Friday, September 2, 2011

(Enter Epic Title Here)

Tea Knocker
     If you ever been to Japan or seen a Japanese people you'd know that they are very svelt and slender. So they like to build narrow streets, compact cars, and even small bathrooms. Well this is week my district which only had two exchange students decided to merged with District 2700 Fukuoka which has 6 students for an orientation. Well that the small party at the restaurant &And (Yes the sign and then the name of the sign is very repetitive but I guess that's what makes it stylish) and the whole time I was thinking I'm huge compared to everyone else but I'll try my best to blend in. Of course it'd be that exact moment where I extend my arm and knock over the Polish Exchange students tea... Making it World: 1 Khanh: 0.

Captain Under Pants
     My host family are like the nicest people ever. They told me we were going shopping but I vaguely understand why.... When we finally get there it turns out we were trying to find a converter for my laptop charger [Which has three pangs and ALL Japanese outlets only take two(Its a good thing that you can break the third pang and still have the charger working<But maybe I shoulda waited because my older brother a.k.a Anyo brought me converter today>)] but that wasn't it. It turns out the real reason we were there was to buy me underpants. My host father says that my white underwear would be mocked so I need to buy briefs... I had no choice but to agree. Let me tell you underwear shopping is internationally the most uncomfortable thing a grown son can do with his father. Especially in my case because IM HUGE. We had to get the cashier to help us, so she measured me.... fixed her glasses, then measured me again. We had to hunt down these mythical giant underwear, so we went to the underwear section's worker person...and now the party of embarrassment grew even bigger -_-. But my host dad.... G-ZUS... he paid for all that and some white Tees a pair of shoes and my double scooped ice cream all of it was probably over 20,000 yen. Thus making this the most heartwarming embarrassing moment of my life.

Did I unknowingly sign up for the military?
     Honestly PE in Japan can be one of horror stories we tell the unmotivated kids if they ever feel like they're being overworked in PE, we can reply with AT LEAST YOU'RE NOT IN JAPAN. My first day of PE they had us doing two person handstand. With one person acting as the base while the other does a handstand off of them. There apparently is two different ways to do it and both of them are crazy hard. Second day (today Sept. 2nd) we were doing 3 person acrobatics. Basically one if the base he carries all three, one person stands on the the base's knees and keeps the third person balance as he does a handstand. And the other method... its just too hard to describe. Usually the people that finish first are rewarded with just building a human pyramid today the coach felt sorry for us 10th graders and let us finish early [By that I mean stop with the acrobatics and go to the pyramid] G-ZUS was it hard, I being the biggest one there was the base and for them all being super skinny Japanese guys THEY'RE HEAVY. (Maybe its because of their giant meal portions- personally I cannot finish the course but I do force myself to eat the school lunch box because I'm there for another 7 hours after lunch-) Did I mention this was JUST guys? Where are girls you ask? I answer with...dancing. Only a couple meters away from us the girls are learning a dance. And to top all of that off is my own situation.... I've yet to recieve the uniform so I wear a bright white and silver shorts for PE. And when ever I mess up or fall (while trying to do handstands) I'd laugh and at the end I'd be beaming just because I tried....while everyone else has the *I wish I was somewhere* else look. Ah, if you didn't think that was military enough I'd like you know we went marching around the track today AND every time the students meet the must make sure they are in straight lines with all their classmates and must hold out their hands to make sufficient space between them and their classmate and must hold that position until the teacher says to drop their hand?? Ha yeah....

Sorry that's it for tonight I have school tomorrow.... yes I know tomorrow is Saturday..........

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