Couldn’t sleep well last night. Nori was playing Heroes of Newerth until around 6 in the morning. And then when he was about to sleep, he spilled leftover noodles that he cooked for us. So he was cleaning that up. And then after, Shoji called him up since he had to work from 8 in the morning.

After that, a couple of people called me up. Kumagai from the school reminding me of my overdue paper that I have to submit soon, and then Takagishi from the dorms asking me to meet him today or tomorrow. I have ￥7000+ that I have to pay. At least that’s the last thing that I have to pay since checking out.

I finally woke up at 12 and then called up Rich to apologize for not waking up at 9 to work out with him. Oh dear god.

Anyway, Nori gets off work at 7. And we might double date with Shoji and Fumi after.

The amount of housework and stuff on my to-do list are just about to kill me.

I was cooking last night and panicked half way cause it wasn’t going the way I planned. Good thing the boyfriend decided to check up on what I was doing and saved me ._.

Anyway, I just read a book for a while and then played a couple of games of League of Legends. I’m not such a noob when I’m playing with friends! Yay.

I’m going to log out and go to the seminar house to give Karen some of adobo cause I told her that I’d cook her some.

My tummy hurts. I think it’s from eating too much and the change in cigs. I switched to Larks that only have 1mg of tar. Boyf is trying to quit smoking and made me stop as well. Except I don’t feel like stopping yet.

Had dinner with my host family today at some expensive looking place.

And before that, I ate tacos with my friends and drank a little over half a shot of hot sauce in exchange for Eyobe paying for my food. 5 bucks might not be worth doing that. It was awful! And I wasn’t allowed to drink water for 6 minutes!

Reiko is pregnant! Reiko is Kenji’s wife. Kenji is the guy that I teach English to. So awesome!

The fact that our lesson was cancelled sucks cause that’s $40 that I don’t get to earn. But let’s not be greedy — after all, she’s pregnant! Yay!

I adore her two little kids. So her pregnant is an uber good thing.

I finally told Matsui about Nori (the new boyfriend in case you guys don’t know yet) and he kept laughing all throughout. According to Matsui, I think like a guy. Lol. Yay?

I just wanna gush at how hot the boy at the leftmost is with his hair like that. It’s an old picture. I hope he styles it like that again!

For valentine’s day in Japan, the girls are the ones who are supposed to give guys chocolates.

So anyway, the day before vday, Nori calls me up drunk and says, “Give me chocolates tomorrow.” And I was asking him what chocolates he wants and he tells me that he’s not actually a big fan of chocolates.

Talk about weird.

Anyway, since we both like drinking, I told him that I’ll give him a bottle of Jack Daniels instead. Which is expensive, mind you.

And so the night of vday, after I got off work at 9:30 at night, I go to Jingu Nishi station and he was waiting for me by the train station wicket.

I had dinner at his apartment. It was the first time that he had dinner with his parents since he came back from Cambodia and his mom was worried about him I guess. The food was awesome. The alcohol was too.

Minus the fact that I was totally and shamelessly still drunk (or hungover, pick one) the next day. And mind you — I had 2 finals that I didn’t study for.

For my internship today, we went to Shirotori Garden. We were told to wear long sleeves and bring insect repellent. But since I don’t really have any long-sleeved shirt, I didn’t wear any. I didn’t really want to wear a jacket just so I’m in long sleeves.

Boy was I lucky they lent me a long-sleeved shirt. Too many mosquitoes! And thanks to Lisa, I was protected by the insect repellent. I forgot to spray my feet though — got half a dozen bites there cause I was wearing my sandals.

So the guy toured us around Shirotori Garden. And I wasn’t really listening. I couldn’t understand anything and he spoke so fast so I just stared out in space. I think he noticed. Oops.

And then this very very energetic girl came and told us the stuff we’re supposed to do. Like sweep under the roofs to remove the cobwebs. After which we picked up trash around the garden. I picked up a torn pair of pants (they were heavy cause they were wet with rain water), a bunch of cans, cigarette boxes, pet bottles, and a whole lot of trash.

We were tired after so the girl let us rest. And every time she let us rest, I’d take a nap.

I dunno why but I feel so drained and stressed and tired. It’s actually starting to get me depressed. I think it’s because we change job discription so often that it’s just really stressing. Or that we don’t really know beforehand what we’re supposed to do.

I loved feeding the carps though. It follows you around and scrambles to get the food. It swims one on top of the other! And they’re so big! A cup of fish food costs ¥50. So Lisa put in ¥100 in the box thing and made me get a cup. When one of the maintenance guys saw us feeding the carps, he motioned for me to go to him (I thought he was telling me to throw my cup in the bucket he’s holding). Apparently, he has this bucket with a lot of fish pellets in it. YAAAAAAAAAAAY. It was fun.

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Video in my blog.

We were stationed at the information desk today. They held the 14th Internation Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry at the Nagoya Congress Center.

On our table were various brochures and maps regarding Nagoya.

And really — not a lot of people passed by. I mean. I didn’t really do anything.

There were hours where nobody passed at all. And if anything, the first person they ask is either the Japanese girl with us on the table (prolly cause she’s well-dressed — formal and everything), or Lisa (cause she’s American!).

So then Lisa lent me her iPod touch so I can play… MONOPOLY. I’m hooked.

GIMME! I WANNA PLAY MORE! !%”$!$#”%#

We were supposed to watch sumo today but then they ran out of tickets at around 8:30 or something. Boo hoo. Drat. I bet ya not all the people who bought tickets (prolly those in advance) went to watch.

So then we ended up in Sakae and had breakfast in Yoshinoya. Unagi — how I heart thee.

And then there was earning some moolah from English tutoring stint. And then SLEEPING THE AFTERNOON AWAY. Woke up in a panic cause I felt like I had to be somewhere. It was 7 in the evening.

Dinner was Chinese and ice cream can’t be had.

Still mucho nice day.

(I dunno why I’m talking weird. Your guess is as good as mine.)

I’ve been avoiding writing in my blog cause I remember the whole lot of things that I still have to blog about. Right now, I’m still amazed at how independent I’ve become. I remember Eyobe telling me that he thought that I’m the person who best adapted to Japan living. Aww.

Okay, gotta finish hanging the laundry! I hate hanging — I’m too short for this job.