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This past month has given me a run for my money. I`ve hardly had
anytime to relax! The things that have transpired this month range
from monstrously horrible to down right Great. Yep, it`s safe to say
my life here in the town of Monbetsu has been an Intresting Rollercoster.
It all started hectic, the first week in October we had Mid-terms in all
the classes. Due to that all clubs were cancelled for that week. While all
the other students had three days of exams, I only had two exams(Japanese
and Math). I was surprised at how much Japanese I had learned, since
coming here. So after the Mid- erms things were getting back to
daily routine, They don`t have an interact club in my school, but I
am a member of the Kyudo club (Japanese Archery). About two or three days after Mid-terms I was walking home from school when due to the cobination of overconfidence and brashness, I fell, twisting my left ankle something bad. I went to the hospital the doctor said I couldn`t walk for several days and I might not be able to go on the school trip that was going to be held in 10 days. Luckily my foot( that now had a stomach churning color of purple, black, and a little blue and was a size bigger than my shoe) healed just enough that the Doc Told me the school trip was ok. As for the school trip, I had a
blast! There were so many places I went and so many things I saw.
This trip consisted of all of the second year students, and I
traveled with a group. When we had free time in certain cities we
goofed around just like in America. In most of the hotels we had
about six to ten of us in a room, so let just say between the ten or so of
us in a room we were craking jokes and stories until the late hours
of the night. We even watch the Japanese version of Who Wants To Be
a Millionaire, It was great! The host looks and acts just like Regis
Philbin except he`s japanese, the resemblence is uncanny. Anyway the
next place we went was Nara where I crawled through a hole the size
of a giant budda statue`s nostril, apprently it means now I`ll have
good fortune and success in my career, so Microsoft, Nintendo, and
Sony...WATCH OUT!!! Next it was off to Kyoto, where I saw such sites
as a temple made of gold and a few of Japan`s National Treasures.
The last place we visit was the Icing on the cake...Tokyo! I love
that city, but by far the best place in it is Akihabara. Let`s just say
the nickname describes why I like it so much, the electric town.
Electronics as far as the eye can see! Buildings upon buildings with
items ranging from Video Games to Toasters, I thought I died and
went to heaven. Unfortunately I only stayed there for about a hour
and a half, but my Host Rotary club said they`d let me go back in
Spring. I ended the Trip with a day in Tokyo Disney, but being a
Floridian I was and am use to Disney. So I sat back and |