I Found My Homework (Drats.. To Some Extent)

Yup, I went to the ILC site, and I found all my English homework there. -_- Problem is, the online course is very media heavy, and requires me to be infront of the computer(unless I print the reading materials)... something I can't do at home. Meh, I'll most likely just do as mom suggested and do it when I get home (or did I suggest it?) The site is very cool though, and paper friendly (as in you could possibly do this whole course without ever having to write anything on a piece of paper)

Well, yesterday was Wong Shuk Ting's(the exchange student's full name) last day at Fukuoka Jo. She had self study time last period, so I decided to go visit her in the library after math class. She was at the computer emailing, and I read pieces of her email and found out a little more about her host family. Her host family doesn't have any children living with them at home (they're all working or married and moved out) so she's pretty lonely at home. Having read that, I asked her if she wanted to go out somewhere with us. She said sure, but she didn't know if she had anything planned for today and when didn't know how to go anywhere, since her father drives her to and from school. I told her that when her father comes to pick her up, I can ask her father for her, since her father doesn't speak any English, and so they don't communicate at all.

On a side note, she was using the computer that I was using earlier that day, and I thought she was on MSN, but really.. it was mine (I must have forgotten to logout before running off to lunch) I went to check the messages and I got a chance to talk to my host brother (which I hadn't spoken to for a while, since I had to back away from the home computer) THE LUCKY BUM! He's already on his "summer holiday" (because its summer in Australia now) so he was online during the middle of the day. He asked how I was, said he had to go to his friends house and then left saying he'll (hopefully see me soon). Yesterday was a rather pleasant school day. Okies, we're off topic now.

Well, me and Ting went back to the classroom and I told my friends (and respectively, Ting's friends too) about how we were planning on going out somewhere together. We started planning, but we couldn't decide on a good day. Today, Ai-chan and them have to take a major English Test (which I don't) and Sunday was no good for most of them. We thought Monday after school would be a good day, since its going to be a shortened day, but then Ting told us that she was going to be moving to her next host family that morning. And so we all reluctantly decided that today after the test was the best.. and only time we could go out together before she left. (since we have no clue where she's moving to, we might not see her again after she moves) Well, off we went to see her off, and to ask her host parents if it was okay for her to go out with us. No offence to her host parents, but they scared the heck out of us. The host mom didn't seem all to pleased to hear that we wanted to go to Tenjin with Ting, but she agreed. The plan was that since I didn't have to take the test, I would go with Ting from wherever she lived to Tenjin by train. Her host mom didn't like the idea, and said that she would drive her to and from wherever we were going to meet. So we decided place and time and her host mother gave me their home number and the bunch of us hurried away in fear of them. It wasn't that they were menacing, but more like cold.. very, very cold and suspicious of us. We felt sorry for Ting. (Also, in her email, I read how her next host family has no childern living with them either)

Lol, funny side story here. (Okay, not funny, more like interesting... to me anyways) When I first talked to Ting, I asked her if she spoke Madarin or Cantonese. She said she could do both, and then I went on to explain that I could only speak Cantonese, but I could understand a little Madarin. Later during the day, I asked her why she was staying for only 3 days and she explained to me about how her exchange works and stuff. I then told her that I was also here on an exchange program, which surprised her, because she thought I was just a regular student here. I felt special. XD. I explained to her that I was from Canada, and that I had been here for 3 months already, and that because I hadn't spoken Cantonese for 3 months, i was starting to forget it. She must have thought that since I spoke semi-understandable Cantonese, and I could converese decently with the Japanese(she wouldn't know how well I actually spoke,since she doesn't have any Japanese language background) my parents must be a Japanese and someone from Hong Kong. My friends we amazed (and amused by the pronounciation of Cantonese) and they kept saying how I was so "international" because I could speak 3 languages decently well. ^.^ That was a very nice confidence boost.

Wow, today's rantage is LOOOONG. Well, we have 2 computer periods today, so I'm not crunched for time or anything. Yah.. after school today is going to be a big rush. Some girls from my host brother's school want to me meet, and so they made arrangements with my host mother to see me today after school. I feel like an exhibit or something, being shown and introduced, and having people wanting to see me. I didn't forget about this arrangement, but I really wanted to go somewhere with Ting(because she might not have a chance to go out with friends later) and it just so happened that today was the only day. I told my host mom how I was going to come home around 2pmish, meet the girls from Naoto's school at 3pm(or was it 3:30? Please let it be 3:00.) and then catch a 4:00 train to Tenjin to meet up with Ting and them. She didn't like the plan. Then she went about saying (in a"you shouldn't have made that little plan of yours to go with you friends to Tenjin so close to when you have to meet those girls" tone of voice) about how I would have to get on a local train before 4pm, because those trains turn into express trains from Chikushi Station and blah blah blah (I know what she said and everything, but its too hard to explain... that and it takes too long.) Hopefully meeting and talking to the girls won't take more than 45 minutes (I mean, what are we supposed to do anyways? Sit and have tea together, while discussing gobal politics?) I think my host mom said that she wasn't going to be there, and something about after I come back from Tenjin, should we go out for dinner or she'll buy something and me and Yoshie will eat at home. I don't know. Then there was something about calling her. O.o Confusion. Meh, I'm too hungry to care about that right now. *Stomach grumbles so loud that librarians give me a look*

Yah, you know you've been here too long when people stop asking how long you're staying and start stating how you're leaving soon. (I still have a month and a week, and they're already saying "awww, you're going to be leaving soon") Of course, a few of my closer friends are saying how I should come visit next year, and that they'll come visit me and maybe do an exchange in Canada and stay at my house. I actually like that idea quite alot.

On a quick random note.(I have to go in a bit.) Since I quit badmintion (Adam, I still get lots of excercise from the Marathon practice... that's 3km of running twice a week) my host mother heard of a kyudo(Japanese achery) club that her friend goes to. We went to visit it last Wednesday, and they said that if I want to learn, I can just pay 500yen each time I come and they'll lend me the stuff and teach me the basics. Too bad the kyudojo is in Kurume... I have to pay extra to get there by train because its not within the area that my teikiken is paid for.

Oo, bell rang, gotta go to math (which I'm proud to say, I understand most of it). Ja.