- Went to Dylan's 18th Birthday BBQ at his host families house. It was fun, but extremely hot, and basically it was just a nice afternoon. Somehow though, his host-mum thinks I am pro-as at Japanese, and apparently keeps talking about me.. haha :) yay, loved.
- I helped out at the Sapporo Beer Festival, because the Rotary Club had a yaki-soba/yaki-tori tent. It was massively hot so I bludged most of the time... I wasn't missed, there was like 50 other people helping. The festival was average, but they had a really good cover band of The Beatles. I was disappointed that no-one recognised the songs though.
- That same day I was meeting my friend Drew to go to Sapporo. It began raining massively - like seriously heavy, so heavy that it shut down the train lines. Luckily I got to Shin-Sapporo before they were shut down, so from there we were able to catch the subway. I didn't know train lines could get shut down just from rain lol. Anyway we ate dinner at this Indian place which was awesome, the owners spoke Indian, English AND Japanese. Awesome. And we managed to find the ferris wheel on the roof of one of the nearby buildings, and then luckily the train lines re-opened again by the time we went home.
- I moved house on the 7th of July, to my real third host family. I'm going to miss the Saitou family, especially the two dogs... but Saitou-san said I can come back any time, he even told me to keep the house key and to let myself in whether they were home or not. :) So now I'm in the Kuno house, back in Eniwa. My second last family! There's the mum, dad, elder brother, younger brother, and little sister. It's a relaxed and busy family, and has been really easy to move into.
- On the 10th we had the Farewell Dinner for the American, Canadian and Finnish exchange students, as well as the Japanese students who are leaving for their exchange this and next month. It was really fun to have everyone together again, I just wish we could've met up a few more times. After the dinner (everyone did speeches and presentations and tears were shed and photos were taken), just us inbounders/outbounders walked downtown Sapporo and did Karaoke, all like 13 of us haha. It was good fun, and we did Purikura before it was time to go home.
- My aforementioned friend, Drew, left to go home to Australia. So I'm sad... everyone is leaving now. I will be alone D:
- On the 11th, Tiffany returned to America. I woke at 5:30am to get to the airport on time to wave her off. Again, tears were shed and photos were taken. After I went back home, Haruka and I went to the Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo. I hated the enclosures, they are too small and unnatural for my liking... Australia has awesome zoos, I've realised. Oh, we rode the rollercoaster. That was fun haha. We also stumbled upon a festival being held in central Sapporo that neither of us had any idea about, so that was cool. Rachael, the Canadian girl, had some fun... She dressed in a hired Panda suit and entertained onlookers in Odori :P Unfortunately I had to be home early... but that was also fun.
- The 14th and 15th was my School Festival. It was actually a really big let-down, for me. I didn't enjoy it at all. The class dances were alright - I memorised the whole dance and didn't muck up (at least not too much). But the 15th, with all the class stalls and things, I was alone...... :( I have no friends, really, so I just sort of wandered around aimlessly, feeling sorry for myself, until I saw some girls from my class and asked if I could just walk with them. They turned out to be good fun, we went in the haunted house. It was even better because I'm the foreigner, so at the end they all got on the floor and bowed to me and apologised for scaring me (although it was more hilarious than scary, but well done).
- On the 20th, we farewelled Lindsey, the second American to go home. That was an early start too. I was allowed to have the day off school for that, and the previous day had been public holiday, AND the next day was Rotary, so I was pretty happy. :D
- And on Thursday, we farewelled Rachael back to Canada. Emmi, her host dad, Dylan and I sat up the top of the terminal eating icecream as we watched her plane taxi off down the runway. It's sad that everyone is leaving. Emmi leaves next week. And then we get new exchange students next month.
So that's it! Update is done! Yes! Hurruh! I hope you read it all! No photos though. Photos are too difficult to upload on here now. Sorry :(
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