HOT!

It`s hot. Like so hot. You have no idea. Japan isn`t hot like America. It`s hot, and HUMID. If you have fluids in your body, you are sweating. If you`re a gaijin who drinks as much water as I do, you`re drenched. If you are a gaijin who drinks to much water and you ride your bike.... Let`s just leave it at that. When I ride my bike with my glasses on, evertime I stop, they fog up. Am I making an impression?
Now, I know it`s been hot in Kansas, but in Kansas the humidity is not like this, and people use air conditioning and fans. In Japan, we open windows and use senshu, paper fans. At night, there is a fan I can turn on in my room, but when Ayumi comes in she sets the timer for about 2 hours and its off until the next night. I also don`t sleep with a sheet, I sleep with a blanket, which makes it worse T.T
Okay, so now that I have my complaining out, lets reply to comments*
JT: That totally made my day. When mom called last night, she said it made her laugh too.
Mom: You play tennis to much! XD
Molly: Yen, actually, came pretty easy. For the most part, I don`t actually use it, but when I do, it`s not to bad. Time. . . it takes me a second, but I`m getting it down!!
JT, Mom, and Molly: You three get a cookie since you always comment!!
Kayla: Don`t loose your hearing, please. It would make listening to the new TH and CB albums very hard!
Heather: Remind me to tell you about the spider incident while Ayumi and I were watching Fruits Basket. . .
Diane: I`m going to have to look into one of those DVDs.... As for the forgein DVDs, they play on computers, that`s where I watch my German imports.
And to those of you who don`t comment, please do! It really makes my day, and I do read every single one multiple times!!

Okay! So my life!
Sunday: Church..... ugh. After the sermon and sunday school, there was a really long prayer service. And of course it was in Japanese!! So to pass the time, I sat and read the Bible. Yeah. Really. I will tell you though, I now understand why the Vampires in Trinity Blood were called Methuesala. Methuesala was the longest living person in the Bible, he was 969 when he died. . .
So! After over an hour in there, we left EARLY to go to Shinjuku for a Tea Ceremony and Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement). I got to wear a yukata, which was fun, but it didn`t fit right. The tea was great, but Ikebana was confusing. I talked with a friend of mine (this was another YFU gathering) and she told how she ahd been spending way to much money. I think I might have spent over 100$... maybe. She said she had spend over 300$.... oops....
Monday, Kindergarten. 5 Junior HS girls came to work at Fujimi and so did two boys who had gone to Fujimi and then moved to Cali. They spoke English but wouldn`t really talk to me.
I talked with one of the teachers about soccer, which was great!! And the Yumiko sensei started to teach me the old names of the Japanese months. The girls in Totoro, Satsuki and Mae are named after months. Mae is obviosly May (they are said the same) cause she was named after the English month, and I think Satsuki was the oly name for May in Japanese... I don`t have the notes with me, sorry.
And today, Kindergarten again. It was the girls last day, so they gave a concert. Two clarinets, two on piano, and one on bells. Gues what they played. . . The Totoro song of course!!! あるこ　あるこ!　わたしわ　げんき!　あるこ　の　だいすき!　どんそんいこう！
Yeah. Also, yesterday at snack time, we had these icepops, and one flavor was grape. The lady who was helping out, was cutting one open and the juice splashed on my white shirt. She felt so bad about it, but being American, I was just like `no no its fine, forget it`. And so today when she came in with a gift bowing like crazy and saying I`m so sorry I was like `what?`
But she got me a really cute hankerchief and some little origami things. So now I have two hankerchiefs, one was a gift from otoosan (he got Ayu and I a pair) and then from her. See why I don`t spend any money?
Kindergarten was also only a half day today. So at 12, Ayumi and I went to a Ramen shop for lunch. It`s finals week at her school, so she only had three hours of tests today. Which reminds me of lastnight. . .oh god! So she had a geography test coming up and they were studying climate. She had all this stuff to memorize. She would walk around spouting out the most random things as she tried to memorize the material! It was so funny!!
I have some pictures. But theres a lot and I dont want to upload them right now.
Also, I wasnt a Congo African Grey Parrot.