Today wasn’t particularly exciting. I woke up around 8:00 D: because I had stayed up until about 12:30 watching anime... for the first time since coming to Japan. The sad thing is; it wasn’t even really interesting. Oh well...
On the train, I was kind of ticked off at this girl who was doing her makeup. She spent almost the entire ride from Akaike (when I noticed) to Shiogamaguchi doing her eye makeup. I can describe it too; she did it four freaking times!!! First, there was the mascara application (and subsequent brushing with a mustache comb), then another application (comb again), then she painted fake lashes on top (more comb), and finally, some substance that looked white (don’t forget the comb!). It didn’t even match her hair color!!! She had an extra purse too for her make-up bag (yes, a bag whose sole purpose was to carry another bag that didn’t leave much room for anything else). What?! I hand it to her for being able to do that on a moving train, but come on, no one is looking THAT close, and it didn’t seem to make her look any prettier. I really wanted to tell her (after 1.5 times) that she looked pretty and didn’t have to do that anymore, but meh.
In class, we reviewed for our tests... which are broken into four days, the last of which follows about a week’s worth of ‘no class.’ If I knew about this waste of time, I could have booked an earlier flight and not have to miss my summer class... but no!!!!
At least there was good news when I checked my bank account. All the money is there, so I’m closing it tomorrow. :D
At dinner, we had weird, semi-family time as usual. I think okaasan is crazy now, but she’s fun when she gets talking... and I know it’s okay to think so because otousan laughs out loud when he thinks so. First of all, I surprised okaasan again by coming in the kitchen without saying anything. It’s really hard to find something to say as an opening when ‘good evening’ is an out-group phrase. I wanted to help with dinner, but okaasan just told me to wait (and that it was okay if I slept until dinner was ready because she thought I was feeling ill). I had left over tendon (tenpura over rice). Okaasan said it was okay not to eat all the rice because we could put it away for later, but when she saw the rice left over after dinner, she planned to throw it away. Huh?!
Okaasan wanted to know what I would be doing for mother’s day, but based on what she said, I couldn’t tell if she was talking about herself or my biological mother. I’ve got plans...
Ryoushin went today to the airport for a ‘test run,’ since okaasan has to drive now and she’s never been. It took two hours!!!! With time running out, I don’t know how I’m going to treat my host parents (as thanks), especially since they haven’t told me what they want to do.
Okaasan bought brownies for dessert. :D They’re different from American ones, but still delicious. While we ate, we watched a show about the Japanese ‘problem’ of falling marriage and birth rates. They showed awkward dates where the guy didn’t know what to do. It was just funny and otousan laughed a lot about the things okaasan was saying.
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