Akage no Avis-san

ok sorry that I am ONE DAY LATE....sheesh, anyone would think I was charging you all to read this damn thing.

So yes my week began on tuesday when I went to the city to buy a halloween costume....We went to this big shop that had lots of things to choose from, then we found the hat wall. OMG so many hats, and needless to say there were so many photos taken of us wearing said hats. I was particularly enamoured with the one shaped like an icecream cone, because it was one of the only ones that fit, so I bought it. Meanwhile Zenen bought the fish hat, and we tried to get Jeong Ju to buy a crab hat....she was so sad but we persuaded her. Afterwards she said to me:

"I think I made a mistake, I wanted to be cute, not funny....This is my only halloween and my dream was to be a princess, a crab wasn't my dream"...

it was hil.ari.ous......as was trying to get flora to be a cake, she was sooooo angry because we wouldn't drop it haha, but she got it in the end

A recurring theme in these blogs seems to be the consistancy in which i make a total ass of myself. This time it was something new, I was catching the bus home after buying my hat, when I fell asleep and woke up just near my stop....and I got off, WITHOUT TAKING THE HAT......i realised as soon as I got off, but it was too late by then.

The next day I walked to the bus depot, which isn't too far from where I lived and asked them if they had it, but my Japanese must be atrocious because they had no idea what I was saying....I promptly gave up. LUCKILY I tried again the morning of the halloween party (friday) and a woman was there who spoke english so it was much easier to describe having lost an icecream shaped hat.

My friend Clarice from Macquarie also decided to pay us a visit from Nagoya for the night, so we got her a ticket to the party too.

The party itself was lots of fun, although it went for like 2 hours.....such a shame. There was all you can eat/drink. Zina my neighbour who is also underage encourages me to illegally drink with her....and you could say I caved to peer pressure :P....although I was much more responsible, I have definitely learned from past mistakes (although maybe not enough, but that is to come)

The room itself was so hot, especially in my hat....but it was definitely a huge hit. I had lots of photos taken with my by people I had never met before.....Javi the spanish guy who lives in my dorm also professed that he would like to eat me because I am so "smooth, cool and creamy". hahaha

After the party we all gathered at the uni to decide where to go next, some of us wanted to go to karaoke, so off we went. The room was bloody small, but again free drinks, which seems to be my downfall. It was quite fun and I went pretty hoarse from all the singing, afterwards I was so tired that me and Clarice headed home.....although once we got there some people who didnt go to the party were still up (and hilariously drunk)......so we hung out with them talking.....at this point I was still pretty good, then I had a glass of wine.....kinda the straw that broke the camels back. I felt like I was going to be sick, but I wasn't, and I managed to run away to my room when the others were distracted

Saturday was a hangover day, didn't do anything. Nobody go up until early-mid afternoon and even then the were not in much of a doing anything mood.....that night we had some people over and had a cocktail party downstairs. I did not partake in the alcoholic cocktails you would be glad to know....the mocktails they made me were pretty damn delicious though.

Sunday we decided to bike to Arashiyama which is pretty much this touristy, old place....really beautiful though. Problem was it started to pour as we got there so we had a picnic under a nice tree. We also saw a wedding taking place, I felt so bad for them. We walked around some shops for a while and through a cool bamboo forest then headed home after a few hours.......I got absolutely drenched, which brings me to the final point

I am sick

Although it might be getting a lot better before it really got bad, I have been gargling this awful medicine as well as wearing face masks. the masks themselves are pretty unnecessary but I figured, where else in the world could I wear a mask without being stared at constantly......I was rocking it too

so there you have it. I am contemplating taking day off to recouperate seeing as I have a busy/early wednesday. Talk to you anon

jono