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Ooookay, so yesterday was kind of crazy. It actually started out good, the kendo teacher took me around the town a bit to show me stuff, and I am definitely going to do kendo once it starts because it looks awesooome. Then he and my supervisor took me to the top of this huge mountain, it is famous in my village apparently and we went on a walk in the woods even though I was wearing a skirt and work shoes. Actually it was super fun and I'm glad it happened.

As for the night... I went home after work to get ready, because the lady who sits across from me at the office, let's just call her JM, invited me to a BBQ. So JM was all like, do you want to come over to my house and have a BBQ with me, my daughter, and my daughter's friend? And of course I said yes, because it sounded fun, right. Well JM comes to get me and then explains to me that actually its going to be her daughter, her daughter's 2 friends, and all of their boyfriends. So that is 6 young (my age) people I don't know, who I can't really talk to, who all are couples. Then JM is like, I'm going to stay in the house because you all are young and I think they will be embarrassed. By this point I wanted to be like, I can just stay home, but of course that would be rude so I just smiled and said it's okay and follow her over there in my car.

The eating part was okay, I guess, but I still felt awkward and it just wasn't very fun. It gets better though. When we were about to head inside one of the girls stepped on a bee. By this point JM had left and gone to her other house (wtf?) and everyone starts freaking out. JM Daughter gets on the phone and calls the hospital and explains what is going on, and the bee-sting girl's boyfriend carries her out of the house to a car. But wait, there's more! I got in the car to drive back to my apartment, bewildered at what I had just witnessed and on the way out an ambulance passes me. An ambulance. I know she didn't have any allergies because she spoke English (goes to school in South Dakota) and I asked her if she was allergic when she got stung. No, it was all these theatrics over a normal bee sting. At least it gave me an excuse to leave.

Later JM came over to my apartment and told me she was sorry, and that the girl was fine and all they did at the hospital was put ointment on her and send her home. Of course, this was a real shock to me. Not.