And so the weekend passed once more. and half of the week

Hello Blog Readers,

And another weekend has passed already that it keeps me surprised on how fast time in Japan moves. I can't get over it.  At the moment me, Cati has a few health problems going on. For one a nasty cold that's annoying. When I cough it feels like my lungs are leaving my body and my eyes as always itch. it's a side effect with me apparently that my eyes have to suffer as well when I have a cold. No fun. Today when going to school I actually wore a mask, which many people found stupid, but I don't think it's stupid.

Isn't it a lovely image?

In Japan when people are sick they were a mask to prevent people from catching what they have. I was actually surprised to see that not all Japanese people who were coughing and being sick actually did this so I figure they only do it in extreme cases like the flu and all that. But still it felt good to have that mask today cause at least my class mates won't get what I am having only to give it back to me again. I'll see how tomorrow I am feeling, if it's better I'll leave the mask off if worse. then I'll wear it again.

My weekend was good though Friday was my first sick day from school and I felt bad mostly because I was missing Japanese class and that was eating me up inside, I wanted to be there cause I already find it so difficult. But luckily there is another extra lesson planned for me so that makes me happy, other people who find it difficutl will come to. My Sunday was spend at home to safe money for my upcoming trip to Tokyo which I look forward to. I have to get better soon!

Saturday was spend at Umeda, which was good. Which was nice. Which was awesome and it was making me flail cause I bought things for my room. I bought a Calendar and I bought posters, I bought things to make my room more me and now when I sit in my room it feels like home. It feels like me. Getting the package from my friend Aya really helped as well. It was good to see her cads and she gave me bracelets which are beautiful and which I wear with pride! I bought rilakkuma stuff which is like nijnte in Japan. It's really popular and it's super cute. I couldn't deny it and I bought a heap of it. I actually have an agenda now. No I have two but screw my cheap Hema agenda I'm taking my rilakkuma with me everywhere.  I also had good food, real good food which was quite a while ago so when we got home and I redecorated my room. I was completely satisfied with the world. I didn't even mind not being able to go anywhere on Sunday. :D

Meet Rilakkuma

Monday was spend at school, luckily it was only a short day and nothing all to special happened apart from me being silly in Japanese class again. Tuesday I was opting to stay in bed because I felt so miserable. I went to school in the end cause I didn't want to miss more class. First day wearing the mask as I was telling you all earlier about. This time my mother's package arrived. I was squeling with joy cause only four days earlier did the pacakge my friend said arrive, a beautiful card and bracelets that will be shown below and now my mom was sending me stuff to and it were curtains, how dearly I had missed curtains and now I have them. Dark red curtains and they are beautiful and to top it off, she send me a book and vitamine pills candy and some more cards so my day was absolute awesome once I came home.

Wednesday was an okay day, we had games in the morning to get one another to know even better. It was fun, there was the telephone game, the fruit basket game, all in Japanese so half of the time I didn't know what they were talking about and it was annoying but funny all the same cause I met some other people and got to talk to them for a bit. Which was cool. There are so many nice people and there is always something in common cause we all had similar reasons to come to Japan and well it is awesome. Haha my team got last but we didn't mind we had fun and that is what counted.  And then yesterday evening I had hot water with lemon which was nice for my throat, and today I think has been the worst day so far when it comes to coughing, but things always get worse before they get better so I'm staying positive in the hope that after today things will start looking better.

Cause today wasn't a really glorious day for me, apart from having a good japanese class and helping a friend see the nurse cause she had an accident with her bike, the afternoon was less nice. We had a fieldtrip, well sort of to a shop where we were suppose to form groups and buy for a certain amount of money so that we would get a point card, I was assigned group leader without wanting to and I ended up payign the most while getting the least so yeah, I figured it out to late and I feel stupid and dissapointed in myself now that I didn't notice sooner but yeah oh well nothing to do about it, I still feel good when I got home I felt relaxed and happy to see my room which I hadn't at first so it's nice being able to feel that now instead of always feeling depressed when I was about to go home. I like being in Japan now,

eventhough there are the ups and downs I will manage and it feels good.

So with this I'll say goodbye and give you a few quirks of things I have noticed in Japan.

1. People are always willing to help you as long as you small and speak broken Japanese. just random words and they'll do their best to help. I've noticed this especially with traveling in public trafic which I do alot I get helped often when I get lost and it gives a nice sense of safety.

2. People wear masks when they are sick.

3. In stores I am to polite. Where as I say thank you after the purchase is made as a way of thanking them for the good service normal japanese people don't do that. I got commented on it by a friend who said that it's a bit strange to do that. And I told her it's how I am brought up and though I am a fan of adjusting in, I will keep this what I do cause to me it's polite to thank people who help you even when they are working in stores.

4. People don't move when walking or biking. it's annoying and it's rude. I really didn't expect this but my teacher said that it's different in parts of Japan, but in osaka it's indeed common people don't move for others. so I end up swirling and moving out of peoples way quite often.

5. This year was Japans hottest summer in longer then a 100 years. apparantly the weather new I was coming and was making it difficult for me.

more japanese fact in the next post!