寂しい：lonely

I have exactly 12 more days left in this wonderful country. Actually, if you’re all technical and stuff, it’s actually 11.5 days since I leave around lunch on Friday, December 9. I can’t believe 3-and-a-half months have gone by so quickly. So incredibly quickly. I know it’s cliché to say, but it honestly feels like just last week that I walked into Hayama Seminar House for the first time, hung out with the buddies for the first time, met my host family for the first time. I really can’t wrap my head around how quickly time has flown by.

I know I haven’t talked about what I’ve done for, oh, the past 2 months or so. I figure I can do that while I’m at home or at school, and it’ll force me to look through the pictures and reminisce about the wonderful time I’ve had here.

The memories. I’ve had the time of my life here in Japan, and I mean the best time of my life. I’ve met wonderful, wonderful people, made amazing friends, and will always treasure the memories and experiences I’ve collected here.

I have no idea what I’m going to do when it comes time to say goodbye to Japan and all my friends. I’m probably the worst person at goodbyes. The worst. I’ve never cried during a goodbye ever in my entire life, because I always think I’m going to see them again. I always leave with a “I’ll see you later!” and a smile. I’m not sure I’ve ever had to say goodbye goodbye before. I hate, and I mean abhor, crying, because I think it’s just a big awkward mess where no one looks good and there’s runny noses and once one person cries, everyone cries, and it’s just awkward and yucky. But over the past 2 weeks, just thinking about having to say goodbye makes me cry myself to sleep. It’s the worst.

I had to say one of those goodbyes today. Today I hung out with 5 previous international students that studied abroad at Linfield. Yuki and Midori studied at Linfield 2 years ago (my freshman year), and Yuki lived across from me in our dorm. Kae, Satsuki, and Aki studied last year, and Kae was my roommate for fall semester of my sophomore year. Everyone came to Shibuya from Gunma (which is about 2-3 hours away by train) except Aki, who came from Tokyo. We had an awesome time, eating お好み焼き and もんじゃ焼き, and taking プリクラ pictures. We ended up going to Harajuku instead to do some shopping where I bought some cute stuff.

However, saying goodbye to Kae was hard. I love that girl to death-we are so alike in so many ways, and she really was an awesome roommate. I didn’t cry, which was a tiny victory for me, but I really did want to when I boarded our separate trains and thought about the fact that I really don’t know the next time I’m going to see her. Ever. I guess when she left Linfield, we were both comforted by the fact that we knew I was going to come to Japan in a year and we would see each other again. I don’t have that comfort this time around.

The next 2 weeks might be the hardest 2 weeks of my life. On the academic side, I have 4 tests, 1 presentation, 1 paper, 1 project, and 1 lesson this week. On the emotional side, because I have so little time left in Japan, I’m trying to spend as much time as possible hanging out with the buddies. However, it’s all so bittersweet because I’m excited to spend time with them, but the closer I get to them, the harder I know it will be to say goodbye next week Friday. I think I actually text the buddies the most out of the exchange students, which has made me really good friends with a lot of them. Some of the exchange students have said they’re jealous I’m such good friends with them, but in my head, I’ve been thinking that they’re the lucky ones. My normal self would have never, ever gotten so close to a group of people I know I’m going to have to say goodbye to in 3 months. It’s just the buddies are so awesome and such great people, I’ve found myself becoming emotionally attached to them and really can’t imagine going back home without them. The farewell party on Friday and saying goodbye at the airport next Friday is seriously gonna suck.

I’m so torn because I want to go home to see my friends and family, both in Hawaii and Oregon, but leaving Japan is probably going to be one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. It’s going to be so draining, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. I know in my heart that nothing lasts forever, that everything good must come to an end, but it’s just really hard to accept. As Gabi said earlier today, “I reject this reality and substitute it with my own.”

おいしそう: looks delicious!


Sunday lunch at マリン!


Sunday family dinner

Monday breakfast

Monday dinner

Tuesday dinner

Wednesday dinner ingredients

Wednesday dinner ingredients

Wednesday dinner

Friday dinner

Yes, this was a post of the delicious food I this week. Muahaha.

失礼します: excuse me!

Sorry I haven’t updated about my week! For some reason, even though my commute time to school and back is about half and I don’t have constant internet/Facebook to distract me, I seem to be staying up later doing homework than I was at HSH!

I even forget what I’ve done this past week already…it’s been so crazy! On Monday and Friday my host dad drove me to school because I started class at 9:00 those days and he leaves for work at the same time. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I walked to school…it takes about half an hour to walk, but it seems so much shorter because the weather is cool and the scenery is nice.

On Tuesday, I was supposed to stay back after class to hang out with Koki and Hikaru, but Hikaru ended up having work, so Koki didn’t come over from the Bunko campus, so I stayed back and planned my Fall Break plans with Gabi. The plans are still tentative, as we haven’t reserved anything yet, but right now it’s looking like me, Gabi, Sam, Isaac, and Faye are gonna travel to the Kyoto area starting the 30^th. We were originally planning on taking the cheap night bus over to Kyoto on Saturday night, but with the package deal Eguchi-san (国際センター, International Center staff) was showing us through this JR website, we could take the 新幹線 (bullet train) to Kyoto and back for not much more. We were going to take the night bus to save money, but Isaac pointed out that for not much more, we could spend a lot less time traveling (3 hours vs. 6-8 hours) and save the money we would have spent on food if we took the night bus (does that make sense? cause it did to me). It’s looking like we’ll take the 新幹線 to Kyoto on Sunday morning, check into our hotel and spend the day in Kyoto, spend Monday in Osaka, spend Tuesday in Nara, spend Wednesday in Kyoto again (or anyplace we wanted to see more of), and return back to Yokohama Thursday morning before classes resume on Friday. It’s really awesome because 京都駅 (Kyoto station) is in the lower part of Kyoto, and Osaka and Nara are both the prefectures below Kyoto. According to Eguchi-san, it takes about half an hour to get to Osaka (an hour total to get to the temple we want to see) and about an hour to get to Nara (maybe more like hour and a half to get to the deer), but that’s not bad at all! I’m really excited because if Fall Break goes according to plan, I’ll have crossed off a bunch of stuff on my Japan Bucket List! ^_^

On Wednesday, my host parents picked me up from school after class (I know, I’m spoiled-I’ve accepted that) and we went to Costco together! On the way there, my host dad talked about/showed me all these neat places in the area. Apparently, Costco is in this industrial area (the same area my host dad’s work place is), and it’s the largest industrial area of small businesses in Tokyo (or Japan…I’m not sure). Costco looks the exact same as in America (or Hawaii at least)! The only difference is that due to the lack of space, the parking lot is on top of the store instead of sprawled out in front of it…which actually makes more sense if you think about it. What’s also cool is that you pick up your shopping cart on the second floor where you park, and then ride this huge escalator down to the store WITH your shopping cart. How nuts is that! They have a whole bunch of American products with some Japanese foods, but it really is the exact same! There’s also a bunch of foreigners working there…like our cashier’s name was Catherine, which I noticed right away. I pointed it out to my host parents and they started cracking up and giggling…poor girl probably thought we were laughing at her cause she’s foreign, but we were just amused that her name was Catherine -__-.

Wednesday night, my host mom made 鍋物 (nabemono) I think I think I think. I’m really not sure…I’ll post a picture and you can correct me if I’m wrong. It’s kinda like shabu shabu in the sense there was a communal pot with boiling soup and we cooked the ingredients in the pot as we ate. But it wasn’t shabu shabu because one person (my host mom) had all the ingredients and dumped them into the pot and let it boil for a while versus each person cooking their own meat and eating it right away. I don’t know if that made sense, but anyways, it’s kinda of different. But guess who came to the dinner party?? The owner of マリン, the restaurant we went to on Sunday for lunch who lives down the street, and her husband! And, apparently, they were born 1 week apart, got married in their early 20’s, were high school sweethearts, and were friends since elementary school! Isn’t that so precious?? My host parents told me their story, but it was a lot more complicated so I didn’t understand the Japanese. T__T Another big event of the night was that my host dad said, “well, since part of your family is from Okinawa, you need to try Aomori sake” (Okinawa is famous for their Aomori sake). He poured me a tiny, tiny amount (maybe an inch in a shot glass), and everyone waited for me to try it. I took a sip (a tiny sip), and immediately was like “強———い！” It was so potent! I had to chase that tiny sip (and 2 more tiny sips later) with the only drink I had-Asahi beer. I then watched my host dad take this huge double shot worth of sake in one gulp without even flinching and was like “YOU’RE SUCH A STRONG DRINKER!!” and felt really incompetent. But the restaurant owner was like, “Don’t worry…he’s just crazy.” So I felt better haha it was really cute actually. So I was like “ええ！全部を飲んちゃったんですか？はい、これも、飲んでくれてください！”(What?! You drank all of that? Ok, please drink this for me!) And he did! Ugh, that man IS crazy. But I kind of want to buy a bottle of Aomori sake (because it’s so famous around Japan-even one of the buddies recognized it as Okinawan just from a picture of the bottle) and bring it home as a souvenir. But I don’t think Customs will let me…or that it’ll survive the flight, right? Anyways, the restaurant owner told me that her famous loco moco at マリン is gonna stop in a few days (because it’s a summer dish and it’s turning into fall), so me and my host mom are going back to Hayama to eat there on Saturday! (:

On Thursday after class, I ate the BEST. DINNER. EVER. I was really nervous because my host parents seem really excited about this restaurant (I forget the name…I’ll go look it up tomorrow on the calendar) because they kept saying “素敵なレストラン” (it’s a fantastic/awesome restaurant!) over and over and they told me it was on top of a mountain, so I was worried that the only thing I have to wear is jeans and blouses. Plus, for the ride there, my host mom insistent that I sit in the front seat because it was going to be “interesting”. But the “amazing” thing was getting there! The streets were sooooo narrow (basically one-way) that if you had any car bigger than a Toyota Camry, you wouldn’t be able to get up the mountain-I’m not exaggerating. There were these 90˚ turns and steep inclines, and I covered my eyes most of the way screaming “気をつけて！気をつけて！”(please be careful!!) Yeah, my host parents thought it was the funniest thing in the world. -__- But we finally got there (it really is the very top of the mountain…and I have NO idea how anyone else gets there because there’s really not any parking and there’s only one way up and one way down…which is that one-way street) and my host parents took out all this futon bedding (I was wondering why it was in the backseat and in the trunk…it was kind of a lot) and just gave it to the restaurant staff! They explained what they were doing…but I didn’t understand a word of it…but the staff didn’t seem surprised at all, like they knew we were bringing the bedding. So I was wondering, “ok, they must be friends (even though the cook is like in his early 30’s) because how else would they know about this obscure top-of-a-random-mountain restaurant and why else would they randomly bring a trunk-and-backseat-ful of bedding” Anyways, the restaurant was tiny and cozy and (not-surprisingly) COMPLETELY empty, and cutely decorated with Halloween decorations! The tables and chairs were on tatami mats, and my host parents explained that sometimes the rooms are used for tea ceremonies! They also proceeded to explain the full history of the building…most of which I didn’t understand.

Anyways, to the AMAZING food we ate. The food was surprisingly NOT obscenely expensive…one plate could decently fill a person, and the average price was around $10! So I really don’t know how they stay in business since no one seems to go…unless we went on an empty night? Anyways, my host parents decided (with the recommendation of the chef/waiter/friend) that we would eat family style, and my host mom proceeded to like order the whole menu. She got a salad (avocado & maguro (tuna)), a pizza (this really good ham with a salad thing on top), two types of spaghetti (this spicy sausage and tomato sauce one and a shrimp one that tasted like really good macaroni and cheese), a side order of taco rice (which I thought was gonna be tako (which I HATE and was psyching myself out for), but it ended up being Mexican taco, not Japanese tako), and dessert (the BEST, BEST, BEST French toast I have ever eaten with a tiny scoop of ice cream) and coffee. In addition, the chef surprised us with spareribs on the house (we each got a little rib thing)! For the coffee, me and my host dad just got house coffee (which actually tasted funky, but then again, I just like plain old coffee) and my host mom got a latte. The latte! The in-house barista made espressos the older way than I did at Starbucks-he ground the beans for each order with a hand crank, and prepared the shot using a hand press, and pulled the shot manually-it was really impressive! Plus, he does latte art! He made my host mom a rabbit…that really didn’t look like a rabbit, it looked more like a ram. But it doesn’t matter it was still badass! I explained to my host parents that I worked at Starbucks for a summer, but we pulled shots with machines and that this way was cooler…my host mom took me saying it was かっこ好い (cool) as an invitation to try to hook me up with the barista, so she proceeded to tell the owner AND the barista when he came to give us our dessert that I thought he was cool. T______T Oh, moms. Oh course, I couldn’t say “oh, no, I don’t think he’s cool” cause that would be rude, so I just sat there like my awkward Asian self and looked really embarrassed…adding to my host mom’s amusement.


Avocado Maguro salad

Ham Pizza

Spicy Sausage Pasta

Shrimp Cream Pasta

Taco Salad

Spareribs

French Toast

“Rabbit” latte

We have really big plans for the weekend which I’m really excited for, but I’ll save that for another post since this is already obnoxiously long. There’s just so much to say! I haven’t even talked about the house, or my host family, or all this other really amazing stuff that has happened. OH DID YOU SEE MY TIGER PROFILE PICTURE ON FACEBOOK?! Sorry to be an attention whore, but it’s awesome, and I held a tiger, so I’m pretty much allowed to force anyone and everyone to look at it. Plus I look cute holding a baby white tiger, so, yeah.

楽しい週末: fun weekend

This past weekend was pretty busy for me. On Friday, Sam had to stay behind for a catch-up lesson with her teacher, so I decided to stay behind and do kanji homework while I waited for her. I ended up just doing a practice TOEFL test with Natalie and hanging out with Sam’s buddy Ryokan. When Sam was finished, we went to visit Ryokan’s campus, which is about a 5 min walk from my campus, to get some food and ice cream.  Even though class finished at 2:30, I ended up not leaving school till 6! I tried to do some homework Friday night, but was pretty unsuccessful.

Saturday, me and Gabi met up with Koki and Hikaru in Yokohama to check out Chinatown. The Chinatown is HUGE and about 80% of the shops are food stands. We ended up meeting up with Ai and Natalie and ate lunch at this AMAZING Chinese restaurant. It had these lunch sets with a main dish, soup, a dimsum side, and desert for ￥980! So cheap! I got the エビそば, which was basically a Chinese saimin with shrimp, shumai, and the egg-drop soup. I didn’t realize I like Chinese food so much!



After lunch, we all went to this プリクラ place that has costumes you can rent for only ￥100! Of course, the プリクラ was ￥400 each time, but that’s still way cheaper than doing it in Hawaii! Me and Natalie were these cute Korean Airlines flight attendants while Gabi was Sailor Moon and Ai was a French maid. Of course, there were no costumes for the boys, so they just jumped in at the end. It was so much fun!

Afterwards, Ai and Natalie went to the amusement park while the rest of us went shopping in Yokohama. On the way to the mall, we saw this street performer who did all these random crazy tricks like juggle while balancing on an unsupported ladder, finishing a Rubik’s cube in a minute, and tossing & catching spinning tops in the air. He was super funny because he would ask us to scream really loudly and pretend to have fun so that more people would come to watch. He was more entertaining to watch than his actual tricks.

At the shopping mall, we went to this HUGE Pokemon store that took up 2 store stalls and this anime shop called Jump. I felt like such a fail Asian cause I didn’t know what any of the Pokemon were or any of the anime shows. But, we also went to a Hello Kitty store-yes, an entire store for just Hello Kitty stuff-and was in heaven! I only bought omiyage though…nothing for me ): It’s probably a good thing though, because I could have easily spent like $200 in that store. In 15 mins. We also went to an H&M because Koki was worried that me and Gabi didn’t have any warm clothes (it was pretty cool that day and me and Gabi were both wearing shorts and t-shirts). Ironically, we both started out only picking out summer shirts, and Koki and Hikaru had to make us look for warm clothes like sweaters and jackets. I have like 3 jackets with me already, so I just picked out an orange long sleeve shirt that’s on the thicker side (￥1990). And the super cute t-shirt that I had found earlier (￥1190). So cheap, right? There were SO much other stuff I wanted to buy…restraint is so difficult. ):

We met back up with Ai and Natalie and went to a…guess what…a 飲み放題 (an all-you-can-drink bar). By far one of the funnest nights yet. I know I say that about every time I go out, but it’s always so fun! Ai got drunk within 1.5 drinks as normal, and me and Gabi went ALL OUT in order to get out money worth. We basically went through the Sours and Cocktails menu trying to try everything. Some of the more memorable ones were the Triple Berry Sour and the Reggae Punch (what tasted like what I would imagine a Long Island Iced Tea would be like). Keep in mind that all of the names were in Katakana, so we totally guessed at what the English name was supposed to be. Reggae Punch looked like レゲーパンチュ, so I have no idea if it’s supposed to even be “reggae”. We just got it cause the name sounded funny. I ended up drinking around 7 drinks and Gabi got 8 before we realized we weren’t very drunk and got beers to end the night. It was fun! They had these weird branch-looking sticks called スペーススシックス (space sticks) that Ai was obsessed with in her intoxicated, red-faced state and Gabi, who was pretty tipsy kept calling them “alien sticks”. Another awesome thing was that we could order electronically using the touch-screen menu at our table, and the drinks/food would come within like a minute…meaning no problem having to ask for your beer 3 times like at the yakiniku place! The service was awesome, and since we called in a reservation like half an hour earlier, we didn’t even have to wait for a table on a Saturday night in Yokohama. Pretty awesome! PLUS, the 飲み放題 was ￥1250!! I so want to go there again. We got back to HSH on time (for once), and since I had finished packing already, went straight to bed!

Sunday was the start of my homestay, so I’m glad I didn’t have a hangover. WEEKEND WIN. 

嬉しい: happy

I know I haven’t posted in a SUPER long time! The past weekend has been crazy! I just moved into my host family’s house yesterday, but I don’t have internet in my room, so I have to use the computer room. I don’t want to spend too much time in there, so I wrote an entry last night in Word and saved it for today (:

Today was the first day of my homestay, and my host family is AMAZING. I seriously think I’m the luckiest 留学生, and I’m willing to admit it (: For the next month, I’ll be living in 六浦, or Mutsuura, which is right next to 金沢—八景, or Kanazawa-hakkei, where KGU is. It’s about a 30 min walk from my house to school, and half of the way is the same route I would take from 金沢—八景駅 to school anyways! The route is really 分かりやすい (easy to understand), and my host mom told me. On the way home, my host mom even walked with me for about 10 mins to show me the way! I felt sooo bad because part of the way is on an incline! She was so nice, and pointed out landmarks on the way so I would remember (even though it’s just straight down one road with 1 turn). She even introduced me to one of the neighbors who, get this, is babysitter a TIGER. Yeah, a mf-er とら. Like, a white with black stripes baby tiger. WTH. 



Before we even got to Mutsuura, my host parents took me to this restaurant in Hayama called マリン, and on the way told me really awesome stories about the area. Like, the bay we drove past (it really reminded me of driving on Kalani’ana’ole Highway in Hawaii Kai) is the most famous bay in Yokohama (or something like that). Also, the emperor has a summer mansion in the area, which, yes, we drove past. You can’t see the actual house, but it’s this HUGE piece of land surrounded by a bamboo forest with a bridge and river and everything and enclosed in by a stone wall with one entrance that is guarded by a police officer at all times (even though the emperor isn’t even in Hayama). And apparently when the emperor is in Hayama, he often takes walks through the town and passes by the restaurant we ate at for lunch. Another fun fact: the mountain that is nearby is also famous for being a good source of charcoal. Seriously, my host parents know the most interesting, random, cool things! Oh, and マリン, the restaurant we ate at for lunch? Yeah, my host parents eat there EVERY WEEKEND. Why? Because they’re friends with the owner, who, as chance would have it, lives next door to us. So they’re like best friends with the entire staff of the restaurant. They apparently have a really bad wasp problem at the restaurant, so in the back they have a grove of water bottles filled with juice & sake with a hole punch in it in such a way that the wasps can fly in, but can’t fly out. They have 4 2L water bottles filled with wasps. It’s basically a wasp graveyard back there. Plus this restaurant is so awesome, that they allow dogs on the outside terrace and even provide water dishes and snacks! WHAT. It’s seriously the classiest, coziest, friendliest restaurant I’ve ever been to…it’s hard to describe. Not to mention, the curry pizza I ate was AMAZING. Don’t worry, I’ll take pictures the next time we go back…I’m guessing this weekend. (:

Since today was Sunday, my host parents had the weekly family dinner at the house. I am DEFINITELY have Sunday family dinner when I have a family. It’s mandatory. Their (pregnant) daughter and family (husband and baby girl) and their son’s wife and family (2 kids: a girl and boy) came over. (At least, I think that’s how the family is…I really didn’t understand that part too well…) But their daughter is SO gorgeous, but super funny at the same time! She’s the epitome of those comedic women on the Japanese tv shows who talk on the more boy-ish side, but they’re the funniest…if you know what I’m saying. And their daughter-in-law is the epitome of the quiet, polite Japanese wife/mom. It seriously was the best family dinner I’ve ever been too. The kids are SO hilarious-they’re really casual with everyone and even call their grandpa “うそつき” or “liar”! And the granddaughter can EAT like no other. It was just so refreshing to see such comfortableness and easygoing family attitude. I kept almost slipping up by talking casual with my host parents! I always forget-I hope they don’t feel awkward because within one sentence I’ll use casual and then abruptly switch to polite. I really do love them though-they’re awesome.



It’s past midnight now, and I have to wake up at 7 tomorrow for breakfast, but I have to talk about how AMAZING this house is! Like, your mind will be blown. Literally, blown.

I’m on my THIRD album, and it’s only been 1 month! Here’s the link:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150315822631634.340949.631641633&l=dbd17b1c65&type=1
 

よく勉強した方がいいと思てる: it would be good to study well

 Happy Weekend, everyone!

We have SO much homework for this weekend due Monday:
1. Read the next chapter and prepare a 説明 (explanation) on the grammar introduced.
2. 漢字読み書テスト (Kanji reading and writing test) on 10 new kanji introduced Friday.
3. Worksheet for the 10 new kanji.
4. Grammer cloze test for the past 3 会話 (conversations) we memorized, including:
5. New 会話 to memorize.

Ah! Plus, we have a BBQ this afternoon (Saturday) and a Karaoke party tomorrow night. So I planned to do as much homework as possible last night, but we ended up watching Shawshank Redemption and I was super tired and fell asleep at midnight with only having copied my conversation down. ): So today I copied down the new kanji and did the worksheet and am currently typing this while listening to the conversation on iTunes, hoping I’ll memorize it via brainwashing. (:

PS: I also figured out how to email pictures from my Japanese phone straight to a Mobile Uploads album on my Facebook, so I have a new album up with random pictures!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150304908821634.338692.631641633&l=17b0e21035&type=1 
I don’t have very many pictures yet, but don’t worry, it’ll grow (: 

たぶん: maybe

I just discovered the tumblr app in my itouch! Guess what I’m going to be tweaking on during Japanese Economics class from now on? Too bad we have half an hour left in this period before our 10 min break and I have poop like crazy. Curse you, かつ玉子とじ丼 (chicken katsu with soft scrambled eggs over rice) that I ate for lunch!

質問あるの: does anyone have questions?

If there’s anything you want me to write about in regards to Japan, feel free to shoot me a FB message! :D

If you can’t figure out how to send me a FB message…well, しょがないね. 

気をつけて: took care

Today (Wednesday), classes got cancelled because a typhoon is coming. It seemed silly because all this morning it was raining, but we joked that if this is what Japan calls a typhoon, it’s what we call “Wednesday” in Oregon. I didn’t even use my umbrella some of the time because it was drizzling so lightly. However, before we left HSH, the guard warned us to be careful and showed us a picture of a flooded Nagoya (which isn’t too far from Hayama) in the newspaper and told us it’s heading right for us. When we got to school, it stopped raining but stayed gloomy, and at 10:30 an announcer came over the loudspeaker and informed everyone class is cancelled and all the students should go home immediately. I was super confused because it wasn’t even raining outside, but the buddies explained that we were getting sent home because the typhoon is scheduled to hit in a few hours, and KGU wanted to make sure all the students got home before the train stopped running. 

So right now, everyone’s back at HSH, changed in dry warm clothes, and attempting to get ahead on some homework so we can have crazy fun over the weekend. (: The typhoon is supposed to hit Hayama hardest around 4pm (in a couple hours) and be pretty much over by 6pm tonight.


This is a satellite of Japan. I THINK Hayama is a little north of that pink dot, but don’t take my word on that.

Brittani: “Why is everyone freaking out?”
Me: “Cause a typhoon is like a hurricane!”
Brittani: “Wait, a typhoon is like a hurricane?”
Me: “Yeah…it just turns in the opposite direction.”
Gabi: “Oh…I thought a typhoon was a monsoon.”
Brittani: “Oh that’s why my mom was so worried.”

Thought that was interesting (:

Side note: I woke up this morning heavily craving Panda Express.