Random happenings... :D

So..none of this is gonna be in chronological order coz I often forget things and add them later so please bare with me! ;D

So I took the plane on the 19th at 13:00 at zurich airport and didn't sleep AT ALL!! We got to Narita airport at about 7 in the morning Japan time on the 20th.

We had 4 days of orientation with YFU returnees in Tokyo. There were 62 other exchange students. :D

Then on the 24th I took the shinkansen with 10 others and got off at Nagoya station where my host family met me! It was so sweet they had made a sign with my name and it was really cute! :D
We ate at a chinese restaurant and I ate SO MUCH!! 'O' It was really good though haha! ^-^
Then.. we drove home, I unpacked everything... and then sent an email to my parents. :)

And since then I've watched a lot of TV in japanese so I haven't understood much...especially the comedy shows!! O.o And there was one show with Osaka-ben; a dialect that's impossible to understand!!
I've done my bank account, alien card application, been to the hyakuen shop, Yuukuns judo practice and also his calligraphy class!! We wrote sakura with chinese ink! ^-^
And then because I've got a cough and a fever, yesterday I stayed in bed and today I went and got my KEITAI! :D (cell phone) It's purple!!! ^-^ I was gonna get a prepaid one from Softbank but just before paying I found out that 1 card only lasts 2 months and then you have to buy a new one... ^^' I really didn't want to have to go back and buy 5!! So we went to NTTdocomo and I got a contract phone..... which is cool coz it means that texts to docomo, softbank, au etc.. are free!!! :D :D hehe

Problem is..I bought this cell phone today..and it's already been chewed by LoveChan! ^^' Cheeky little devil xD

I've sent loads of texts to Hanako, my friend from Kenya, already!! it was so nice to talk to her again!! And we're meeting up at Nagoya on the 1st of April yaaaayy ^-^

What else.... oh yeh today I played on the wii with Yuukun and okaasan and we also played cards! :D And watched naruto shippuden :DDD

At the orientation I ate A LOT of traditional japanese food and since I've been in the host family quite a lot less but still some.. :D Which is kinda normal if you think about it haha! ^-^

Anyway it's late so I'm gonna finish here and  go to sleep!! :) oyasumiiiii <3

I'll put pics up when I work out how to!!! >.<

Birthday

Today is the birthday of a person who's very special to me and sadly I can't be by her side to wish her happy birthday coz she's maaaaaaany miles away!!!!
So I'll just say it here: HAPPY BIRTHDAY AYACHAN! <3 Hope you've had a great day so far and will continue to have one! ^-^

Life in Japan!

So I don't really have time to write everything  but Japan has been amazing so far!!
At the moment I'm in the living room at home (host family home) with a dog called Lovechan on my lap! :D
There's a show on pokemon on TV... don't really understand it though!
Orientation was great! met loads of awesome people and learnt loads of stuff :D and ate loads of japanese food haha xDD

13 hours...

So.. My flight to Japan is in just over 13 hours!! And I'll be leaving home in...8 hours!! :O
Just finished packing!!!  :) Gonna miss everyone :$

3 days..

Heya! :)
I'm going to Japan in 3 days... O.o
Today was really cool, at school my class had a picnic at lunch seeing as it was my last day... it was really fun :D I have such an amazing class!! They're such great friends, I'm really gonna miss them when I'm in Japan.. And then this evening I went to  the church youth group which was also my last time so I had to say goodbye to a lot of people today!! >.<
I've almost finished packing!! Just a few bits and bobs left... x)

Dad's birthday :D

Heya! It's my dad's birthday today :) And it's also 6 days before I go! :O
So today me and my mum went to town to buy stuff for Japan :D (Yes I took the day off school ^.^)
And we stopped by my dad's office to eat lunch with him and eat cake, I love cake! Especially chocolate cake lol xD

It's getting closer and closer.... It's kinda hard to believe! It used to be just a dream and now it's actually become reality! That's crazy to me :O
I went to speak with the Gymnase yesterday with my parents and the directrice said that I should go to Japan, come back and seeing as I'll be taking Spanish then I should go to Spain for a month or two to learn the basics and come back, work on my own and take exams to go straight into the 2nd  year of gymnase :) 
So it would be awesome if I could do that!! :D But I'm not sure I'll want to go away 10 months, come back and go away again.... Can I handle that? x)
I guess we'll find out^^

Apart from that.... apart from that... anything to say? Can't think of anything haha :D
My sister made a photobook for me to show people in Japan which is cool :))))
And and and... I've got GLASSES!! xD Hehe
I'm not really used to them though .... kinda feels weird to wear glasses :S

6 DAYS!!! :D

Randomness

I just went to a ski camp with Oak hall and it was amazing!! :) The weather was great, nice snow, great people... :)  And so anyway it's a christian camp so there were messages in the evening and we were going through Jesus' parables , the speaker was a guy called Charlie and he spoke reaaally well! It was easy to follow and really interesting to listen to ^___^ 

We also had a few testimonies which was great! One of the testimonies has made me want to take a theology course, wouldn't it be so interesting to learn about all the different religions?? And I've been thinking about what I'd like to do after uni, it would be great if I could help people, make a difference even if it's just a small one :)

And I bought a book called A praying life which looks really interesting, recently I've been struggling with praying and I sometimes seem to put God in a box which I hate :S I'd love to be a person who's always the same, at church, at school, at home.. everywhere!

And I've also been thinking I could be a Bible translator.... Except I'm not good at translating >< But it would be a good way to make use of the languages I learn.... I mean I learn languages coz I like them but if I can use them to let other people in the world come to know God then that would be amazing! :)
Or I could be a teacher... (I can't imagine myself being a teacher but who knows, maybe that's what God wants me to do! :D)  I really have no idea what I'll be doing in 10 years! I may not even be here anymore...which brings me to what the message was about last night. It was a different man preaching and he was talking about Heaven. He was saying that if we think more about heaven then our life would change, we would make different choices if we actually thought about eternity. Like if I think about it, quite a lot of my friends will go to Hell if they died now.... And they'd have to stay there for eternity! Coz you either spend eternity in Heaven or in Hell... and it makes me cry when I think of all the people I love going to Hell just coz they didn't know about Jesus dying and resurrecting to save us from our sins... T__________T 


Anyway... oh yeh the worship was really nice too ^__^ so yeh we had a fun week :D And I might have eaten a bit too much custard because of a custard competition with David but oh well xD And we had a chocolate fondue too :D And and and...there was a japanese lady who I talked to in Japanese and we had a conversation which was cool :D

Mmh english tea.... ^o^ I'm gonna miss that when I'm in Japan ^^'
Right, I should stop chatting now :P