Holy....wow. (Lotsa rain very very very suddenly)

Small school, lotsa talk.
But I'll leave that aside, not worth getting into.
Got to talk to the Mayor of Ichinomiya today, it was really fun. :) He brought a friend along and his friend told us about a fishing business he has in a nearby shopping center, and invited us to come and see it, and he would teach us how to skin these certain types of fish he sells. Maybe I'll give it a shot, who knows?
Happy Birthday to Nyssa today! We got to have cake and ice cream after our presentations, it was actually a lot of fun. We kinda 'conjumbled' all of the Sept. birthday's together, very interesting.
There wasn't a whole lot going on, I mean English was a test, hope I did something right.... :(
It used to be my best subject at Goldendale!!! Now it's almost a struggle to keep up with all the terminology they use and how to explain it in so much detail. >.< Eep.
We don't have school tomorrow, yay, so I plan on using the day to either finish homework, or find friends to go out with. Haha, probably the latter unless my family has something else planned, which they might, it's a national holiday I believe. Xenia and I started hanging out more, she may be a hermit, but she's pretty fun to be around sometimes, lol.
Most exciting part of the day, we ended up at McDonald's so Nick, Brendon, and Greg could get these Pokemon tickets to catch a Rare pokemon. Wow, the events that took place after that, Never have i seen so many men fascinated by an automatic toilet seat that'll raise and lower on it's own.
Although Ty had his disagreements with it. Don't care if I'm in Japan or greece, i still don't trust McDonald's food. i ate a chicken sandwich yesterday only because Mami-san didn't have time to make lunch and she bought it for me. (actually it was really good) but i miss Burger King's fries.... T-T Mcdonald's fries are all floppy. XP No thank you.
Lol, I know Shelby's probably reading this and I had to tell you: I bought a Soot Sprite!!! There's a Haiyao Miyazaki store in the nearest mall, so I did buy a fluffy soot sprite. X3 Hehehe, they do exist!
I think it was actually pretty neat to see how good Ty is with bike stuff, he's not so bad i guess. I have my doubts still, but hey, he's proven himself more than I give him credit for.
I want to say I'm doing well in Japanese, but it's really quite a struggle, lotsa concepts you have to keep remembering and staying on top of that are making my brain hurt. And the teacher NEVER speaks English!! I mean come on! We're beginners here!! I understand that we need to learn this stuff, but NEVER explaining things in English is a bit extreme, sure, we read the book. That's it. >( Having me repeat something over and over and NOT KNOWING what it means isn't the most helpful tactics in teaching!! I'm about ready to ask anyone if they could tutor me so I could catch up. I'm not really falling behind, I'm sorta hanging on by my fingernails, you know, gaining only a little bit of strength back each time so you can actually hold on a bit longer?? It's difficult! I understood that when I entered into this it was going to be difficult, coming from a really laid back public school, I almost feel inadequate compared to everyone else. Most of them are from Private or Boarding schools, and they're like, super smart. I was top of class in most of my classes back home, here I'm hovering at the low end near the bottom....I don't like it..I can get concepts when they're brought up, talked about, and EXPLAINED. which is why i'm doing so not-so-great in Japanese, and I fear English now as well (it's been tricky).
If she could only speak in English just to say what she means!!! *frustrated*
I had a few moments today where it really hit me to consider leaving..and just going back home. Believe me I don't want to leave!! But I have high expectations of myself, and when I can't meet those goals, I get really hard on myself, and kick myself for not doing better if i could have. You know me Shel, i got so down on myself I bit my lip until it bled to keep from crying, heck no was i going to back out of this challenge. I took this, and I promised myself I would go through it no matter what. You won't believe what actually drove me back to my determination. I actually started (no joke) thinking about what Bobby Koffler would have said if I came back early. Not kidding. My fear over his gossip, XD I have no idea but somehow that did it and i pulled myself together again. Go figure. Something as small as that.
Once I started thinking again, it hit me how many people helped me get to here. All of my family, my friends, Ayutla's, my nieghbors, my teachers. The whole gang back home, Asa and Kody, Jake, Keshia, Keiko, I wish I could list all of you! Everyone who's reading this I'm positive has helped me in one way or another. Thanks, I can't really say that enough, but thank you. I'm putting in my all for this, and I'm going to make the best of it that I can. I got a fresh start at things, sure I'll make mistakes, but I can already change from the ones I've made in the past that don't exist here. :) Mom and Dad especially, I love you both so much and couldn't have done this without your support and help. Everything you've taught me seems to be extrememly useful at this point in time. Manners, logic, reasoning, not spending too much money. Lol. I love you both so much. <3
Oh, that reminds me: Dusty and Jeremiah, I have your presents already XD.
can't wait to here from everyone!