On Thursday all of the AFS classes went on an excursion again. This time we visited the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology. It was pretty neat. I took a ton of pictures, although I can't upload them now, and the museum had some cool stuff. We learned that the Toyota Group had its beginning right where the museum now stands, since the site is the former Toyoda Spinning & Weaving Co., Ltd. headquarters plant. In the museum there was a huge hall full of all kinds of looms and spinning machines and things like that. Later on there's a huge area full of cars and models and different things having to do with automobiles. It was fun.
On Thursday and Friday this week I went to a big arcade that's near the school with a lot of the other AFS students. I did purikura several times :)
Now it's the weekend, except this time it's a three-day weekend because Marine Day is on Monday. As far as I know, I'm going to a sumo wrestling event or something like that today and I'm going to go shopping with my host mom's friend's daughter (who is my age) on Monday.
I've had a soar throat since yesterday. I hope it won't get too bad. I don't want to be sick.
I prefer the weekdays a lot more. That's because I have a nice routine and I have things to do and I get to spend time with the other students. I may have gone over this before, but it's basically like this: I get up around 7:30 am and I get ready and then I eat breakfast with my host grandparents. I usually expect bread and blueberry yogurt and milk, though it has been switched up before. Then I brush my teeth and prepare things for the day before watching TV for a bit. Finally my host grandpa drives me to the subway station and I take the subway for about 35 minutes or so. I.C. Nagoya (the language school) is in a big building full of other offices. The underground area by the subway leads to the elevator area on the first basement floor of the building, so I go up and I arrive about 30 minutes before class starts. Then more people start to show up and we hang out or whatever for the remaining time we have.
School is really easy and my class never gets any homework and sometimes we play games or do activities. I was hoping to learn a lot of new grammer in this school this summer, but everything we've done in that area is just review for me. The only new things I'm learning are some vocabulary words, but I'm still disappointed. I'm just not dwelling on it too much anymore.
After school people go to places nearby, and there are a lot of department stores and stuff. I usually get home around 5:00 pm or later. Sometimes I talk a lot with my host grandma before dinner. I go to my host family's house for dinner (because I have a unique hosting situation). After an hour or so I come back to the house I'm living in. In the evenings I usually watch TV for a little while with my host grandparents before going to bed.
I'm sad that there's only one more week of school left. I'm going to miss everyone.
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