A REALLY LONG catch-up post I'm sorry
So a week ago I went to Tokyo DisneySea with my host mom, host sister, and one of her friends, which was super fun. I bought a BUNCH of souvenirs for people and went on some really cool rides. Also the food was really good. My favourite place to look at was Port Discovery but I did get some really great pictures of the Aladdin stuff at night and my favourite rides were Journey to the Center of the Earth and Tower of Terror. I learned in the Little Mermaid areas that I legitimately glow under black light, too. We had soft tacos for lunch and curry for supper and a bunch of treats in between and it was all in all really fun, but also definitely the most tiring day I've had since I got here. I got up at 6 and was up for the next 15 hours either in a car or at DisneySea.
Last Sunday there was an exchange student(past, present, and future) Christmas party in Tokyo, which was really fun. I got to see some people that I haven't since orientation and some that I only met at the last gathering.They hadn't finished decorating when we got there so we all helped which was fun. And then we made and decorated Christmas trees in groups and made candles that we gave titles and stuff. It was super fun! Afterwards, I went to find a Lawson(convenience store but they're the only ones with machines where you can buy tickets to things) with 3 other exchange students(2 Australians, 1 New Zealander) and when we could find one right away me and one of the others went to Shibuya to find one because it was only 2 stations away and would definitely have one. It was super fun, and we talked for hours and made plans to wander Shibuya some time when we actually have time(Boxing Day).
On Monday a bunch of Australian students came for their week long home stay so I spent a lot of the week being dragged into conversations to translate. At one point some classmates asked me to come along to a ramen shop with them and the exchange student one of them was harbouring. I was okay with going because I like my classmates but HOLY CRAP THAT EXCHANGE STUDENT WAS SUPER ANNOYING. Anyway, we hung around Machida and talked a bunch which was fun.
Then on that Saturday an Australian friend from my exchange program texted me 'cause she was bored so we hung out in Tokyo that afternoon. We went to Aoyama cos her host mom said she should go at some point, and it turns out it's the part of Tokyo with all the embassies so we took pictures in front of Canada and Australia. We also went up Tokyo Tower and then to Daimon for supper before parting ways until Monday when I got an impromptu invite to a Christmas party at her house because a bunch of people couldn't come so I went to Chiba to visit her. We played a lot of bingo, and I won a signed picture of her host brother :P
On Tuesday(Christmas Eve) I made a goodbye speech in front of the whole school cos it was my third last day and Elias' last day. And then our classmates threw a mini goodbye thing for us and took a million pictures. My teacher have me a really nice pen set and my classmates wrote me a letter and got me a little present.
On Christmas I hung out with friends in Asakusa and we went to the temple around there are then to a Kabuki theatre(just to look though) in Ginza that had a bunch of traditional Japanese stuff in the station underneath it and my friend bought me a cellphone charm there. We also wandered around the largest fish market because she needed something for her grandparents who were coming over for the holidays.
On Boxing Day I hung out with the Australian student again in Shibuya where we did some minimal clothes shopping and wandered around and managed to walk all the way to Harajuku. Which isn't that far, but still impressive. We went to a coffee shop that had maple lattes made with Canadian maple syrup so I got one that we both tried because apparently the only maple syrup in Australia is %100 Canadian as well.
On the 28th we went to a concert that her friends (band name: Orange Bank Lead, Ore Bari for short) were the opening act for, and we saw Gold Rush, who are the happiest group EVER, Brand New Vibe, who were super great and I bought their CD which they then signed while being super excited about having foreign fans, and Funkist, which is a Japanese Gypsy rock group which was weird, but they were all really good. Live houses are maybe my new favourite thing and I'm upset that I didn't find out about them sooner. But it was a super fun show and yay cool memories.
Now it's New Years Eve and if excitement happens I'll make a post about it tomorrow. Sorry I haven't posted about anything in a while but I was busy doing all this stuff. Anyway, that's all, goodbye.
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