Yesterday was the best DAY EVER!!!! Yesterday was the day of dreams (unfortunately no pics, damn batteries have been giving me hell!) Yesterday i went to the place i have wanted to go to since i was 15 (obsessively wanted to go to) Yesterday i went to BABY the Stars Shine Bright (website- www.babyssb.co.jp ) I also checked out the Vivienne Westwood store (sorry mum i didn`t see the perfume but i`ll check again later!) My big achievement for yesterday was that i managed to get to school all by myself. The fact that i got partially lost for 5 mins wasn`t my fault, i now totally undersatnd the whole little red riding hood story where you should stay on the path BUT i was planning to go to Tsutaya anyway! I also got lost on the way home but the whole day i had my mobile so if i crisis arose i could call My host family. Btw my mobile is stupid (very cute though!) Not only does it not have english, it can only send e-mails (like sms) to certain phones so i have no clue. Anyway it`s good for keeping in touch with my host family and that`s what it is there for. Suprsingly the phones here are quite big, I@m finding it hard to find the tiny phones you could loose in your ear O=O In case i forgot to mention it in my last blog the weather is COLD but no icicles have formed on my nose yet. I`m really excited about going to school tommorow, the first years have orientation for club activities so I finally get to join the baton twirling club! Anyway i might as well talk about school My Subjects Science (spare for me) Math (sp=spare for me) National Languag (japanese for the other but i have my own japanese lesson then) English(yes i take english and it`s good practice as we translate back an forth) OC(oral communication= im there for them to practice their english) National Language (japanese for everyone else, spare for me though i get 3 japanese lessons a week) PE (short story on my first lesson later) Health (haven`t had it yet) Social Studies ( i`m kinda enjoying it) Home Ec (woot!) Elective (music,art,and calligraphy- i chose calligraphy for kanji study) Of course i have 6 subjects a day and all of them are 50mins long with 10min breaks in between. The classes go really quickly but it always feels like forever before i can eat lunch (12.45-1.15 and that`s the only lunch break we get!) so i might start bringing small snacks for the breaks. No more earthquakes so Godzilla is probably terrorizing Honshu! I`ve started reading Scilence of the Lambs (there are only 30 english books at the library and that`s the best one but I@m dying to see the movie so It`s the first one i would have picked anyway!) The Cherry Blossom trees are really beautiful but make a mess, I bought batteries yesterday and are going to take them with me to school to take some photos! the coolest thing about them is now the petals are always falling like in anime (and to think i thought they did that for drama)also after the blog is down I`ll post some photos! I`m realling enjoying living in Utsunomiya i feel like the forest from Monoke Hime is all around when i see the tall pine trees and whenever i ride a bike by myself i get a sense of soaring freedom (the scary thing was my host mother wanted me and my sister to ride in the rain when i didn`t even have a rain coat! so much for being wrapped in cotton wool, it was cool since we got driven!) The food here is really nice and I`m still trying to get my head around the idea of Chocolate flavoured bread (it@s really bread! but it looks like cake!) The girl`s in my class take good care of me and it was interesting learning how to pay on the bus! Suprisingly i did understand my first maths class but i have no intentions in doing algerbra..... My first PE lesson was interesting as it consisted of learning how to stand up and sit down withing 3 seconds.....right really tiring anyway I`m now going to try and post some videos i took with my camera so bear with me...