gonna just post a short summary of the trip first.
first two days were really great. at first when i met my buddy's host family, it was really fun, because my buddy's family were quite a lively outspoken bunch.
my buddy's eng was pretty good, so almost everything that i know in jap, she can do it in english. yea din't really try talking in jap all the time cos it was somewhat awkward. but anyway, it was pretty fun talking in english + half broken jap, and actually the confusion in communication was what made it interesting.
we had no lessons for first two days cos the rits students had an excursion and some games day thing. so it wasn't that much to do. first day, i ate curry for dinner, second day takoyaki, which i tried making too and din't really succeed cos i broke quite a few while inverting them. regret not taking photo for this haha.
the third day we had to go over to NINS for some science workshop. honestly it was quite sian. and me and chee shudn't have chose basic bio, cos it wasn't basic at all, at least to us ppl who dropped bio. well we managed to get by without really understanding how it works. me, hong jing and chee were mainly trying to help them translate what they wanted to say into english.
and anyway, we stayed overnight at some hostel during the workshop. its abit shabby i guess, but wasn't too bad ba. bath was public, though there were screens for shower. food was not too bad actually. well the girls apparently stayed up gossiping about the guys, while the guys just talked random stuff. played some cards and so on.
so anyway our presentation was quite bad, cos compared to other groups, we couldn't reinforce the knowledge cos we din't really get anything. but we were first to present and it din't really matter i guess. went to toyata museum and it was really cool, with the car assembly demonstrations and some random place called technoland with a 15 m/s wind machine haha.
i kinda felt that we wasted two days though, since travelling from kyoto to nagoya took 3 hours, and it was like 5 by the time we came back.
then it was the weekends. kinda wanted to arrange going out as a big group, or at least a small group with chee and hong jing and whoever else who wanted to follow us, cos we wanted to shop for anime stuff together.
thing was my buddy had no wifi at all, so i couldn't use whatsapp and couldn't contact ppl directly. calling was really troublesome, idk why, cos their contract doesn't allow them to call much, its usually messages. so i guess i kinda put my buddy under quite a lot of stress trying to organize some outing to nara and shopping afterwards.
well it turned out pretty okay. visited a few places like some castle called niji-jo and arashiyama, which seems like a really nice place to hang around in summer. was without my buddy for both trips though. and i kinda wanted to go with friends too, but we weren't able to organize that so it was more like a family outing kinda thing. my buddy's young sister is very hyper and cute haha, so it was pretty fun too. sunday went to nara with yx to see all the deer :D. was really fun haha. but again my buddy couldn't go cos of exams.
well, i had quite a lot of fun for the weekend though i wanted to go with like chee and maybe spend some time shopping and looking for anime stuff and fazzing about stuff or something. i din't know it'll be so difficult to organize that, cos every family had their own plans, so i guess i created much more trouble for my host family than i expected, which i felt quite guilty about. but overall i enjoyed what they arranged for me
so yea i guess this trip i was pretty unlucky in the sense that i couldn't really interact much with my buddy. and after the stress of planning where do i go for the weekends, it got a little bit more awkward and we din't have as much to talk as before.
monday was like the last chance for desperate shopping. was a school day, and was pretty packed but there were lots of interesting activities. well their music lesson was unique, then a survival jap lesson. their pe was surprisingly fun. for physics we made a rainbow, and there was a flower arrangement after that, which we fooled around with. like making some spiral thing with the spare stems that we cut off.
after that, with some pleading and requesting i managed to get me, chee, yx, yong kuan and hong jing to go around shijo. we visited fushimi inari shrine first, which was some cool shrine near the school, though we spent less than 30 mins there.
shijo was really fun for me. i guess the rest bought their stuff already, but i haven't, cos i din't get the chance to during the weekend. went to animate awhile, again, though me and chee din't really have time to look around much, again, so we just got jookee's mag and went out. too bad i guess, so no anime souvenirs.
went around to get shirts, headbands, some food souvenirs. ate ramen, played taiko for awhile with chee. and it was already quite late D: so we couldn't go to the 100 yen shop or go to animate to look for stuff again. went to see fireflies instead. there was only a few that day though, compared to other days, but still pretty interesting.
spent like 4.4k yen in the airport cos otherwise i wouldn't have any souvenirs to give u guys. so yep sry, there's nothing but food that i can give. since everyone seems to have came back from their own programmes and stuff, i kinda want to have some outing for everyone to share food, souvenirs, and talk about some stuff haha.
so yea the trip was over like that. it was 8 days after all, but i felt it was quite a pity cos i din't get to do as much as i expected. but i guess im pretty grateful to my host family because they tried to engage me. wasn't the tearful goodbye like some of the other buddies, but yea i kinda liked my host buddy's family and i guess i'll miss them haha.
so yea that's about it lol. maybe i'll add pics that i took with my terrible phone camera. and i guess this wasn't as summarized as i thought it'll be haha. but anyway, it's pretty good to be back :D
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