A New Summer

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Yesterday I pretty much spent the day sitting around drinking and playing video games. I started out drinking wine and playing Star Wars Revenge of the Sith for xbox but when Sean R came down later we played halo 2 co-op. It sounds like it would be alot of fun but for some reason I just didn’t have fun playing the whole time. I got really really hungry and made eggs with cheese but then I was still really hungry and I made curry rice. Not because I really wanted to but I’m very low on food choices. In-between the games I listened to music streaming from my pc upstairs because we just got the xbox connected to the network the other day. Sean needed the power converter plug and another one of my cables to use to clean out his car in the back of the house so I just layed on the couch and waited for him to get done and I passed out in the middle of the day. I woke up at around 11 or 12 and then stayed up the whole night. I called Julie just to keep in touch because I didn’t talk to her the other day while she is in Boston. Nate called me after I woke up yesterday and told me he was at Akiko’s party for her going away and only Japanese people were there, including Sakiko. Nate said he was pretty pissed about all of them just speaking Japanese even though they were really good at english and he couldn’t understand anything they were talking about. I told him well you better get used to it because they’re going to be doing the same thing in Japan non-stop. He said yeah I know I can get used to it there just now though I got off work and I’m really tired and I thought someone was gonna be here I could take to and they weren’t. So yeah. I’m going home today supposedly I’m not sure when my mom is gonna pick me up but I have to stay home until I get my 40 observed hours in at the hospital which could take a long time and I’m not looking forward to it.

So this school year has come to an end. It seemed alot lot shorter than last year being that I missed the whole first quarter once I got back. The foreign exchange students Miho, Akiko, and Shige and the rest of them have all pretty much left already within these past days, Miho just yesterday and I think Akiko today. But honestly I don’t really care. These exchange students weren’t as cool as last years, and I’m happy that they are leaving because I realized the next batch of exchange students is coming now and may be alot better than the one’s this year. Julie and I talked about their differences alot. This year’s students weren’t as willing to make american friends or hang out with americans as last year’s was, and this was realized when we went to that lame going away Japanese BBQ party and saw their going away album of pictures. All the pictures in the album were them hanging out with other Japanese people. If someone were to just pick up the pictures and look at them, they wouldn’t think those people were in America at all but in Japan. The same is true for Matt and his friends but anyways, looking at the pictures I realized how little I actually knew the exchange kids and I decided not to sign the books. What would I say? “Well, it was nice meeting you five or six times and I hope we will see one another again?” No. Julie signed though, and said she enjoyed talking to them at Kennedy which is basically all we did and it was about Japan anyways and the same old same old crap when you talk to a foreign exchange student from Japan.

Why do we like hanging out with foreign exchange students in the first place? Are they really that great? Julie and I think it might be that our first year here we hung out with them and had a really really fun time, and because we had such a fun time we’re trying to get that same fun back every year by hanging out with them. It’s pretty stupid. And now that I’m out of Japanese, why the hell do I still care about JSO and what not? There’s no real reason for Julie and I to hang out with the Japanese circles. We decided that the only reason we still do is because all the friends we have now are interested in Japanese, because that’s how I met them, and so that still keeps us around it. Realizing we have no reason to participate in JSO anymore and not really wanting to anyways since the Japanese people there are stuck up and clicky, we started talking about getting involved in the Korean students organization, since Julie was Korean anyways. That way people would want to come up and talk to Julie and be friends to Julie rather than coming up to Japanese people at Japanese parties and trying to work to become their friend. Because think about it, why do people come to Japanese parties? To see Japanese people and make Japanese friends, so the Japanese people are the center of attention and everyone wants to talk to them and be their friend. Why do people go to korean parties? To see Korean people and make Korean friends, same thing only this time we’ll be the star instead of the guys walking around hanging out at the bottom of the totem poll and nobody caring to start a conversation with or talk to. yeah. I don’t know why I even fucking care about this absurdity it’s pretty much a popularity contest with asian people and I can’t believe I’m still involved in it because I know it’s stupid and not worth the time of thinking about anyways.