Mathemetics?

Last week we had a test in Math B (I take Math B and Math II; yes, there is a difference beyond the names). Yesterday I got it back, and guess what? I got a 7/38! YAY!!! If I had actually tried all 38 questions, I might be a little depressed, but I could only read/do 8 of them. And I got 7 right (the only one I got wrong was that I wrote -1x when I should have just written -x. Picky, much?). So I'm happy with my seven. To top it off, Daishun also got a seven with the exact same questions that I did. Great minds think alike, right?

I also want to say that something relatively big has happened, but I can't be too specific. In a nutshell, I was having trouble with my host family, and with the added stress of school and, well, exchange, I sort of cracked. I went and told pretty much everything to a teacher at school and to my 2nd host parents. And now they're all helping me out. I'm not sure what exactly is going to happen next; I may move host families early, I may switch classes, I may be I have no clue. But the important thing is that I went and told everything. Which everyone has assured me is for the better.

A word about this host family I'm in now: I said I've been having trouble with them. But it's not as if my host parents are locking me in rooms or hating on me or anything like that, nor have I been (at least intentionally) being mean to them. They are a perfectly nice and respectable family. However, they are a first-time host family, and that's meant these last 2 months have been almost nothing but trying to adjust to each other, getting on each other's nerves, and trying to figure out how to do things right. Sometimes everything magically works out between the student and the family; sometimes it does not. If I were with this family for a year, I think it would be fine, but given that I'm only here for 3 months, it's been very difficult. And that, among other things I won't write here, is why I may be changing families early. On the surface I feel almost guilty for "ratting out" this family because honestly they haven't really done anything wrong, but somewhere deep down, I know I needed to tell someone. So we'll see how it goes from here.

So right now I'm waiting to see what will happen. I won't know anything until this Friday at the earliest. I'm a bit anxious, actually...

In other news, the new girl from Aussieland has arrived and I hope to meet her soon!!! She lives near Kyoto, so that's good ^-^ And it's really, really, really cold right now. I went to bed at 10 last night, stayed awake shivering until 11, smartened up and put on some socks and a long-sleeve shirt (I was already wearing fleece pants, thank you Mom), STILL was shivering too much to fall asleep by 12, put on my winter coat and fluffy socks, and then managed to fall asleep by 1ish. All this, plus the heavy comforter on the bed. Part of it is that I'm too tall for the bed so my feet stick out and freeze, but it's also just absolutely frigid. It snowed today on the way to school for about 3 minutes. Highlight of the day. It's 99% not going to actually snow here, but hopefully I'll get to see some if I can go up north for skiing or something.

I'm going to see the Kyoto Youth Orchestra this weekend. YES!!! Beyond-words-excited.

Fingers too cold to write more. Love all talk laters mata ne!