Japanese all Girls High School and Kindergarten Sports Festival!!! This weeks diary recap?

女子高校体育祭(Koukou Tai'ikusai)Japanese Girls High School Sports Festival! 

クラスTシャツ(クラティ)Class T-Shirt

Around the beginning of the week our Class T-shirt had arrived!

Sports Festival Practice

Wednesday the 18th of September 2013

Today the second years got to train in the gym hall during lunch break, so some of my classmates ate their lunch during the small break after 3rd period so they could go to train immediately, the lunch break would begin.

I just ate my lunch at usual and went down to the hall when i was done, i was supposed to train for 大縄(oonawa) group rope skipping?

But when i got down there the only student who were practicing skipping was a group of 2-2 student, so after waiting for a while so whether they'd come or not, i went back to my classroom where my friends were still chatting.

So i ended up not doing any practice before the school festival, hoping it'd work out anyway, somehow. (should've probably done at least some practice though) 

Sports Festival Day 1

Day one was held at Kitami Taiku center in the Arena which, i did not know where was, so i looked it up on google maps hoping i would not somehow get lost trying to get there.

But saw quite a few of my schools students on the way so it went smoothly without me looking like a stalker.

Around the entrance

On the upper spectator seats

The Arena

Sports Festival Day 2

クラスTシャツコンテスト T-shirt Contest

My teacher had asked me if he could take a picture of my t-shirt, found out this was what it was for...

boards on the volleyball, Badminton and Tug of War Turnament

Cute Kindergarten Sports Festival!

Saturday the 21st of September

Overdosis of kindergarten cuteness!

Today's Diary entry

Grocery Shopping at Tobu East Mall

Today i went on an early grocery shopping (around 10-11 o'clock) with my host family at Tobu East Mall.

After the grocery shopping was done, we went to the arcade game, gaming machines and gashapon(so many rows!!!) area where i watched my two host sisters play the Aikatsu Arcade Game. 

Not my picture. Seems to be from crunchyroll.com with i can't access fron Japan

It's like a rhythm/music game similar to for ex. Project Diva i think, but it incorporates the Aikatsu Trading card which, seems to be very popular among elementary school students over here, so that you can choose to buy cards before starting the actual game and then you can scan them in (or any other cards that you may have) and that way choose what your character will be wearing during the gaming session. They also have an "IC Card" with your account?/player data, which you place in at the beginning, and i think your gaming data/ranking...etc is calculated and saved onto it or something.

It seemed really cool, made me wanna try it (even at this age LOL).
Arcade games (in Japan) seems really advanced/hi-tech or whatever they call it.
There seems to be quite a few (One piece... and some others that i don't remember) games that incorporate scanning in/using some kind of trading cards, which is pretty clever i think, terms of the producers earnings. 


There was like a girl waiting for us to finish, so she could get to play when we were done.
But because both of my host sisters were going to play it took quite a while.
And i tell'ya she did not seem content having to wait for that long LOL.


Then we went and bought my host sister birthday present, because her birthday is coming forth and the newly released "Jewel Pod" by SEGA toys which she wanted was on sale. 

She wanted to upgrade to the new one

The one she had. It actually has touch screen, apps games, e.mail func. etc. Pic from wikia

This seems to be and old one. pic from cooljapannow.jp(they sell japanese goods)

The new upgrade is even fancier...

Those things are getting close to looking like something like an Ipod Touch. It has like Apps  n all and you can take pictures, send e-mails... etc. What kind of toys kids get to play with nowadays...
Even the new Tamagochi's here now have color screens and look pretty nice.

Slot Game with prices at K's

We actually went to a bakery to buy lunch, but the shop was going to close down the day after tomorrow(they were even selling paper bags, muffin cups n stuff which they'd no longer use), and there weren't much left when we got there, the people who wanted their last bakeries before the close down had been faster than us. So we decided to come back early tomorrow on the last day and see if we could buy some of the last makings then.

So before going somewhere else for lunch we went to K's electronics store. My host family's phone company is au which today had a stand where their customers could try their luck with a slot game. We won the small (miss) and the big price (three matching) and got ourselves some wrapping i think and free tissue boxes(which we had actually stocked up on when we went grocery shopping, well we won't have to do it again for a while).

Donkatsu for Lunch!

We ended up going to a nearby restaurant to eat lunch and we actually met some of my host dads coworkers there too. While at the table one of them actually came to greet me asking me where i was from and when i told him i had come from Denmark he was actually like "Ohh~"... "Copenhagen" and i was like yeah! Someone actually knows about DK LOL.

As for the food it was the best Tonkatsu i've eaten. With the Tonkatsu or other dish you choose you get unlimited refill of plain rice or 5 type rice, tonjiru(nice~) or  miso  shiru and cabbage (maybe also pickles/seasoned vegestables too).

So i got to eat to my hearts content~<3

When we got home i played animal crossing new leaf with my host sister.

Skyped with my sis in DK.

And tried to pull myself together to blog a bit and that was more or less my day.

(have to get some studying done too with the JLPT coming up at the beginning of december!!!) 

Still working on it"