News...

So, stuff is happening
So, as i mentioned before, they wanted to move me. Apparently someone in rotary thought i wasn'T doing so well at that families house because i kept getting sick and was kinda hiding away all the time. But i have a new family, and things are better now. I'm not so sick anymore, I spend more time with my friends from school, I'm learning more japanese becasue this family only speaks japnese with, wich is good, the last familiy always wanted to practice their english with so i never got to speak japanese. SO my new family...lives in a temple, well more accuratly, their house is attched to a temple they take care of. and my host father is a monk, and every morning he gets in his monk kimono robe and sandels and such and get on his motor scooter and rides off to run errands, it's quite an intersting sight to see.
also, the english speech contest at my school. Since i already speak english as my mother tounge i get to do a speech in japanese...fun...So i've been conduting this big survey project and such on american and japanese teens, on things like adulthood and getting a job and importance of apperence. I've gotten alot of intersting results from bolth sides, i'll put up the results in awhile. But i have to do it all in japanses, lots of difficult japanese, with lots of long words...
Also, two weeks ago we met the new exchage student from australia. Her names Katie and she pretty cool. BUt not as cool as my beloved Forest Wookie kaeti back home.
So i was gonna type something about anime and stuff but i forgot and I'm running out of time. So our school festival is coming up in April, I'm part of the cosplay exihbit, yay! i get to be cosplay nerd again! So I got stcuk with a haruhi cosplay, wich isn'T bad, actually it'S great. though this is serious buiness, each student has to spend the equivalent of $300 US on their costume, or at leats thats what the girl orgamnizing the event says...
so more stuff later. Also osaka punk spring comin' up in april, super excited for that.

A need to rant

so heres my rant
So the other day I was working on a project for the speech contest, and one of the english teachers from the U.S. at my school came and confronted me about the fact i don't spend alot of time with my clasmatess. Well, I have a private scedule, with all private classes (with the exception of art, gym, and computer graphics), so obviously i don't see them in class. And at lunch, a couple kids invited to eat a few times, but they stopped after awhile. And honestly, I find the majority of my classmates too immature and materialistic to relate with on a similar level. I don't care about the purikura you did this weeknd or the newest line of Louis Vuttion handbags. And these are the things they talk about, even amongst themsleves not just with the forien girl and her basic japanese.and for the record, i find louis vuttion's merchendise tacky and kinda ugly, and rediculously overpriced.If only i could communitcate　theses things with them with them we might have a slightly less shallow conversation...I have been studying like crazy, I can understand the television and movies, and almost all what i hear around me and what people say to me.I can read all the hira and kata and i know alot of kanji, but when it comes to actually speaking japanese...thats where i have trouble, when someone says something to me, i can'T find the words, all the japanese i learned just slips out of my mind and I can'T reply except in really broken basic sentences.I understand but I have no idea how to reply or how to say it.
I only have one friend really at school, keiko, shes really smart and speaks excellent english, and is studying swedish and a couple other laguages. shes studying to become an interprter for the U.N. Shes also way into all the same music, clothes, hobbies as me. MCR FOREVER!

So back home, apparently it'S been snowing like mad. Like 4 feet(like 120 centimeters) in the past two days. and snow days. I am super jealous, i should be up at purgatory shredding up the mountain...I miss skiing. and snow.but not shoveling it. XP
Happy Snowdown Everyone, and Happy Shoveling.
ahaha.
still the irony, the year i leave, is the year we have the first real colorado winter in 10 years, and snow days! ack!