sarahsnowchic

In some ways this should have been the first blog entry I wrote… if chronology was my forte that is…. which it isn’t, but a blog entry about Japan has always been on the cards since way back when I was a wee 15 year old venturing overseas on my own for the first time and head first into the regimented schooling system and a homestay sure-fire initiation into the obsessive insular pop culture crushes, crazy fashions and unique everyday antics of teenage girls in Japan.   For four months, I lived and breathed boy band teen idols Kinki-Kids and SMAP, drowned in foreign calculus and complex geometry but bathed in the awe inspired by my English dictation lessons… At the end of my stay, I would say I was essentially fluent in the essentials of language.. or that of a teenage girl in Japan in any case… “daijyoubu”, “kawaii” “hoshii”, “sugoi desu nesu ne” and “looso socksu” were necessities.. translation; “all good” ,“cute”, “I want one” and “awesome aren’t they?!” oh and t...