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