I'm Happy.

Want to know why? Well, we've got Bunkasai coming up. It's still a fair while away being on the 6th and 7th of November but we already have to start preparations. Bunkasai is basically a cultural festival held at school with bands and dance and food and haunted houses and all sorts of fun things. So, today we decided what 2-5 would do. They had like choir, play and stuff, I suggested a musical. Guess what they chose? Mine. Wow, happiness.

I think I also get to be a main person and help out with it cause I'm experienced which makes me super happy. Realising that no one knows many musicals here as they are all in English, we decided to just put in normal songs but it is still going to be super fun. So yeah, I'm excited.

Oh yeah, and I might be going to Tenjin in Fukuoka soon but did I already tell you that? That will be great the AniMATE and Mandarake there are huge. I was telling Mie-san, Hikari's mum, how I wanted to buy a Yukata and she found a cheap one in Omura with all the accessories and has insisted on buying it for me. It is red, I haven't seen it so I'm just going to have to trust her judgement. It's a gift anyway so who am I to judge?

Apart from that, school is back to normal. Koi shite Akuma which is a TV drama I like finished last night with Kunomiya-kun being a vampire but refusing to drink blood, disapparating into nothingness with Makoto, his teacher and child hood girlfriend, by his side. When Kunomiya was bitten, he stopped aging and like hid from everyone but his girlfriend kept growing which is why she is now his teacher. She was going to get engaged to some other teacher but Kunomiya is like 'I'm a vampire.' so she broke it off with him. Makoto was like, 'bite me, turn me vampire!' but Kunomiya was all like, 'No, I couldn't do that to you. I want you to live...blah blah blah' and disappeared. I thought it would have been cooler if he did bite her and they were all vampirish forever.

What else? I wanted to buy Hana Yori Dango but it is way expensive so bad luck there. In Japan Season One and Two are over a $150 and on 6 discs each but I swear I've seen Season 1 and 2 in a set before. The movie isn't a bad price but there is no point buying Hana Yori Dango Final when I haven't seen all of season one and none of two. Ah well. I'll just have to watch it on youtube. >_<

This isn't meant to be a real blog, I was just happy and wanted to tell someone. I went to Arisa's bunkasai which was pretty small. They had some dancing, singing, bands, and Ramune. Ramune is the best drink ever, it is in a glass bottle and has a marble inside. The best thing they did was a parody of Super Mario brothers. Basically, they made it look like a Super Mario game. They made a mario and all the monsters and things that go with it. It was on a black background with people dressed in black working it so it looked really good. Then puppet Mario got a red mushroom and became big when a real person dressed as Mario jumped out in the puppet's place. They had Peach and Bowser too, then everyone came out and danced looking like the ninja's on Big Brother. It was good.

Arisa's band K-on which is the name of a manga, were decent also. Their singer was probably the best. I don't remember the song though. The worst thing was these two girls who did a dance recital to two Arashi songs and a Hey Say Jump! song. It was murder. Only one of the two knew what she was doing, the other just copied and badly with a two second delay every time. The first person most likely made up the dance but it was shocking. All three used exactly the same moves and they put no energy into it at all. It was a relief when by the end of the second song two overly-enthusiastic boys stood up in the crowd and copied them. It entertained me for the third song anyhow. But apart from that, not much to see. We went shopping then, Mie-san and I. I didn't buy anything but Mie did, whe was buying a present for someone in a super rich store.

Oh yeah, in Sadou bu right. All we are doing right now is watching the third years and some second years practice 'O te mae' which is the actual super hard thing of making the tea. It isn't hard as much as difficult to remember what step comes next. It is all so precise and everything but here is the worst part, next week, the teacher said she wants me to try. I'm like, 'I've never done it before though, I can't do it in front of everyone' and she's like, 'Everyone hadn't done it before at some stage.' I mean I want to do it but not with 10 first years watching me. Having never done it before I'll obviously make a horrible amount of mistakes and get scolded and not understand heaps. Angst. Not to mention there are no step-by-step guides on the internet to practice with. Damn. Maybe the library has something...I might check that tomorrow.

Anyway. Yeah. School is alright at the moment, I'm getting better at being social I think. I'm not scared anymore. I can't believe I've only got four months left, it is going to go so damn fast. >_<

<3

Love,

Ashley-chan