Hay guys haaaaaaaaaaay.

Thanks to the great ancient Chinese secret COLD MEDICINE my professor gave me yesterday, I'm feeling soooo much better! And of course, thanks to the fever-reducer-forehead-sheet things and vitamin water and fruit cups from Micchan. みっちゃんありがとう～！

Thus, this blog is back in business! But to be honest, compared to other student's blogs, I post waaaaaaaaay more often. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Kelli and Chloe. ;D

Anyway, what do I have left to recap? A ton of stuff? Ok, well let's start...

...OH WAIT. Right. Last week's mystery item... will not be revealed in a blog post. Due to the fact that some reader of this blog might be... well, not offended, but maybe they'd be uncomfortable. SO! If you want to know what the mystery item is, send me a message on facebook!

OK SO last Thursday was another national holiday! For the Autumnal Equinox. So I went with Ayako and Cassie and Brenna to Shibuya! Which is a part of Tokyo. The first thing we did is go to the famous Shibya 109 mall, which had tons of shops with cute clothes, and some awkward clothes too. Rather... interesting fashion overall. A bit too hooch-y for my taste.

After the mall, we went to...
...A CAT CAFE!!!

It was the most adorable place ever. A room with cat toys and about seven extremely adorable cats, how could I not have fun? Sadly, KC hasn't uploaded the pictures yet, and since she's the only one who took pictures, I'll have to wait for a future entry to post those.

So after the cat cafe, we went to this great store called Zara, which sadly doesn't exist in the US. I was somehow under the impression that Zara was just like H&M, but when I looked at the price tags I saw that I was sadly mistaken. I ended up walking out of there with a shirt (that came with sweet suspenders) and a blue cardigan with red/orange flowers, and about 6500 less yen. Ho hum.

After Zara, we went and got food at Sweets Paradise, a buffet specializing in, you guessed it, sweets! It also had proper food, like salads, sandwiches, pasta, etc. It was, in short, amazing.

Plus, doesn't the restaurant just look cute? Good times.

After this, we decided to go to Asakusa, a different part of Tokyo. Asakusa is a very 'This is Japan!' type of place, and when we got there it had started to get dark, so it had a really nice atmosphere. Here are some (cell phone) pictures:


It was also here that I bought an amazing and huge Kiyoshi calender. Look forward to that being on my wall all throughout 2011!

Aaaaand then we went for dinner at this great tempura restaurant. Sadly, our table was SURROUNDED BY CHILDREN-RIDDEN FAMILIES. Ayako asked me if I was ok, I told her it was like being in hell. With delicious food.

SO! That was Thursday. Last Thursday. I'll post the Cat Cafe pictures tomorrow!! KC is currently uploading them, but... I still have to study tonight.

Let's see... last Friday, I had plans to go drinking/karaoke-ing (verb) with a friend, but due to my cold I couldn't. So, I stayed at the seminar house and did nothing. Heh.

But then on Saturday, we met with our host families! My host mom and sister came to meet me, and they seemed really nice! They were impressed with my language ability, especially since the 80-year-old can't speak a word of English and was apparently really worried about not being able to communicate with me. But yay, I can speak Japanese well, they said. Before we actually spoke with them, we had to do self-introductions in front of everyone, and apparently some of the other host families asked about me; as in, which one was the one who introduced herself so well? I am bragging like an awful person at the moment, but I was just really happy to hear that.

After meeting with them, I went to Ayako's! We had ice cream and watched Harry Potter and then she made me dinner! It was a lot of fun. We decided that since she has a really difficult English exam coming up （土曜日だったね？あやこ頑張って～！）we decided to watch HP in English with Japanese subtitles. It was interesting seeing the differences between what the subtitles said and what was actually being said. There were a lot of differences. It was kind of cool noticing those, though!

Then on Sunday... oh. That was my homework day. And my chat-with-Eron-on-Skype day. I hope your knee is feeling better!! ♥

Then the following Monday we had class, blah blah, but afterwards I helped Ayako a bit with her test-prep. Well, I hope I helped! Then Cassie, Brenna, Nicole, Misato and I went to one of those revolving-sushi restaurants! It was sooo delicious. Then we got ice cream. Then we went to Daiei and I bought the cutest pajama sweater! It's gray with bows on the pockets and hood and... I'll have to post a picture tomorrow. At the moment, it's in the dryer.

And that's all I'm going to recap for now!!

For future blog posts:
Cat Cafe pictures,
My recent purchases,
Our trip to the Tokyo Edo museum,
Anything else of interest since then!

Ok! Until then~

Oh wait, here's an amusing sweater I saw at Daiei:

Showin' my pride!

Ok, now I'm off to study! I have a test and two quizzes tomorrow...