EARTHQUAKE!!!

Laura Sinclair Survives Massive Earthquake!

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my God!! I am SO excited.

Saturday morning, 7:30am.

EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!!!!!

So, I was asleep. You know, as all mentally stable (questionable, I know, but bear with me here) are at the crack of dawn on a Saturday. And then I woke up. My bed was shaking.

EVERYTHING was shaking.

And I was freaking out excited.

Although I wasn’t entirely sure at this point if it was actually an earthquake or if it was just my freakish, early morning factor coming into play or if it was actually an earthquake. Cause I couldn’t see very much, cause it was dark and I didn’t have my contacts in, so thanks to my deformed gene pool I couldn’t see anything.

But that didn’t mean I couldn’t hear and feel anything!!

I only got confirmation when I went down to breakfast an hour and a half later and Okaasan’s comes over and she pointed to ‘earthquake’ in Misato’s dictionary. Yay!!!

I’ve just finished an Oral class which involved translating the lyrics of a James Blunt song into Japanese. Which, by the way, is really weird. But anyway.

We got to listen to the song over and over which was fun, but kind of annoying after a while.

Completely random fact’ in the ‘Learning Space’, Sarah, Kara and I are currently in, there are 40 different types of English – Japanese dictionary. More if you count the double ups.

How do I know this you may ask? Well, Sarah (clearly at the height of boredom) has just counted them.

I feel like making a list.

Random List Stuff

1. Rice, rice, rice, rice, rice. ALWAYS rice. Last night we had noodles for dinner and there was a bowl of rice as well. Really, the Japanese should hate rice because they eat it all the time. Okaasan even has it for breakfast. BREAKFAST!!

2. Every Wednesday afternoon, everyone cleans. I am serious. Last week we swept the floor. Although I’m not sure about how much actually gets done, cause most of the time seems to be spent PRETENDING to clean, but not actually doing anything.

3. SMAP is a really popular band here, despite popular opinion in the Music In My Life unit we did for Japanese in Australia. My host mum loves them, they were performing on TV last week and she was fully doing the dance along with them.

Also, one of the guys seems to be in a lot of soup ads.

4. I can’t think of anything else. I’m not really very good at remembering stuff am I???

I’ll try and add some pictures next post, but at the moment I’m on the wrong computer to do it.

Sayonara

Laura