F4

The title is F4 only because kk and i have come up with the most ridiculous yet amazing idea in the world. we are going to (with the help of our dear friend, Yuka) write the tv station that has the Arashi game show on it, and then proceed to tell them we should be on the show. our name will be F4 (funny because one of the the fact that one of the Arashi members was on a drama named 花より男子。in which he was super popular and was a member of "f4". there is more of a reason but since i've never seen the show, i doubt i could properly explain it) anyways. our name stands for "funny, foreign, fun, and fantastic" pretty catchy right? i thought so. it will be amazing. really i just want to play the fun games.

In other news, school is lame. I feel less motivated to study here, but maybe that's just because in reality i'm studying while i do anything here. its all around me, its what i see, read, eat, hear, etc. You get the jist. I should work on that i think, maybe later.

Yesterday KK, Antoine, Yaehl, Lea, Shunsuke, and myself went on an adventure. yes an adventure that took place starting between 10:30 and 11 at night. It was amazing. We walked along the road and ended up in a cemetery. Yes, for all of you that know me even slightly you may be asking yourself "why in the world would caty go into a cemetery at night?" my answer- i put my brave pants on.
The multiple cemeteries we stumbled upon held breath taking views of Kumamoto City. The city was lit up and for the most part the cemeteries were dark so you could see stars and every. it was really cool. Cold and kinda scary but cool. Then we went and played in the sketchiest playground i have ever seen haha. The night before we went to a 神社 (shrine) at midnight and ventured into the forest behind it. needless to say i got the holy living crap scared out of me. I went home while the braver ones (kk, yaehl, antoine) went back. Next adventure - yakuza house?

today it was decided that on the way to school, the "short" route was to be taken. Since i had only been that way once, i got lost. kk and i were trying to figure out where to go when this old guy asked us where we were trying to go. we told him the school and he pointed us down a tiny little ally down some sketchy stairs and to a bigger street. Awesome! then we ended up at the main street we would have taken anyways haha. oh well, it was fun.

This weekend i shall go on an epic hunt for food that can be used when we prepare Thanksgiving dinner. yay! Its nice that along with friends i can still celebrate a holiday that isn't really a big deal here. I doubt we can find a turkey though. And by that i mean its impossible , even if we preform a miracle and do find one, ovens big enough to cook it don't exist in japan. oh well. i really just want pumpkin pie, but they don't have real pumpkins either. what? yeah exactly.

last but certainly not least. One of my Japanese teachers returned from a week in America this week. what did she bring back for us? MOTHER EFFIN ELK JERKY!!! it was amazing and tasty. i do love jerky. i miss cheese, real bread (not this only white fluffy not real bread bread they had here) and i miss real cake. odd for someone who doesn't really eat alot of sweets. oh well.

off to another adventure!
-Caty

School Festival part deux

So after my food coma from the day before, i woke up and headed back down to the University to eat more tasty food. So after being bombarded with more and more food (which of course i ate) and being laughed at for eating taiyaki again (trust me it was a different day, it was totally ok. Kai just wanted to make fun of us) we met up with Yudai. He took us to the other exhibits (yeah right? other than food. i was astonished) so then instead of buying food i bought awesome art done by different clubs. that rocked.
Then went to the library sit for a few. after that we went back out and ate more. mmm more food. more tacos. Then the smooth jazz group or whatever played Tank! (cowboy bebop theme) and a Michael Jackson medley. Yeah not so good, but i give them credit for trying.
after that i watched the shortest fireworks display ever. but it was still amazing. Then i drank with (my new friends) the french people. bad idea. they will always win haha.

School Festival

ok so today is the school festival. I showed up expecting to see some clubs doing what clubs do and what not. No today should have been called "school festival aka going to sell you tasty food at cheap prices, so much food you will burst". Thats what it was/is/god i'm going to eat so much today. So KK and i show up around noon- noon thirty (technical term there), and park our bikes. we walk around with the smell of tasty food wafting through the air. We walk around and then we see the BRIGHT pink shirts that let us know our new friends that through the welcome party are selling tasty food. We head over and wave, Jyo (kk's group leader) yells 久しぶり! (long time no see basically) and we head wave to everyone (my group leader 翼 - tsubasa- was there too). KK then asks where Gachi is (he wants to be called that, so we obliged). Jyo told us to wait that he would be back. He then decides to call him and let kk talk to him. the convo was
kk: もしもし？ガチ！
gachi: え？
kk: ガチ！

he was really confused but when he arrived back at the tent he noticed us and was surprised. We then walked around and bought food. Let me list all the food and why we bought it (besides it was tasty.

Waffle with fruit and tastyness on it - because our friends were selling them.
takoyaki - because some random person asked us if we wanted to buy, so we did.
MOTHER EFFIN TACO'S!!! - the english speaking club were selling tacos. i love tacos (with tabasco) so we bought them, we bought them good.
Bubble tea - our Taiwanese friend from our class was selling it. so tasty.
Gyoza - first of all its gyoza, second of all it was by the chinese kids, third its gyoza
yakisoba - wanted some for a long time. plus the baseball kids were doing an awesome looking job cooking it.

Then we sat down for a peaceful snack and became bombarded with offers to buy tasty looking food. since i'm pretty sure saying "no thanks" is illegal in japan, we did what any self respecting person would do...BOUGHT IT ALL!!!

some tasty parfait thing - because they asked
some tasty melon pan looking thing - because they asked
some mochi thing - because they asked.

they just kept asking and we just kept buying. finally we stuffed our face and ran into the library for sanctuary. apparently the memo got out after we first bought takoyaki that the American's buy stuff haha. Oh well it was fun and tasty Probably will go back and buy more soon! pictures will follow