homestay craze

My dorm is kicking me out after half a year even though I am studying in Japan for a year. Just because i made a mistake to sign up for only half a year. So i have been going to the school's international center to negotiate for extension or whatever. i dont want to name names, but Keio's international center is full of b.. i mean the people working there dont listen to you and they are so indifferent to student's needs! i talked to them for like 4 times about this, in ENglish, in Japanese, with my professor calling them... yeah i tried everything holding up to my home university's true values of protesting. But they just dont budge. now they probably know my face and is really annoyed at me, but yeah so now i am looking for other housings..

so thats why im looking for homestay! it just sounds really fun like if you are just idealizing. But in truth, as these couple weeks' searching as showed, it is difficult to find the ideal family to stay in. SOmetimes they want you because they want to make extra money, or they want you to teach their kid english...etc Plus tokyo's houses are notoriously tiny, so most families dont have an extra room to have guests...unlike california where people have like 20 extra rooms sitting around. for each of their pet dogs, maybe.

but there is this family that i really like once i saw the pic of their kid!

THEY ARE SOOOO CUTE!
so maybe i will consider them>< the only thing is that it would take 10minutes by bike to the station, then 1 hour to my school and 10 minutes walk to campus.........yeah thats a lot of time.
but the kids are so CUTE! i wish i will have kids as cute as them!
i will have to decide my housing soon, so will update then!

-_-

My finals are all over!!! Leaving the exam room my head started aching... i think i used too much brain this week. So it deserves some rest. That's why I watched some sex and the city.. its old but its still good. Just can't watch it for the "trendy fashion" anymore.

I was talking with my Japanese friend, and apparently the show is kinda famous in Japan. She said she watched it because her friend said that she is like Charlette and Miranda combined. Yeah I wonder which one I am. Actually I dont really want to know, but what I know is that I dont relate to any one of them. Dunno, I am just me. Maybe it's cuz none of them have my hair color.. hehe.

I will be tutoring English to someone sometime soon. I hope I am qualified enough to teach. Well its just conversational English. I mean I think I can at least talk decent English... if I am going to an university in US.

Anyway as i said, my brain is not working so well, so i think i should stop staring at my computer screen and typing nonsense.
time to zzZ

Ooonsen! Hot Spring!

Phew. Two finals down. One more to go.
Next week will be more fun because all the finals will be over!

I was talking about Onsen~or hot springs~ with someone yesterday.
I said I want to go to a hot spring! since it's so cold now. He said, you think like a monkey. Apparently monkeys get into hot springs in Japan when the weather gets cold, and sometimes you can see humans sitting in hot springs along with monkeys. Hehe it might be hard to picture that, but I will help you with this image that made me laugh when I first saw it but made me a little scared about going to unknown hot springs in Japan.



I don't want them picking licks off my hair.......


So I heard there is *one day hot spring* where you take the train to a hot spring spot, enjoy your hot spring, and come back on the same day. Good for saving $$ on hotels, but enjoying onsen, to me, is made to sound more like running an errand or a trip visiting the dentist and less like enjoying and relaxing yourself at a vacation spot...

Dunno maybe its just me, but I wanna take my time at a hot spring and dip myself in that healing water until my skin becomes unbelievably silky~~

But judging from the picture, I don't think it worked on the monkeys... hmmm

1/21/2010

I am in the middle of my final exam period for the program I am currently attending.
It's ok, tomorrow's exam is un-preparable because it is for a Japanese listening class and I can only count on having watched quite a lot of Japanese TV, although not really getting what they are saying, to give me luck for the listening exam tomorrow. So I say.

Ok I am officially forgetting how to speak or type English properly. Which is why I am starting this blog. The 6 months of intense Japanese classes do make people forget the other languages that they used to speak more fluently.

But Tokyo is fun. So it's all worth it!

I love being able to dress up really cute and not having people ask you, what's the occasion? Oh no, just going to drop by 7-11 to pick up some pockys. In Tokyo, dressing up nice and cute and wear make-up is what you do before you go to a convenience store just across the street.

And all the girls out there, Tokyo is where you shop and drop! January is the big winter sale, and I have found myself spending more $$ on nice stockings or adorable lingerie than my meager budget allows me to!! (oh but I am not regretting it! not until my phone bill comes in...)

As I always say, Tokyo, being one of the most expensive cities in the world, will be a heaven if you are rich.
But I did enjoyed a little bit of heaven when I rode the train on my way home with quite a few shopping bags and a smile on my face :)