Honestly, school in Japan is only about ten times funner than here. Cuz everyone is soo friendly and always so energetic...not to mention hilarious! Ahh I miss KJ. It seems so long ago that I was playing hacky sack in the hall with the boys, Michelle, Miho and Kasumi, randomly sitting in classes and talking to the kids in the back, eating our sweet obentos during lunch and spending 5 hours at Karaoke.

Miki Anbo! So I went to summer classes with Saki during my last three days there, and after class Saki went to meet up with her love Tomohiro Kun, while I ate lunch with Miki and Misaki. Then I dropped by the gym to help them set up for Volleyball practice and watched them play. Japanese girls are soo cute, but I realized when it comes to sports...everyone of them can beat the crap out of you..

Misaki CHan! I don't know if the leaf is mainly for decoration or is it really edible..

Taiku with 2C again. CHika is the volley ball captain..so I grinned everytime we were on the same time. There's  Shiori's signature expression...that appears on every single picture. Then theres Mari who always says, " Oh! Oh Hi!!" and "Oh! Sorry datta!"

2D Boyz! Hehehehehe...these dudes are sOoo Funny! I don't think Gou ever takes a picture with a normal expression and Akira is always too shy to look at the camera. Michelle and I both agree that Katsuhiro looks pretty sweet in framed glasses and Ryuu is just soooo cute!

Yay! The little kids at Matsuki. They are first years in middle school, but some are going through some extreme growth spurt, cuz um..they are taller than Michelle and I...which is quite embarrasing. So I rest my arm on the short ones whenever I get a chance..hehehhe. When they first met us, they were like ," okay, Se no! How are you?" and Michelle and I were like " Se no, Konnichiwa." Ohh they are sooo cute. Theres Honoko, Aki, Chinatsu, Atsumi and Yuka.

My speech during the school festival. I had to go first, cuz um, everyone chickened out! Anywho, it was good except for the fact hat my hand starting shaking like a vibrator and I believe the first 5 rows were well aware of it. Yes, out of the 7 million speeches I had to make up, this was probably one of the better ones.

My Tea Ceremony club buddies, Emiri and Yuma! And of course my sister Saki. Yes, Tea Ceremony sounds extremely lame. I thought so too at first, but it's really amazing how complicated and difficult it is to get everything right and still look smooth and sophisticated. I only sat in 2 club practices...thank god..cuz I pretty much couldn't feel my legs for 2 hours...

My class, 2D, practicing our class performance during the school festival prep week. They chose Aerosmith cuz then I could join in the fun. Yes...indeed..my class has quite a few slackers and we fool around most of the time..so we ended practicing only 2 times before going on stage. It was funny, cuz you can pretty much only hear the guys sing at the top of their lungs and during some parts, I distinctively heard some of their voices break.. bwahahaha. It was cool though. Michelle's class on the other hand were sooo PRO.

MISATO!! I love her Umbrella dance.hehehehe

Yes...I do not understand why my locker stinks so badly...and why ONLy mine stinks?! Michelle, do you secretly spray BAN into your locker?? Tell the truth!

Yousuke..aka.. PIKACHU! This was during the school festival, when we had a drag-show competition. Guys from everyclass had to dress up as chicks and see who looks the sweetest. Other than the boys from my class, I would have to say Pikachu is one of my personal favorite.

I did parts of Ryuu's girl makeup for him...He's sooo pretty. Kazuki sits next to me in class, but he sat sideways and turned his back against for the first 3 weeks. I thought he seemed like a really cold person, but it turned out he was just really shy and nervous. He started talking to me a bit and even joined in our hacky-sack games with Akira and Katsuhiro.

2B Nandaimon BBQ party time! Yoko and her huge blue hair clip. Actually all the girls have a huge hair clip, and they wear it to school in the morning...I find it strange that even the guys have one that they stick on their backpacks.

Oh man, Poor Kazuya. He is always being abused! hahaha.

Oh the Plane back to LA. Kasumi! This is all for you!! Bishyo!

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- Smily

It's hard to adjust, comming back here and all. Six weeks passed by before I had time to look back; however, during this time, I came to fully appreciate the culture and love the people around me. 

Last day of school with Gou, Katsuhiro, Ryuu, Fumihiro, Akira and, of course, Michelle....when am I not with Michelle? We pretty much traveled in pairs..

Ran into Shin, Kohei and Wada when Michelle and I were wondering around taking pictures during our 2nd to last day there...They just finished baseball practice. I was really glad to meet them again before I left.

I came to know Takashi when we were stuck on the train for 2 hours due to some serious rain. He spent a year in America and spoke really good English. I had so much fun talkin to him for the last time in the school library. Probably one of the most caring and sweetest person I met.

Takuro...aka ...SCHOOl LEADER!!  I think he likes the attention Michelle and I draw sometimes..

2D Kareoke time! Natsuko, Sonoko and Hiromi!!

2D karaoke again...Ryuu and Gou..yes very skilled at karaoke..especially Asian Kung-Fu Generation.

Saki and I at Sunkus after NanDaimon party with 2B buddies! Sunkus is soo sweet..I could live off that place.

SChool Festival time..hung out with the cool dudes! Kazuya, Shin, Fumiaki, Tatsuya Kou and Hiroki.

Third Years Taking Purikura at NamcoLand! Haruka, Izumi, Misato and Marie!

Natsuko Chan!! She burned her hand while making cupnoodles..ouch! but She's soooo cute!

Katsuhiro on top of Hiroki..hehehehehehe...

SChool festival prep time...D kumi working our butts off making stain glass windows late at night..Though out of all the classes, D kumi is probably the lazy...therefore...our stainglass kind of sucked...which was expected, cuz we spent half the time fooling around..hahaha.

At Odate-Nishiro airport, its always hard to say good. I was a faucet...

LA airport, parting with Sasha and Michelle...Last teary fairwell of the day. I think my eyes were puffy for two days..

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YAY! I am back form JAPAN! Actually, that is not so much a "YAY" but much like a...."OH CRAP...I'M BACK."...but to lift my own spirits ...I am updating my xanga as well as some SWEEET PHOTOS. The truth is my buddy HIROKI wants to see these pixies..so here they are ISHI-chan! ENjoy !

This would be KJ...or the KATAYAMA part of KJ...I Looooove this school!! I miss the stinky lockers....or more like MY stinky locker...and the halls where Michelle, me and the cool people played Hacky-sack... I miss the days we sat in the hall way at 9pm during the school festival preparation doring stain glass decorations...I actually drifted to C class ( even though i belong to D class) to help do their stain class...cuz you know....thats where the food was...so that explains alot. Bwahaha. Yes, can't forget the bikes...30 minutes of bike time and train time every morning and every evening. I even miss the 'oh my god I might just die now' bathrooms...and the gym of course cuz thats where the volley ball action happened...ok more to go so lets move on!

Heres gym class with 2C kumi! The girls rock at volley...and by the end of the 6 week..I still could use a little practice..Maybe the funnest class of every day...taiku yo!

Yes Random pictures that tells bits and pieces of the 6 weeks...but the coolest pixies..

2B kumi Boyz...Kazuya, Shin, Hiroki, Masaya...oh yes the pyramid..oh I LOVE YOU GUYS!

2B kumi's Ayumi and Misato...the times they were not reading Sukebe (perverted) Manga in class....but as you can see...Misato is still holding one..and as for Ayumi's eyebrows...I really don't know...but I honestly like them!

Michelle and I chilling between class and showing off our bracelets from CHIKA!!! The Volley ball Cap'tain! Oh shes the best....I like your tan michelle...

SChool Festival Prep time. KATSUHIRO dressed up as a school girl...honestly though...he was cute..we just haven't put that orange hair on him yet. Kohei's not too bad inthe background too.

All the ryuugakkusei at KJ. Right before our goodbye ceremony and our goodbye ceremony speech and performance..everyone was freaking out like monkeys but in between...this is what we did to relieve stress...

2 NEN D KUMI all the way!

DANA with her ' TREE FROM HELL' and Kitajima Sensei..

TATSUYA! We hung out at the School fest. Ta-chan Daisukidayo!

The sickest teacher in school yo! During the BBQ party in Saki's backyard..and working on our fireworks there but as you can see..mine died out.. AOYAMA actually said.." oh Im so fucked up" after he drank about 10 gallons of beer..He took us shopping during class time as well..hehehehe...HE'S sooo COOL!

CHIKA!!!!!!!!!!!!! First at SunKus on the day of BBQ with 2B Boys, Ayumi and YOko. THen During English Business class with Shiori, Misaki, Hitomi and Michelle.

Yes, I'll be back for more photos...cuz I only took about 12 hundred of them..

Dude. I got in. I can't believe it. After 3 months of waiting and constantly bugging Leann for assurance, I finally got in. Somehow I knew I would, but the letter smacked me in the face. I can't believe I am going to Japan for 6 weeks. Thats a month and a half with no parents, or no biological parents,no brothers, no close friends, no  In-n-Out, Jumba Juice, starbucks and junk of that sort. How am I gona survive there when I can barely say I need to pee without resorting to crude sign language. Nevertheless, I am totally psyched. The only drawback would be not being here for Mraz's 2nd album, his concert and the release of Harry Potter. I planned on lining up at Barnes with all the little kids on July 16th. hehehe. Ah well, this is so much more exciting!