A Tour

This is a virtual tour of Ashiya Gakuen Senior High School.
http://www.ashiya.ed.jp/hi/life/facilities/all.html
All I can say is .......
Yeah. I'm speechless. 

Requests? Anyone?

Here are some things people have asked that I bring them back:

* A Totoro bed

* pictures of literally everything

*A samurai sword

* Weird gummy candy

*Jackie Chan

* an old man, preferably a fisherman

* School uniforms

* tempura

Also, I know Jackie Chan is not Japanese. The kid who asked me, however, doesn't seem to care. It went like this.

"Yo, Sofia, bring me back a Japanese guy."
"Jesus, I'm not bringing you back anything."
"Pleaaaaaase."

"No."

"WAIT. BRING ME JACKIE CHAN."
"wtf? he's chinese!"
"So? Swim across and get him."

I'll try to send trinkets and tchatchkies. And postcards/letters. Lots of those.

Leave a comment if you have a request. Just no people or weapons. Only Andrew Vargo can ask for weapons.

FINALLY. My home-stay information is here. 

Town: Neyagawa
Prefecture: Osaka*

*This is scary. Osaka has its own dialect. Yes, they speak Japanese, but the grammar is different from that of all of the other prefectures, but I'll be going to school in Hyogo, a good hour-and-a-half bus ride away. 

School: Ayashi Gakuen Senior High School (If Michael Wessell is reading this, he should know that this is a private high school).

Family: The Migitas. 
Yukio (dad)
Yukako (mum)
Yukika (sister, junior)
Kouzaburou (brother, senior)
Yon and Supika, their dogs

BLOGFRIENDS. THIS IS CRAZYAWESOME. They sent me a letter and pictures. I'll try to translate and post the letter in its entirety. 

If you're reading this (which, if you are, you deserve a hug and a brownie because I have no way of knowing if I have any followers), please comment with your address so I can send a post card and a tchatchkie when I get to Japan.

 

Just some girl showing off the school, which looks like a cruise liner

That tiny dot. THAT TINY DOT.
thisissocrazyidonteven

 

More Basics

more basics.
sorry about this.

POPULAR SPORT: baseball and sumo. great combination
OTHER SPORTS: judo, kendo (fencing)
FAVORITE MUSICIANS: j-pop
TRADITIONAL FORMS OF MUSIC: koto, shamisen
POPULAR GAMES: goh, 
FAVORITE FOODS: sushi, tempura, all seafood
ENTERTAINMENT: kabuki, video games

thank you for sitting through that. 
here is a machine throwing tennis balls for a beagle.
 

Straight Basics

The almighty global online course wants me to tell you guys about Japan's geography. You ready?

CONTINENT: asia
CAPITAL: tokyo
SIZE: 377385 sq.km.
NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES: china&korea but you already knew that
CLIMATE: chill
NATURAL DISASTERS: well that's a sensitive topic
NATURAL RESOURCES: wood
POPULATION: 127287277
LIFE EXPECTANCY: men - 78.8,women - 85.6 
FERTILITY RATE: 1.39 kids
MORTALITY RATE: 3.32 people
ETHNIC GROUPS: japanese - 99%,other - 1%
RELIGIOUS GROUPS: buddhism/Shintoism
LANGUAGES: japanese, english
LITERACY RATE: 99%
PERCENTAGE THAT GOES TO UNIVERSITY: 44.8%
 NATIONAL HOLIDAY: could not find it
CONSTITUTION DAY: may 3
COUNTRY FROM WHICH THEY GAINED INDEPENDENCE: none
YEAR OF INDEPENDENCE: always 
PRIME MINISTER: yoshiko noda
POLITICAL PARTIES:   -democratic party of japan
                                       -liberal democratic party
                                       -people's life first
                                       -new komeito
                                       -your party
                                       -japanese communist party
                                       -social democratic party
                                       and like 50 million others
POLITICAL SYSTEM: parlimentary with a constitutional monarchy

 

71 days until I leave


 

Holllllllllllly sh-

A Taste of Japan

This is one of my favorite websites

www.wtfjapanseriously.com

Happy Friday!!