A day in the life of Hannah!

Okay! So I’m going to pick a Friday for my average day, I don’t think it makes a difference but Friday sounds good.
Alright! So every weekday I get up at 5:50. But my host sister gets up and 5:30 so, being the lucky person that I am, I get to hear her ‘it’s a small world’, or on a good day ‘a whole new world’ cell phone alarm. We girls all sleep in the same room upstairs on futons. Once I finally drag myself out of bed I plug in my hair iron and try to tame my mane! The humidity is wicked here, especially since it’s the rainy season right now. I go down to breakfast around 6:20. We always watch ‘good morning Japan’ news. When I’m eating breakfast the entertainment news is always on. So I get to see what American star is in Japan or the latest song by so and so. Lately it’s been the Backstreet Boys, they’re here invading with their new CD. The world news is also on if I eat slow enough. Right now the American Express/Visa card mess is all over the news. They had the funniest white guy talking in Japanese about it, he had the WORST American accent. Anyway, after breakfast, which is usually yummy pastries, I change into my uniform and get ready to leave by 7ish. I had to break in and buy a polo shirt for my uniform because the uh ‘attractive’ long sleeve shirt and vest are SO hot and quite see-through when it rains, which is always. I ride my bike to the station with my sister and we leave our bikes in the bike parking garage type thing. We usually catch the 7:20 train to the station by my school. Hopefully we’ll get a newer train that has nicer air conditioning! From the station to my school my sister and I usually walk. There’s this bridge we go over and on really sunny hot days hundreds of fish swim into groups by the surface and do a wonderful job stinking. When we finally get to school it’s usually 8:10 and we go to our shoe lockers to change shoes. All the sports people are around for morning practice and stuff. Anyway, homeroom starts at 8:30 and we get the daily announcements. This last Friday, it was about not eating ice cream in the girl’s bathroom and how to properly wear your polo shirt. On Friday I have Health class first period. Very interesting… Second hour I have gym. We are being taught by a teacher in training who apparently loves handball, so that’s what we’ve been playing for the past three weeks. It’s really hot and I got about 8 bug bites from being outside near these pools of standing water. I look pretty funny. Third hour is Japanese. On Friday I translate little kid stories. This last one involved a big bad wolf who ate these little goat kids and then the mom cut him open, filled his stomach with rocks, and threw him in the river… yeah kid stories. Fourth hour is English writing. We’re learning ‘Change the World’, a song I think originally by Eric Clapton. I’m not sure, but everyone loves it. Finally lunch comes!!! They play a popular song everyday over the PA. I have my little bento and usually some kind of pastry from the store downstairs. They have the best pastries! I can’t seem to remember my last two classes, but I have them and then we have cleaning time. Yuck. Haha. In groups we get assigned different areas. Last week I had the class room. We move the desks back and sweep and wash the floors and return the desks and make sure they’re perfectly straight and sweep some more and then finally it’s probably 3:30ish and we’re done. I get to go to Judo then! I walk through the gym and all the basket ball club girls say ‘hi’ to me, I don’t know any of them ;P Lot’s of people do that though, it’s cute. But not when they call me Catherine, wrong name!!! I’ve had a couple of people call me ‘lemaa’ (Japanese version of Lemmer) which is beyond weird. Judo ends at 5:30 on a short day and I head home with the Judo club girls. They’re really funny and I teach them ‘useful’ English phrases. I take the train with one of them and we both get of at Narashino, but she gets a ride home from her mom. I go back to the bike garage and look at the memo on my phone where I always write the location of my bike. There are hundreds of bikes! I forgot once and that was enough to make me go crazy! When I get home I have a little time before dinner to veg. We all eat at a low table on the floor. I’ve decided they are definitely NOT made for foreigners with long legs. I have to sit down sideways and slide in. We watch ‘Fight’, the jerry show, and then it’s ofuru (bath) time. I usually end up going to sleep at 10:30, before everyone else. I like sleep ^_^ Right now since it’s the week before exams my sister has been staying up to 2:00ish. No thank you!
Well, I hope that wasn’t too boring and sleep inducing! バイバイ！