11 April at 08:55
So here goes my massive message:
My English has become nightmare-ish as you can see from the roughness of the last message to you. By using Engrish (dumbed down English) for the last week, or however long, my brain has melted and now I find it difficult to write in proper sentences. But I think I'm getting back to normal now :)
I like hearing that your bored at home because that's normal. And there ain't a whole lot of normal here. So I want you to row with your parents for me, see your friends and eat some good old fashioned English pub food. Because those are the sort of things I suppose you take for granted normally and I'm starting to miss them out here (excluding arguing with parents).
You boys and your doing of essays! Although I'm going to have to be a good girl while I'm out here I suggest you take a day off somewhen and do something silly and fun. GO TO THE PARK. I don't want your brain to melt too! (The workload is REDONKULOUS out her. Seriously. Twice what you are doing in Winch because of the fucking TEFL. But then I keep mantra-ing: 'this is good for me, I can learn to do essays in advance, not the night before, this is good for me'. Which is so far working. The Japanese have a brilliant serious work ethic and I'm pretty sure my host family would make me do work if I was reluctant. But atm I'm wanting to do it myself so it's done, so YAY! I is learning a normal people skill :)
ANYWAY THE DRAMA THAT IS ME:
I'm not sure where to begin... Firstly I will give you places to google image search because that is easiest. So search Nara and Kyoto. Now look how beautiful they fucking are. That is that simple. I didn't go to everywhere shown in Kyoto obviously but I saw the golden temple, I saw a room with 1000 life-size statues and I prayed at a shrine fr a good marriage and a good husband. The tourist attractions are amazing for a reason. They are fucking beautiful. My host family are amazing and took me there. I call them my J-Fam (like J-pop). Legends.
Apparently they are rich but I don't think so. They seem pretty normal to me. I live on a house with 2 floors but upstairs is the living quarters, because they run there own business, so downstairs is just a big office room. I have my own room wuth a western-style bed but the parents and Hisako (older sister, Noriko is the younger one: 15. Can be moody but you know, she's 15) have roll up futon things. They have a dog who lives outside (:( and they don't have a garden :() called Lucky who is a yappy terrier thing, who I have the joy of living above. All I hear alot of the time is barking.... But in conclusion my j-fam is fab. The girls speak alot of English and the host mother is really expressive and speaks some good english too, enough normally to communicate. The father is quite a traditional man so I don't really talk to him much plus I don't think he speaks much English. In conclusion: I am lucky and love it.
University: You will be the first person who I've made this comparison to, so you better appreciate it. The man running the show is called XXX. Now I think he's creepy but everyone else thinks he's nice atm (you know when you know someone is going to an asshole somehow- well I think that) Anyway the reason I find him so creepy (other than the fact he stalked my facebook and then told me about looking at my pictures!!!) is that he has the exact voice used by Johnny Depp in Charlie and the Chocolate factory. It is creepy as sin. Fine in the film. Creepy in real life. Anywayyyyy Uni is going to be hard. I will leave it at that for now because I will moan at you for subsequent weeks about it :) Other than that it is a beautiful uni on 1 campus and is all girls. We live in a room called inspiringly 'the winchester room' where most of our lectures are and people pop up and try and make friends with us which is cute.
Homesick: Not really. I talk to my Mum every other day and I talk to Tez every night. If I don't think about it it's okay and where I have facebook and letters and things I've literally surrounded myself with a coccoon of you guys. I like hearing what you guys are doing because then it doesn't feel weird that I'm alone in doing this because your all off for Easter. So keep me updated :) And Even if I don't reply to peoples messages for awhile I check facebook every day, just to check everyones okay and stuff.
Anyway, longest message ever :)
Hope your having more fun and doing less work,
Love from Asia :)
xx
p.s. I put on a pikachu costume yesterday and sat in one of those Japanese photobooths. It was fucking awesome.
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