. And they all joined the student's council...

I don't know anymore. I'll keep trying for some time and see. It'll get better when it gets warmer too.

I've had this week off, because there were tests at our school for junior high schoolers wanting to get in to Josei. I've been doing basically nothing, so I've been a little bored. I don't get to move much, and I've come to realize I really am a sports freak. I love moving and learning how to do new, physical things. So sitting around all day makes me a dull girl. XD

I did, however, sing karaoke for 4 hours straight with my host sister Sayaka. Couldn't speak very well afterwards, but it was a lot of fun! I also discovered some new songs that are a lot of fun to sing; Ikomonogakari's "Sakura" and Aya Matsuuras "Ne~e". A lot of fun! (...and you can't beat the theme song from "Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan"! XD Pipirupirupirupipirupiiii~!

...random posts? Me? Never! ....

Location: Japan
Mood: kind of bored (but swimming soon! Yay!)
Listening to: MTV (in the living room with my family)
Eating: -
Drinking: -

Karaoke!

On Sunday (I think it was) I went to take purikura with Madoka, kaa-san and Momo. Then I went to Japanese karaoke for the first time with Madoka and Sayaka! It was a lot of fun! I sang several songs, some English, but mostly Japanese. I sang "Sakura Mankai" by Morning Musume's sub group "Sakura Gumi" and made the rankings, haha! It was 80-someting, but it was pretty fun nevertheless! XD Some of the songs we sang included W, Morning Musume, Mini Moni (all part of Hello! Project), Gackt, Ghibli and various songs from anime. A few examples:

• The Sore Feet Song (Mushishi)
• Dokuro-chan theme (Dokuro-chan) This was filled with laughter throughout XD
• Jyanken Pyon! (Mini Moni) I had trouble with this, seeing as the lyrics go faster and I don't know it too well, so Madoka sang most of it. :)
• Daisuki da yo (Otsuka Ai)
• Furusato (Morning Musume)
• Koi no bakansu (W)
• A Little Pain (NANA)

Having fun at karaoke!

We ordered food there too, udon in my case, and got it served in our room. That felt kind of luxurious. The food was really good too. *^^* I was kind of surprised that it went so well - I thought it'd have more trouble with reading the lyrics. Luckily there were furigana over most of the kanji, so I could read most of it without much trouble. (Except for when it went too fast and I wasn't familiar with the lyrics.)

After karaoke we went to take purikura again, this time with Sayaka. I've filled up the first page of my purikura book! ;D

I've also been eating out with my host family and the grandparents again. It was really nice, and the food was, of course, delicious as always. ;D Hehe! This is what it looked like:

Yes, I've been sitting at a lot of low tables lately. I love it! Feels very Japanese sitting in seiza in front of one of these. Last time we had Japanese dance, my feet didn't even hurt, so I guess this training's good for me, haha! (Although, admittedly, I do not sit in this position all the time. Because my legs do hurt eventually. ...and then they go numb, which is a pain. XD)

Location: Japan
Mood: Content (iIt's only 9 PM!)
Watching: A TV-show where a man is currently trying to overcome a line of obsticles called "Sasuke". With Naruto-music in the background. Haha! Oh! He just failed...
Eating: Ate onigiri, which were made by Momo and me. ^^
Drinking: Fruit soda