Freakezette
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Just last month I went to Osaka, Japan and stayed with Hitomi, a girl I hosted when she came to America. It was awesome!! I have an album up of some of the pictures she and I took: (
Osaka 2005)
And here's some purikura we took!
It looks like you had a ton of fun, I'm so jealous. My good friend from my japanese class just left for fall semester at Kansai Gaidai (in the Osaka-prefecture, so he'll be around where you were). I feel like the women of Kansai need to be warned that they are all about to hit on by a skinny tall tattooed American. If you are there, his name is Ian, tell the girls to stay away.
biggrin Ha, I WISH I was there. As soon as I got home I wanted to go back again!
But to tell you the truth, there were some downsides, too. But I like to put it this way:
--36 bug bites
--3 dog bites
--food poisoning
--ear infection
--two weeks of menstruation
--a slight hickey O_o
--being called gaijin by yakuza
--losing eight pounds after being sick
--having the flu
--rooming with an over-talkative preaching mormon who speaks Japanese in a hick accent despite her three years of Japanese Language class ("duu ittiishiimeshattuh!!")
--missing the world expo in Nagoya
--missing the golden temple
--missing tokyo towers AND the imperial palace
--throwing up 2 out of 10 hours on the plane
--FINALLY getting home... and missing Japan terribly
It was worth all that and more, quite frankly. I loved it. Especially the first week when I stayed with my host family; they were so nice to me, and so considerate, and so much fun to be with!
I won't get back there until next year (hopefully, if mine and Kazuya's plans don't fall through), but I'm just glad to be going back! I hope they end up visiting me, too. Hitomi's really awesome and a ton of fun to shop and go to Karaoke with, and Kazuya is, well, the nicest person I've ever met. They don't make boys like that here..
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