Karaoke and the weekend

Yesterday was the normal day of classes and tests that Thursday entails. Japanese for Science and Technology is proving to be a hard class because we're expected to read technical writings in Japanese and actually comprehend them when I'm not familiar with over half the words, but eh, I'll be fine.

Last night, we went to a karaoke parlor. In Japan, going to Karaoke is a bit different then in America. There are whole businesses dedicated to karaoke. You rent a room and get two mic's. Everyone just sits around the table and chooses songs out of telephone book-size catalogs.

I enjoyed singing my heart out again cause I haven't been doing that much lately - no choir in Japan. The Japanese students were great and so cute when they tried to sing in English. It was bunches of fun!

We had to ride bikes rented from an international club here, and then we road down the narrow sidewalks to go there. The bikes are road bikes - you have to go fast to keep balanced, but we went in a group so we were all following the person in front close behind so it made it really interesting. We finally finished our singing around 2 am, so riding a bike on a Japanese street at that time is definitely an interesting experience.

Today, we only had two hour of class in the morning. I still don't know what I'll be doing the rest of the day.

Saturday, we're going to do homestays. I'll be spending two days and one night with a Japanese family. I met the mother a week ago, and it sounds like we'll have a good time. She didn't speak much English at all, so it'll really test my Japanese. The funny thing is their whole family is relaly small. She was probably about at my elbow. I'm sure she weighs half of what I do, so it'll be interesting in pictures, I'm sure. I'm not really sure what we'll be doing for the time. I guess we'll see.

Thanks to mom for the glasses and the cookies!!!! You're awesome!!

Rose peeps : I miss you!!!