Golden Week is over!

It's now Wednesday night, 10:12 pm on May 6th. Today is the last day of Golden Week (which is Japan's version of Spring Break) and I have to go back to school tomorrow and Friday. Last week, we had Wednesday off which was spent working on our palaquin for the race held on Monday. The theme was "Gaikoku Cats", which means "Foreign Cats" since all of us 8 in the race were white and either from America, Estonia, or Latvia.

On Saturday, the three of us (Sara, Rachel, and I) went back to school to practice for the relay and the after, we walked around town with our friend Aki, who is from Taiwan. We ended up going shopping and then hanging out back at the dorm. On Sunday, we all meet my tutor/friend Risa in Yonezawa for a big festival that involved a battle re-enactment towards the end. It was really fun and half way through, we had lunch at a make your own "okonomiyaki" place. Everyone's turned out well, except mine was like a blob. Monday was the race, which was fun but harder than I thought it would be. We ended up dressing like cats and being interviewed so I made it onto Japanese TV! My team ended up winning a "special award"- so we got a trophy, certificate, and some food. We were quite the spectacle.

During that time, my camera decided to fail on me, with the LCD scren going white meaning I couldn't see what I was taking a picture of or look at any of my pictures. After contacting Kodak and learning that I would have to wait until I got back to the States to get it fixed, I decided to buy a new one, have it shipped to America, and then have it shipped out here to me. Today, the three of us went bowling with all of our Japanese friends (Risa, Rina, Anna, Natsue, and Hideto) with everyone pulling out mad skills except the Americans...we then made all of our friends play Dance Dance Revolution since some of them had never played it before (shock!).

On Sunday, a group of us are going to do karaoke which is very exciting since this is the first time during this trip for us to do it. We already have some songs picked out to sing! Hopefully, no records it.

I have pictures up on Facebook and Photobucket so go check them out if you can!