Hello 日本

Last night, I had a sleepover at Amy’s house!!
It was super fun. We had tacos for dinner. It was quite hilarious, really, because Amy had eaten all the cheese at lunch, so her host mom sliced up gouda cheese hahaha!!! Yeah, but gouda and tacos don’t really mix, so poor host mom went out and bought cheese!!! The tacos were pretty good, though, and I’ve now been recruited to make them for my host family too.
We spent the majority of the night watching Bones on Amy’s laptop. We also stayed up until like 12 AM talking. Which is some crazy stuff, because I’m usually in bed by 9:30. Still suffering from major tiredness here.
Despite the massive rainstorm and Riku’s (host family’s dog) hysterical barking, we woke up pretty early (around 8:30 AM), and lallygagged about in bed for a while (I’d like to mention now that I slept in Minami’s bed, and while going under the covers, I discovered a freaking BASKETBALL in her bed!! Minami is a huuuuge basketball freak). We watched some more Bones, ate pancakes and poptarts for breakfast, and eventually got showered and dressed around noon. Then Amy straightened my hair (STICK straight!) and we had a quick snack before leaving.
We walked to Midori, a huge electronics store, because I am considering buying a new MP3 player…But they’re not very common here because everyone just uses their phones, so all there are is iPods and Sonys, neither of which I really am fond of. Anyway, we first went the wrong way, due to Amy’s host mom’s lack of map drawing skills. And the walk was supposed to be 15 minutes. Instead we spent 1/2 an hour walking there in the boiling hot sun and humidity. It was basically death.
We looked through Midori and a shoe store there before walking all the way back to Amy’s house, once again in the boiling hot sun. We consoled ourselves by the fact that we were getting tans and losing weight. I’m definitely significantly darker on my arms now.
Back at Amy’s house, we had PB&J sandwiches for lunch. I also formally met Takaya, Amy’s host brother….after awkwardly seeing him half naked in the hall. I basically ran into Minami’s room and hid. It was awkward. His English is reeeaallly bad, so we didn’t talk much.
Then Amy’s host mom drove us to Round 1, a bowling and arcade place. We went and did purikura twice, but only got it to my cellphone the second time, because we ran out of time on the first one I don’t like purikura time limits.
We took our time walking back to Amy’s house, stopping in a cute little park and getting lost along the way. Got back to her house and watched some more Bones. Then Papa came to pick me up. Oh!! I forgot to mention! My host mother’s car has broken air conditioning, so for her birthday (this Saturday), she got a new MERCEDES BENZ!!!!!! It’s the nicest car eeeeverrr!! I love it. It’s sooo smooth. And new. And beautiful.
So I got driven home in the Mercedes