Hey, no, I don't have the flu, but I'm suffering from a serious case of writer's block and loss of interest in girls all of a sudden. Life has never been this boring.
Oh, and I cut my hair like you said I should mom.
bbl
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
When you wish upon a blog..
Yeeah I've been lazy. I know. But my father won't sponsor my bustickets if I didn't do another post..
For individual people, 15-something turned up. The three Thai girls showed a Thai "punishment game dance" which became outrageously popular during the camp, and was used spontaneously by many of the volunteers for no reason. Three Japanese girls came as a group, but individually did; a gorilla imitation (It was great, seriously), pop star imitation (Apparently one of them looked like some specific one), and some kickass robot-dancing. The last one was Akane. You'll find out.
We also made curry outside in our groups, over a bonfire we made ourselves - like it wasn't hot enough! And the washing was the toughest I've ever done - the soot that stuck to the bucket-like things we used to cook the rice with was near impossible to get off (Rice was cooked perfectly though, woot), my group was first out, though. At 1 hour and a half.
Later that day, the volunteers sold these AFS Summer Camp t-shirts that they announced with a song, going like this:
Atsui~
Natsu ni~
Shiawase~!
(Happiness, in the hot summer)
I was dancing casually with Reika from my group, when I was suddenly, literally, pulled down in the neck by something.
"Fuu-chan is Akane's!!"
To which I was dragged out in the middle of the circle people were standing in. Ah, I didn't mind~
Although it was a bit hard to put my arm around her shoulder and dance at the same time without falling over.
As we were drying off our shoes, Akane, who was apparently a close friend of Reika, boasts to her, infront of me "Fuu-chan and I were dancing like Aladdin and Jasmin, you know~!" to which she totally went "Hmph!" to, turned on the heel and walked into the hall. Whoah, dude.
Although her name means "madder", Akane is my gilded butterfly. You'll see in the "Returning to Kyoto" part.
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Ami was the name of my new sister. She's 21 and a University student, somewhere.
We had to take the train two hours to get to the house, so we got to talk a lot. She's both funny and talky, so I looked forwards to the next two days.
I also had an older brother, although only +1. He seemed pretty shy and was in his room most of the time, although he could talk. Unlike some other people's brothers.
And I've always been an "all or nothing" guy.
[werk en purogwezz peepl.]
AFS Kyoto Summer Camp
Hokay! So, this is late, but the summer vacation started and ended in one go.
In Japan, you only have about.. 3 weeks of actual vacation, because of "hoshuu", which is basically where you just go to school. Yeah.
I didn't have to participate, but I did anyway.
Then, the AFS Kyoto summer camp.
Basically just a camp where exchange students and Japanese highschool students around Kyoto gather and have some fun for 4 days. I think I was just about one of the furthest away people coming.
I went with Nyuu, 11 pm in the evening on a night bus for Kyoto. It took 6.30 hours, i.e. we arrived at half past 5 in the morning.
And I didn't sleep a minute the whole trip. God damn it, I was tired.
I don't know why, but I can't sleep inside busses in the night.. for some reason.
We arrive at Kyoto station, and were picked up by a nice young girl around 19, who took us to her house, where we'd stay and rest before meeting up with everyone else. At her house, there were two other exchange students staying there, Adela from New Zealand, and another girl whose name escapes me from Thailand.
I crashed immediately as I sat down on their sofa, so I didn't get to talk a lot to anyone..
Around 8, we're driven back to Kyoto station, where loads of young people a
re standing around talking. I don't immediately recognize any faces until I spot a fair-haired giant standing in the middle.. It's Anna, from Denmark! After that, I slowly begin to remember a few faces, but half of the people were Japanese students or AFS volunteer university students.
We were divided into 6 groups, ippan, nihan, sanpan, yonpan, gohan and roppan. First group, second group, and so on, respectively. I was in group four, which is why you see me holding out 4 fingers in many of the pictures. I made that up, and everyone used it. ^^
Steve from Australia was in my group, and we met each other back in the beginning of the year. He has a goddamn fanclub at his school, because of his looks - but he doesn't have a girlfriend, grrr, bastard, haha.
In group four, him, me, and one of the two volunteers in charge of our groups were the only guys out of 12, so the group unofficially became the "Fuu-chan fanclub", lol. Lasted only a day though~
We enter the busses driving us to the camp, and right from the start, everyone's pumped, happy and cheerful.
We listened to a tape the volunteers had made with a quiz - stuff like, what's the theme of this camp (Everyone's a friend), or how can you tell if a girl's popular in school (She wears eyeliner - THIS IS TRUE).
It took a good hour and a half to get there, and when we arrived.. we had to walk 20 minutes. In 31 degrees C man, gah. And so much luggage.. Ofcourse, I'm a guy, so I only had two bags, fairly light. But being the gentleman I am, I carried some of the girls' UBER heavy stuff.
Made me realize that while it hurts on the good guys in the start, it pays off afterwards. And opposite, while it pays off for the bad guys in the start, it's gonna hurt afterwards. Heh.
The camp is a "doujo", which is not a Judo/Kendo dojo or the like, but like... a camp. It was written with the kanji "earth place" if I remember right.. Fairly clean, new (I think) and open. Boys and girls divided into 5 different cabins, so we had LOADS of free beds everywhere. Steve and I got a whole room with beds for more than 15 people for ourselves.
After we'd settled in, we gather outside in our respective groups, which we wou
ld do every morning every day. A leader is elected for each group - me! Woo!, and then we proceed to lunch and activities.
We did a LOT, so I'm gonna cut it somewhat short. Also, I forgot. Sorry.
First off, there would be a campfire the first day, so we were to practice dances that we'd all do together. It was to three different, super summer-y, happy songs. Here's my favorite one embedded. "Summer color" by Yuzu.
AFS Kyoto Summer Camp
Hokay! So, this is late, but the summer vacation started and ended in one go.
In Japan, you only have about.. 3 weeks of actual vacation, because of "hoshuu", which is basically where you just go to school. Yeah.
I didn't have to participate, but I did anyway.
Then, the AFS Kyoto summer camp.
Basically just a camp where exchange students and Japanese highschool students around Kyoto gather and have some fun for 4 days. I think I was just about one of the furthest away people coming.
I went with Nyuu, 11 pm in the evening on a night bus for Kyoto. It took 6.30 hours, i.e. we arrived at half past 5 in the morning.
And I didn't sleep a minute the whole trip. God damn it, I was tired.
I don't know why, but I can't sleep inside busses in the night.. for some reason.
We arrive at Kyoto station, and were picked up by a nice young girl around 19, who took us to her house, where we'd stay and rest before meeting up with everyone else. At her house, there were two other exchange students staying there, Adela from New Zealand, and another girl whose name escapes me from Thailand.
I crashed immediately as I sat down on their sofa, so I didn't get to talk a lot to anyone..
Around 8, we're driven back to Kyoto station, where loads of young people a
re standing around talking. I don't immediately recognize any faces until I spot a fair-haired giant standing in the middle.. It's Anna, from Denmark! After that, I slowly begin to remember a few faces, but half of the people were Japanese students or AFS volunteer university students.We were divided into 6 groups, ippan, nihan, sanpan, yonpan, gohan and roppan. First group, second group, and so on, respectively. I was in group four, which is why you see me holding out 4 fingers in many of the pictures. I made that up, and everyone used it. ^^
Steve from Australia was in my group, and we met each other back in the beginning of the year. He has a goddamn fanclub at his school, because of his looks - but he doesn't have a girlfriend, grrr, bastard, haha.
In group four, him, me, and one of the two volunteers in charge of our groups were the only guys out of 12, so the group unofficially became the "Fuu-chan fanclub", lol. Lasted only a day though~
We enter the busses driving us to the camp, and right from the start, everyone's pumped, happy and cheerful.
We listened to a tape the volunteers had made with a quiz - stuff like, what's the theme of this camp (Everyone's a friend), or how can you tell if a girl's popular in school (She wears eyeliner - THIS IS TRUE).
It took a good hour and a half to get there, and when we arrived.. we had to walk 20 minutes. In 31 degrees C man, gah. And so much luggage.. Ofcourse, I'm a guy, so I only had two bags, fairly light. But being the gentleman I am, I carried some of the girls' UBER heavy stuff.
Made me realize that while it hurts on the good guys in the start, it pays off afterwards. And opposite, while it pays off for the bad guys in the start, it's gonna hurt afterwards. Heh.
The camp is a "doujo", which is not a Judo/Kendo dojo or the like, but like... a camp. It was written with the kanji "earth place" if I remember right.. Fairly clean, new (I think) and open. Boys and girls divided into 5 different cabins, so we had LOADS of free beds everywhere. Steve and I got a whole room with beds for more than 15 people for ourselves.
After we'd settled in, we gather outside in our respective groups, which we wou
ld do every morning every day. A leader is elected for each group - me! Woo!, and then we proceed to lunch and activities.We did a LOT, so I'm gonna cut it somewhat short. Also, I forgot. Sorry.
First off, there would be a campfire the first day, so we were to practice dances that we'd all do together. It was to three different, super summer-y, happy songs. Here's my favorite one embedded. "Summer color" by Yuzu.
As you can see on a few of the photos, photo-bombing was pretty popular. Can you find me in this one to the right?
The dances were strangely hard to memorize, even though I really, honestly did my best to.. It just didn't stick most of the time, but it worked out in the end. Everyone looked like an idiot anyway.
Next up was a skit for the talent show for one of the evenings. Each group had to do their own thing, and then people could sign up too and do something. I did We Will Rock You again.
Ho yeah Danish cheerleading. Didn't have any beer to throw around or train chairs to wreck though.
Ho yeah Danish cheerleading. Didn't have any beer to throw around or train chairs to wreck though.
We decided to do a little play, which was spun up pretty quickly on the place. I
t went mostly back and forth between Manami (By the blue shirt) and I. She's Japanese, 17, but recently came home from a 1-year exchange to the US. Her English was so good, I thought she was a volunteer translator.
She also acted very older-sister-like, always telling me to put on my cap outside or SHUT UP haha, I love her. I seriously thought she was around 24.
t went mostly back and forth between Manami (By the blue shirt) and I. She's Japanese, 17, but recently came home from a 1-year exchange to the US. Her English was so good, I thought she was a volunteer translator.She also acted very older-sister-like, always telling me to put on my cap outside or SHUT UP haha, I love her. I seriously thought she was around 24.
It ended up being something like, a gaijin enters Japan and wants to try out the new exciting culture, and starts with the unique food. What I recall was nattou, takoyaki, sushi and wasabi, and probably something else..
And in the end, an "ikemen", literally cool-face, appears, and tells the gaijin that even though Japan is so different, there're also things that are alike. I.e., beautiful(?) guys. Very deep eh. I was the gaijin. Guess who played the ikemen.
We didn't have time to write down a script, so I adlibbed pretty much everything I said, worked out pretty well though - me being the only one having more than two lines.
The other groups performed mostly skits too. There was a mute skit with a guy, specifically the Thai exchange student Thanabodee aka Fo, who'd go out shopping with his girlfri
end.. and pick up literally hundreds of girls, mothers, grandmothers and whatever he made eyecontact with.
end.. and pick up literally hundreds of girls, mothers, grandmothers and whatever he made eyecontact with.Then there was a dance show, about some puppets who'd dance when humans were not around. Then 5 humans entered, each picking up invisible "threads" behind the puppets, and making them move around, dancing. That one was my favorite, it looked so smooth~
For individual people, 15-something turned up. The three Thai girls showed a Thai "punishment game dance" which became outrageously popular during the camp, and was used spontaneously by many of the volunteers for no reason. Three Japanese girls came as a group, but individually did; a gorilla imitation (It was great, seriously), pop star imitation (Apparently one of them looked like some specific one), and some kickass robot-dancing. The last one was Akane. You'll find out.
One guy, an exchange student named Nick, played his clarinet that he brought along. He looked a bit like me with the hair, glasses and height, and like Europeans etc. can't tell many Japanese faces from each other, Japanese can't tell many European faces from each other either. So it resulted in many volunteers going "Nice playing on the clarinet!" to me and such, hah. Now I have contacts though.
Fo, the Thai guy, did some Muay Thai fighting dance, I loved his movements, he looked like.. well, a monkey, heh.
Gimantha, a Sri Lankan guy, also did a dance of his country, while wearing this armor-like .. bell suit. It was pretty crazy, he turned around and jumped like crazy, I wondered how he could still keep balance and smile at the same time. Apparently he'd been doing it every week since he was 10.
We also made curry outside in our groups, over a bonfire we made ourselves - like it wasn't hot enough! And the washing was the toughest I've ever done - the soot that stuck to the bucket-like things we used to cook the rice with was near impossible to get off (Rice was cooked perfectly though, woot), my group was first out, though. At 1 hour and a half.
Every morning and evening, there would be 3-4 exchange students doing a little speech in Japanese, while people were dining. That was fun, except I forgot to write mine beforehand. And I was too busy having fun to write one during the camp, whoops..
Ended up scribbling some ideas of what I could talk about, and otherwise freestyle
d everything, and it went much better than I'd expected, since I'd talked about the stuff/ideas before, to my friends in school. I didn't even have time to talk about the giant net incident..
Ended up scribbling some ideas of what I could talk about, and otherwise freestyle
d everything, and it went much better than I'd expected, since I'd talked about the stuff/ideas before, to my friends in school. I didn't even have time to talk about the giant net incident..The volunteers had also made a "kimodameshi", literally "gut test". Basically a .. what the hell do you call it in English, scare run?
We'd go around the camp in groups of 4 people in the middle of the night, solving riddles, while the volunteers would do their best to scare the living hell out of us - haha, was fun, but I wasn't really scared, because it was always easy to tell when they'd try something. Yes, I was with 3 girls, and I was ofcourse the one in front, literally being pushed, lol
Also the reason the guy on that pic up there is dressed up like some kind of.. zombie, with a giant syringe.. thing.
We'd go around the camp in groups of 4 people in the middle of the night, solving riddles, while the volunteers would do their best to scare the living hell out of us - haha, was fun, but I wasn't really scared, because it was always easy to tell when they'd try something. Yes, I was with 3 girls, and I was ofcourse the one in front, literally being pushed, lol
Also the reason the guy on that pic up there is dressed up like some kind of.. zombie, with a giant syringe.. thing.
We were often divided into new groups to get to meet new people, too. We had animal, birthday and color groups, IIRC.
Animal groups were for the dances, birthday was for one morning's breakfast, and color was anything else than that.
Animal groups were for the dances, birthday was for one morning's breakfast, and color was anything else than that.
During the camp, I'd naturally spotted a few cute girls here and there, and there was a semi-cute girl in my group named Reika (Pictured on the right) that I reflexively advanced on.
However, she quickly saw through my disguise..
Mind you, I honestly thought Manami was 20ish until the last day, so.. yeah.
However, she quickly saw through my disguise..
Mind you, I honestly thought Manami was 20ish until the last day, so.. yeah.
Then, we were divided into birthday groups, i.e. one month for one group. I was.. I
don't know.. I don't know, but, holy sh*t, my group was awesome.
If I recall correctly, it was five B-E-A-UTIFUL girls and me. Everyone of them. And they were chatty and nice to boot.
don't know.. I don't know, but, holy sh*t, my group was awesome.If I recall correctly, it was five B-E-A-UTIFUL girls and me. Everyone of them. And they were chatty and nice to boot.
It was a nice breakfast, and that morning had the most speakers too. Enjoyable eternity~
Especially one girl, who sat almost right infront of me.. Akane.
A tiny girl of 144cm or so, extremely lively and cute. I don't know how our conversations went, but she ended up sending flying kisses to me (5, I counted) and making staring
contests which she inevitably lost. She's on the right, with the hat on the back.
A tiny girl of 144cm or so, extremely lively and cute. I don't know how our conversations went, but she ended up sending flying kisses to me (5, I counted) and making staring
contests which she inevitably lost. She's on the right, with the hat on the back.There was also Yocchan, pictured, who was really good at English and plays piano. She possibly had the most beautiful face I have ever seen. Friendly, but she wasn't interested, haha~
Later that day, the volunteers sold these AFS Summer Camp t-shirts that they announced with a song, going like this:
Atsui~
Natsu ni~
Shiawase~!
(Happiness, in the hot summer)
Dakedo, kimitachi
Nanika wasuretenaika?
Nanika wasuretenaika?
(Although, you guys, haven't you forgotten something?)
Sore wa
Shaatsu da yo
(That is, the t-shirts)
(That is, the t-shirts)
Shaatsu no sei da yo
(It's the t-shirts)
Sama kyanpu
Tii-shatsu~
(Go figure)
(Go figure)
Then it went onto something about "Buy one now for 1500 yen! CHEAP! Or two for 3000! CHEEAAP!!!"
And everyone remembers it, heh. Everyone bought one or more, because we'd use them to sign and leave messages on the last day.
Then, the bonfire. After we ate dinner the last evening, we went back to our cabins to find a huge wood-like contraption.. apparently to become the bonfire. Looked like you could live inside it to me.
We danced and sang, Tomodachi, President Obama, several Japanese athletes, S
pider-Man, Shocker, among other strange and totally out-of-context famous figures appeared during the thing. It was awesome though, I love Tomodachi. *holds up left index finger, yeah, not right pinky*
One of the songs was "Stand by me" - although only the first verse, which kept getting repeated. Some few of us knew the rest, including me, which we started screaming out afterwards, haha
pider-Man, Shocker, among other strange and totally out-of-context famous figures appeared during the thing. It was awesome though, I love Tomodachi. *holds up left index finger, yeah, not right pinky*One of the songs was "Stand by me" - although only the first verse, which kept getting repeated. Some few of us knew the rest, including me, which we started screaming out afterwards, haha
I was dancing casually with Reika from my group, when I was suddenly, literally, pulled down in the neck by something.
"Fuu-chan is Akane's!!"
To which I was dragged out in the middle of the circle people were standing in. Ah, I didn't mind~
Although it was a bit hard to put my arm around her shoulder and dance at the same time without falling over.
All of a sudden, albeit expected because it apparently happens EVERY YEAR - it starts raining. And how! The earthy brown ground became a huge man-eating mud pool. It didn't stop people from singing though.
We afterwards gathered in the dining hall, took pictures and stuff. I had totally forgotten to take pictures during the actual camp, so pretty much all of these are from the final day - except for the ones I got from friends.
As we were drying off our shoes, Akane, who was apparently a close friend of Reika, boasts to her, infront of me "Fuu-chan and I were dancing like Aladdin and Jasmin, you know~!" to which she totally went "Hmph!" to, turned on the heel and walked into the hall. Whoah, dude.
Although her name means "madder", Akane is my gilded butterfly. You'll see in the "Returning to Kyoto" part.
The next day, we were spending most of the morning signing each other's shirts. Took a damn long time, there wasn't enough pens..
After eating, we were driven back to Kyoto station to say goodbye. A lot of people were crying, and as you can see, Shef and Acchan (Leaders of my group) had red eyes on this picture. Although I'll miss my friends, then there's a reunion party in October.
After eating, we were driven back to Kyoto station to say goodbye. A lot of people were crying, and as you can see, Shef and Acchan (Leaders of my group) had red eyes on this picture. Although I'll miss my friends, then there's a reunion party in October.
While taking pictures and getting the last people to sign my shirt, I was poked on the shoulder by a young woman - who was apparently my host sister for the next 2 days. I didn't complain, and said goodbye to everyone.
And that concludes this lifeslice.
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Ami was the name of my new sister. She's 21 and a University student, somewhere.
We had to take the train two hours to get to the house, so we got to talk a lot. She's both funny and talky, so I looked forwards to the next two days.
We were picked up somewhere in Shiga prefecture, which is outside Kyoto, by her mother and their dog, Kukku, chihuahua. Man, that thing was hyper and aggressive, but it luckily took a liking to me.
I also had an older brother, although only +1. He seemed pretty shy and was in his room most of the time, although he could talk. Unlike some other people's brothers.They had a piano! I played casually on it after asking, and halfway through the song, I noticed they were all standing behind me, father with a camera in his hand, videotaping.
Same evening, we watched movies together that they had recorded, including Grave of the Fireflies, A letter from Iwo Jima, and Spirited Away.
The next day, Ami was working, so I went with my mother and Kukku to a nearby fossil-museum of some sort. The house was right next to the biggest lake in Japan, Biwako.
Never really been one for museums though, aheh.
I'd been exchanging e-mail addresses with several people from the camp, mostly girls,
which held me up ALL night, replying to them. With about 11 people, I was messaging NON-STOP for several hours. My poor hand.. God, damn it.
I got to sleep in though, which was nice. My mother did come in once around 1 pm to check if I was alive, haha.
which held me up ALL night, replying to them. With about 11 people, I was messaging NON-STOP for several hours. My poor hand.. God, damn it.I got to sleep in though, which was nice. My mother did come in once around 1 pm to check if I was alive, haha.
Ami apparently worked at an ice cream chain shop, along with other university friends. Since then, I've noticed that chain all over the place, although I forget the name.. 38 something?
Before I noticed it, the two days were over, and I went with Ami back to Kyoto station. Before meeting up with Nyuu as planned, we went around and shopped a bit, ate ice cream and udon.
By that time, I had forgotten completely what day or date it was. Admittedly, I hadn't been able to keep track of that since I left home.
Eventually met up with Nyuu and her family, which she also liked a lot. Her sister at +1 was a real nerd, so they'd been playing games all night.
Boarding the shinkansen Nozomi, fastest one there is, we waved goodbye to our temporary host families, and headed for Hiroshima.
AFS Hiroshima Camp
Culture festival
Sports festival
Returning to Kyoto
Sports festival
Returning to Kyoto
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Time capsule post
見たいな
This is still -in the works-, but I can tell you that I've:
Also, don't read into that list too much. There's more than one person involved there.
感じで
的な。
I need smilies or emoticons in this blog. Hm.
\o>
Wait don't go, I has pictures!
Q-Gee Chai Kaj
Or, to be more correct, kyuugitaikai. Something like "great ballplay fights".
Or, to be more correct, kyuugitaikai. Something like "great ballplay fights".
It's three times a year here, first term, second term and third term. First term ended around July, where the first taikai was held. Volleyball.
We did training in PE, and the guys actually got quite good at it. 
We were split in two teams because we were many. Unfortunately, at the real thing, the other team won once but lost twice, so my team never got to play against the other classes.
We were split in two teams because we were many. Unfortunately, at the real thing, the other team won once but lost twice, so my team never got to play against the other classes.Didn't matter, means I had plenty of energy to cheer. What's that? Embarrassment? Hah! I moon at your sense of shame!
Luckily I'd taught myself the lyrics to We Will Rock You a few weeks before, so I got to shout that out during the cheering for our 
class's girls' battles. They completely whooped the other classes though. AND the other schools in Izumo, my city. It doesn't go national, though.
class's girls' battles. They completely whooped the other classes though. AND the other schools in Izumo, my city. It doesn't go national, though. The picture there is teachers vs senior sports class, the overall winner of the guys. It seems it's been that same class for around 20 years in a row now.
In Japan, when you say when everyone's happy and cheerful, you 
say "The tension is high". Reminds me of when my PE teacher tried to explain "rotation" in volleyball for me. "Low tension? What's that? Everyone's really dark and gloomy?"
say "The tension is high". Reminds me of when my PE teacher tried to explain "rotation" in volleyball for me. "Low tension? What's that? Everyone's really dark and gloomy?"So yeah, the tension did get pretty high because of the girls' wins, so our teacher wanted to take some classphotos. They're great, the students are actually smiling. There're three pictures, almost the same, but with three you can get three different views of each person.
Lethal vows
This amused me to no end. In Japanese, "martial art" is written with the kanji "fist", 拳, and "law", 法.
Read as "kenpou" when together.
Read as "kenpou" when together.
However, kenpou, if the first kanji is different, can also mean "constitution".
I didn't know the latter until after that one history lesson.
It seemed to me that my teacher was going on about how Japanese emissaries went around in the world and studied martial arts from Germany, USA, Russia and the like, to bring back to Japan to make the perfect martial art.
Awesome. Heinrich of the German Fist. Signature move: Strudel Strike.
The triumvirate of cuteness 2: Thrice the mistake
I was invited by Anna to come to another ALT (Alternate language teacher)'s speech thang, about how to hold speeches, for Japanese students. So I pulled Nyuu along, and we by coincidence met the triplets from my school there.
I still can't tell Shiho from Saki, Saki from Risa, or Risa from Shiho. CAN YOU??
Although as Miles told me, their personalities are different. Shiho is always like "Hey!! What's my name (beyotch)???" if she sees me, and I always -got- it wrong, until I noticed she's the "scary one". lol, even other people who know those three think so.
Although as Miles told me, their personalities are different. Shiho is always like "Hey!! What's my name (beyotch)???" if she sees me, and I always -got- it wrong, until I noticed she's the "scary one". lol, even other people who know those three think so.
Risa is really cute, and always goes like "Aaaah Fuu-kun!!" and waves wildly if she sees me. She's probably also the easiest one to keep a loose (non-serious) conversation with.
I haven't seen Saki in a while...
Akiyama-kun
Well, I had to join a club some time. Just don't want to go every day, and there's nothing that really pulls my interest for real. So, I joined the art club. The most free club in the school. Haw haw.
Which was a pretty big surprise to everyone in the school apparently, zomg attention!
I was doing a project with a girl from my class, one from the "level-headed" class, and a guy from .. oh, "level-headed" class as well. They're all really nice actually, the guy is one of the most shy guys I've ever met, but he has a kind heart.
The girl from brainy class is also nice, but I wish she'd notice/shave that moustache.... Nerd girls. Sigh.
And the girl from my class.. Ahaha. Oh wow, I have never met a girl like her. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to fish her.
She's just really special. Her name's Akane Akiyama.
Okay, it started like this. After a few days of working on the project (We were carving on some piece of wood, making a picture), I tried to speak to Akiyama. She'd said she'd like to have our history teacher as a little brother (Guy's around 150cm lol), so when he entered the classroom, I leaned over (Yeah, she's seated right next to me) and whispered "There's your little brother!"
No reaction. Ahe.
No reaction. Ahe.
After school was over, I went to the art club room. As soon as I sat down around the woodboard where everyone were already carving, Akiyama speaks.
"Fuu-kun, I'd appreciate if you didn't talk to me in class." lolwut
"Fuu-kun, I'd appreciate if you didn't talk to me in class." lolwut
"Why?"
"Because I hate guys! It's nothing personal, though!"
lol
"Because I hate guys! It's nothing personal, though!"
lol
wut
"So why can you talk to me here?"
"Because.. we can't do this without communication right?"
"Sooo, why can you talk to Hino-kun?" Hino is the guy from the smartyclass, although the girl is also named Hino, it's confusing.
"Because.. we can't do this without communication right?"
"Sooo, why can you talk to Hino-kun?" Hino is the guy from the smartyclass, although the girl is also named Hino, it's confusing.
"Because I don't see him as a man."
lmfao
Man, I feel sorry for that guy, but it's true, ahah. He just can't really talk to... anyone. Especially not girls. And he's one of the worst cases of otaku I've ever seen. Well, so are everyone else in the art club too.
Man, I feel sorry for that guy, but it's true, ahah. He just can't really talk to... anyone. Especially not girls. And he's one of the worst cases of otaku I've ever seen. Well, so are everyone else in the art club too.
Anyway.
It gets better.
In Japanese, there're different ways to say "I". Bunch of rules and explanation needed here, unless you've watched some animoo.
Basically, "watashi" is used by girls, and "boku" is used by boys, formally. Okay? Good.
Akiyama, female, uses boku.
This is NORMALLY okay if you're about 6-10 years old as a girl, but she's 16 and.. it doesn't make sense. So, I ask her.
This is NORMALLY okay if you're about 6-10 years old as a girl, but she's 16 and.. it doesn't make sense. So, I ask her.
"I guess it's a habit from when I was little."
"Why don't you lose it? People'll mistake you for a boy if they can't see you."
"I've had worse. I was confessed to twice in middle school, both by girls."
say wot girl
"Why don't you lose it? People'll mistake you for a boy if they can't see you."
"I've had worse. I was confessed to twice in middle school, both by girls."
say wot girl
"First time, it was by a childhood friend. Second time, the person didn't know I was a girl."
Well have a look at that! She refused both apparently.
Oh, and if you're wondering, on the kyuugitaikai/volleyball game classphoto, she's right above the girl with a pink towel around her neck, in the middle.
Mobile HAL
I got a mobile phooone~
And man, it's awesome. I shouldn't really say how much it cost... But it's more expensive than a Wii, excluding monthly fees.
And man, it's awesome. I shouldn't really say how much it cost... But it's more expensive than a Wii, excluding monthly fees.
Shock-proof, water-proof, TV, Internet, mails, calls, camera, games, bank, dictionaries..
And it's red. MANPHONE.
On the lower picture, the scope-like thing you see on the screen? That's like, the back
ground visual. It's awesome, bunch of weird stuff comes out. Gauges, curves, statistics, maps, and sometimes there's text and numbers written, although it doesn't make much sense.
Like, something that looks like a city map, and "New Moderate" or "Greenshoal" is written.. I also saw "Distance to Mars 12m" once.
ground visual. It's awesome, bunch of weird stuff comes out. Gauges, curves, statistics, maps, and sometimes there's text and numbers written, although it doesn't make much sense.Like, something that looks like a city map, and "New Moderate" or "Greenshoal" is written.. I also saw "Distance to Mars 12m" once.
But yeah, I can totally bring it into the shower, hur.
Test week shot
Just one picture from a test week. You can't bring anything 
but two pencils and an eraser into the class when doing the tests, so all the bags had to be left outside.
but two pencils and an eraser into the class when doing the tests, so all the bags had to be left outside.....English.
Click at your own risk.
I think I've said this before, but Anna sometimes writes on this blackboard in the hall, like an English question or something, and then you can write back in English if you want, anonymously.
I think some of the sports class guys came by or something here, after watching Terminator 4, apparently..
I think some of the sports class guys came by or something here, after watching Terminator 4, apparently..
Shakou is the name of my school, well, shortened up. Taisha koukou.
Shoop da BOOM
Fireworks!! I went with Nyuu and my contact person to Matsue, biggest city in my prefecture, to see this "fireflower" festival.
Camera's getting shittier I think. Sorry about that. Meh, looks good from afar.
"The Quest"
And now for what you all have been waiting for..
And now for what you all have been waiting for..
Stuff about girls, love, etc.
It started out as "getting that girl", but I guess it's become something like "getting -a- girl" now, lol, or, "getting the right girl", maybe. Anywho, my netfriends just refer it to as "the quest" now.
"How goes the quest?"
I keep picking up new "objectives", though.. although in the end, I can only go with one..
This is still -in the works-, but I can tell you that I've:Given a letter
Received a letter
Failed miserably during a confrontation
Caught a gilded butterfly
Received a love confession
And I'm meeting with a potential.. goal, on September 20th.
Also, don't read into that list too much. There's more than one person involved there.
Yes, the girl with the hairband, Sayaka, is in there.
Have some teaser pictures of my butterfly. Lower; Center.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Zeta Insert
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. And yes, Zeta's a Greek letter.
Hey everyone, I realize I'm a bit behind with various things, but it's been a HELLA 
busy week. It's not been too smooth, either, with the heat, tests, late schedules, surprise schedules, forgetting birthdays and other important things.
And, I don't know if this counts as a present, but since it was father's day today, I went to buy something in town with Nyuu, and came home with a microphone. So now you can call me on
Skype if you want dad, or if I'm not around, send me an email saying you want to talk, I promise I won't get mad. This counts for mom and Alek too, of course. But happy father's day.
Yeah, these pictures are rather hard to arrange, but hey, at least they're pretty. It'll be better when there's more text here.
Things to come:
More lifeslices, including LOVE DRAMA!, upperclassmen versus lowerclassmen, sports test, encounter with Miles, the humidity & heat of Japan's 
summer, speech contest results and aftermath, and some stuff about a certain book that's going around in my class.
WOOAAH.
Now on to what you've been waiting for, new lifeslices!!
My own personal stalker
This isn't as bad as you would think. Let me start from the beginning.
Wednesday, 24th of June.
In "geijutsu", you can pick between three classes. Art, music or calligraphy. I tried music, then, art, then calligraphy, and settled on the latter in the end. So, calligraphy had just ended, and I was heading back to the classroom with Yuusuke. He asks, "So, anything interesting happened lately?" "Wellllll..... Not.. really, I guess. Maybe.. 1-6." "1-6? Class 1-6?" "Yeah. Lots of interesting stuff there. Heh heh." "Ah, haha. Show me some time."
As we approach the classroom, I notice Moe and Saki giving me some strange looks, like they'd read and understood the notes I did on them in my little black book. I slump down on my chair, and.. What the hell.
On my desk is a small brown paper box, about the size of a Coke bottle. On the top of it, written with a black marker, "Fuu-chan, look inside". My hands started shaking. What the heck is this, a bomb? Gah. I quickly peel the finely folded brown pieces of paper apart, and out falls an even more finely folded green crane, in what seems to be a yellow nest.
I frantically searched every corner of the papers, but there was no name or anything else written.
Now, in Japan, when you say people's names, depending on how well you know them, you must add a specific prefix to the end of their name. The most common are -san, -kun and -chan.
I am generally known as "Fuu-kun" or "Furederikku" to the students and teachers of Taisha High School. Even at the Opening Ceremony back in March, the principal told everyone to call me "Fuu-kun" at my own request.
-san is the most default of the three, and is any gender. You use it for basically anyone you aren't friends with yet.
-kun is mostly used for boys, but some cases also used for girls.
-chan is pretty much only for girls, pets and small kids. Or, someone you have affection for. Parents to their children is okay though, for example, my host parents call me Fuu-chan.
(When you're good enough friends with someone, you can let off the prefixes completely. I do this to pretty much everyone my age, and they don't mind because I'm a foreigner. Kind of funny how the other boys address the girls by "lastname-san", and I casually call them by their first name)
This is what puzzled me the most. I showed it to Yuusuke, and he just spoke my thoughts out loud, "Someone has interest."
So I became a temporary detective. First, asked around the boys in my class. "Hey.. You seen that? Did you see who dropped it off?" "Oh, no.. Hey, those papers.." *He pulls out a wad of similar-looking colored pieces of papers from his pocket* "!!" "I got it from Yoshida-kun, over there. You want it?" "Nah, it's okay..."
"Hey Yoshida, where'd you get those papers?" "Oh, from art class. We did origami today." "I see.. Do you know who made that?" "Hmm, Agou-kun made a box of paper I remember." "Okay, thanks."
"Agou-kun, did you make that?" "Oh, no, mine wasn't brown, and I didn't bring it." "Kay."
Darn it. Anyway, now I know that it's someone who did art, today. I found my classmate list and checked what classes they did in geijutsu. 11 people in art.
5 boys, Yoshida, Agou, Kento, Maruta and Isoyuu.
6 girls, Nagaoka Saki, Naitou Natsuko, Murakami Mai, Kisaka Manami, Notsu Aoi and Akiyama Akane.
Out of the remaining boys I hadn't asked, I was pretty sure it wasn't a prank of some sort. Kento'd do something like this, but if it was supposed to look like a girl's, he'd at least drawn a heart.
Saki and Manami are among my favorites in class, though. But I wouldn't know if the 4 others, who I rarely talk to, have interest or something.. It's a mystery.
I took the piece of brown paper that had the message on it, and wrote back: "Thanks for the trane, you're very good at origami. But, who are you?", and left it on my table.
Do follow.
GIMME DAT
The other day after PE, we were changing back into our uniforms in the classroom. It was hitting 30 degrees C, and we were burning up. Suddenly, Kento, the semi-crazy basketball guy in my class, shouts out "Hey, look! Hey you, wait!"
Apparently some lowerclassmen went by our classroom with a drink in their hands that Kento liked. So, he does how a 'senpai' should do, and "asks" if he can have some. He drank it all.
Zoomboy
Two weeks ago, we did the rest of the sports test outside. 50m sprint and volleyball toss.
It was 2-7 and 2-6 together, and first up were the boys' sprint.
So, 50 meter sprint, and the time's going around 7.0 seconds to 7.8 for the other class. That's pretty fast.. Adrenaline was building up in my body. Back in my old school in Denmark, I was outrun by no one.
You had to pair up with the person alphabetically before you, and run together. However, the boys in my class are unequal, and I'm the alphabetically last.
"Don't worry! I'll run with you!" says the biggest, coolest, craziest and friendliest guy in the class, Yuuji. Oh, man.
"Now we'll see how fast Danish legs are!" "Show us some of that Fu-power!" "Denmark-kenpou's secret running style!"
Don't get your hopes up.
Or what.
"GO!"
...
*Woah, this feels great. I haven't run at full power for a looong time.*
Aaand goal! 6.9 seconds! Awesome! Yuuji behind by 7.1. Best in the class, but the top score in school was apparently 6.4.
Then, the volleyball toss. That wasn't anything special, because there was extremely limited run-up space, so no one got it further than 30ish meters.
Close encounters of the Second Kind
I've recently been getting calls from none other than Miles, the German boy who was here in Izumo as an exchange student last year.
We've had long conversations, without really thinking about who's gonna pay the phone fee - it feels great to talk to someone who's experienced the exact same stuff that you're going through.
So HUMID you could DROWN by BREATHING
So HOT that MEGAN FOX compared is DRY ICE
Picture related.
Hubba hubba Transformers 2
But seriously, heat's hitting above 30 degrees C here. Damn nice to have coolers in the classroom though.
"I have a dream!"
A few weeks ago, I attended an English speech contest in a place called Oda. My full speech can be found here: http://freetexthost.com/3uaffdxpr2
It was a bit too long though, so I didn't manage to memorize all of it, and as thus got a 2nd place for, well, not memorizing it, lol
I went with only one other guy from my school, Yuta Ito, a guy of.. 2-1, if I remember correctly. Really nice chap, albeit a tad shy when it comes to doing AWESOME poses in front of a camera
It took a good while to get to the place from my school, but there were an unexpected amount of familiar faces when we arrived - namely students that'd also participated in CHESS.
It was quite cozy as we were all preparing our speeches, there were two groups, 3 and 5-minute speeches. The 5-minute winners go on to a national comp., while the 3-minuters are pretty much just doing this for fun. I was in the 3-minute group.
Yuta is in the tennis club, and met some teacher who wanted to teach him some tricks. That got us around the school a bit. I felt choked by the stares of some of the more serious yankees the school had (No rules about hair and accessories). That reminds me I need to add a new type of yankee to that list..
..Argh it's too hot to write this in detail, and I want to write about more interesting drama stuff. Here's a picture. Be happy.
Insert thoughts here
I don't know how many schools does this, but in Taisha, there's this notebook the teacher passes around to the students alphabetically every day. The students then write in the book what has happened that day for them, and how they feel, etc. I guess it's a way of 'checking up' on how students feel, although everyone can look in it, any time.
It's been around me once, and I did my best to write how I felt, with my poor, poor Japanese at that time. Also got a look in the other students' heads, to an extent.. I checked the dates, and tried to find the day where I ran into the net in the first PE lesson, and the day where I brought Danish candy along to school, and bingo.
Even better, the two who wrote about those things were some of my favorite girls, Moe Iwanari and Manami Kisaka~
From Moe, it went something along the lines of: "Today, Fuu-kun got tangled up in the net in the gym hall. Taketani-sensei couldn't stop laughing the rest of the lesson."
And from Manami: "Today, Fuu-kun had brought some Danish candy to school. It was like gummy, but in strange colors, there was black too. It tasted wonderful. *laugh*"
Edit: 3/9
Oh, wow. Hey, people. I'm.. late, lol soz don whine k? iz mah site poot
Poor Yomota
During the sports test, we did some volleyball shots to waste time in the gym hall. There was a net set up already, so the boys split up in two teams, on each side, and took turns doing serves.
Yomota, the short, not-too-popular, curly-haired boy in my class had an injured leg, so he was sitting it out in the corner.
When I did my serve (I miss often, because I hit too hard), it flew over the net as expected, but headed straight for Yomota in the corner - bam, and hit the wall behind him.
You know the cold feeling around your heart when like, someone discovered your grave personal secret? I had that same feeling right there for a moment, but whew.
The other guys were going "Daamn! Close!!" though, heh. Yomota's a good guy though, he has personality. dw
Greenpeas/ce
Back in the first few weeks of school, I went around and asked people in my class what they liked and hated.
Yuusuke, currently a very good friend of mine, told me he hated "guriinpiisu", as they pronounce it. "Wtf, why" I thought, "don't they save turtles and icebergs and stuff? Aren't they good guys?"
Apparently, as I found out recently, it wasn't Greenpeace, but green peas.
Reminds me of when I was asked in Hiroshima, "Watto isu piisu tu yuu?" (say it out loud), "Small, green, and give lots of stomach air."
Train Woman
Recently... Well, since I started riding the train to school instead of biking, there's been this... strange... weird.. disgusting, not to mention annoying woman riding it.
Forgive my language, but she looks like a drug wh***, dirty hair, dirty clothes, around her 30ies, 140cmish in height, and eyes like freaking millwheels.
And she likes me. And how, ergh. Everytime she gets on the train (I'm always sitting alone in the train when everyone comes in, from where I get on you have to change trains you see), it feels like she's gonna burn a hole in me.
Managed to ignore her up until now, but now she's been asking if it's okay if she can sit next to me... shit.
Damn it, why do I always get the strange chicks.
BONUS: The Wikipedia game
Credit to Taisa for showing me this.
On Wikipedia, if you click "Random article" in the left upper side, it is guaranteed that you can in 5 clicks or less, from any article, get to Adolf Hitler.
How you do it is, well, you click Random article, and get a random article. Then, from clicking links inside that article, marked with blue, you advance on to other articles, and by clicking 5 times or less, you WILL get to Adolf Hitler.
Try it.
Hey everyone, I realize I'm a bit behind with various things, but it's been a HELLA 
busy week. It's not been too smooth, either, with the heat, tests, late schedules, surprise schedules, forgetting birthdays and other important things.So first off, a present for my brother, wh
o turned .......... 21, this Saturday. He asked if I could put the pictures in the side bar up so that they could be enlargened, so this is the least I can do as a present right now. Here you go, bro. Happy birthday.
o turned .......... 21, this Saturday. He asked if I could put the pictures in the side bar up so that they could be enlargened, so this is the least I can do as a present right now. Here you go, bro. Happy birthday.And, I don't know if this counts as a present, but since it was father's day today, I went to buy something in town with Nyuu, and came home with a microphone. So now you can call me on
Skype if you want dad, or if I'm not around, send me an email saying you want to talk, I promise I won't get mad. This counts for mom and Alek too, of course. But happy father's day.
summer, speech contest results and aftermath, and some stuff about a certain book that's going around in my class.CHESS post written in detail.
Pictures I haven't gotten around to taking or putting up, including the black book, CHESS pictures, and more.
See you in a few.
Oh, and
HEY JERKWAD
Sorry! Sorry, I just needed all of you skimmers' attention. Okay, now that I have your attention, please read carefully. See, in the right side of this blog is a bunch of text, what I want you to look carefully at, is the "added stuff" titled part, in red. Here, I put every sing
le update I've done to this blog, so this means that not all new stuff appears at the top!! I may likely just edit an older one, for example add a lifeslice, and then write in the side that I added it. Cap
isca?
A good system is only good when everyone knows how to follow it. I don't like adding a whole new post for just a few things, this post will be changed into a lifeslice post when I get breathing space to work.
le update I've done to this blog, so this means that not all new stuff appears at the top!! I may likely just edit an older one, for example add a lifeslice, and then write in the side that I added it. Cap
isca?A good system is only good when everyone knows how to follow it. I don't like adding a whole new post for just a few things, this post will be changed into a lifeslice post when I get breathing space to work.
EDIT: 25/6
Hey hey! I'm back, today's no school, so I can write a bit. First off, a special someone who's taught me how to get any person in school to laugh. Woah, woah. Woaaah. WHAAAT?? *Pbblt*
WOOAAH.
Now on to what you've been waiting for, new lifeslices!!
My own personal stalker
This isn't as bad as you would think. Let me start from the beginning.
Wednesday, 24th of June.
In "geijutsu", you can pick between three classes. Art, music or calligraphy. I tried music, then, art, then calligraphy, and settled on the latter in the end. So, calligraphy had just ended, and I was heading back to the classroom with Yuusuke. He asks, "So, anything interesting happened lately?" "Wellllll..... Not.. really, I guess. Maybe.. 1-6." "1-6? Class 1-6?" "Yeah. Lots of interesting stuff there. Heh heh." "Ah, haha. Show me some time."
As we approach the classroom, I notice Moe and Saki giving me some strange looks, like they'd read and understood the notes I did on them in my little black book. I slump down on my chair, and.. What the hell.
On my desk is a small brown paper box, about the size of a Coke bottle. On the top of it, written with a black marker, "Fuu-chan, look inside". My hands started shaking. What the heck is this, a bomb? Gah. I quickly peel the finely folded brown pieces of paper apart, and out falls an even more finely folded green crane, in what seems to be a yellow nest.
I frantically searched every corner of the papers, but there was no name or anything else written.
Now, in Japan, when you say people's names, depending on how well you know them, you must add a specific prefix to the end of their name. The most common are -san, -kun and -chan.
I am generally known as "Fuu-kun" or "Furederikku" to the students and teachers of Taisha High School. Even at the Opening Ceremony back in March, the principal told everyone to call me "Fuu-kun" at my own request.
-san is the most default of the three, and is any gender. You use it for basically anyone you aren't friends with yet.
-kun is mostly used for boys, but some cases also used for girls.
-chan is pretty much only for girls, pets and small kids. Or, someone you have affection for. Parents to their children is okay though, for example, my host parents call me Fuu-chan.
(When you're good enough friends with someone, you can let off the prefixes completely. I do this to pretty much everyone my age, and they don't mind because I'm a foreigner. Kind of funny how the other boys address the girls by "lastname-san", and I casually call them by their first name)
This is what puzzled me the most. I showed it to Yuusuke, and he just spoke my thoughts out loud, "Someone has interest."
So I became a temporary detective. First, asked around the boys in my class. "Hey.. You seen that? Did you see who dropped it off?" "Oh, no.. Hey, those papers.." *He pulls out a wad of similar-looking colored pieces of papers from his pocket* "!!" "I got it from Yoshida-kun, over there. You want it?" "Nah, it's okay..."
"Hey Yoshida, where'd you get those papers?" "Oh, from art class. We did origami today." "I see.. Do you know who made that?" "Hmm, Agou-kun made a box of paper I remember." "Okay, thanks."
"Agou-kun, did you make that?" "Oh, no, mine wasn't brown, and I didn't bring it." "Kay."
Darn it. Anyway, now I know that it's someone who did art, today. I found my classmate list and checked what classes they did in geijutsu. 11 people in art.
5 boys, Yoshida, Agou, Kento, Maruta and Isoyuu.
6 girls, Nagaoka Saki, Naitou Natsuko, Murakami Mai, Kisaka Manami, Notsu Aoi and Akiyama Akane.
Out of the remaining boys I hadn't asked, I was pretty sure it wasn't a prank of some sort. Kento'd do something like this, but if it was supposed to look like a girl's, he'd at least drawn a heart.
Saki and Manami are among my favorites in class, though. But I wouldn't know if the 4 others, who I rarely talk to, have interest or something.. It's a mystery.
I took the piece of brown paper that had the message on it, and wrote back: "Thanks for the trane, you're very good at origami. But, who are you?", and left it on my table.
Do follow.
GIMME DAT
The other day after PE, we were changing back into our uniforms in the classroom. It was hitting 30 degrees C, and we were burning up. Suddenly, Kento, the semi-crazy basketball guy in my class, shouts out "Hey, look! Hey you, wait!"
Apparently some lowerclassmen went by our classroom with a drink in their hands that Kento liked. So, he does how a 'senpai' should do, and "asks" if he can have some. He drank it all.
Zoomboy
Two weeks ago, we did the rest of the sports test outside. 50m sprint and volleyball toss.
It was 2-7 and 2-6 together, and first up were the boys' sprint.
So, 50 meter sprint, and the time's going around 7.0 seconds to 7.8 for the other class. That's pretty fast.. Adrenaline was building up in my body. Back in my old school in Denmark, I was outrun by no one.
You had to pair up with the person alphabetically before you, and run together. However, the boys in my class are unequal, and I'm the alphabetically last.
"Don't worry! I'll run with you!" says the biggest, coolest, craziest and friendliest guy in the class, Yuuji. Oh, man.
"Now we'll see how fast Danish legs are!" "Show us some of that Fu-power!" "Denmark-kenpou's secret running style!"
Don't get your hopes up.
Or what.
"GO!"
...
*Woah, this feels great. I haven't run at full power for a looong time.*
Aaand goal! 6.9 seconds! Awesome! Yuuji behind by 7.1. Best in the class, but the top score in school was apparently 6.4.
Then, the volleyball toss. That wasn't anything special, because there was extremely limited run-up space, so no one got it further than 30ish meters.
Close encounters of the Second Kind
I've recently been getting calls from none other than Miles, the German boy who was here in Izumo as an exchange student last year.
We've had long conversations, without really thinking about who's gonna pay the phone fee - it feels great to talk to someone who's experienced the exact same stuff that you're going through.
So HUMID you could DROWN by BREATHING
So HOT that MEGAN FOX compared is DRY ICE
Picture related.
Hubba hubba Transformers 2
But seriously, heat's hitting above 30 degrees C here. Damn nice to have coolers in the classroom though.
"I have a dream!"
A few weeks ago, I attended an English speech contest in a place called Oda. My full speech can be found here: http://freetexthost.com/3uaffdxpr2
It was a bit too long though, so I didn't manage to memorize all of it, and as thus got a 2nd place for, well, not memorizing it, lol
I went with only one other guy from my school, Yuta Ito, a guy of.. 2-1, if I remember correctly. Really nice chap, albeit a tad shy when it comes to doing AWESOME poses in front of a camera
It took a good while to get to the place from my school, but there were an unexpected amount of familiar faces when we arrived - namely students that'd also participated in CHESS.
It was quite cozy as we were all preparing our speeches, there were two groups, 3 and 5-minute speeches. The 5-minute winners go on to a national comp., while the 3-minuters are pretty much just doing this for fun. I was in the 3-minute group.
Yuta is in the tennis club, and met some teacher who wanted to teach him some tricks. That got us around the school a bit. I felt choked by the stares of some of the more serious yankees the school had (No rules about hair and accessories). That reminds me I need to add a new type of yankee to that list..
..Argh it's too hot to write this in detail, and I want to write about more interesting drama stuff. Here's a picture. Be happy.
Insert thoughts here
I don't know how many schools does this, but in Taisha, there's this notebook the teacher passes around to the students alphabetically every day. The students then write in the book what has happened that day for them, and how they feel, etc. I guess it's a way of 'checking up' on how students feel, although everyone can look in it, any time.
It's been around me once, and I did my best to write how I felt, with my poor, poor Japanese at that time. Also got a look in the other students' heads, to an extent.. I checked the dates, and tried to find the day where I ran into the net in the first PE lesson, and the day where I brought Danish candy along to school, and bingo.
Even better, the two who wrote about those things were some of my favorite girls, Moe Iwanari and Manami Kisaka~
From Moe, it went something along the lines of: "Today, Fuu-kun got tangled up in the net in the gym hall. Taketani-sensei couldn't stop laughing the rest of the lesson."
And from Manami: "Today, Fuu-kun had brought some Danish candy to school. It was like gummy, but in strange colors, there was black too. It tasted wonderful. *laugh*"
Edit: 3/9
Oh, wow. Hey, people. I'm.. late, lol soz don whine k? iz mah site poot
Poor Yomota
During the sports test, we did some volleyball shots to waste time in the gym hall. There was a net set up already, so the boys split up in two teams, on each side, and took turns doing serves.
Yomota, the short, not-too-popular, curly-haired boy in my class had an injured leg, so he was sitting it out in the corner.
When I did my serve (I miss often, because I hit too hard), it flew over the net as expected, but headed straight for Yomota in the corner - bam, and hit the wall behind him.
You know the cold feeling around your heart when like, someone discovered your grave personal secret? I had that same feeling right there for a moment, but whew.
The other guys were going "Daamn! Close!!" though, heh. Yomota's a good guy though, he has personality. dw
Greenpeas/ce
Back in the first few weeks of school, I went around and asked people in my class what they liked and hated.
Yuusuke, currently a very good friend of mine, told me he hated "guriinpiisu", as they pronounce it. "Wtf, why" I thought, "don't they save turtles and icebergs and stuff? Aren't they good guys?"
Apparently, as I found out recently, it wasn't Greenpeace, but green peas.
Reminds me of when I was asked in Hiroshima, "Watto isu piisu tu yuu?" (say it out loud), "Small, green, and give lots of stomach air."
Train Woman
Recently... Well, since I started riding the train to school instead of biking, there's been this... strange... weird.. disgusting, not to mention annoying woman riding it.
Forgive my language, but she looks like a drug wh***, dirty hair, dirty clothes, around her 30ies, 140cmish in height, and eyes like freaking millwheels.
And she likes me. And how, ergh. Everytime she gets on the train (I'm always sitting alone in the train when everyone comes in, from where I get on you have to change trains you see), it feels like she's gonna burn a hole in me.
Managed to ignore her up until now, but now she's been asking if it's okay if she can sit next to me... shit.
Damn it, why do I always get the strange chicks.
BONUS: The Wikipedia game
Credit to Taisa for showing me this.
On Wikipedia, if you click "Random article" in the left upper side, it is guaranteed that you can in 5 clicks or less, from any article, get to Adolf Hitler.
How you do it is, well, you click Random article, and get a random article. Then, from clicking links inside that article, marked with blue, you advance on to other articles, and by clicking 5 times or less, you WILL get to Adolf Hitler.
Try it.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
CHESS
This deserves a post for itself.
I'll write the actual post tomorrow, but here's a teaser picture.
I'll write the actual post tomorrow, but here's a teaser picture.
Good night!
EDIT, 21/6: Hello! As you may know, there's something called the "dark side of the moon". Well, I kind of stranded there the past week, and lost all connection to Earth until now. Hey, cut me some slack, I was tired for a bit, contest and such. Plus, the heat's going above 30C here!
Let me explain this post a bit more. CHESS stands for .... I have no idea. But the E's for English.
Basically, it's a 3-day camp where high school students go and speak English, play games, make friends and meet foreigners. I was the only exchange student there out of the 110ish people, but it was still great. I think we were like, 12 boys in total. Bahahahaha.
Anyway, yeah, you can look forwards to when I write the three days in detail here. Not an awful lot of pictures, but enough to fill out.
This post needs time and dedication, so I'll write up some lifeslices later to keep you entertained while I finish here.
Monday, June 8, 2009
One more for the bonfire
Mah camrah ees workan agen \o/
First up,
Requests
First one from my father who asked for a video of the house. Kinda became a tour of the whole place. It took a bit, so I had to make two.
They're 21-years old each, same as you Alek (My older brother), and University students in Tokyo. They came and stayed in the guest room you saw in the video above for a day, and we became good friends.
We went to Izumo City's Taisha shrine together, took some pictures, and ate
some soba (5 bowls!)
The statue in the background is Susa-no-o if I remember correctly. It made a pretty good "Promotions!" picture. Don't worry if you don't get what the hell I'm talking about. It's better if you don't.
We really liked to mess around with language while together, for example, they taught me "Kanben shitekure", which means "Cut me some slack". For some reason, it became "Cut me some cake", which made for some good random laughs.
Maybe it was the heat that day, it hit 30 if I remember correctly. This was about 3 weeks ago though, we've entered the rainy season now, so it'll be a month or two before some proper sun.
Yankees
Yankee means delinquent, and I'll do a quick explanation of different types of yankees I know.
Casual yankee: Wears shirt outside pants, blazer unbuttoned. I sometimes do this because I'm hot. (<-- Interpret whatever way you want) They're usually not 'dangerous', but just do this because their friends around them are doing it. One or two in Taisha.
Misunderstood yankee: Tall, dark, skinhead boys who simply like sports or something, and look naturally yankee. They also rarely shave, which makes them look much older. Depending on who they're with when you meet them, they may be slightly hostile. There're a few of these in Taisha, but they don't say much.
Wannabe yankee: Colored hair, really gay shoes, and lives by the rule of cool. These guys pose no threat whatsoever though, because they always hang out in corners of the school, just to look cool. I mean, wtf. l2live. There're a few in Taisha, except coloring your hair is against the rules.
Baddie yankee: The dangerous ones. These guys smash bikes with bats, skip school and hit teachers. They come in many shapes and sizes, they don't have to have their hair colored or anything. None of these in Taisha, luckily.
Lollipop yankee: This one I heard from Nyuu.
Boys who walk around with a lollipop in their mouth all the time, to look cute/cool. WTF.
I'm not sure what to think of this, but she said it's supposed to be appealing to girls, and make them look like they're smoking at the same time.
Doing it wrong, idiots, sucking on a lollipop is appealing to the wrong sex here.
Oh, and just the other day, I was stopped by police on the way home on my bike. They were apparently doing a patrol, because there's been a lot of bicycle incidents lately. I did look pretty suspicious, with iPod in my ears, unbuttoned shirt, silver necklace and a soda in my hand, though.
The triumvirate of cuteness
I only managed to get two of them on this picture.
Can you see what's up with this picture? Highlight below to find out.
In my school, there are three girls who look EXACTLY the same; they're triplets. Saki, Risa and Shiho. I didn't know until recently, when one of them walked up to me and asked "Do you know what my name is?" "Shiho" "Close!" "!?", was really cool when they all gathered together, it's soooo hard to tell them apart.
I managed to catch two of them and some of their friends on the hallway, and took a picture. They're really cute and nice. Today, I met another one of them, who also asked me her name. "Risa." "OMG YES", wuahaha, I've found that Shiho has two tiny moles on her right chin, Risa has one, and Saki has none.
Left Risa in complete bewilderment after that, as practically no one has ever been able to tell them apart.
Oh, and on the picture, if I remember right.. Left to right: Hiromi (back), Risa, Natsumi, me, Saki.
Wah, they're so funny, too. I need to go to the 3rd floor more often.
Flying things go KAMIKAZEEE
Since it's "tsuyu" right now, the rainy season, it's really, really humid. This means a LOT OF BUGS. Especially HUGE swarms of TINY flies, that fly around RIGHT in high-school-student-on-bike head-height. And if you walk into one of their hovering battalions, they'll FOLLOW you, flying into your ears, mouth, nose, eyes, clothes, and who knows where, until you leg it.
Never bike with your mouth open.
Ignorance is bliss, knowledge is power
Pick one...
Remember Sayaka-chan? The girl with the black-and-white hairband. So yeah, she's in the dance club, suits her, loads of cute girls in the dance club.
I was sitting in the classroom after school some time last week, when a girl from my class, Yuki, who's also in the dance club came in to get something, in her club uniform. I asked if she knew Sayaka-chan, and she was immediately like "You like her??", my body language kind of gave it away even though I didn't utter a word.
Next day, on the train, I greet Mao and Yuka as I always do (Left to right respectively, Yuka was the girl from the ""Embarrassment" is not a word where I come from" story in Lifeslices.). Yuka's in the dance club (Can you tell?), and she was giving me some weird eyes.
"Uh, did Yuki tell you about--"
"Yeah, she did, Sayaka-chan's cute, right?"
"Ahehehe.. How many are you in the dance club again?"
"50ish."
"Oh, man."
Skip to last Friday, after school. School ended early, but I was going somewhere, so I was still hanging around. Sitting in the classroom, listening to my iPod, I hear someone coming.
5-6 of the dance club girls go walking by the classroom in a little group. I know most of them well, so I wave to them, Yuki was in the front.
I could see there was somebody trying to hide behind her back, and what's that.. a .. black and white hairband...
The other girls were pushing her forwards, going "Say hi, say hi!", but she was holding on to her wall with an iron grip. They disappeared before I managed to catch what the hell was actually going on, but I can't quite decipher if that was a good or bad sign..
I haven't seen her since then, except for a show that the dance club did for the school. They were going to a competition, and to score some points, I told them that they'd definitely win with that stuff. They did! Bonus points.
See, this is called a "ca-me-ra".
Look at that picture. "Learn how to use a computer". This is making me nerdrage. It's "Useful expressions" for some English homework about what you're going to do in the summer/fall/winter vacation.
I admit I know that at least half of my classmates have never been on the Internet before, but wagh, this place might be more countryside than what I've been thinking.
Ninja bugs
This mother****er is a giant wood spider. Menacing, right? Yeah, these things are everywhere. And they're BIIIG.
Okay, last.. Sunday, was it. Going up to my room to sleeep. I didn't make my bed that morning, couldn't be arsed, so the sheets were lying a bit over the edge, onto the floor.
As I lift the sheets, a 10ish centimeter long, black and red-legged centipede is lying right there, on the floor, was probably getting all cozy under my sheets. If you scroll down, there's a picture in Addition of the exact same type of centipede.
So, my "LEG IT" instincts kicked in at first, but I saw that it wasn't really moving, so I carefully picked it up with two pencils, and dropped it into a plastic bag. Still wasn't moving a lot by then. So, picked up a bug spray, and sprayed its face in, and closed the bag. THEN it started moving, a lot. Went still a bit after though. Went downstairs to flush it out in the toilet.
Area clear.
I didn't sleep a lot that night though, if you've watched the house tour video, then it -shouldn't- be easy for anything to get in to my room. It's the second floor, gosh.. Friggin' things.
Next morning, going to school. Remember to shake my shoes upside-down well, in case of any more crazy insects. Get out my bike, jump on, s- hold on, something pricked my left palm. I look at it, and there's a tiny red mark that's getting itchy. "Wtf? A bee or something? Better get something from my dad on this, it could be bad.."
It's been a week now, and the mark's still there. It's not a mosquito, because I felt some -thing- in my hand before it bit/stung me. There was some spiderweb on my bike's handle I noticed, and those giant wood spiders are everywhere. It was also pretty numb and red for a while, but it didn't get swollen. Checked Wikipedia:
"The venom of the golden silk orb-weaver is potent, but not lethal to humans. Its venom is a neurotoxin similar to that of the black widow spider; however, its venom is not nearly as powerful. Its bite causes local pain, redness, and blisters, but these symptoms usually disappear within a day (though the bite mark may leave a scar)."
****ing A! I was lucky! Well, if it was that spider. Could have been a beetle or something too, but do they have poison like this?
Skip more! Last Friday, returning home late, and there's one more damn centipede in the shoe area. "Eat this!" *steps on head*, the thing then proceeds to spasm violently all over the place, which shocked me quite a bit. Kicked it outside and closed the door.
Should have brought the "1-second centipede killer" spray and tested it.
Mr. Spokesman
Last week, we had an assignment to pick a topic about some thing we liked, and talk about it, while showing illustrations. The idea was that we kind of had to "sell it", as Anna put it.
2 minutes, and it was in Japanese. Uwah. I kind of forgot about it until the day before deadline, but managed to get some good stuff together about digital cameras. Anna helped me translate it, and it turned out quite well.
Quick summary: First off, why I picked this topic. "As an exchange student, documenting my experiences is an important thing, especially if I want to show it to others. And there's no easier way than using a digital camera."
Then, I put the camera itself on the projector so it was shown on a large screen in front of my class. I pointed to its various buttons and such, explaining what was what.
Then, the main part. I took out the 3x2cm 3GB memory card, and put it on the projector. "This thing can hold more than 700 pieces of A3-size high quality pictures." Where to buy, its weight, price, etc. Then, compared it to an "instant/one time camera" with 50ish A5 pictures, which costs about half of a memory card.
First up,
Requests
First one from my father who asked for a video of the house. Kinda became a tour of the whole place. It took a bit, so I had to make two.
Second from my good English Internet friend, Lol. Hi Lol! He asked for pi
ctures of the nearest town, because I said I lived "very countryside", however, Izumo City is like, a city, but with a lot of ricefields in between every house.
Plus, the houses are old, and half of the people living here are farmers, but it's no more than 30 minutes biking until the nearest gigantic shopping mall.
So instead, a picture of how secluded my house is. This one hasn't had its quality bisected, so you can see it in full detail.
See the white "roof" thing right in the middle? That's the clinic.
Cut me some cake
They're 21-years old each, same as you Alek (My older brother), and University students in Tokyo. They came and stayed in the guest room you saw in the video above for a day, and we became good friends.
We went to Izumo City's Taisha shrine together, took some pictures, and ate
some soba (5 bowls!)The statue in the background is Susa-no-o if I remember correctly. It made a pretty good "Promotions!" picture. Don't worry if you don't get what the hell I'm talking about. It's better if you don't.
We really liked to mess around with language while together, for example, they taught me "Kanben shitekure", which means "Cut me some slack". For some reason, it became "Cut me some cake", which made for some good random laughs.
Maybe it was the heat that day, it hit 30 if I remember correctly. This was about 3 weeks ago though, we've entered the rainy season now, so it'll be a month or two before some proper sun.
Yankees
Yankee means delinquent, and I'll do a quick explanation of different types of yankees I know.
Casual yankee: Wears shirt outside pants, blazer unbuttoned. I sometimes do this because I'm hot. (<-- Interpret whatever way you want) They're usually not 'dangerous', but just do this because their friends around them are doing it. One or two in Taisha.
Misunderstood yankee: Tall, dark, skinhead boys who simply like sports or something, and look naturally yankee. They also rarely shave, which makes them look much older. Depending on who they're with when you meet them, they may be slightly hostile. There're a few of these in Taisha, but they don't say much.
Wannabe yankee: Colored hair, really gay shoes, and lives by the rule of cool. These guys pose no threat whatsoever though, because they always hang out in corners of the school, just to look cool. I mean, wtf. l2live. There're a few in Taisha, except coloring your hair is against the rules.
Baddie yankee: The dangerous ones. These guys smash bikes with bats, skip school and hit teachers. They come in many shapes and sizes, they don't have to have their hair colored or anything. None of these in Taisha, luckily.
Lollipop yankee: This one I heard from Nyuu.
Boys who walk around with a lollipop in their mouth all the time, to look cute/cool. WTF.
I'm not sure what to think of this, but she said it's supposed to be appealing to girls, and make them look like they're smoking at the same time.
Doing it wrong, idiots, sucking on a lollipop is appealing to the wrong sex here.
Oh, and just the other day, I was stopped by police on the way home on my bike. They were apparently doing a patrol, because there's been a lot of bicycle incidents lately. I did look pretty suspicious, with iPod in my ears, unbuttoned shirt, silver necklace and a soda in my hand, though.
The triumvirate of cuteness
I only managed to get two of them on this picture.
Can you see what's up with this picture? Highlight below to find out.
In my school, there are three girls who look EXACTLY the same; they're triplets. Saki, Risa and Shiho. I didn't know until recently, when one of them walked up to me and asked "Do you know what my name is?" "Shiho" "Close!" "!?", was really cool when they all gathered together, it's soooo hard to tell them apart.
I managed to catch two of them and some of their friends on the hallway, and took a picture. They're really cute and nice. Today, I met another one of them, who also asked me her name. "Risa." "OMG YES", wuahaha, I've found that Shiho has two tiny moles on her right chin, Risa has one, and Saki has none.
Left Risa in complete bewilderment after that, as practically no one has ever been able to tell them apart.
Oh, and on the picture, if I remember right.. Left to right: Hiromi (back), Risa, Natsumi, me, Saki.
Wah, they're so funny, too. I need to go to the 3rd floor more often.
Flying things go KAMIKAZEEE
Since it's "tsuyu" right now, the rainy season, it's really, really humid. This means a LOT OF BUGS. Especially HUGE swarms of TINY flies, that fly around RIGHT in high-school-student-on-bike head-height. And if you walk into one of their hovering battalions, they'll FOLLOW you, flying into your ears, mouth, nose, eyes, clothes, and who knows where, until you leg it.
Never bike with your mouth open.
Ignorance is bliss, knowledge is power
Pick one...
Remember Sayaka-chan? The girl with the black-and-white hairband. So yeah, she's in the dance club, suits her, loads of cute girls in the dance club.
I was sitting in the classroom after school some time last week, when a girl from my class, Yuki, who's also in the dance club came in to get something, in her club uniform. I asked if she knew Sayaka-chan, and she was immediately like "You like her??", my body language kind of gave it away even though I didn't utter a word.
Next day, on the train, I greet Mao and Yuka as I always do (Left to right respectively, Yuka was the girl from the ""Embarrassment" is not a word where I come from" story in Lifeslices.). Yuka's in the dance club (Can you tell?), and she was giving me some weird eyes.
"Uh, did Yuki tell you about--"
"Yeah, she did, Sayaka-chan's cute, right?"
"Ahehehe.. How many are you in the dance club again?"
"50ish."
"Oh, man."
Skip to last Friday, after school. School ended early, but I was going somewhere, so I was still hanging around. Sitting in the classroom, listening to my iPod, I hear someone coming.
5-6 of the dance club girls go walking by the classroom in a little group. I know most of them well, so I wave to them, Yuki was in the front.
I could see there was somebody trying to hide behind her back, and what's that.. a .. black and white hairband...
The other girls were pushing her forwards, going "Say hi, say hi!", but she was holding on to her wall with an iron grip. They disappeared before I managed to catch what the hell was actually going on, but I can't quite decipher if that was a good or bad sign..
I haven't seen her since then, except for a show that the dance club did for the school. They were going to a competition, and to score some points, I told them that they'd definitely win with that stuff. They did! Bonus points.
See, this is called a "ca-me-ra".
Look at that picture. "Learn how to use a computer". This is making me nerdrage. It's "Useful expressions" for some English homework about what you're going to do in the summer/fall/winter vacation.
I admit I know that at least half of my classmates have never been on the Internet before, but wagh, this place might be more countryside than what I've been thinking.
Ninja bugs
This mother****er is a giant wood spider. Menacing, right? Yeah, these things are everywhere. And they're BIIIG.
Okay, last.. Sunday, was it. Going up to my room to sleeep. I didn't make my bed that morning, couldn't be arsed, so the sheets were lying a bit over the edge, onto the floor.
As I lift the sheets, a 10ish centimeter long, black and red-legged centipede is lying right there, on the floor, was probably getting all cozy under my sheets. If you scroll down, there's a picture in Addition of the exact same type of centipede.
So, my "LEG IT" instincts kicked in at first, but I saw that it wasn't really moving, so I carefully picked it up with two pencils, and dropped it into a plastic bag. Still wasn't moving a lot by then. So, picked up a bug spray, and sprayed its face in, and closed the bag. THEN it started moving, a lot. Went still a bit after though. Went downstairs to flush it out in the toilet.
Area clear.
I didn't sleep a lot that night though, if you've watched the house tour video, then it -shouldn't- be easy for anything to get in to my room. It's the second floor, gosh.. Friggin' things.
Next morning, going to school. Remember to shake my shoes upside-down well, in case of any more crazy insects. Get out my bike, jump on, s- hold on, something pricked my left palm. I look at it, and there's a tiny red mark that's getting itchy. "Wtf? A bee or something? Better get something from my dad on this, it could be bad.."
It's been a week now, and the mark's still there. It's not a mosquito, because I felt some -thing- in my hand before it bit/stung me. There was some spiderweb on my bike's handle I noticed, and those giant wood spiders are everywhere. It was also pretty numb and red for a while, but it didn't get swollen. Checked Wikipedia:
"The venom of the golden silk orb-weaver is potent, but not lethal to humans. Its venom is a neurotoxin similar to that of the black widow spider; however, its venom is not nearly as powerful. Its bite causes local pain, redness, and blisters, but these symptoms usually disappear within a day (though the bite mark may leave a scar)."
****ing A! I was lucky! Well, if it was that spider. Could have been a beetle or something too, but do they have poison like this?
Skip more! Last Friday, returning home late, and there's one more damn centipede in the shoe area. "Eat this!" *steps on head*, the thing then proceeds to spasm violently all over the place, which shocked me quite a bit. Kicked it outside and closed the door.
Should have brought the "1-second centipede killer" spray and tested it.
Mr. Spokesman
Last week, we had an assignment to pick a topic about some thing we liked, and talk about it, while showing illustrations. The idea was that we kind of had to "sell it", as Anna put it.
2 minutes, and it was in Japanese. Uwah. I kind of forgot about it until the day before deadline, but managed to get some good stuff together about digital cameras. Anna helped me translate it, and it turned out quite well.
Quick summary: First off, why I picked this topic. "As an exchange student, documenting my experiences is an important thing, especially if I want to show it to others. And there's no easier way than using a digital camera."
Then, I put the camera itself on the projector so it was shown on a large screen in front of my class. I pointed to its various buttons and such, explaining what was what.
Then, the main part. I took out the 3x2cm 3GB memory card, and put it on the projector. "This thing can hold more than 700 pieces of A3-size high quality pictures." Where to buy, its weight, price, etc. Then, compared it to an "instant/one time camera" with 50ish A5 pictures, which costs about half of a memory card.
Went really well, because I actually managed to teach people something from "the outer world". Mostly people just talked about bands, scissors, cup ramen or football, but this new, smart technological device seemed very interesting to these countryside Japanese.
Anyway, now I've been invited by the school to go to a "speech contest" somewhere outside the city, next week. And it's in English, wahahaa. Gotta beat 'em all.
Daddy longlegs
Sports test today for the 2nd year students. Yesterday were 3rd years. First was flexibility, then length jump, squeezing power, feet maneuverability, and then endurance.
For the flexibility test, you had to sit against a wall, and push a box as far as you could, in front of you. I have really long arms, so mine got pretty far, although probably wasn't the best.
Second, length jump. THIS was fun. The boys of my class and I were kind of playing around before the actual test, because we had to wait for the other class to finish. I showed off by jump up and down, and they were quite surprised at how high I went.
Then, the real thing. Maruta, 2m 40cm. Yuuji, 2m 55cm. Yomota, 2m 25cm.
Me, 2m 73cm.
I am officially the best jumper in the SCHOOL!
Oh yeah! Moving on.
Squeezing test, had to squeeze some weird device. Normal is 35-40, 40-45 is good, and 45+ is pretty nasty. I have thin fingers, so mine only went to 42.6, while Yuuji's went all the way up to 49! He has bigass hands.
Then, feet maneuverability. Oh man, this was bad. You had to sidestep across some lines as fast as you could, for 20 seconds or so. First off, I didn't catch that I was supposed to count my partner (Yuusuke)'s steps, and when it was my turn, I was waaay behind. These poles may be big and strong, but they're impossible to coordinate. This is why I suck at football.
Then, endurance. As we entered the main gym hall, there were a long line of male students running back and forth from one end of the hall, to the other, which is like ... 20ish meters, to some bell-like tune playing. Then, I noticed the counting. "Seventy-one." .... "Seventy-two." "Oh, boy, this is gonna be a bother."
Most died off at 90, then the last 5-10 (Were about 60 to begin with) did their best to get past 100. The last two got past 120, then one died off at 140, while the final guy, Watanabe, a member of the baseball club, got to 151. That is fuggen impressive.
The tune which played in the background got increasingly faster, too, and if you didn't catch up enough, you're out. Well, you can quit any time you want, too.
So, our class's turn. "Yuusuke, let's go to 200!!" "Woah, you really set high goals, man." "That's better, because if you don't reach it, you won't be disappointed!"
Started off slowly, I was taking it easy, just biding my time until we hit the 50 mark. The tune got faster, and I always run at the same pace, so I was getting pretty tired trying to catch up. I'd taken off my glasses, and wasn't paying any attention to my surroundings, just focusing on running. I remembered there was the 50m sprint after this, so it'd be a good idea to save -some- power. I stopped around 110, after a classmate of mine did too. When I looked around, it was a battle between four football club members, two from my class, two from the other.
The others crashed at 120, but my partner, Yuusuke, managed to get to 129 alone. Afterwards, however, he discovered that his left foot's skin had been ripped off quite a bit, and his shoe was soaked in blood. It was nasty, was at least a centimeter of flesh under the dangling skin.
Then the girls went, where most stopped at 70, while the last five went up to 90, and one from my class got to 95.
Then, the sprint.. "Oh hey, it's raining, so we're saving sprint and volleball toss for next week." "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF"
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