Hey, so I have been really bad about updating already. Sigh.
But I will be better in the future. This is just a temporary lag, due to all the craziness, excitement, and lack of sleep due to tons of class, many activities and outings with friends, and the like. I have been either extremely excited and awake or DEAD tired. I got to class today and I literally could not even keep my eyes open. I just my head down on the desk and went to sleep. It was so hard to even stay awake! It was insane. And super rude, since my japanese teacher was like uhhhh.... DON'T SLEEP IN CLASS! :( and I tried so hard not to...
Finally I got a coffee. It was this BOSS brand milk latte from the vending machine upstairs. Can't get over the fact that BOSS is a coffee brand here. It's awesome. I had it a couple days ago and it was delicious, but it made me all jittery and heart-poundy, but I figured it would keep me awake. I walked back to the classroom, feeling haggard, gross, and exhausted, since I had literally woken up 10 minutes before I left for school and just threw my life together before running out the door. It was fun. Sigh. It definitely worked its magic, so I was fine, but it was strange how sleepy I was earlier. I'm just exhausted from the workload of japanese class already, and wanting to do fun things at night, and EXPLORE japan since I'm fucking IN JAPAN. Haha. It's mostly great, but I definitely have had a couple really bad days here. I don't have enough time to elaborate, but here's a facebook update status of mine from a couple days ago...

FUCKKKKKKKK
I have HUGE insect bites that are tiny little bites all joined together. I have to debug my entire room and I'm afraid to sleep in my bed. I have too much homework and class SUCKED today. And somebody fell/jumped in front of the train at my station and died. I didn't see it but hearing everything was enough. FUCK. I was right there. AND THEN GRACE'S TOILET EXPLODED. WHY IS TODAY THE FUCKING APOCALYPSE????


So, yeah... It's not been all sunshine and rainbows. I was afraid to sleep in my bed that night due to the fear of being eaten alive by more unknowable bugs, so I cleaned and vaccumed and went through all of my stuff until about 1:30 am (I have class at 9 and I have to get up at 7:30 am to leave) and slept on top of my blankets, and wore long pjs and a long sleeved shirt to bed. And socks. I felt like an anal clean freak, but honestly I feel like I needed to do it. Cleaning vigorously is not a normal thing for me until I get unidentifiable bug bites that hurt and swell to huge proportions and are comprised of thousands of tiny little bumps.... It really freaked me out.

Now I finally got the front desk to change all of my bedding... Yes. It's hard to deal with them since they understand and speak absolutely no English, so I feel like I have to prepare a speech every time I need to talk to them. I felt so amazing when I was able to sleep in my bed without fear. I love beds. I love doing my homework on my bed. And chilling on it. And sleeping. And having friend over to watch tv on it. It's just... completely neccessary. Duh.

So tonight, I plan to go out with a couple of my girl friends from the EAP program who are living in the Weekly Mansion.. Planning to go out and drink and get food and then do karaoke! I am psyched. :) I can't wait to sing my heart out. I want to be a pop star in Japan. And famous. Seriously. I'm going to audition. Just you wait. I've been talking about it with Taylor. It's nice, we both want to be famous and audition for TV commercials and other stuff... We can motivate each other :)
Later! The Tokyo nightlife awaits!

<3
Melissa