So, today went well in Umeda.  Although, it was honestly kind of boring with not much to do.  So although we went around to different stores and saw stuff, by 2:30 we were wondering what else we were going to do.  We DID eat the Mega Mac, but Yudai couldn’t finish his!  Honestly…Japanese people have not learned the art of eating big amounts of food.  I ate mine really fast (it was good) and he just stared at me, and couldn’t believe it.  It was a really comical look he gave me.  It was…definitely good.

We decided to go back to Tennoji and go to a movie.  Even though tickets are around $13 here, it was something to waste time.  Unfortunately, there was absolutely nothing good playing.  And we had already gone to Eragon and James Bond last month.  Yeah, I think I left out that we went to see Casino Royale over Christmas break.  He had a free ticket thing, so we split the cost of one ticket and it was … almost as cheap as America.  That was an absolutely awesome movie.  The reinviting of the series was great.  It had enough action, but it was also a lot more believable, with a great plot … not one that just got an action scene to the next.  Definitely enjoyed seeing that movie.

After deciding that the theatre was a bad idea, we resorted to the Japanese backup for any social situation when you want something fun to do- karaoke.  Unfortunately, the only one near by was absolute packed with teens, and we didn’t want to wait to do something that was only a back up plan.  So finally Yudai just said we should go back to his house and play Playstation then go to Fujidera for dinner and look for the new backpack.

So yeah, we just hung out at Yudai’s house for the remainder of the afternoon, and then his parents decided to order pizza for us, so that was cool.  Watched some TV, etc etc.  It was fun.  I also got to see the scrapbook his host mother in Canada made him when he stayed over for a small time in the summer!!  That was really cool, looks like he had an awesome time and a nice family.

I also spent around $35 dollars on books this morning, $27 of that being for a really nice Kanji workbook.  I really do care about my education in Japanese, and being able to write and recognize kanji is very important here.  So that should also help me with my proficiency test as well.  I believe it has the first 750 of them…wow.  Got some memorizing to do.  It also does Hiragana and Katakana.  The latter I actually need, as I don’t do too well reading katakana, and have only fully memorized the hiragana alphabets.  Japanese is so confusing.

But I had a really good day with Yudai, so I was glad.  5 days without your best friend isn’t cool at all.  But Sinapore will be fun.

Just to let you all know, I will check my email last on Monday night, but that’s Monday morning for most of you in the US and then again when I get back on Friday night for US peoples.  Late-night that is.  So any emails sent imbetween then will not be replied to until I get back, and I’d like to ask people to refrain from emailing me and making it difficult to catch up with replies.  Thanks!