I just wanted to comment on this random part of my life in Japan.

Here in Japan, or more specifically, at the Toyookasan’s house, it has changed a lot.  In America, I usually went to bed by 10 because I was just plain tired.  Now, at midnight everyone’s still up and carrying on like it’s the day.  2 AM is usually when I got to sleep if I have nothing planned for the next day, and 12 or 1 if I do have something going on.  It’s been this weird kind of transition, late sleeping, late waking up.  Of course, my host brother falls asleep sometimes at 6 AM, so yeah, it’s kind of weird.  Japanese students as a whole all stay up really late.

But today I’m really tired.  And worn out.  So I can’t wait to go to sleep.  Haha.  But that was just like random for anyone was interested in sleeping patterns~

Keisuke is my 13 year old host brother, for those of you who forgot/didn’t know his name.  Anyways, we went to JJ Maru Club, which is where you basically pay by the hour to have free use of karaoke/billiards/ping-pong/arcade games/etc.  It’s a pretty cool place, and not too far from my house, but not that close.  Keisuke and I went alone, so I was a bit worried about using only Japanese, but everything was fine!

It was a really good time, and I’m glad I got to spend time with my host brother.  He usually just watches TV all day.  And his school is 6 days a week, so even less time.  So we played some arcade games, and we also played billiards together.  But I beat him soundly.  Not surprising for 13 year old vs 17 year old, but I didn’t scratch the ball once, and didn’t miss any balls I was aiming for, so I count that as an improvement to my skills.  I think I took the billiards table at my house for granted, it’s a fun game when you haven’t played it in over half a year.

I also won a BUNCH of candy from this game machine.  It was one that you had to pay for, but I won so much candy.  And like the regular sized packages of HaiChu, which is like a pretty standard Japanese chewy candy.  It’s like Starbursts about the size and shape of Bubblicious gum.  So that was awesome.

And we also had rice curry for dinner, so it finished off a really good day.  I was glad that it went so well!

Tomorrow I’m getting stuff for a trip I will be taking at the end of April, if everything goes right.  It’ll be really cool if I go, and I’m really excited!