I'm writing another entry to avoid doing homework right now.
In my 'international student handbook' it was talking about how japanese friendships work. You first have the honeymoon, devorce and then marriage. Which means that eveyone is going to welcome you because you're new and show you how great Japan is (honeymoon). Then when they get use to you they start to ignore you since you're no longer interesting (devorce). Then after a while when they get to know you, the real friendship starts (marriage.)
At the moment i'm starting to feel a bit of the honeymoon part and a bit of the devorce part. For example last week-begining of this week some of the boys at school were teaching me weird things to say to their friends (read 16/5 post) but now they're kind of bored of hearing me say stupid stuff and haven't talked to me too much (devorce.) But at the same time so other boys from other classes (who I probably said all the weird things too) are trying to teach me more weird stuff like "kuchikusai" or your mouth/breath stinks.(honeymoon).
Also because of the lack of communication its hard to have a propper conversation with people. At lunch I sat with a bunch of girl but they didn't really talk to me. I kind of felt inferior to them since I had no idea what was going on. I also feel that some of them were nice to me as a curtisy rather than actually wanting me to join their group.
So my general plan is to go around and talk to lots of different people even if its just to say hello. That way I can get to know people (and not piss them off by tagging along) as well as keep my individuality.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention, Yesterday during lunch I heard music coming out of the room next door and I went to check it out and there were some kids who were dancing and so I went and talked to them. I also met a weird but cool girl who likes to shout, she was teaching me words like "daisuki and aishiteru" which mean I like/love you. (hmmm... boys are teaching me 'you stink' and the girls are teaching me 'I like you'... I guess i'm getting the best of both worlds.) Now everytime I see her she shouts 'daisuki' and I shout louder than her and she shouts louder. etc. Now that I think of it we have a game like that at home except everyone shouts "pe-
Ok, next point. Here's what REALLY inspired me to write this entry.
I told my homestay mum that the boys at school were teaching me weird things to says and the first thing she said was "did they teach you Majide?" <-- in Japanese
Bullseye. まじで/Majide was one of the first words they taught me. She's a school teacher so that might give her an upper edge, however she was good at guessing some of the words. Then she went on to teach me more weird/ bad words (not swears.) The bad thing is... I forgot them all :O
P.S i'm going to see pirates of the caribbean tomorrow, Yay!! Japanese people love disney just as much as westerners love anime. How much is that? Alot.
One day my homestay parents took me to a disney shop and then skipped the Studio Ghibli shop... :(
Japanese people aren't that into anime, who knew.
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