Fourth post-Tasukarimasita

So, I don't have too much to say in this post.  I'm starting to think that if I blog every day I will run out of titles, so maybe I'll save the Japanese titles for larger posts which I'll try to do every weekend.  From now on, the small ones won't usually get a name. 

So, basically my day was typical in the beginning.  I woke up and went to class like usual, but afterwards I agreed to meet up with my okaasan, because she was going to take me to buy a bus pass.  We did all that and afterwards I met up with my friends and we ate lunch and talked and some of us agreed to go to this nice little park just 2 minutes away where we played frisbee and talked!

On the way home I got super lost because I took the wrong bus, and I had to call my okaasan for help and eventually she found me and took me home!  The title for this post is tasukarimasita, which means I was saved.  It's a way of thanking somebody by saying "Thanks, you really saved me!!" which today, really did happen! Because of that though, I was late meeting a friend to go running :( :(  Claire, (it feels weird calling people by first names since we always use last names in class....) was a very yasasii hito tho (chill person) and agreed to try and meet up with me again.  The second time I successfully found her and we went for an intense run by my standards since I suck at running. 

We ran along this river! (I think)

I'll try to get more pictures of where we ran since this one doesn't fully capture all the amazing views I had.  We're going to try to run together every Tuesday...at least that's the plan now.  I came back, showered and ate, and did hw, and now I'm procrastinating on studying the new vocab!  Some random things I might as well mention just because I'm thinking about them:

• I shower at least 2 times a day here, at morning and before bed
• Hw is really short!  Even though we have 3 classes a day, the written homework takes me less time than the Japanese homework at yale.  It's just that every night we have to study a good amount of vocab and kanji :(
• I eat ice cream all the time at my house, which my okaasan keeps buying.  Even though I eat so much ice cream, she also buys so much! 
• Japan is really humid, like you step outside and you immediately start sweating
• There's a bath in most Japanese houses that you soak in after you shower, and I thought Japanese people always use it, but I dont think my family uses it....maybe I'll ask about that
• There are some interesting cultural things here like, I'm pretty sure it's very strange for women to go out without makeup, but that's just based on what I see.  I should ask about that too....
• Japanese people never cross the road when the light is red even when there isn't a car in sight.  I accidentally ran through one because I wasn't looking and I got stares. 
• In Japan the Mom drives and the Dad sits in the passenger seat.  Isn't it usually the opposite in the US? I'm forgetting...I skyped with my best friend Kelsey and okaasan was there too!  I had to translate and it was pretty hard, but then afterwards when I was just talking to Kelsey I found myself forgetting some words and like...struggling to speak english sometimes hahaha.  Like I would have a thought and be like...how do you say this in Japanese? Oh wait, I can say it in English.  Or I would just have weird mental blanks where I couldn't form the idea into words in either language :o

Well, completely forgot about the bullet points...it just turned into random story time.  That's all, gotta study :/  勉強しなくてはいけない（ー＿ー）