Random Streams of Consciousness from Japan

2002-03-17T17:47:00.000-08:00

Hey everybody, thanks so much for visiting this site, but I have to inform you it's being moved to hinorei.pitas.com don't ask me why, I don't understand, Hana (who set all this up for me) said I was moving it so I said "right, whatever" and proceeded to smile and nod as she tried to explain. So I'll blog there while I'm in Japan. Love you guys!

2002-03-15T16:14:00.000-08:00

YAY!! I got everything to fit into my suitcase! And it's under 70 lbs! ^_^ One suitcase, one carry-on, and a teddy bear named spit. (Don't tell him that's what Tsuba means though...he's sensitive) soo I'm going stir crazy. I dropped out of school on Wednesday and I'm twitching and singing weird songs and chewing on things that are dirty...I need out of this place. But it's not like I haven't had plenty to do. I think it's just pre-trip jitters. Not that any of this has sunk in, or will until I'm there...or maybe not even until I get home. Who knows...but I'm going to buy a Tare Panda NEEEE!!!....I think I'm going to go chew on things again...i really need to get out of this house....

2002-03-12T19:25:00.000-08:00

Ok, Hana has been bugging me to blog more often just so people know I'm not dead or anything, but really I'll probably only have time for once a week in Japan, so people should learn to deal with it, but I will appease her since I have nothing else to do. (Pardon my long and rambleing sentence). So tomorrow is my last day of school. I can't believe it...better not to think to much I figure...I think I'm finally finally done with my shopping (I keep thinking I am and then discovering things like I need twelve white button down shirts for school uniforms and other random and difficult things to find)....hmmmm...well that's about it in the life of Krista...yeah

2002-03-10T14:56:00.000-08:00

heheheheheh I went to an AFS dance thingee on Saturday night. It was soo much fun!!! AFS people are really cool. The sort of people that go abroad with AFS have to have larger than life personalities. They're a blast. Everyone was soo nice to me. I didn't know anyone but they would all talk to me and were super friendly and stuffs. ^_^ I'm getting excited and then today I was talking to a missionary from our church who is home on furlow and she was an AFS student to Australia and she had some good advice and it was encouraging to know sh'es gone too and not died or was eaten by crocodiles or monkeys in something... *shudder* monkeys "Famous last words, monkeys don't eat people"

2002-03-08T15:31:00.000-08:00

OK I'm soooo sorry everybody. I have been sooooo busy! Everything is going crazy trying to do last minute packing etc. So I've contacted my host family. They seem really really nice and we were able to communicate in both English and Japanese which is difinently a good sign. I have a dog. ^_^ I'm sooo excited. So I've been trying to do packing and shopping. I have a small fortune in travellers checks and yen up on my desk, a million new clothes and stuff for my school uniform. I'm going to be able to take French in Japan!! I was really scared I'd lose all of my French, but I get to take French from a native speaker! I don't even have that here and any foreing language other than english is super rare in Japan. So I was at an AFS banquet thingee last night and I'm going to another dance thingee tonight. Yeah...I'm not even sure what all to say, so much has happened since I last blogged. Well I have two days of school left. heh heh heh..... And in Japanese class yesterday I got to read a childrens book about Tare Panda which means Floppy Panda. It's sooooooooooo cute ^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^ I want! I want! ooh! I can give you a site about him.....I'll have to find a good one first. Oh and for whoever cares I found my school website. But it's all in Japanese, but if you have a lot of time on your hands you can click randomly about and try to find pictures...They're in an obscure section of the site and I don't really feel like trying to explain where.... but the site is http://www.fudooka-h.ed.jp/ ok I'll go look for a site on Tare Panda now ^_^ He's soooooooo cute!

2002-02-21T17:07:00.000-08:00

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I found out about my family!!! I have a father and Mother and a 23 year old sister and I live 50 miles from Tokyo. ^_^ Yeah... that's all I know, but I should know a whole lot more tomorrow...hopefully... but I'm not in Sapporo! ^_^ I was really scared. Cold weather *blech*

2002-02-17T17:24:00.000-08:00

Geuss what!? Geuss what?! I HAVE A HOST FAMILYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! ^_^ I know nothing about them at the moment, but I will soon. ^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^ (not that again...). So I just came back from Silver Birch. That place rocks. It was a tough week-end, but God came through and really taught me I need to trust in him and remember the big picture instead of my own heartbreak. I could never have made it through without him. I remember my "life verse" which is not really a verse, but it should be. It's from "a Page is Turned" by Bebo Norman. It says "The God of second-chance will pick you up and will let you dance to a world that is not kind." And it just reminds me that when life sucks, God will allways be there no matter what I've done this time and he'll let me have joy through him even though I hurt.

2002-02-12T18:15:00.000-08:00

Well Hana came over on Sunday and helped me put on my kimono. It's so pretty! ^_^ It has these neato pockets in the sleeves. They're silly. And then Hana and I watched Atlantis. ^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^ Ahhhh! It's a mutant smiley face! *cough* anyway, that's a really good movie. heh heh ^_^o hmmmm...yeah well I have a ton of homework, and I better get on that.... *blech*

2002-02-09T11:24:00.000-08:00

Well last night John (my cousin) took me to a Japanese restaurant so I could have sushi. That was interesting because I've never had seafood before much less VERY foreign seafood, very foreign RAW seafood... And it's not as if you can try just a little bit of anything. You either cram it all in your mouth and nearly choke, or don't eat it. And as I'm sure all of you know I do not have a small mouth but I had to spit something back onto my plate at one point and try to naw it in half because it was WAY too big. So I had one kind of sushi with avocado, raw salmon (I think), raw fish eggs, and cucumber all wrapped up in rice and seaweed. Then I had raw spicy tuna wrapped in the rice and seaweed, raw yellowtail on rice (this is the one I had to spit out or choke ^_^o), raw ginger slices, soybean broth and tofu soup, and then a whole tone of raw fish eggs wrapped in seaweed. All of these were dipped in soy sauce and this weird green horseradish stuff. It was all exeptionally foreign to me, so basically what I "liked" was the stuff that was somewhat familiar. Like the soup, the yellowtail and the spicy tune (it tasted a bit like mexican food). And the other stuff will take a whole lot of getting used to before I'll be able to figure out if I like or not. But it was a very good experience to have in the states so I don't freak out and throw up on my host family. ^_^o

2002-02-08T13:54:00.000-08:00

Watashi wa genki desu! genki genki genki... ^_^ I got my travel packet today in the mail. It doesn't really tell me much that I care about but my mom freaked when she saw the luggage tags. ^_^o So yah....I still have no clue about my host family. Oh and since people keep asking my last day at school is the 15 of March and I leave for L.A. on the 18 really really early. So I'm going out for sushi tonight. ^_^ I really hope I can tolerate Japanese food....I kinda like bland stuff and have never had seafood... probably not a good thing, but I geuss I'll deal. Oh yeah and I got a Kimono on ..... Wednesday. I have no clue how to put it on but it's fun to look at and pretend I'm wearing it.... *sigh* pathetic I know. That's about it on the japanese front (except the pretty origami heart I made in Japanese class). I went to a math meet yesterday. That was awesome. I love dorks. ^_^ (no offense to any dorks reading this, I'm one too) But the busride was ... how you say...interesting... ("just because mine's on the floor!")...::chuckles:: yeah well I think I'll go scarf some more candy hearts and then go running and puke them up on the roadside (always my favorite passtime)

2002-02-05T18:27:00.000-08:00

Well I got my Japanese dictionary and Kanji dictionary today....that's about it on the Japan news....but there was an interesting thought in Chemistry yesterday. Since a cat always lands feet first and a piece of buttered toast always lands butter side down, what would happen if you butter a cat? Would it hover above the ground and spin? And if it did, could you harness the energy?....hmmmm....must test....

2002-02-04T16:55:00.000-08:00

Yay! I just figured out how to post these messages.... I'm soo smart! ^_^o Yeah well ummm.... I don't have anything to say... I just wanted to figure out how to post these things....lalalalalalalalalalala....EE!EE!EE!EE! Fly little albino squirrel! EE!EE!EE! Fly albino squirrels mother (chucks white wash clothes under table)...*cough* uh....I think I'm going to go take my medicine now...

2002-02-03T11:26:00.000-08:00

Well I'm not really in Japan yet, but I will be soon so all of you lucky peoples gets to hear about me freaking out for the five weeks prior to leaving *waaaaaaah*

2002-02-03T11:13:00.000-08:00

Yo! It's me! My random psycho babble starts now!!