Missed the week

I cannot believe that I already stopped posting everyday... I guess things are just too hectic to be able to maintain it.

Wednesday was my free day, and I spent the time around Shimotakaido. I explored the town a little bit more and also bought some stuff at the supermarket. I found out that the place has 3 floors which makes it the biggest supermarket I have ever been in. There is pretty much anything one could want there (in Japanese standards anyways.) The rest of the day I spent studying kanji, grammar, and Genji. I got tons of sleep and basically my mood went from a 6 to a 9.

I should mention that my host father spent 2 days in the hospital from Tuesday to Thursday in order to have tests done. From what I could gather from my family, he has some sort of cancer and they are doing their best to contain it. I hope he gets better soon.

On another note, everyone in my family has gotten sick this week. Miki missed a couple of days of work, Kaasan was also sick for a little bit. They wanted me to eat in my room Wednesday as to not catch a cold from eating together with them. That is a little extreme in my opinion, but once in a while is alright I guess.

Thursday was another boring day at school, nuff said.

Friday I got my Teiki renewed for another 3 months. I cannot believe that it has been 3 months since I started living with my host family! The time is just flying by and I do not like it one bit. To think that my stay is already a third of the way over... Depressing man.

I skipped out on my special engineering class this morning in order to get some money exchanged and do some miscellaneus shopping. I also figured it was the last day of school and many people would be absent anyways. The exchange rate was 112 yen to the dollar, so I exchanged lots of money. $2000 for entertainment, food, and a new psp in three months seems pretty cheap to me. I was talking to other people and they have already spent waaaaaaaaay more than that ($4000++!!) Our kanji teacher gave us a bunch of different interesting websites for studying and recognizing kanji. I may have to check some of those out during the break to keep my skills brushed up.

That night I got together with Vaso and Mike for the marble party. We ended up crashing the illumination project party first as they were taking up space in the international lounge. We just wanted to get out of the cold for half an hour till we had to meet. Ended up meeting some cool people from Enbushi and other places, along with Cameron and Ren from my class. There were also people there dressed up in halloween costumes... Think spiderman, pirates, and a couple cross-dressers.

The marble party was at La Cafe Retro. It was a surprisingly small place for the so-called 70 people that were there. I said my 自己紹介 to probably half the people there. It gets really old asking the same questions to everyone, especially when you forget everything after moving on to the next person. Made a couple of new friends before the party ended though. I also ended up stealing Erika's santa hat which I wore for the rest of the night.

The after party was to be at club atom in Shibuya. Vaso and I parted ways with the rest of the group and grabbed some bento first. The place was empty so we asked the tenin if it was alright to eat inside the place because it was warm there. They looked puzzled at first and told us that no one had asked them that before. I think they were happy that some nice foreigners kept them company for the 30 minutes or so that it took to eat. I just love the hospitality of the average Japanese person. At the yamanote, we somehow managed to meet up with everyone else at the train platform. Random. Vaso and I once again broke off from the group and went to the club by ourselves. We met up with Mike there and danced for 3 hours or so. The place was really cool, but the ventilation could have been a lot better (or the water could have been cheaper.) There was way too much smoke, and no way to get fresh air. We left early and hit up a McDonalds for the rest of the night. I found it amusing the amount of people passed out at their tables. You never see that in American fast food restaurants!