12.24~25 Christmas!!

 On December 24th and 25th, Christmas which I was really looking forward came!! These 2 days, I ate too much and I was super exhausted, but also I'm happy to experience my first Christmas in Canada. There are totally differences between Japan and here. I'll talk about them right now. 

 Dec 24th around 4 pm the Christmas party started in our house. People came one after another. There were about 30 people in the house. Can you images? It was buffet-style party. Sorry I was completely absorbed in eating the dinner, so I forgot to take a pictures of the meals haha What I was surprised is that people don't know each other. Of course people who came here were my host mom's friends and host dad friend's, so my host family knew every one in our house. However I mean there were people who have never met others. Do you know what I mean? I saw people introducing each other, but it was not too formal. After few hours, it seemed everyone was old friends. I think in Japan we meet to eat together, but only family or people who everyone knows. I went to the bed at 1am.

 

Dec 25th, my host brother woke me up at 8:30. I was like seriously? I don't wanna wake up... I went downstairs and opened my presents! I was super happy! Thank you Santa!! 

                   Such nice days!!

12.18 shopping

Today I and my two friends went shopping after school. We went to a second hand shop because one of my friends loves this kind of shops. We are close friends in my school, before we have had PE together. We talked a lot about boys who we like and we are interested in. I feel it's common for girls to talk about boys all over the world! One of them is from Spain and other is from Hungary. We have so different personality, but I think we have a good balance between us. We already talked about when we are going to visit each other. They said they will go to Japan some years later, It made me so happy. I'm satisfied to buy nice Jacket and shoes! We are going to have a Christmas party together!! I love you guys!

12.11 Sorry long time no upload...!

 Hello. I'm so sorry. I didn't upload my blogs more 2 weeks. I have a couple of things to tell you. 

 

 I couldn't pass musical audition;( Last week when I was coming through the drama class, I found a paper which is written about audition. There were names of people passed the audition. There wasn't my name. I was kind of sad, but I thought it was right because I was awful at the audition. So I'll find something I can join and enjoy!!

 Term 1 was done the end of the November. We have 2 semesters whole year and each semester has 2 tearms. I was given a report card by my teacher. It's this↓↓ My host mom said it's good, so I was relieved to hear that. I want to get A in PE! Oh and I got next semester schedule. These are tourism, family studies, English11 and chemistry. In tourism I'm going to study about Canada. It's like what is popular in BC and something like that.(BC is British Colombia) 

 On December 3rd, we went to Vancuber with other international students. It was a part of international programs. I was really excited,but I couldn't have enough time to enjoy there because I and my friend had a car accident. Actually I had nothing, I was safe. Unfortunately my friend was hit a car. So I had to stay in a hospital about 2 hours with my friends. I hope next time to go to Vancuber, I'll enjoy! ( those picture are in Vancuver!!)

11.24 Squash is so cool!

 Yesterday I went to Lewis center witch is a public sport center near downtawn with my Japanese friends to play squash after school. I saw a paper about squash in my school. It's free and everybody can join to play. I was interested in so much, so I invited my friends. Actually I had never heard the word, squash before I came here. Even I didn't know what that was. One day I saw people who were playing it at Lewis center. It seemed like tennis. 

 Before I started to play, the teacher lent me a racket and grasses for squash. I went to a small room. I don't know how to explain the rule×( It's like we hit the small ball on a wall and pass the ball to an other. At the biggening my ball couldn't reach to the wall, but It was getting better. Finally the teacher said I'm going to play with boys pretty soon. I was so happy. Of course I'm going there next Monday. ( it's held every Monday)

11.19 Musical audition

 Today I had a musical audition after school, but Actually I don't want to tell you about it because it was terrible;( Before today I wrote down my mame on the audition paper. There were already many names which were writen by students who want to join musical. My school holds a mucical show once every year. Now the season is starting to practice. This year(2015)they decided to hold ADAMS FAMILY! you know this movie or musical? Most people know it. I didn't know that. It's going to hold in March. 

 In this summer I went to an other school to watch a musical with my host mom. It was pretty good, so high revel! I didn't understand it well, but I like it so much! That's why I decided to have an audition this time. I just wanted to be a background singer who sing sonds and dance with others. But I had to sing a song, "When you are an Adams" in front if the teachers. I was so nerves... I thought I was able to sing the song with piano, but nothing there!! Just my voice!! And I was on the stage alone!! 

 I'm not sure if I can join...

11.18 Big Hero 6

 I went to watch a movie today! The movie was "Big Hero 6", Japanese title is Baymax. It's coming soon in Japan. I want to tell you the story because it was awesome and I recommend you to watch this movie.
 

It's one of Disney movie, but the movie that is set in Japan! I didn't know that, I just knew hero's name is Japanese. The hero, Hero Hamada lives in the futuristic city of San Fransokyo with his older brother Tadashi. ( I know you understand it's mixed San Francisco and Tokyo! Haha) Because when they were little, their parents passed away. Hiro is robotic genious and spends almost all time in creating robots. Tadashi thinks that Hiro is washing his potential, so he takes Hiro to his univercity's lab. There are 4 people and a professor. His friends have great individuality and they are creating own items. Tadashi creats a personal care robot, Baymax. Hiro likes there, so he decides to go to this univercity. One day he presented about microbots, swarms of tiny robots that can link together in any arrangement imaginable at an annual exhibition. He succesed in the presentation , but after that suddenly fire breaks out in the univercity. Tadashi and a professor are killed. There are some secrets. So Hiro divided to find the secret with lab's member and Baymax!!

 If you want to know rest of the story, you can go to google or go to a theatre! I felt it's so difficult to explain a movie story in English. This time I was helped by Wikipedia. 

11.11 Remembrance Day

 Do you know? In Canada every Novemver 11th they have Remembrance day which is a memorial day to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. We put poppy on our left chest. Today in the morning I went to ceremony with my host mom, host breather and house mate Gabi. There were around 2 hundred people. Some one was talking about Remembrance day in front of us and many teenager of chorus club were singing songs. I seemed like August 15, Aniversary of the end of the a pacific war and March 11, The great east Japan earthquake. We need to remember forever. 

 After that, I went to Goose spit with my friends on Tuesday. Goose spit is a beach near my school and nice place. If you go there, you can see some little island. I've been there in this summer few times to swim and for BBQ. 

 Today we went there to picnic. I was so excited because before we went there, we bought something to eat, but It was -1℃ and also so windy... I was almost frozen... You may say we were stupid, because we stayed there for about 3 hours. We were talking about own school . ( In my school district, there are 3 schools. 2 people go to my school, other 2 people go to Isfeld and the other one goes to Vanier. ) I think It was good time! The last we asked the man to take a picture of us!! Such a nice picture! 

      Brazil, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Mexico 

11.7~11.8 Volleyball season was over

 These 2 days, I was really busy day! I went to the school in Nanaimo to play volley ball. On Friday and Saturday, we played with 4 teams and we lost every games...So we don't have any more games. It means our volley ball was over. I've had three times practices a week and some games. I feel volley ball was a part of my life. I was little bit sad, but also  happy to play great members. I had lots of fun with them! I wanna say thank you coaching us to my coach and thank you for helping me to them!

10.29 Halloween dance

 Wednesday I had Halloween dance in Lake trail middle school. It was for international students, so I thought there were lots of international students. But there were many Canadian students as same as international students. It seemed harf and harf. 

 There were 2 area, dance room and photo booth. Photo booth was so cool. It was like プリクラ in Japan. But you can't  make your eays bigger and skin clearer. You can just take some toy when you take a picture. It was free, so I went there 5 times to take pictures with different friends. Dance room was awesome because it was dark and has laud music, colourful moving light. Like real club!! Most people enjoyed dancing there, but at the bigining Asian people looked like they were confused. I think most Asian students include me have never been to the party or something like club. I asked my friends from Brazil and Hungary. They have been to parties in own countries. So they knew how to dance and enjoy the party. Of course I also enjoyed it! I wish it was like this in Japan, too.

10.27 Pumpkin patch

 Have u seen huge huge Pumpkins of Canada?? I think if my family see them, they are surprised!! In the afternoon I went to a pumpkin farm to get Pumpkins! 

There were thousands of pumpkins from big one like my size when I sit on floor to small one like baby's face. 

I could buy them in the garage like this picture⤴︎ But I went into the farm next to this garage. Look!! So many pumpkins! It's so hard to move in the mud. Can you imagine? My host sister, Natti fell down there and her cloth got dirty... Anyway it was good experience! 

10.25~26 Nanaimo trip & sleepover

 Friday was awesome day! I went to Nanaimo for shopping with other international students. I arrived at the mall at 11am and I enjoyed shopping with my Japanese friend, Hina for 2:15pm. I bought some clothes. So I'm ready for winter!! The mall is like イオン in Japan. Next time for international students is Victoria trip on Nov 20 th. But the students who stay here for 1 semester can sigh up first, so I'm not sure if I can go there. If there are some space, I can.

 After the trip, I went to the used clothes shop with 2 Japanese girls, Hina and Mai to find good costumes for Halloween! There were lots of costumes, like Disney princes, vampire, pirate... I tried a Snow White! It was pretty, but 50$ So I gave up to buy it;( Finally I decided to buy this  black one! It was not expensive, my favourite one.

Hina and Mai came to my house. We made up scary face to practice for Haloween dance on Wednesday. 

 You can imagine, it was so hard washing my face!!!!! I had really really fun!!

10.24 Last school this week

 Today I had volley ball practice this morning 7~8 am. I overslept, so my host mom work up me!! I was so upset... We have tournaments Nov 7~8 and Nov 14~15. The coach is always kind, but today she was serious. 

 My first class was art today. I was drawing a picture like Japanese traditional. I like this class because no homework and I can draw what I want. 

 When I was the lunch time, one boy was coming to international room sudenly. He started to showed us magic using cards. It was awesome!! I didn't know how he found correct card. He was so cute❤️

 After school, I went to the gym to work out with my friends. You know... I gained weight since I came here, that's why I started to go to the gym. The gym is bigger than the gym in my city in Japan. There are many exercise machines! I love there. 

 Tomorrow it's provincial Day, means no school!! I'm going to Nanaimo with international students. It's part of international program in Comox Valley. I've been there three times, but I couldn't go to all shops. I'm also excited to meet friends in others schools. After the trip, I'm gonna have a sleepover with 2 Japanese girls in my house. It'll be blast haha!!

10.23 First blog

 Hello! I decided to make new blog from today, because I want to improve my English. Today I'll write about my school for 1month since school started. I have 4 classes, math, art, physics and PE. Every single class has 120 minutes. Actually I feel it's too long for me...:( We have a schedule like this picture. Friday rotates from Day 1 to Day4. My school time is at 8:57 to 3:20.

  I'm getting used to the school, but I don't have Canadian friends. It's so hard to make friends. I don't know...How can I talk with them? and What should I say? They also have some groups. The groups were made since they were little. Sometimes they talk to me something. But they said some words I don't know, so I couldn't talk with them long time, just few phrases. I was so mortifying!!

 I join volley ball team in my school. I'm a member of the senior team, grade 11 and 12.(I'm grade 11)I have practices on Tuesday, Wednesday at 5 to 7pm and Thursday morning at 7 to 8:30 am. I'm a bigginer, you know, so everyone call me like "Mako, move to right back !" when we are playing games haha. Volley ball is almost over, untill November 29. So I think I'll join musical and baskate ball. Musical starts next week. It seems hard for me, but I really want to try!! It's cool, isn't it?? I'm sure it will be a great opportunity for me!