I want my Social Butterfly wings back....

Hey yah (^_^) sorry for the prolonged blog silence. My reasons, well 1. I was travelling 2. I was busy travelling and 3. I was out experiencing life so that I would have something to write about.

see, great reasons (^_^)

so this isn't really the blog i wanted to post to tell what's been happening, but I'll do. It's actually a letter to friend Gene-chan so that's why there are a lot of "you"s. Enjoy~! (@^_^@)

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but yah after I left Cali for Japan and my mom came with me, I was taking her everywhere and didn't have much a chance to sit down and type. Oh and I was a blithering idiot and lost my cell phone on a train the day before we were leaving Tokyo to go to Kyoto (>.<) not only did I have to pay like $70 to get a new one, I lost all my contacts, my pictures, and some rare-ish anime keitai straps ( DOUBLE >..<) It was like winter's unforgiving hand was trying to put the choke-hold on spring and yelling "I'm not gone yet, dammit!!"
hehe....

but yah, Kyoto was really beautiful.... it's kind of what you expected Japan to be. maybe most people visit only Tokyo and Kyoto and they come away with the impression that all of Japan is like that.... but anyways, I don't know if you remember going to Kyoto, but my favorite was Kiyomizu dera. (google it) It's a really HUGE temple that is built on a hillside and offers great views of Kyoto. all the sakura were in bloom when i went too, so it was really special.

well, school started last week (so i've had a total of 2 weeks of school now.... weird huh? Cali's schools are almost done and I just started!) and it took all that time to get my damn schedule figured out. I had to go sit in on a lot of classes to find out which ones were crap and which were worth it. A lot of the japanese teachers have such strong accents or unnatural ways of speaking you may as well be taking thier class in Japanese (-_-;) But i decided to take Applied Lingustics(of english), Women Writers in Japanese literature (in English translation. oh, and my teacher's Gaye. no, no joke, her name is Gaye Rowley) and a slew of Japanese classes. I didn't work really hard at my japanese last semester so i want to try better this time around.

but even as i'm just getting started here, i'm painfully aware of how little time I have left, like 4 months. wow, that 2 month spring vacation went REALLY fast... I have to start thinking about going back now too.... apartments, class reg back at SFSU, and any last minute travel arrangements (I may go to Hokkaido right after school finishes on July 26th and before i have to go back on the first week of August)............................
i just was wondering..... i wonder this is too early to be leaving? I went home to recover and re-center myself, but I wonder if that has let to my eyes becoming stuck in that direction rather than the present life I have now...?
also I have a lot of stuff i want to complete like searching online for an event to cosplay my Menos Grande costume, writing my blog, begin writing the book based on my Life in Japan ...
but..........

i'm too hooked on playing Zelda: Twlight Princess. I'm not kidding you , even me sitting down at my computer and commiting myself to replying to you has taken serious amount of effort!! i find myself coming home from school and turn in my Wii thinking i'll only play 1 hour but somehow that 1 hour turns into 4! and then a go to bed at 1am or 2 and wake up at maybe 9 then next morning to work on some homework before classes and again I find myself thinking "i wonder if i can get this done if i'll have time to play...."

I made plans to eat dinner with a friend on friday and i almost wanted to cancel so that i could go home and play Zelda because my host dad had been using the TV every night this week.

i must be addicted (@_@) just put some z's instead of @ symbols and that makes a good emotocon of my current condition.............

Anyways, even of my ranting for now... It's time to play more Zelda! I swear, i will finish this game if it's not the last thing i do!

Cheers~!
Claire