it has been 1 week for michelle's jap fd Kazuko to be contacted. it just happened to us to come across a big problem. our flight is gonna land on osaka & the subsequent journey by shinkansen from osaka to fukuoka costs, unbelievably, 30000円. o Jes...michelle thinks that we cant afford it, so we turned to another jap, Kei, who lives in kobe.

i called her just a minute ago. well, i started by speaking jap for only 2 sentences.....then already swtiched to english!!!!kei speaks english v well indeed. o then i can forsee that it's gonna be practising english rather than practising jap. anyway, kei has to ask for her mom's permission for letting us stay in her house......if that's not alright, then we ll just sleep in train station!!!!!!!well, just kidding (hopefully)

PS
jap-cramming
purchase of travel books