今日

I figured I should just post about my daily life, so here is my post, about what I did today :)

The other exchange student in my school, one of our school friends and one of her friends went to another school's culture festival. It was kind of boring but there was a Haunted House and it was utterly terrifying. People crawling to you on the floor, someone in a scream mask, a hockey mask and so many others. We also had to literally climb in this tunnel, lie on our stomachs and crawl through. It was made a little less scary by the fact the scary people in the haunted house (students) could tell we were foreigners and gave directions in Japanese and English, and we were kind of having a conversation with them. When I said 'please dont kill me', they laughed. And then they asked us if we were high school students, and we were like, yeah exchange students and then they recommenced being scary haha.

One thing very obvious about the culture festival was the slutting up of school uniforms. Everyone wears their school uniforms to other schools' culture festivals (no idea why) but they slut it up big time. The skirts become the kind that barely cover underwear and they tend to wearva long sweater over the top, and their shirt unbuttoned a lot lower than normal. They also tend to wear a lot of make-up.

Tangent: one thing I have noticed a lot in Japan is that SO MANY girls are fake looking. Western looking girls are always said to be cute, so Japanese girls try to make themselves look as Western as possible, but in the process, turn kind of weird. A lot of Japanese girls die their hair blonde, which can look really cute but also kind of eh. Then so many girls also use double eyelid maker glue, which involves basically gluing your eyelid up (in the process, sticking a little plastic fork looking implement above and sort of behind your eye, ick) to make double eyelids, because most Asian people have single eyelids. Also fake eyelashes, everyone uses them here. Anyway, there was a girl who ticked all the above boxes, including the uniform, at the culture festival today, which is why I thought of that. She was cute, but so so so fake.

After that we went to McDonald's for lunch and took purikura (the photobooth sticker photos). We had a scary moment coming home, the exchange student and I returned home by train together because the two Japanese girls lived in a different town. We found the platform and there was a train there so we quickly hopped on, and then saw the screen talking about going to Nagoya (about an hour away) and even as far as another prefecture (state). We freaked out but eventually figured out that it was the right train, and were very relieved, to say the least.

After that we went to my house, and my older brother's friends came over too, with plans to cream pie his face when he came home, because it was recently his birthday. We got wrapped into it too, and when he came home, used party poppers then all grabbed a plate of cream and smashed it on his face, then obviously got whipped cream on our faces as well.

So that was today :D Tomorrow I have big exciting plans to work on my Japanese speech. Yippee.