CURSE THE FLU

BWAAHHHHHHHH!!! >_<

Swine flu has yet again decided to attack my homeroom, so I have the next few days off. Which is good and bad, as always. But it's more bad this time because I'm now one of the sick ones T_T I dunno if it's swine flu or not (going to a doctor later today to find out), but my throat hurts and I dislike it.

But moving on:

I moved to my official second host family over the weekend! It's a younger couple, the Nakamuras, who have 2 daughters abroad right now. I really like them! My host dad is a very quiet and nice person, and my host mom is such a lot of fun. She's really energetic, and she keeps using all of these complicated Japanese phrases (but she speaks fluent English), so I'm learning a lot. I really liked my temporary host family, but I'm glad to be able to actually unpack again ^-^

Um, yeah, other than that honestly not that much new stuff has been going on. But, on a side note, today I found out that my English is officially going weird. The temporary exchange student (Mike), Shimizu-sensei, and I were having a discussion earlier today about accents, and I was trying to describe how North Carolina hosts both southern accents and normal American accents, and Mike goes, "Oh yeah, when I first met you I was really surprised. You don't have an American accent- it actually sounds sort of British." UWAH-?!! What's going on here? Apparently, because the only English I hear is British, Aussie, New Zealander, or Japanese-English, my accent is gone. I don't recall the change ever occurring, but apparently it has. My English is just going crazy. I can't speak properly anymore because I keep using Japanese grammar (which, by the bye, I don't really know). It's not that I prefer to speak Japanese over English, but... neither one is good for expressing myself right now. They need to converge somehow, and then I'll be good ^-^ But on the brighter side of things, for some reason I can now understand 10x more than I could 2 weeks ago, so that's nice. I can't speak worth much, but at least I have some idea of what's going on. For example, I watched Spirited Away for about the 80 billionth time last week and could actually understand maybe 70-80% of the Japanese. (Of course I've seen it so much the plot is forever ingrained into my soul O.o)

Alrighty then, talk to ya'll laters! Wish me good health, お願いします　＾ー＾