japanese summers are NO JOKE!!
also i keep saying i want to update semi-daily but it's just not happening which sucks :( i just feel like i'm always busy! but at the same time, i really didn't do too much this week. there are a few cool things i want to share though!
over last weekend i went to another fireworks festival! me and a friend ended up going pretty early because we wanted to check out the beach and (hopefully) go swimming. when we got there, we ate ate and then headed that way! it was a long-ish walk from the station, maybe 30 minutes, but it was soo amazing when we got there. unfortunately the tide was way too high and the water was really rough so we couldn't swim. it looked pretty murky too so i'm not sure if i wanted to either way. i just really want to swim sometime this summer! it's incredibly hot and humid and i feel like swimming would feel amazing. anyways, at the same beach, there was a huge shinto shrine on an island that you could walk to! it had a longgg bridge with a torii gate at the entrance. it was stunning. we went to the island, got to walk on a very shell-y beach (there were like THOUSANDS of shells washed up) went around the island (the opposite way...whoops) and went through the shrine area! the shrine was closed, but it was still so beautiful to walk around. up in the top of the island, i got bit up by a bajillion mosquitoes. also there were sooo many wharf roaches!!! they make them look way cuter in animal crossing haha. but yeah it was so much fun! a really awesome experience and i would definitely go again one time when the shrine is open
so yeah after our little tour of the island, me and my friend both ran out of water!! every vending machine we ran into had been EMPTIED!! it was so busy from the firework festival crowd, so it was extremely hard to find water. we finally found a vending machine that had a small water, so we got those and drank it, but i was totally succumbing to heat exhaustion. not heat stroke, thankfully, but it could have gotten to that point if i hadn't kept it in check. it was a very scary experience. my arms were turning so cold for some reason, even though i was still so hot. anyways i decide we should just go home. it was a good idea so i didn't freaking die lol but also my friend said she didn't mind because she only really wanted to go to the beach anyways. we already saw fireworks together last time so it wasn't a super big deal! so i toughed it out and we walked back to the station, and found some more water on the way, and i ended up cooling wayyy down once we got on the train ride home. i felt soo much better and i am extremely grateful for my friend for taking such good care of me. she was really sweet and helped me out a lot! so yes thankfully i got home just fine, drank lots of water and pocari sweat, and took a cold shower and everything haha. i had a really bad headache after though but that was to be expected. i was super dehydrated and overheated! i definitely didn't sleep a lot that night and we had school the next day ;( i was a few minutes late of course hahaaa...oh well. it ended up to be fine!
anyways, other than all of that, i've just been going to class, doing homework, and playing minecraft with my american friends (thankfully they are usually still on after my class is over!)
i bought bread and butter for the first time here and it turned out pretty good! although i don't know if it's just the bread i bought or what, but it was kinda stale after i toasted it. maybe it's not meant to be toasted? i dunno. it was still good though! i also had mcdonalds for the first time. it was meh. the sandwich was very good but fries were stale and very dry. it might have been because i got it delivered, but even still, i'm not sure if it's worth getting fast food here when you can just buy a more healthy pre-made meal at the grocery store or conbini for like $3! i feel spoiled so i was pretty judgy when it came to the fast food.
well that's about all that happened this week! i've got some more exciting stuff i'm doing this weekend so i will do my best to make an update on sunday hopefully!
またね！