Hajimimaste! Watashiwa Noel desu はじめまして！私の名前はノエルです

Well hello :) Don't kill me! My parents don't really agree on me blogging. They assume its a waste of time... Its not, I know. But the problem is I would rather blog all day than do chores and stuff :P

So, I'm gonna blog about the Japanese Exchange Program.

It happened last Friday *checks calendar* 10/11/2012 :)

So, basically, it was a half day program. Students from Sapporo Shinyo High School came to our school for an interaction. It was just a very brief interaction. We had tea and lunch. And some free time. We also saw their performances. They are sooo. Adorable!

Meet my partner: Riku Sugiyama, 杉山陸. He's 16 too. He's a very nice and cute boy. Cute not as in HOT, but adorable :) He plays guitar too. And we jammed. I played him Rasa Sayang, a traditional Malaysian song, and he played me some Japanese Pop song. I sang. He sang. It was fun :)

He's quite shy. When we were playing, he was strumming the chords and I asked: 'Sing?' Then he said something in Japanese which I don't understand. Then he asked his friend to translate and his friend said: 'Riku SHYYYY.' Okay. That was so adorable :)

Oh, and I played Coldplay's Yellow. Beause I asked him what English music he listened to. And he said: 'Coldplay, Fall Out Boys, Queen...' So I played the song. And sang. And messed up the chords. And stuck my tongue out in embarrassment multiple times. *sigh*

But he seemed to enjoy it though.

So here are some random pictures. I'll just comment below, kay? *sigh* I'm such a lazy blogger :P

J-pop dance! It was very cute :D

Umm. Yeah. That's my partner. Who is a male. In a short skirt :D

I was busy INTERACTING with Riku. :P

We nabbed the Air-conditioned room :) Thanks Yi Wen! 

If you see closely, you can see me and Riku doing the exact same pose with our tongue stuck out :D 

I joined in cause no one wanted to take a picture with me, *sigh*

Behind the scenes look at the she-males :D My partner is the one squatting, I think. 

Well, we were supposed to give them gifts that represented MALAYSIA. But Mum said I shouldn't be giving random strangers presents. I argued. And there was unhappiness. So I prepared the gift at the last possible minute. And it was super lame. I gave him MALAYSIAN COINS. 1 sen, 5 sen, 10 sen, 20 sen, 50 sen and the extinct RM1 coin. I purposely searched for coins that were in the year 1997. I failed. So it ranged from 1995-1997. *sigh* I know right. SO SAD. And I put it in one of those plastic eggs (remember? The machine where you get to get toys? Yeah. I put it in that.) And I put a rolled up paper of his name. And my name. And I wrote: "'Aku Cinta Malaysia', 'I Love Malaysia' and '我爱马来西亚'" Too bad I don't know how to write Tamil.

He gave me a... Shoot. I forgot the name. But I know its called 竹蜻蜓 in Chinese. And Doraemon uses it to fly. The real thing is not so advanced and can't make me fly :P But it spins in the air. Its super cool. And he folded an origami of an airplane. Okay fine. He folded a paper airplane for me xD And he wrote his name, English and Japanese and gave it to me. Then I wrote my Chinese name and English name for him.

As they were leaving, we sent them away at the bus stop. And he dragged the roll of '我爱马来西亚' across the bus window. I was so surprised and embarrassed. I couldn't explain what it meant though. Sad.

But the happy part was, I'm still in touch with him! We chat on Twitter. Its hilarious. I barely understand his English. I suspect he uses Google Translate to translate his Japanese. And sometimes he types in Japanese so I have to rely on Google Translate. Its really cute.

Besides him, I also chat with his friends who are MY friends' partners. They're really cute too.

Its gonna strike midnight. And I guess I've said everything I wanna say.

Oh, I like the Japanese people from Sapporo Shinyo Koko High School! I hope I can visit Japan and visit them someday! :D

So... Good night! :)

Phuah Shelvin, congratulations on being the first one reading this!

Japanese-fied Angel 日本エンジェル