ANGELS AND DOREMONS
May 21st 2009 13:51
I truly apologise for such a late entry. I’ve been investing too much of my time and attention on writing my second manuscript; I’ve now completed the first draft. Anyway I hope all is well with you all.
I woke up at about five in the morning because I couldn’t sleep. My host mother or “Mama” or whatever the hell she wanted me to call her gave me two pieces of toast and a glass of warm water for breakfast and asked me a number of questions I couldn’t understand. She then told me that I’ll be late, that I should run to the train station to meet Natalie. I said, Sure, but by the time I headed out Natalie was in front of my house. Apparently I was so late she decided to meet me there instead.
“Hi!” she beamed.
“Hi,” I said.
My host mother followed the both of us to the station, which was only a few minutes away. She then pressed a number of things on a computer and gave me a ticket and said something and smiled and waved the both of us goodbye.
“Okay,” Natalie said, taking off her gloves and then pulling out a map and timetable. “I’ve worked out the route for both of us to take in the mornings. We can catch a bus this morning just to see the path, and, if it’s not too long, we can walk or jog tomorrow morning to save money and work out.”
Natalie told me about her host family during the bus trip. After the awkward lunch with them the other day I expected her to say something awful about her first night there. But she didn’t. She had the time of her life. They were funny and inquisitive and loved her presents and kept giving her food. She said that for breakfast, her host mother gave her a Japanese pizza, a bowl of salad, an egg, some tea, some milk, some yoghurt and some toast. She asked me what I had.
“Yeah, pretty much the same.”
We hopped off the bus and Natalie instantly spotted a 99 yen store. We rushed inside and fair enough, everything was 99 yen. I quickly found a few cans of beer and bought them. We headed out, slightly happier, and headed for the university which was apparently nearby. I pulled out a can of beer to have a much needed drink but Natalie wouldn’t let me; she didn’t understand that it’d been more than a whole day since I’d had alcohol.
As soon as we walked into the university, girls started taking photos of Natalie. They screamed,
KAWASUGIRU!
Which means extremely cute. She blushed and hid behind me and my bag of beers.
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