So i was in the YFU Japan arrival orientation as a returnee for five sleepless days and just came home late in the evening of the 24th, that's the reason for not having updated lately. At the very moment i feel like a shit: my head hurts and throat is full of crap >,<" i ate some medicines yesterday so the fever is gone luckily---!!
So time to spend some time at home and cure this i think. Tho tomorrow i have no choice but to leave the house at least for some grocery shopping. Minus sides of living alone i guess.
Anywayzzz, it always gives me spirits to go on after having took part to a yfu orientation!! The energy, the hunger of life, the tension, the high hopes and excitement that you can feel in every movement of the students makes me try harder, to live deeper and to appreciate every single thing i have. It makes me more positive and gives strength to keep on going and trying the impossible. Sounds surreal but that's how i feel for weeks after an orientation session!! And there you have your own little spotlight and can raise your self-esteem as you get to stand in front of all the ppl and know you are the specialist in what you talk about and know that every word you say is important for those ppl to hear and that they really do listen to what you have to say!!
Plus the international atmosphere, interesting returnees that have the exchange experience of their own and can speak several languages *ww* makes me wanna travel and see everything and and and aaaaaa<3 makes me be more positive.
This time it also was nice to see how capable of speaking i actually am!! I got like hundreds of praises of my japanese skills, heard i have 'no accent' and speak 'like a native' from many many times from dozens of returnees/yfu staff/area reps, and of course i know it's not the truth and i have fucking much to learn but it's still nice to hear tho!! Every night we had a quite official meeting and i hadn't the slightest problem to catch up on the topics ( ´,`)~<3
But it makes me sad that once i'll be back in finland this all will vanish again for a while :/ and i cant write kanji anymore even if i could read them --__--"
There were some returnees that had been in my arrival orientation three years ago too, there were such a great ppl and some of which i really, really do look up to. I hate keigo (the the the hmmm... official and polite language you use when you talk to ppl you dont know/sempais etc) when there is no real respect behind it and when the person you talk to is only a year or two older than you and basically in the same kind of life situation, but to some of the ppl in the orientation i would use it even if it wasnt for the 'rules' and manners. I love the feeling you get when you manage to make a proper conversation with someone you respect, when you make a joke/good point etc and get good laughs for that, it just makes my day!! I wonder if someone would look up to me too. Those kind of moments are the ones that make me love doing substitutions in schools hehe
Anyway, when the camp was over and students on their ways to homes we had a little after party among some of us returnees where everyone were falling asleep in some point of the evening :__D we went to eat at first, then to a british pub i really fell in love with, and in the end to bowling and i really sucked XDD what happened to my once so great bowling skills?!? Before we even started drinking i was laughing at every single thing because of the tiredness, i mean i had slept for maybe a 20 hours during the last 5 days and ran from one place to another the whole week, had to use thinking skills and be social whole time etc. Tho the aarcs who were the 'bosses' this time slept even less, for like 2-3 hours a night >,<" japanese working morality is high. otsukaresama for all of us.
Hmmm i dont know what exactly should i tell about the camp so here some pics :D
The olympic center where it all took place. so nostalgic, this is the very place i first came to in japan, even the rooms we slept in this time were same and aaaa i still remember the frustration cuz we could see the tokyo's high buildings and lights from there but it was forbidden to sneak out... i guess if i hadnt been that young and naive enough to actually listen to those rules back then no-one would have noticed anything...
Rajio taisooooooo XD so the traditional japanese sports training :_D it was so funny hahahaha the faces of the students XD some of the returnees in the pic!
This this this^ i wanna taste every kitkat ever made ;_;<3
Japanese cultural lessons!
The last night we arranged this farewell party thing where every country had to presentate their own culture with a performance :D we made our own too, it was a surprise tho :D fashion show with a school uniform couple (me and andre[half german so that's why the non-japanese name]), otaku couple (ami-chan and shuutaroo hahahahaha he was like a real otaku lollll) and then yukata couple (yuumen and marei)! We all did some dance hahaha practising was so much fun, otakus danced the caramel dancen, the traditional japanese bon-odori and us two tsukematsukeru :__D
I have a video of us dancing it in our uniforms but last time i tried to uploaded a video here i heard there had been problems watching it so i guess i dont upload it then :/// here is the song tho, the part we danced starts 2:22
tsuuukematsuukematsukematsukeeeeeeee
Ami-chan with the programme
the whole group of exchange students! we took our own japan group picture too but not with my mobile so i dont have it yet D:
Team otaku XD soryy i just had to, hope it's okay? XD
the last morning's feelings of departure.
returnee derpy faces after staying awake for 5 days
some japanese tongue twisters! we tried to get off the nervousness of the students just before meeting the host families :D
A hug between the family and the student ;_; we all were so moved by this moment, my face hurt after smiling too much and some were crying and aaaa. moving. It was in the same hall i first met my family too ( ´,`)
To the afterparties!! At saizeriya (a really cheap japanese family restaurant group) lol
This!!!!!! The atmosphere was wonderful and aaaa!!!! it was 3pm when we started drinking tho XDD but from 4pm on there was a happy hour and everything was so cheap :D
kampaiii
bowl bowl bowl
hahaha japanese super bowling speed?
I'm the one in the upper row, compare to marei's (the 3rd from up) score......
I had to upload this too!! Yesterday morning, i had stayed up until 6am way to cure your flu and lack of sleep and suddenly the sun was rising and it was really beautiful ;3
Then i got this 11 facts challenge from cannibalcoast and at first i thought i'd put it in this post but since it's already this long it would be too much for one post i think! so tho i already wrote it i think i'll post it tomorrow lol i still have the post of suski's and elina's visit, the food diaries, and some other stuff i forgot to tell about my plans here to write! so look forward for them too~
And oh, i thought i should maybe update this blog a bit since i dont even have a proper profile tab... Well we'll see we'll see. today i'm just planning to die slowly and get bored here alone o/ you guys have a better day
