Here is Top 11:
Music: (not part of Top 11, but can be included if you wish, in number 1 of 11) With Love-Hilary Duff.
1. Singing a lot of Karaoke. That, in addition to trying to talk loud enough to be heard over the voices of six year old boys has rendered me a rough voice and most likely scarred vocal chords. For someone who thought she wasn’t going to get into the ‘karaoke scene’, she sure knows her way around a Karaoke bar (also how to get money knocked off her bill so that she’ll just leave already!).
2. Totally getting into wii scene. I am determined to own Wii. For lack of fluency in Japanese, I will not be purchasing said item in Japan.
Scene 1: It’s a rainy sunday afternoon, nothing to do, and kind of bored. Telephone my buddy Ichan (his name is actually Masatoshi, but Ichan suits him). ‘Hey Ichan, it’s Lindzy, what are you doing?’
‘Oh just hanging around my house playing Wii with some friends.’
‘Really?! Can I come over?!?!’
Reminds me of when I was seven and I’d put on my bathing suit and run over to the neighbor kids (who had a pool) and subtly ask them what they were doing for the day…
3. I find myself becoming more and more interested in languages and wondering how many I might be able to learn.
4. Becoming more interested in Leah and stories she is not telling me. So I told her the other day: ‘Re-chan, you should talk about yourself more.’
and she said:’I don’t wanna sound self-centered.’
Which got me to thinking, it seems that those with truly interesting stories are those that often hold back and don’t tell them, so that when they do, you are completly absorbed and left wanting more; (this may be a trick) whereas those with mundane, run of the mill stories never seem to shut up. It’s often those that have nothing to say that talk too much. Makes me think that they are just talking to be heard…
5. Finally forcing Leah to tell me more stories has gotten me really interested in Berlin. She spent a year there… yah she’s pretty much the coolest person I’ve met in Japan. When you meet her, ask her about Moritz Fuuk and Joker game.
6. There is this Joker game that my friends and I should start when I get home… if you’re in, let me know. Only those that are in are allowed to know about it.
7. Leah and I had to reschedule our Japanese class for a Thursday morning and I am extremely excited to not be hungover for once in class and show her that I can read faster than the pace of a four year old monkey.
8. Starting to become tired of being an outsider. (It’s blatanly obvious that I am one, so that doesn’t help). Don’t mistake this statement for ‘being tired of being noticed and gawked at’. That’s still cool.
9. Looking forward to mountain party. Also, I have started dropping particles. They are irrelavant (FYI, email is uncountable noun and therefore, you are sending email, not ‘an email’. I sent email today. Yep… I’m learning more English grammar as an English teacher than I ever did in school.)
10. Super excited (I mention it at least once a day) to see Mom and Matante Aline! Also, I have never been more excited to go on vacation. 11 more days! It sounds cliché, but damn I need a holiday.
11. Purikura. If you are interested in making a shit load of money off of the biggest spenders in North America, look into bringing Purikura into Canada. Purikura is Katana for Print Club…basically the coolest photo booth in the world, most popular among young female, Junior high students and often used by, but not limited too, couples, high school students and foreigners. This leads me to my obession with everything cute, especially notebooks and any other form of stationary with adorableness on it.
