finally a title in english.

Its friday!
time for my weekly post childrens.

this week so much has happend including the controversial host family change and the one month mark. other then that i also have some minor things to report so here we go.

first of all i shall let you all know that my new host family reminds me of my family at home. two teenage daughters like me and mainge but one year yonger, a mother who does housework and makes me an obento box every day, a father who is nice and kool at the same time :) (he kinda looks like Austin Powers) *giggle* my room is my host sisters room and she sleeps in the same room as her older sister.(mum can you please send some great auzzie gifts for her, something very auzzy and of value,she is very generous) washing and floor mopping is no longer my job and as long as i put my clothes in the basket downstairs they get washed and folded. (you have no idea how much i am thankful for that!,i still take them in with my host sister in the evening) i help the girls with their english and they help me with my japanese. they come home and watch disney channel !! like proper children, we watch it together and its in japanese so i can practice my listening, they like hanna montana and in the evening we sometimes watch the american comedy full house. they are a family!!! one like i know and love in aus... its making me think about life in aus a little and though i am a tad homesick its so nice to be able to think of you. i have time for things like that now. i have time to be me. its so very nice.

got new school shoes a few weeks ago, they are blue and white and they have my name on them in katakana. minasan(everyone) was very impressed with my neat katakana. also mum and dad i had to buy a new train ticket, it costed about 7,800 en. which is cheaper than the 15,000 en first proposed but is where the money went. also i got a new capiburra-chan, a school one. it cost me 200en (2.50 dollars) at the claw machine, got it first time too.

about friends
i have made many friends with whome i chat which include the members of the schools famous best in japan basketball team. nouko is the class leader and she is kind and funny, risking being late to walk with me to sport when i was late to get changed. misako is good at speaking english, she went to canada not long ago for three weeks and has been teaching me new words and sentances if i need them and she knows them. met a girl with a natural silvery white streak in her hair, her name is elanor(elena in japan) and she is very nice and cute. i have friends at kendo and ess, the club my host sister is a member of, her name is aiya and her sister is chinami. dorio taught me the word "hamu" the meaning of which i still dont know. yuka* happy sigh* or yuka, both of them, one is sempai(third year,lat year at highschool) at elastobu(anime club) and she is wonderously nice, many students really like her and hug her alot, including me, when i am unhappy i run to yuka and hug her,it makes me feel better. other yuka is chinese, i met her on my first day of school and she told me of how she likes to speak english more than japanese because her japanese is apparently not that good. i think its amazing she knows three languages and i chat to her on my way home. mikano has amazing eyes for a japanese girl, they are brown but they have many small darker brown spots, like a leopard. then there is the girl i call wife, her friends call her oksan, which is japanese for..well wife.please remind me to ask her real name.also chan you have a lookalike who is in the drama club, her name is ami and she loves drama and confessed her cosplayer love to me. yes, she also cosplays, and we shall get photos sometime together for you.

at school
enjoying my free lessons in the library and learning alot during them, i was given text books and i was able to skip about half of their contents as i have already learnt it.in kateika(home economics) we are making a hanten, i forgot to buy material so sensei found me some. she is very amazed with my ability to thread a machine by myself(thanks grandma) but today i broke a sewing machine needle, there is no foot pedal on the machine, you press a button and it starts. freaking scary and i almost ran over my finger many times. pe is dance and our theme is animal, its ironic as i am the ideas girl, the ideas are in my head but the words arnt yet. *giggle* luckily i can draw. the theory pe teacher is so funny, he pulls faces when there is silence. very amuseing. kanji is being hard to learn but i am getting there and i am able to answer baisic questions and join in baisic conversations using simple sentances like " i have been there, it was fun". and i can tell people a little about aus such as"australias food is many countrys food, but a really australian food is the meat pie"

tomorrow is school for half a day, but next week is golden week so a holiday untill wednesday.

hope your all well and that you got my mail.
love you all and am thinking of you.

from belinda