So, apparently there’s only 2 hours each day now for the testing, continuing through Friday.  In some ways, it’s great, but in some ways I want my friends back.  They’re all busy studying- meaning nothing fun after school, plus I’ve got too much spare time on my hands.  Ended up doing a second layout thingy because I was bored today.  I’m honestly not sure what I’m supposed to do at my host house.  The TV really can’t capture my attention (I tried watching it for 20 minutes…) and my host siblings are out because it’s so early, so I’ve fallen back into my ‘geek’ mode and finished stuff on the internet.  Guess I’ll consider it a break from the norm of my new Japanese life.

Basically I got to school today and then they just told me to hang out in the computer room, so I was extremely bored for two hours on YouTube.  As were the two other foriegn exchange students and Ben sensei.  Tomorrow he’ll be teaching Brandon and I some Kendo basics, so I’m hopeful that it will be less boring and I can stay awake.

On Friday there’s a meeting thing to talk about Singapore and I have to fill out a health sheet with my Rotary helper here, to make sure everything’s ok to go and stuff.  Bad part is I have to stick around after school 2 hours (most likely alone) before the meeting starts.

This week is kind of lacking interesting stuff to do.  However, Saturday there’s school because the Junior High will be getting their orientation of High School.  Because Japan is fair, they give us Monday off, so I’m not really bugged by it.  Sunday is a Kyoto trip with Rotary, which should prove interesting.  Ironically, I got into a discussion with a Japanese person on YouTube who lives in Kyoto.

And in non-Japan news, I’m pretty politically mad at the moment, specifically with our government.  Ignoring the North Korean issues (who has time to keep up with that?) but going more at how the US government has been taking our rights away under the guise of “protecting us from terrorists”.  But, I’d have to say the real problem is sitting in the Oval Office.  Yeah, I read about the 14 year old girl from CA got interrogated by the Secret Service because of posting a threatening message about Bush on her MySpace.  Wrong? Yes.  Overreaction? YES.  Of course, per MySpace, you can never really tell if it’s a 14 year old girl or a 60 year old man.  They still could’ve realized that once they tracked her down to her high school (middle school?) that they were dealing with a young teen.

I’m up for debate whether I’ll continue my MySpace-esque blogging in a new political site.  Toning down the language, but still keeping it as a complete rant blog, as I’m really really fed up with US politics.  Althogh I found some humour in the fact Mark Foley is apparently a gay Republican.  Irony.

If I weren’t in Japan right now, the ‘Student Activist League’ would be burning with a fire.  Ah, that’s one of my biggest goals for when I get back.  A student watchdog organization could be effective in bringing about local change, but also garner attention on a bigger basis for political views.  At least if you play your cards right.

Tomorrow I’m going to make a list of the things I miss most in from the US.  Like black licorice.