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Well well well well well well. Today I've been in Japan for 10 months. Double figures! Which now means I have 7 weeks until I leave Hokkaido. I've heard that it's already super hot back in Australia so I'm contemplating wearing my swimmers on the plane and jumping in the ocean as soon as I get off :P it could happen.

So this week I only had school on Monday - yesterday was a Public Holiday and the rest of this week I have off due to school exams. Hurruh. But I forgot how easy it is to get bored. I have stuff I could do, but.. もう無理だ。hehheh.

Quick update since last blog.

I went to a small meeting in Sapporo for the new bunch of Japanese exchange students who are due to go on exchange in mid-2011. So far there's only 3 of them, which is a lot less than the several that went this year, but maybe they'll have more later.

These three are (from left to right) Yodai, who is the little brother of my friend Miyu who went to USA last year on exchange, Hiroshi, who is the little brother of Tsubasa who went to Australia in 2008 (his family were my previous host family), and then there's Chiharu, my current host sister. They're going to America, Canada, and Australia respectively.

I also found out the date for our farewell meeting/party - it's in three weeks!! THREE!!! that's still like a whole month before we're actually due to go! Hah. So Dylan, Sam and I have freaked out a little and are frantically working on speeches and presentations to show at the meeting. I'll be uploading mine to YouTube a bit later, so if anyone's interesting in watching it, it'll be up in a few weeks.

So yesterday I went to Kaela's house (the Canadian girl), along with Sam, to watch a Disney movie and hang out. Then we went with her host mum and her host sister to the chocolate factory in Sapporo - they're these biscuits with chocolate sandwiched between them, and they're famous to Hokkaido - 白い恋人 - and they're super yummeh. The factory was more like a museum, and had loads of fairy lights too.

Anyway that's it really, today I have my Rotary meeting in the evening and my teacher should be here in an hour or so. Tomorrow I have nothing planned apart from shipping a whole lot of stuff back to Australia. That'll be interesting.

Then on Friday, I'm going on a trip with my host family to the onsen/pool, so I'll update again after that. Weeooo.

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