At LAST!!

Haha so after what seems like eternity, I am finally updating. Although it's not as detailed as it could be, it's still going to be a pretty jam packed update ^__^ So to catch up, I have met with Yuko-san, who is the daughter of a good family friend. She took me to a Russian restaurant in Shinjuku, which was totally awesome!! and sooo delicious! Anyways, we took a shot of vodka together (this means that Yuko-san has jumped up on the totally awesome people list.) This Friday I will probably go see a tea ceremony at the place where she takes classes, and then Saturday morning I will take a shinkansen to Okazaki. I am so excited!... and a bit nervous. Okazaki is somewhat of a rural area where hardly anybody speaks English. This will be a true test of my Japanese speaking ability. Hehehe... oh man...

Anyways, so after that the CIEE program organized a trip to Hiroshima and Miyajima. It was a really nice all expense paid trip. Aka... thanks to all the parents who paid our tuition that allowed us to go on this trip ;P On Friday night, we took a shinkansen to Hiroshima, and the trip would have been nice except for the fact that a couple of guys thought it would be cool to pregame a shinkansen. Idiots... who the hell pregames a shinkansen? Lucky for me and my friend... they sat right next to us. The total time it takes from Tokyo to Hiroshima is about four hours. During these four hours, not once did these guys stop talking. It came to the point that other Japanese passengers were starting to complain at how loud we were. They even threatened to talk to the authority and stop the train. Oh snap... they meant business.

So after we got to Hiroshima, we went straight to our hotel. Each person had our own room (big big mistake on their part... and you will find out later as to why.) We got to Hiroshima at around midnight and had to wake up early the next day so pretty much everyone passed out right away. Me included. Unfortunately come Saturday morning, when we had to get up at like 6 or 7, I woke up at 9. Just guess as to how I was woken up.... this gets kind of amusing now that I can reflect on it several weeks later. Anyways, I was woken up by the phone in the room. The CIEE group leaders had to get the front desk to call me and wake me up because I'm such a heavy sleeper that I somehow managed to sleep through the 6 alarms that I set for myself. Yes that's right 6 alarms!! >_<