Jun 3
The night before dad went to work overnight and I had to go to sleep while alone in the house. I am starting to like this.
Got the latest exam results back. I had 11th place! Not fair! That's out of close to 200 (Japanese) students, based on the total score for all subjects by the way. I actually expected something like this but don't you find it strange? When I had 434 points, that was 4th, 450 - 3rd, 442 - 13th place! Then 438 - 4th and 12th. As you can see, very spread out numbers. I did study. Although this time I did pretty poorly at maths. I carefully read each question and double checked. But careless mistakes were worth almost 20% at the end. Why?
Dad took me shopping. I thought we got lost but we made it. I was very happy. It's a massive and very nice shop. Yuki and Karen had recommended it to me. I bought a lot. New runners, a blue skirt, orange culotte, a matching vest. I loved them. Also I chose a new diary book. Australia had very pretty notebooks suitable for a diary. Japan doesn't have ones like this. Such a pity. And you know, I want one where you can write a title on the front cover yourself. I would have called it "The diary of a young girl". Get it? Same as Anne's book. So it looks like a real book. When I got home, Yuki called and invited me over for the night. Of course I was keen to go! And dad is not mum!
We had so much fun at Yuki's! First we watched Passport to Paris with Mary-Kate and Ashley. I liked it. While watching it we kept arguing who is who. That was fun. After that finished we went to her room. I had brought the glow-in-the-dark stars and we stuck them to the ceiling by jumping off the bed. So much fun! Then we turned the light off and played some music while recording our voices. Like a story. It was funny but when we tried to sing along that was silly! But never mind. Then we just lied down and chatted. I remembered again that Yuki's been wearing a bra and how disgusting that is. On a whim I finally asked her about it. She said she was not embarrassed because everyone else was wearing one too. Especially all the tall girls. She also mentioned how she hated being tall. You, Ellie, would probably think that we are perverted talking about such things. But no, it was actually kind of nice, that we are so close. I doubt others would not be talking about things like this. Still, I do not understand how she can actually like it (bra). How does she, for instance, feel about her parents knowing? The worst thing about it is the shape and that you can see it through the clothes. If not that, I could perhaps live with it.
Jun 5
In the evening me and dad ordered a pizza and watched a TV show about orangutans Discovery channel documentary or something it was... . It was so interesting I want to write about it. It starts with a mum orangutan playing with its babies. The narrator tells the story about the orangutan's family. A little orangutan is growing up. Once on a walk with mum they meet another mum with a child. the children play together for a bit but the mums walk off and they follow. Later there is fire in the jungle and the orangutan gets lost. He is found by humans and they take him into care. After some time, that baby orangutan he has met before is brought in too, as his mother has died. They become friends. When they were released back in the nature they were together. But after a few years they fall apart. The first orangutan grows up smart and he is ready to find a mate and leave offspring. The other did not manage to become independent. He still hangs out around the reserve where humans had raised him...
Interesting isn't it? And it's a real story! Just like with people. By the way, I have never mentioned what I want to be in the future. I think more than anything I want to either be a kindergarten teacher or a person who cares for animals or poor and sick people.
