Cake Rolls and Lunchtime Phenomena

There is a snack bowl in my host family's dining room/kitchen. It is a marvelous little thing filled with mostly sweets and occasionally beer snacks (I don't drink, but those snacks are fabulous hunger satisfiers XD). But recently, my host mom has been putting in these little lemon roll cakes, which are essentially little tubes of lemon cake glazed with lemon icing. I swear to God, if she doesn't stop putting those things in the bowl, I'm going to get incredibly obese. I love them. I ignore the rest of the snacks (except for these health cookies, which are surprisingly delicious). Nothing beats the roll cakes.

And now for the other part of this post: lunchtime phenomena. Everyday at school, I arrive at 8:15ish, and everyone is sleepy and annoyed. I hate mornings at school. For me, every morning there is like a bad Monday morning. It's only after lunch that people magically turn sociable. Maybe it's the food, maybe it's the time, maybe it's the relaxed atmosphere while everybody's eating and nobody's studying- whatever it is, it makes the day much better. I love Thursdays especially because after lunch, I have 2 straight periods in math. I cannot express my love for math class enough; even on bad days when nobody talks, at the very least I've learned something, which is different from every other class other than Japanese. But I'm starting to like 1-6 more and more, because I've started taking advantage of the after-lunch miracle to talk to everyone around me. In the mornings it's still no good, but at least I can enjoy afternoons 75% of the time ^-^ Perhaps by the end of the year it'll be all the time, I can hope!

About friends... There are several (general) types of friends I have here. In a beautiful list form:

-the says hi every morning friend
-the one who is antisocial to me at school and cool outside of school
-the ones who I talk to at school and hang out with, but they're the study/book worm/computer lover people who NEVER MAIL BACK (unless they're in an ultra fantastic mood).
-the ones who will say hi, tease me, and are very friendly, but not hang-out friends (aka most guys, but that's really normal in Japan).
-Daishun, who fits into no category because he is the only person I know who has no shame and is also Japanese. He is awesome :D
-the popular girls, who both talk to me at school, hang out with me, and mail back frequently.

Right now, those are the types of friends I have. I'm aiming to have very close friendships with some of my school peoples by the end of the year, but it's hard when so many people are busy!!! Oh, and by the way, Mom, Daishun told me that when he meets you, he wants to introduce himself as Johnny Depp. Whether he will or not I don't know, but it made me crack up. I told him he should save all of his crazy jokes for Tim and Dad (Tim, you had better be coming! Please?).

Alrighty, I have to go sleep now. But do you see what I mean about the mood swings? Yesterday was terrible, and today was alright. I think I'm going crazy, exchange student style. >-<

Good night!