This weekend feels so much different than last (!). A lot of the students have gone to do homestay (where they get to bunk at some stranger’s house for the weekend and cook and clean for them) so there’s a lot of people missing. I wanted to also do homestay but I kept thinking about it and kept thinking about it and by the time I decided, it was too late.

Monday there’s a huge kanji exam and Tuesday there’s also a kaiwa exam that I’ve been studying for all weekend. I took advantage of the fact that many aren’t around to clean up my place, buy some needed junk, and study more. I don’t think I’m prepared for Monday’s five-thousand-plus kanji exam.

Friday night I went out to Fujigaoka to this restaurant that we found a few weeks ago where it feels like everybody knows our names. I pigged out (it felt so great to do so) and began drinking there. I had wanted to stop drinking there because I got a message from Lee on my cell inviting me over for drinks when I got home, but a total stranger came in and bought us all more drinks (x_x)

On the bus ride home, I sat at the back seat (which seats four comfortably). The seat to my left was free and I saw a girl standing up so I told her it’d be OK for her to sit down, and she did! Turns out she’s been studying English forever and was dying to practice with natives. One of her friends also on the bus talked with us; she was the only one to eventually get off at our stop.

On the way home, which this girl decided to walk with us halfway, me and one of the other guys (which by this time we were both still pretty tipsy) began joking around with her. Somehow I got called gay, so to prove myself I offered to kiss the Japanese girl right then and there. Well that kind of freaked her out a little bit and she began yelling “iyaaaa daaaaaa!!!” as she laughed and hid behind the other people.

One of these days, my “I can kiss you right here, right now!” line will work on somebody ― I just know it.