japan trip 07

My Japanese Homestay Programme



okay was suppose 2 post about my japan trip but was dead tired n recovering from massive influenza!! anyways heres the details

10/12/07:checked into klia concorde hotel 4 brieffing,there where we had to stay one night inn and i was already homesicked...din wanna let mummy go off n i made her come back the next day to say bye bye to me in the airport!! so we had ice breaking at5 schedule was suppose 2 be @3 but u noe malaysian timing neva efficient....so anyways got paired up into rooms to put my massive bags i carried 3 bags btw! n my roomie was non other than farah sabrina my old time primary bestie c its faith n we got reunited....anyways we were given to rest till 7 pm our room was like so far n all i remember was walking,walkin,n walking, after dinner we were grouped into the osaka,tokyo,nagoya & another group that i forgot!...anyways i was smart enuff to volunteer to do sum dancing...seriously i taught it was gonna be sum hip hop dancing turned out 2 be sum dondang song! dammit sorry jozee! so there was 10 lucky stars in our osaka group that offered to dance there was,joy,jasmine,jozee,me,farah,adam,ridhwan aka boy boy,nazmi & i cant remeber the other two sorry! so while we were practicing our dondang dance to be presented to the japnese ppl those other osaka rians were learning japenese n btw the hotel was nice n clean im serious it was pretty!

11/12/2007

woke up had breakfast,not bad food i must say 4 sum concorde hotel flight was at 1135pm so imagine wat we did the whole time we were studyin n more dancing! at least i can speak a lil japense well only to survive inthe winter! was contacting mother the whole time callin her every minute to bring me extra clothes, milo 3 in 1 hot cup noodles more of tiger biscuits and kit kat ahahah n okay than it was around 8pm after checkin in our bags mummy came had dinner at mcd b4 on flight....gave mummy my dirty clothes n took in fresh wans it was around 10pm where mummy wanted to leave me already cuz daddy said if they stay longer that i might burst out into tears!n_n! so yeah mummy and daddy left me so i was stuck with farah we went to buy famous amos cookies....n played with the trolley like some go-cart race track how fetched is that! anyways our trip got delayed to 1155pm imagine! waitin in the airport 4 so many hrs felt like the movie terminal!than got onto the plane where i sat next to ridhwan(future nuerosurgeon)ahmad(future pilot) and sum japnese it was a 747 flight! while farah was stuck behind where she had three free seats n layed down n snored! while i was stuck with 2 unkwoned ppl i had to fit in n we got along very well innitt guys:)

kobe,japan

12/12/2007:we arrived at kansai airport..all excited and we went to the hippo club in japan where we waited for our foster family to fetch us,at that moment my head was running through a million things,I wonder what if they didn’t like me or would they be disappointed if they saw me,and than I saw a lady holding my name with the writings’’selamat dating alicia’ and she gave me a hug and we played games after that we went back to our respective homes I was sad to leave my friends but I left my worries all aside and enjoyed every moment of it…so we went back by train and I must mention that their trains are awesome! Its fast,effiecent, and cleanJ so after the stop at ashiya city.my otosan fetched us halfway through,he dropped my okasan to a grocery store and I was in the car with my dad wondering what to say and slowly we developed a conversation and it seemed they have come to Malaysia a couple of times so there was topic that we both could relate and not to mention they speak very good English so there was no communication problem for me.later than we went back to their house and she showed me to my room and to the parts of the the room she had a dog name mick and it was adorable:D and my room was nice and big not to mention my comfy bed she gave me 4 hours to rest cause later that night they were planning to bring me to kobe city to see pretty lights which actually reminds them of the big earthquake that hit Osaka.after my rest we took train for about 25 minutes and than I was shocked to see sensei asri and jesni so that was really relaxing and finally I came to it 4 about 25 minutes of this never ending road and I mean it was so pretty and the walking was worthied and I mean it after that we went for dinner and supringsly it got dark by 4pm so yeah lol winter:D we ate lotsa stuff that I can barely remember but it was yummy:D….and after that I said goodbye to sensei and went back home and slept like a log.

13/12/2007:i woke up 10am and guess where I went this time universal studio japan!! Imagine I was so excited as my friend said it’s the exact duplicate as the one in u.s.a so yea I was filled with happiness and guess what my mother and grace mother planned on bringing us there together so yeah I was not alone in u.s.j I was with grace! It was so pretty only seeing is to believing here are the pictures

14/12/2007:I woke up early because I had to go to school and experience the life style there and guess who I saw farah Sabrina I was like so happy and of course we hugged and my mother dropped me off because she had to prepare dinner for sensei and yg berbahagia kementerian pendidikan Malaysia.after school we went ate traditionally in one of the persons house than my mother fetched me back,I quickly wash up and waited for sensei to come and there we had lotsa food,mostly I remember was this delicious rich and it’s a tradition for us to shout out itadakimas before eating:Dwe were all stuffed by okasans cooking

15/12/2007:it was my last day so I decided to have an early start,I went to church at 8am and I must say the readings were in Japanese but the gospel was in English so it was kinda fun for me to experience church in a different language.after church they wanted to spend more quality time with me so they brought me to watch an American football match played by university students it was the blue team against the red team,and we supported the blue time and I had a red scarf that I had to hide it upon arrival at the stadium.the footballers,cheerleaders,mid-game entertainment, made it all a bomb for me later after the 2 hr game we went to my mothers mothers house,4 generations down the laneJ she was so nice she gave me a hot pack and she gave me greentea,after we took train and headed to the hippo club in Osaka…where it was our last times to say goodbye and after that we had dinner for the last time before departure to Tokyo,I hugged my mother and father they really made me feel like home during this homestay programme and I really hope to see them again if I have the chance tooJ we got on the bass and departed for Tokyo.so me,farah,jozee and andy got the backseats and imagine the noise that we made in the bas it was a 8 hr journey to Tokyo halfway andy got sick,than me,than farah than jozee..inbetween we were given toilet stops and we had to run because early morning breeze is really no joke:P than at 7 am we reached Tokyo n guess where infront of Tokyo Disneyland:D we were all so excited and cudnt wait to get of the bus, we had to wash and brush our teeth near the toilets and freshen ourselves so that we would look good on camera and pictures with mickey mouse!for me the best ride was the space mountain and the go-cart and of course seeing cinderella’s castle .sensei gave us approximately until 5 to gather back and we did,and we had to eat the food given by sensei which it was so pitiful because he had to bring the food all the way from akihabara and we had to eat in the cold to reach our destination,so we checked in at the Olympic centre in Tokyo and we’re assigned to our rooms.it was 1 to a room…scarrrry! Lol but no worries we all lived:Dwhile getting settled in the room we were called by the boys had some emergency announcement,sensei said that tomorrow we would be going to the Shinjuku and akihabara to shop and he said pay attention because he didn’t want us to get lost so after the annoucentment we all slept soundly