My Kansai Gaidai Student Exchange

So in Japan, family is important. I’ve got a family here in Japan! not a host family but a family of friends! wooo.

Left to right; Jace, Jesse, Angie, Jamie, Mitch, Charlie

Left to right; Annie, Jamie, Ashley, Charlie, Jesse, Chris, Jace, Angie

Left to right; Charlie, Jamie, Ashley, Mitch, Joe, Angie

My family includes the following! with NOTES.

Joe – my theme park buddy, bromance partner and shares Angie’s bed with me.

Angie – girlfriend / annoying poohead and a non-cheesy person but is trying to change!

Jace –  Jace is Jace.

Charlie – approves of me! pterodactyl and her nan goes everywhere with her.

Chris – hiking buddy, chicken whisperer and talker.

Jesse – can just go fuck off or go to hell..

Annie – are you okay? annie, are you okay?

Jamie – nampa king and guy with the BEST host family.

Ashley – another AUSSIE! but from Sydney.. no no I like Sydney.

Andrew – broken arm, Tigger, knows where to be and when.

Sunny – can cook, can Japanese but most of all CAN DANCE!

Alex – Canadian but not as much as Canada, better basketballer than Joe.

Canada – CANADA!!

And those are my family peeps.

Okok, soo I’m waaaaay behind. I haven’t been blogging for almost two weeks. Why? because soooo much has been happening. Let’s start with Orientation Week!

I had a bunch of stuff to do during orientation week, those of which included:

• Banking Session for my JASSO scholarship and awesome money ease.
• Bike registration and actually buying a bike.
• Payment of fees
• Japanese language placement test
• General Meetings
• Opening Ceremony

So I got all of it done, the banking session was easily the worst though. You had to write everything perfectly and if you made even one little mistake you had to start all over again, you know how the Japanese people are.. fooking ridiculously anal about being exact.

Annnywhooo, there was a business side of orientation week, and an awesome party alcohol side to it all. Alot of orientation week is a blur for me, but I do remember a many a good things, some of which include karaoke, karaoke and KARAOKE! and why karaoke? because of the nomihodai (all you  can drink) for 1000yen or 12 bucks Australian. Now to be fair, this was all you could drink.. in an hour, but maaan.. everyone can drink easily 50 bucks worth in an hour. We did shots, so many shots, beers, rum and cokes and!! a spesh plum wine that was absolutely awesome. You could drink half a litre of this stuff in a matter of seconds if you really wanted to, it was that goood.

Oh and cameras, everyone seems to have one! but not I, I’m the cool cat in all of this, I don’t need a camera because everytime someone goes to take a shot.. out appear another 6 or 7 cameras. Facebook is now littered with 5 copies of every single shot.. I do not kid.

Picture of my family, taken by moi.

But yes, Orientation week was very fun. I can’t wait to get into the entire weekly life that is being a ryuugakusei in Japan.