I’m in a really good mood today. Like, the best I’ve been in for awhile. There’s been so much stress with changing host families, having new exchange students, and general social stuff. Last night I told Yudai I was mad at him because of the way Brandon and I (the two original exchange students) were feeling like we were being pushed out for the newer Australians. He didn’t email me back at night, which made me even more angry, because I felt that he was blowing me off further, because I knew he was off with the exchange students for dinner. Then, before I went to bed I got over my emotional stuff, and kind of realized I was being selfish, as they only have a week, and so yeah.
Then this morning I got on the train and Yudai was upset about the message last night, and said “Paul, I emailed you last night.” and his voice was really pained and … I felt really bad. Really really bad. He only uses ‘Paul’ if it’s a serious situation too, usually it’s always Poru. So he was sad, but then we walked together on the way to school, and by the time lunch came, everything was ok.
I only had 3 hours of school, because I went on the fieldtrip with the Australian students to a nearby town’s festival. It was pretty fun, and Yudai and I hung out together (as always) and I was just really happy. So, everything’s right in the world at the moment, and tomorrow is my favorite day of the week. Plus I talked with the new students more, and *most* of them are pretty nice. A couple have made bad impressions on me, just from behavoir standpoints while in Japan.
Tsutomu is having like a party thing for the Australian students, which there wasn’t enough room for Brandon or I at, which was a main point of contigency before, but then it turns out not even all the Australian students were invited. There was actually a lot of ire about that too, much discussion amongst themselves about why some were invited but not others. In short, it was a bad idea of Tsutomu to do such a limited thing. I don’t think he’s aware of the undercurrent of talk about it.
Since I got home really really early today, I decided to walk home. I planned on a two hour walk back to Habikigaoka, but unfortunately, it only took and hour and 15 minutes. My host mother was gone somewhere though, so I just walked around the neighborhood for another forty minutes. Came pretty darn close to my two hour goal. Walking is the best way to think in my opinion, so I enjoy it if I have my MP3 player. I also don’t get that tired by walking. Although, I was wanted to sit down at the end of all the walking today. No breaks in a two hour session is tiring.
