OMG I`m in a prettty awesome place. This place has a manga library,computers with sofas and niiiiiice headphones,billards,karaoke, and probably atlantis! 3 hours is 1000 yen which is aound 10 bucks! sweeeeeeet. Also i can burn Cds with these comps....I`m dying for music!


Okay i owe all you guys big and that`s why i headed to a net cafe so i could update with a bajillion photos!!!!

Okay I`ve been on my summer holidays but i only really had two weeks worth of holiday out of the 6 or so since for the other four i had half days at school.

Today was a half day as well and tomorrow it`s back to row with the other slaves. ....yay...

Right now i`m with my third and last host family with only four full months to go in Japan. I can`t believe i am down to FOUR out of ten, i think it feels like a big deal because Thats more than half my stay over. My english is still staying with me but i sometimes think strange wordes in English like while i was riding here i thought i`m bilinguish and yesterday i wrote `photto` instead of photo.

Before i moved to my last family i went to a festival, traveled to Mt Fuji and FujiQ highlands which is a pretty sweet theme park. My favourite place of course was the haunted house which is around 900m long making it one of the longest in the world. The building is actually a restored hospital or something along those lines. You walk through it while holding a pen light, opening doors,climbing stairs and running from creatures that sneak up on you from behind. I only managed to get pictures of the outside and the reception desk. You had to pay $5 to get it but it`s totally worth it.




They also had a Gundam Ride and i got this photo, i kinda wish i was more of a mecha anime freak.



This is Fujiyama, which has a guiness world record for being the highest wooden track coaster or something along those lines, it was awesome and sooo much better than Dreamworld`s cyclone, the only thing i hate with Rollercoasters though it sometimes they areN@t good for your neck.


Here is a picture of me as a ninja....my true colours revealed!!!


By the way i quit Baton, before the competition that i went to, i had an english trip with my class mates. We stayed at this small story like of house thing that`s right infront of the school equivalent of their track field. The wierd thing is whenever i took pictures there were heaps of orbs in the photos, My host sister has a friend that is in the softball club who go there alot, apparently they always bring earphones with them because of the noises they can hear in the ceiling which is where you can see most of the orbs....





One of the other places i went with my host family was to Ibaraki-ken to go to the beach but because of the typhoon the weather sucked so we went to an aquarium instead, the coolest things i saw was an otter and a thing called a Manbou in Japanese with apparently is the mola mola Sunfish, most retarded thing ever! i saw one swimming into a wall while swimming on it`s side.





Very BIG sunfish, and it`s real but very very dead. It`s strange how immature i have become, I took about 12 pictures of the manbou alone all the while going `manBO` like Dory from nemo when she is immitating whale speak. i think japan does that to you.





Also I`m guessing this is because of tsunamis, Japanese beaches usually have wavebreakers, i took an interest in the ones at the beach because they look like some lost a game of 3d tetris badly.





We interrupt this blog to give you a slight intermission, if you need to access the bathroom Pikachu will tell you where to go




Soooo memoires of a geisha, this is me in my Yukata for the festival.

One of the cool things during cheerleading club was going to the baseball game to cheer on the boys school. Baseball is huge here and even has it`s own Kanji. I think the school baseball teams are really big so during a game the players who have to sit that one out cheer in the stands instead. And boy do they cheer, they have buckets of water they pou over themselves when their team scores a point. Also they give everyone in the crowd oldschool plastic megaphones. Rather than yell into them you clap them together to make a pretty big racket. Also the teams have these kind of dances they do...really hard to explain. One thing i found wierd is at every baseball game you hear the same group of songs, but then again japanese people are diehard conformists.






Here is a sweet pic of the Sushi Shinkansen (bullet train) at a sushi train resutrant i went to with my host family!

Here are some other pics around Mt Fuji.


No idea about this one but the kid reminds me of peter pan, we saw this staute a few times, maybe it`s a local guardian?



One thing that does suck about japan is Queues and crowds, we waited for two hours and a half for some of the rides at Fuji Q, and Mt Fuji was PACKED, we went to the half point by bus to have a look, I was soo glad i went to the bathroom before i left because the line in the souvenier shop was sooooooo long.This might give you an idea.



Also this is in the bus to give you an idea of how high we were


And now i present random shots around Utsunomiya!

No idea what kind of vegie this is, at first i thought it was a demented pear.


I also went to a pottery town called Mashiko, They have a few of these animal staues in front of a resturant i know so i had seen it around but had no idea was it was, personally i think it looks like a bear but it`s actually a Tanuki which is a mischevious raccoon.




they also had a place which still uses the old method of indigo dying, apparently the process is dying out as it has been replaced with synthetic dyes and there are about three places in japan that still use this method, though seeing how much water it wastes i think that may be a good thing.



Also the last update was around my bday, i had a mini party and here are some pics.




I didn`t really have a cake, it was donuts piled on top of small biscuts and more donuts..sooooo good.

And yes MORE random photos!


This literally means ` please do not make the bees angry`


Sometimes in Japan all you can say `why god, why?!?!`


And i wonder why my spelling is goign down the drain...


This is the front of the Bunsei art University during july. The bamboo branches have paper wishes tied to them to celebrate Tanabata (please check wikipedia for more details)



Well I only have four short months left in Japan and a scatter of days, in a way i am relieved because i have been feeling homesick for my friends and family, but strangely another part of me is starting to feel paicked that it`s snuck up so soon. What i will say is that i excpect one big suprise party when i get back.

By the way william was right with the whole Mini donut things, I`ll have to find some other mystery food.

So you guys have been updated on what has been happening to me recently. What`s coming up is my host brother`s sports day, disney on ice (woot), most liekly checking out another school`s festival (and their male students while i am at it) and next month we have my school`s festival. I`m looking foward to being busy and glad i wont have to pack my luggage again for a while, I@ve done so 6 times during the holidays >.<

My host family is pretty cool, the grandma keeps trying to make me eat and feed me sweets (i really don`t need to eat more rather than less >.<`) I get on swimmingly with my host sister and the brother tells me about places when i ask the family about shops i checked out while riding my bike.

I still don`t have an awesome mobile phone but I`m trying to check out how to unlock them first so i can bring it back with me. Also rather than pay $400 for a Nintendo wii (aussie RRP) I`m sliding towards grabbing a japanese one which would only set me back about $260, mind you games are around $40-60 for wii games compared to aus $50-100RRP Times like this do make me want to stay here, but family and friends draw me back to Aus.

Anyway my two hours is almost up so over and out, since this place is cheap and it wont affect the internet bill for my host family i`ll prolly be back soon when i`m not so busy (if ever) besides i need to brush up on my (non) karaoke skills.

Over and Out

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