Daydreaming Diaries

おはようございます～(Ohayo- gozaimasu ->"good morning" in Japanese)

Another new day just dawned. The usual morning routine is already done. Got up, had a small conversation with my "father-in-law in the future", had a shower, some yogurt for breakfast, checked and answered mails, started twittering again and now posting something here on Blogger again. Somehow, my life seems to be very boring. Daily routines aren`t very adventurous.
Well, whatever...

Yesterday I talked with my boyfriend and his father about my next home stay and things with references to this home stay in Nagoya, like when to go there, how to go there, how much the bus ticket will cost, what kind of gift I should take with me, some facts about the family I should remember and so on.
Luckily, I can stay in Kobe at my boyfriends place once again (for a weekend) before moving on to Owariasahi, because the bus fees will be the same, if I travel directly from Kumamoto to Nagoya, or if I go to Kobe first and then move on to Nagoya. Therefore I can visit him again for 2 days. Actually it`s kind of poor to see my boyfriend once a month and only for two or three days, but that`s "how the world loves me". Everything seemed to be perfect, but then the company wasn`t very pleased with me living together with their employee in their building. I don`t know if it was the fact I was living there or the fact that I`m not an adult yet - well not for Japaneses - , which made them angry. But if I were 20 years or older, it maybe (actually I don`t know) would be alright.

I will move on to Kobe (back to the topic I actually wanted to post about) at Friday night by bus again and will arrive their Saturday morning. After visiting my boyfriend  for this weekend, I will hit the road for Nagoya on Monday - probably by bus , too.
The last home stay and actually my first home stay in Japan at some strangers` house wasn`t very - how shall I describe it - comfortable for me. As I already posted  a few times, I only loved the father and the 5-years-old son. Well the baby was a baby, but the mother was, to be honest, terrible. Because of this bad experience, I`m kind of scared what will be if there is also something like in my previous home stay. Where will I stay then? What will I have to do then? The pictures I was showed seemed to be very familiar, gentle and good-natured, but it still was just a photo. I didn`t met them yet.

So far,...
My plans for today? The usual stuff. Studying, studying, reading textbooks, writing Kanjis (again and again). Yesterday, I realized that I should rethink my way of studying, because I already finished a lot of textbooks about Japanese language and grammar, but still have problems in having conversations with different people, because I think I have a big lack of vocabulary. Well, that`s what my boyfriend said to me. To learn a language just by your own, by textbooks, the internet, movies and so on, no school, no teacher, who tells you what you should improve, it`s not that easy. Now, I know I have a lack of vocabulary, but which vocabulary should I study now? Which words are important for improving my Japanese? This is quiet more difficult than I thought it will be..

It`s already the 19th October! Time is passing definitely too fast. I`m almost for about 4 months in Japan and actually didn`t do anything of which I could be proud. The people around me, like friends of my boyfriend, his father or the friends of this guy are complimenting me for my effort in studying Japanese, but to be honest, I can`t sing my own praises at all. Well, maybe not yet.

Today I talked - well, posted, a lot, not that much, but more than usually.
So for today, I will say goodbye even if I will meet some of you on Twitter/mixi/facebook/etc. again, later in the evening.☆