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i went camping with an-senpai and tachibana-san for a bit in kumamoto. 

an-senpai's matress got onto the lake somehow, i do not know how. she woke up when the mattress was at the middle and screamed, and then fell into the water laughing. and because she got wet she pushed me into the lake when she made it back. tachibana-san was with me the entire time though, so the idea that i could have done the thing is obviously a false accusation.

the cousins also climbed on me a bit again, and i still can not understand most of what they are saying when they speak very fast.

i am now in osaka, so i am curious to see who else is here.
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 i have spent a few days with my old senpai from the… native? nagoya seitoku tennis team, and he has taken me along to a team meetup. apparently they are still still close and have dinners together, so they have challenged me to a drinking competition at a local restaurant. (i won).

it was a bit strange, because i was very not a part of the group, but they have tried their best to be kind and accommodating and i now feel a bit closer. it is a shame they did not get to go to the camp years ago because the invitations were for the other exchange students like me specifically, but i would have missed out meeting some other people if they had gone so maybe it works out. 

aside from that i have gone on some garden tours and have seen nagoya castle and the tokugawa art museum and stuff. i have been before, when i was still here for school, but it is more interesting when i can look at my own pace.

tomorrow i will start heading south, so i think i will be in kumamoto at maybe friday. with the current schedule i think i will be in osaka in the last week of august or so, and then in kanagawa a bit into september. i can give more specific dates if people need it for maybe meeting up, though.
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it is probably not smart to be distracting myself just yet, but if i try and study more i will get a headache. so i am looking at my summer plans instead, which is now getting to be a big notebook with phone numbers and addresses i might need for my road trip. i am renting a car, so i will be mostly on my own schedule, which is nice.

the longer place i will be staying is in nagoya, because i want to trace some of the things i did back in school and try them again without a teacher overlooking things.

i was not the only one who japan left an impression on, because one of my old senpai from the exchange program apparently also lives there now? he and the old team captain have both offered me to stay with them a few days, so i will at least have a place to stay without it going out of my travel budget, which is nice. apparently the not exchange student part of the old regulars is still in a lot of contact? it's a bit awkward because i did not interact with them much at the time, but i will be meeting all of them there as well this time. it might help put some old things away.

after that, oshitari-san has given me a few things to look for in osaka already, and i know i will go to hiroshima and then down to kumamoto. an-senpai, tachibana-san, i do not know when i will be there exactly but let me know when you will stay there? i will see if it can work that i can come and visit for a bit.

are there other things people recommend doing while i am on the route?
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 i am hoping you will have a fun day! i know we met in london already, but i still wanted to say it on the right day as well. 

[ooc: he's included a gift card for an online music subscription thing, because he assumes Zai knows more about music than he does and wouldn't need Lili picking anything in his stead.]
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do people here who go on many airplanes have advice for what to do on long flights? i have my switch with me and my homework, and an-senpai will be sitting next to me so i think i am probably set, but i think it could be interesting to compare what people do during the trips.
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apparently someone at the school campus has filmed me giving an-senpai her birthday gift yesterday? i have been congratulated by three different people on getting a girlfriend. this is not what happened at all...

...an-senpai, please help.
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i sent my mom a picture of me in which i had my hair up in the kind of messy way, and now she is nagging at me to get a haircut. it is a bit weird since i have had long hair since i was little and i did not think it has seemed to bother her before? 

since i said i did well in my exams my parents will often say they are hoping i will find a working way with my teachers to start my summer vacation early so i could catch the end of wimbledon in person. on one hand that is kind of cool, but on the other i would need to do extra work to make up for it, and it might be very awkward because i would not be there to support german players at all...

also i have been playing mario tennis aces and it is a lot of fun! i especially like that i can win with breaking the racket of my opponent instead of scoring the better points. it would have been expensive in real tennis i suppose, but also pretty funny. it would have been a strategy i would be good at i think.
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i think if i have to look at this assignment any longer i will maybe go crazy and throw something, so maybe someone can distract me instead. maybe some question kind of thing.

what kinds of flowers are your favourite?

if you could go anywhere in the world, where would you want to go the most?

tell a random thing about you?

for me, i like too many flowers to stay with one favourite for very long. but while it is maybe a bit tacky, i really like tiger lilies. 

i already wanted to go to japan again the most, but since that has been achieved i think i would like to go to madagaskar once. or maybe australia? now that i am thinking about it, i guess most of my choices would be islands.

i have lived in several places in germany for most of my life, but i was born in america, and most of my family lives there, even on the german side of the family. between my parents and my older brother i am the only one in my family who has not been on television a number of times.
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i do not think many of you care much for this, but yesterday (or late last night, more exact) the eurovision song contest was having the first semifinal. since i am from europe i decided to watch it on the livestream even if the time was not very convenient. i have not missed it in years, and i am not going to start missing it because i am now in japan.

my favorite entry was israel last night, as well as the lady in the really shiny pantsuit. i forgot the song and the country, but the suit was so shiny i could not look away. both made it through, so i am content for the night. germany does not show until the finals because rules are stupid.

the semi finals are probably too much for people to wake up for since it is not so relevant to japanese, but the songs that go to the finals should be the best anyway and the final is on Saturday so people might be able to stay up. would anyone want to do a viewing party or something with me?


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i promised an-chan a picture of when my hair was the longest it has been, because my parents kept making the jokes about it.

though the only picture i could find from back then is a cosplay picture. )
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there has been so much going that i have forgotten to write here. 

recently, my parents ended up coming over from germany without telling before. i wasnt expecting it because i assumed they would be going to meet up with my brother instead, but it was that they wanted to know the city i am living in as well. 

it is kind of fun because i got to show them around, which is different from the normal way things go where the other people are showing me things. but it also made it more difficult to prepare for the start of school and i get a little overwhelmed. they meant well, but i am glad they have gone back home now.

i hope i have not missed too much important things? how has everyone been?

((ooc: hi I'm not dead))
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i have been trying to keep track of the things i am told to do by making the list, but it got too much confusion. many suggestions were said, so i can not find a way to get it on the page. since i will be here for a long time, even though there is time that is for school i think the suggestions will be too much for a list in the notebook anyway.

Read more... )
because many of you are from the city, and this is i am finding a good way to get to know people better the area i will be in for some time, i want to ask. where do you think is a good places to go?
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i have finished putting all my things away. it is very strange being alone home here now. i hope i will run into someone who remembers i remember.

japan already looks very different when i can read most of  some of  a few of the street signs. in nagoya we were not supposed to leave school without senior older students, and most people at the dorms were changing  switch  also from other countries. i am not sure where to go to find something good to drink. can i ask one of you  someone?

i've been trying to brush up on my japanese, but its definitely more difficult than my practice books. i would like to practice, but if im more understandable in english to people that is okay too. maybe that is easier for people who can speak it? 

(ooc: strikethroughs are alternate phrasings or words he couldn't remember that didn't actually make it into the post. italics are things typed in english.)

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