Silver Week

is basically a rip-off of Golden Week.

It doesn't happen very often I don't think but this year, for one reason or another, we had a second mini-golden week. Three holidays in a row colliding with the weekend leaving a lovely Saturday to Wednesday holiday. Saturday I didn't really do anything. I remember sleeping, watching television and things to that effect. The following day, Sunday, Hikari arrived home from her two month stay in Australia. She brought a whole bloody supermarket home. I was flabbergasted.

This is an estimate:
>5 packets of Starburst
>5 packets of Tim Tams
>6 packets of various chocolates
>3 packets of M'n'M's
>10 mini packets of shapes
> And other stuff

The large majority of which went to other people. I didn't understand that. But it was nice to taste a little bit of home again having only one packet of Gobstoppers remaining from mother's latest care package despite me being a horribly slack child. Thank you. ^^

Hikari returned home around 12 having been generously driven by Sayaka's mother from Fukuoka airport back to Nagasaki. After that Hikari wanted to go to Cocowalk to eat at her Dad's restaurant. We did that, having Nagasaki Champon at a Chinese restaurant. >_<

Lolz. Oh yes, tragedy has struck me in the heart! That's right, my leather bracelet has broken. T_T Luckily it was as I was taking it off to have a shower so I still have my charm and everything, I bought a piece of leather at Cocowalk but unfortunately have no idea how to tie it so it is adjustable. It had instructions but it didn't seem very stable so I'm currently googling that.

The following day Sayaka came over for an unknown reason and stayed for like 5/6 hours. I talked/ watched the Disney channel/ ate Australian sweets. I was only there for the food. >_< We did a bit of sigthseeing, I got to see Shimabara castle and a statue of Buddha resting called Nirvana. After that and a lunch consisting of three onigiri's (small ones) and a bottle of Coca Cola which one by the distinguished form of Eeny Meeny Miney Moe, we went on to the Grandparents house. Staying for about half an hour to decide on what would be for dinner and when dinner would be before 7 of us rocked out at Karaoke.

The bad thing is that for some reason the Karaoke box hated me and wouldn't let me put in half may songs, continuously saying, ERROR. So I sung as many as I could, mostly anime. My singing repetoire has not changed at all since I've come here, the reason being that the songs I like are weird and I don't really know all that many famous, well-known songs that they have at Karaoke. Yes, I'm a social failure. But we already knew that, didn't we?

Dinner was Sara Udon which I've become rather fond of. We aslso had Takoyaki in the car, another thing which I7ve taken a liking for. I didn't love it all that much at first but now I've found that it can be quite enjoyable, especially when it is searingly hot. Sara Udon is udon noodles in sauce with whatever thrown on top, usually vegetables and meat. It also has like a counterpart where the noodles are cripsy like before they are cooked instead of cooked. I've only ever tried the cooked but I imagine the other is decent as well.

Ummm...yesterday was Nagasaki. Around 12 Hikari and I caught the train to Kikitsu, wishing to go to the library to research our trip to Fukuoka, having no internet at home, unfortunately being a public holiday, the library was, alas, closed. Luckily just outside the main library part was two computers with internet although both were ebing used. We didn't have to wait too long before one liberated itself of it's previous user and we were able to search to our hearts content.

Saturday is possibly Fukuoka, either that or the following Saturday. The plan is to halve the time of the day between anime and clothing stores, you can probably guess which half is mine. Will probably spend a whole lot of money as it'll likely be my only chance to buy ridiculously unnecessary amounts of anime related goods for the next however many years. Plans are Mandarake, AniMATE and GeeStore, a cosplay shop, and there are others in the area which I'll just look for once there.

I thought we'd go to Tenjin together and then seperate, buy stuff and come home together but that was a ダメ (No) from Hikari's mum which is far enough. Fukuoka is scary. ０_～ Anyways, from Kikitsu Hikari said she wanted to buy Arina a birthday present at Amyu in Nagasaki so we went together and I bought earrings. There are four, each a suit of playing card, hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades. They would look really cute all together, shame I've only got one hole in each ear. ^_～

Then, Hikari and I went to the little version of AniMATE in Nagasaki where I spent 3000 yen on 3 Code Geass figurines, 4 badges, Rei key chain and a Kuroshitsuji thingy. I know what you're thinking, expensive. Yeah, you're telling me but it is like that every where. ><

What else? I like drawing. I've downloaded over 100 episodes of Ranma 1/2, oh I'm such a rebel. Japan is hilarious, they don't block anything here except for Youtube and Megaupload. n00bs. Hence the ridiculous amount of downloading. I think that is all for now. I can't think of anything else to say except I love you all and on Saturday I've been here for six months,(!) and not long to go now. I can't wait to come back and show off my asian skills, but you can all laugh at my hopeless english. I'm afraid it will take me a little while to adjust back. And you'll have to slap the head nodding and 'un' sounds out of me but I'll get there.

Don't lose hope! Currently reading: The picture of Dorian Gray which I am enjoying immensely.

<3

Ashley-chan

And this picture is just because Severus Snape is so Gosh Darn Smexy. XD