not the best start to the long weekend

our view while we hung out on the giant steps of kyoto station

enjoying good conversation and yummy drinks ^_^

after a great night out with my friends friday night, the weekend took a turn for the worse. first of all, my body woke me up around 6:30am, which on a normal school day, isn't a bad thing. however, it's saturday. anyway, i had breakfast around 9am and actually went back to sleep until 2pm because i wasn't feeling well. i hope i'm not getting sick already, but i can believe it if i am. the constant changes in temperature (air-conditioned rooms and the 30ºC weather outside) can't be too good... my host mother suggested i stay at home today and get some rest [probably an extremely intelligent idea], but all my friends are out visiting a temple, and i am so so jealous.

furthermore, last night, i found out i was placed in kuwahira-sensei's group---i'm not sure whether that's level 3 or 4, but i'll be very unhappy if it's 3. long story short, elliot and danielle are dealing with the same problem. they both should be in level 5, the most advanced. however, judging by where the other midd kids were placed, their group [different from mine] is most definitely not level 5. the combinations of students in both our respective groups don't make any sense to us. it's very ambiguous which level we were placed in. it doesn't make sense that elliot and danielle would place below me---making their group level 4, and mine 3. either way, nothing seems logical to us right now. we are hoping that a very BIG mistake has been made.

it's 3:15pm on a saturday afternoon, and i'm sitting in my room blogging. my headache hasn't gone away, and i have no motivation to do homework. i'd really like to study some japanese, but my mental and physical state is prohibiting me from doing so. at some point, this 3-day weekend has to get better. i'm waiting...