hysteria

two posts in one day?! HEEEEEEEE?

JET somewhat warned us of the ups and downs we were going to experience in japan. one year later, i am still subject to such emotional flip-flopping!

da story: today was a long day. i was at school from 8-5:30, then was driven by my supervisor over to the cultural center, where our culture festival will begin tomorrow. we practiced there till 8, and i was exhausted, but high on the fact that i'm going to be wearing a junior high school uniform for my dance performance tomorrow.

coupled with the fact that when i emerged onstage with the other dancers, the entire brass band began shrieking and catcalling at me.

dizzily happy after rehearsal, i was offered a ride from the 24-year-old math teacher. he's so tiny, so sweet, and so, so shy. i really like him, but he is always incredibly awkward around me, though polite.

i had no idea how this car ride was gonna go. we made our way over, yakking in japanese about the upcoming sports day (we're both running the relay), then he asked if it was okay for me to sit in the back. i assented, assuming that the front seat had junk on it.

i climbed in, and noticed that the front seat had nothing in it.

he climbed in, too, and we had lovely and spirited and non-awkward japanese conversation until he dropped me off. i was wondering why on earth he had made me sit in the back, thinking perhaps it was out of propriety?

then in dawned on me... a fun tidbit about japan i'd read months and months ago, maybe even a year ago. in japan, the seat of highest honor in the car is right behind the driver.

i. died. laughing. right there in the middle of my tiny kitchen.

he was honoring me!! BIGGEST LOLZ OF MY ENTIRE LIFE!!

still chucking to myself, i showered and began to towel off in my room. that's when i heard it. the buzz. the clicking against my windows, behind my curtains. there was, by the sounds of it, a huge beetle trapped inside my room.

the only way to kill it would be to fling open my curtains. terrified, i began to sob. i skype-typed with matt, who told me to go outside and look in to see if i could see how big it was. i did so, then discovered the sucka was actually outside, chilling on my door divider. i sprayed him anyways. can't be too careful. sorry, beetle.

that brings my balcony insect corpse count up to 2. sometime i'm going to have to remove them..just don't know when yet.

anyways, i am all tapped out from the sheer joy and horror of today. wait for it...my next post will be about me performing in a tiny junior high school sailor uniform in front of the entire school.

spent,
riri