Ok, I'm sick of this country, its people and its language. I'm sick of being stared at and laughed at and misunderstood. I still don't know why I agreed to do this. At least things are better at home. I was really stressing over it. And today is Wednesday. That means I've almost finished with 2 weeks of this infernal trip. And it's finally starting to warm up. Of course, not in our classroom, but the weather is better. Which is good because I've already worn all the long sleeved shirts I brought and they're all dirty from my sweating so much. I washed on Sunday, so that means I brought, um, 3 shirts or something.
Morning was good. I got up around 6:30, got ready and my host father drove me halfway to the station. I didn't have to eat breakfast! Met other students at station and walked to school. At school, we talked about weather. At 11am break time, I bought a partial hamburger from a bakery that caters to the school. It was wrapped in a homemade bun and was about half a patty of (I guess) beef and had ketchup and lettuce. I took the lettuce off.
In the afternoon we had to go to a "special committee meeting". This is one of 3 groups which you were forced to choose on the first day of school. Mine was newspaper & album. The others were Things to do in Hakodate and something else I can't remember. Anyway, someone was elected to be group leader and then he got up and said a lot of shit I couldn't understand. Apparently, I'm to help write a newspaper article. I guess I'll find out more tomorrow when we meed with our sub-committees.
I walked to the JAL store and a very nice cute girl helped me buy a plane ticket and book a hotel room. Because I was paying with credit card, she had to walk across the strret with me and help me get the hotel room through a travel agency. I still don't know why but at least that's taken care of. My flight from Hakodate is on Aug 18 at 10am and not soon enough.
I came home and ate a bowl of frosted flakes. Now I'll do homework while their hairball cat rubs hair all over me. I could kick it out, but I'd have to close the door and then the room would be hot.
I ate a yummy dinner of tempura shrimp and vegetables. Then Hiroshi came home and I taught him more English. He found an old dictionary of English words with Japanese definitions and English phrases and spent the rest of the night reading through it and asking me questions. He is either really bored or really interested in learning English. He taught our mother some phrases too. I finally had to leave him because I have more homework to do. I had to borrow their tape player to finish. Except that I can't find the part we are supposed to be doing which is buried somewhere in these 4 cassette tapes. I'm probably going in circles because this is an old auto-reverse model and I don't understand tapes anymore since I quit using them 10 YEARS AGO.