Goin' to Japan...

久しぶり!

2009-10-12T02:01:00.002-04:00

wow!!
im soooo sorry guys that i havent updated my blog in years.
Just to let every one know. Im still a live and well.
YAY! But today i had soo much fun with my AFS friends.
We all went to 宇都宮インターパーク（Utsunomiya Interpark). WE started our own Manga book clubs called P.A.Y.S.
P-poppy
A-ariel
Y-yada
S-sarah
Im so happy about it. I love manga now. And im so happy that i can read it now!
Go ARIEL. I wanna go to Book off...
anywho. Im taking the JLPT level 3. :P
my Japanese sucks so bad. its like one of the most impossible languages ever. But im fighting!!
hmmm...what else.
I love asian boys. comeing to japan has made me soooo desperate to have a boyfriend!
haha.
えーと。。
well bye! ill be back soon!
i hope so...
XD

depression.

2009-06-28T03:49:00.002-04:00

Thanks to Charlotte the world isn't over.
I want to leave this host family so bad. And it seems like I'm the blame for it. My host siblings are always yelling and hitting my hmom. My hmom has no control over her kids and she is just a slave to them.
Last night i got to my town from the train station at like 10:40pm. I kept calling my hmom because i didn't have any money for a bus. Also my hmom gave me the wrong contact information so i was kinda screwed. She finally called me back and told me that she was going to pick me up. YAY! wrong. I was expecting her to get to the station in the 5 mins. 10 mins MAX. no. She ended up picking me up at like midnight. Yep you heard it. MIDNIGHT. It only takes 5 mins to drive to the station from my house. so im standing in front the station. for forever. There are many drunk Japanese people around because it is a bar nearby. And since im gaijin(foreigner) i was stared at. And sense im black, they looked like they wanted to do something bad.
I'm still trying to figure out why the HELL would you let a foreign child waiting, at night for you to come. When my hmom picked me up. She had like make up on and everything. O.o
I actually shed a few tears while i was standing in front of the station. Mental. Breakdown.
I contacted Charlotte Hays Murray on Facebook and she is doing the best she can to try to fix this for me. When i called Funada, it seemed like she was blaming it all on me. Like you shouldn't have been late. But i dont wanna hear that. If Ive been complainin and complainin over and over. I'm not just bored with life. Something is actually wrong. DUH!
So im thinking about life right now. MJ died and this expensive ass trip to Japan is ruining my life forever.

email me at: panda-love19@ezweb.ne.jp

Love. Peace. Lunch

2009-05-24T05:01:00.001-04:00

FUNN

2009-05-17T07:34:00.003-04:00

I had fun today. I went to go see the other AFSers in my chapter. I missed them sooo much. But this weekend we are hooking up downtown.

Also Im thinking about making another blog dedicated to Asian pop culture!!

What do ya think??

My Japanese Crushes...

2009-05-02T00:34:00.003-04:00

Masuda (seriously like thee most adorable boy eva!)

SHO! - Arashi

Changmin - 東方神起 (tohoshinki)

*drool*

Kenichi Matsuyama

another pic of Masuda かわいいね！！

There are more but it would take up too much of my time. Maybe later luv ya! And Masuda.

Badminton has to be one of the hardest sports...

2009-05-02T00:28:00.002-04:00

GRRRR...I just got home from my 4 hour saturday practice. What in the world??? 4 HOURS?? Saturday?? And i had to ride my bike back home. My legs are seriously gunna look like Serena Williams when i go back to America. Right now my calves are sooooo tight. Badminton is sooo hard. I think that the fact the everyone speaks a completely diff language. If i were back in the states it wouldnt be soo bad. BUT thats why im here right??
*off topic*
It seems like ever since i got to japan all of these random guys have been asking me out. and they get soooo shocked when they thought they had a chance but im like on the other side of the world! LMAO its soooooo hilarious. AW im miss you guyz soooo much. Dont ever forget me.

Frustrations...

2009-04-26T02:11:00.002-04:00

ohkkay I haven't been on here in a while. I have been stressing out lately. Im at the stage in my trip where I hate everything Japanese. I joined the badminton team which is like crazy retarded difficult. (did ya follow that?) anyway after my first practice it rained and of course since im in japan i had to bike my way home. the next day my throat was halfway closed and i was extremely sore. It was just awful and my voice was completely gone. Now im getting much better...
I beginning to get really annoyed by my little siblings. They are sooo bad and disrespect my host mom soo much. Like yell and her and hit her. And all she does is just sit there. On the application thingy they said that they were a neat family. NEAT?!! yeah right. My siblings, Ayaka and Toku, cough and sneeze all over the house and then help mom prepared dinner. Grosss. Without washing their hands. Super Gross...
I just want to seriously beat them. Its nooo discipline in this house. I thought Japanese kids are very disciplined. I guess i was wrong wayyy wrong. *huff* I need someone to console me.

The Historical Side of Japan

2009-04-12T06:01:00.004-04:00

I went to Gokoku Shrine yesterday and it was absoloutley beautiful. I honestly dont think that there are any pics and the perfectly portary what I saw. It was just amazing!

Also Im have a NEWS (jpop) overload. I LUV MASSUDA!!!

sorry. had to put it iN theerre

Welcome party...

2009-04-06T07:10:00.007-04:00

AFS set up a welcome party. It was ohkay i guess. We had cool Japanese snacks.

Gustaf, the musical songbird of our generation

Thai Dancin

Japanese boy who will soon go to America

Me and Sarah

All of the Tochigi peeps

My new EPIC house

2009-04-06T06:52:00.001-04:00

I just moved into my permenant familys house and its soooo awesome. Its alll modern. Yah know like metal and glass?? But anyway my family is sooo nice. Im still not used to little children running around my house. Because back at home im have a 22 yo bro and a 20 yo sis. So its still weird. The weather has been pretty nice these days in tochigi. Also im not used to a housewife for a mom. Im not saying that my mother back at home never picked up a broom but the one here never puts a broom down.

this is what you see when you first walk in the house
this is the hallway out my room

my epic bed thats high in the sky

and my cool-o-rama house

HAIR!

2009-04-06T06:46:00.004-04:00

I know you guys were wondering "how in the world is a black chick gunna get her hair done without a hair salon"??!!! Well like a week ago i fully pressed my hair for the first time. Im soo proud of myself. Im tearing up right now!!!

Idk...

2009-04-03T09:01:00.002-04:00

Well im sitting here at Chisato-sans computer and i dont know if i should buy a laptop or not. I find that buying a laptop would be very useful. I went to Yamada Genki today and I saw a Toshiba laptop for ￥124,000. Thats about $1300 in America. I really want a laptop and the one that i left at home is complete trash. Seriously. I also left my iPod at home and im like music deprived. Im about to die here. No Lupe, Kanye, Ne-yo...I never realized how much i luv music until i got here. All the other AFSers brought their laptops and iPods. This sucks. Its nice here but every now and then I get super homesick. :( Im listening to Lupe Fiasco "Kick Push pt.2" on utube and the beat is soo sick. But yeah whatever. I asked my mom if she could get me the laptop. Im just sitting here waiting for an answer. I dont know if its too much on her because this trip cost her like a good $6000 and I honestly dont wanna ask her for anything else. Im pretty sad right now. Idk...I luv all my family and friends.
I went to Mickey D`s today. There food is sooo good here. Im gunna post pics of Tokyo Disney Land later. Im really tired and Ive been having the oddest dreams ever. They are soo vivid and dramatic. Its scary. It`s like 10:25pm on Friday here but its like 9am somethin in the US on Thursday.Well GOODNITE homies Ari_Yell is going to bed

random pics of my japanese life...

2009-03-27T23:51:00.004-04:00

Nihon!

2009-03-18T17:01:00.004-04:00

Well I am officially in Japan! Yay! I didnt really get any serious stares yet but i know that its coming really soon. LoLz but Japanese is sooo hard its ridiculous. I cant wait until i get better but anyway.

I exchanged my currency and Yen is "Kawaii" (cute). Its like fun Monopoly money but real. After leaving the airport and looking at the kool toilets we left to go to the hotel, which is beautiful. I still cant believe im actually in Japan. But we ate dinner and Japanese Curry is delicious. I could eat it all day.

My roomates are awesome. It was odd that we all woke up at 3 in the morning with a burst of energy. HaHa! Our group leaders were speaking half Japanese and half English and we couldn't understand LoLz it was just weird.

Chillin with Angie and some...

2009-03-17T03:38:00.004-04:00

Well im in the hotel with my room mate "the famous Angie"YaY!!
But yeah tomorrow I am going to NIHON!
Im sooo tired to goood night!

P.S. My airplane was awesome!My Plane

Host Family

2009-03-13T16:46:00.000-04:00

Here is the update on my host family!
Mom (Kumiko)- 40
Dad (Shinji)- 40
Sister (Ayaka)- 6
Brother (Tokuhiro)- 4
My Lovely Host Family
Shinji, Ayaka, and Tokuhiro

Kumiko, Ayaka, and Shinji

Tokuhiro and Ayaka

The Family in Hawaii!

2009-03-13T00:12:00.000-04:00

OhKay my title is inspired my angie chee!!!
But ayway I'm leavin in 3 day!
I know its total madness. Well anyway I just wanted to say somethin real quick so I can at least have something updated. But good night guyz. wuv ya!

Orientation was FUNN

2009-01-05T09:13:00.001-05:00

Hello everyone i just started a blogger but my other blog is ari411.vox.com...Im going to Japan in 3 months!!
Well yesterday I went to the Orientation that AFS requires and it was super fun. Even the food was good. I know you guyz wanna know went on during the orientation...Well it's hard to explain because usually every time its different. The AFS people separated the groups into sendees and parents. In the sendees room, we went over the rules and then we did some activities. We had a couple scenarios that we could possibly face like, being offered a joint...I know I know, dumb right.
But when the returnees came they talked about their experience. Elisabeth went to Germany, Adam went to France, Weston went to Costa Rica and Jillian went to Thailand. Lisa and Adam went for a whole year so would relate to them a little more. And Weston and Jillian went for the summer.
Orientation tested my people skills. And guess what guys?? I have really good people skills. If you didn't have your orientation yet, then talk to everyone there. You'll never now that the person you are talking to has any connection to the country you are going to unless you ask! Little did I know the lady who owned the house we were in was born in Japan!! I would ave never know that because she doesnt look Japanese at all...
I have a new buddy thats going on the plan with me. She is a native Japanese but she left when she was two months old with her parents. So I guess her parents want her to learn more about her culture...