Japan Day 14 (or is it 15)

Well I've been here for about two weeks (Im going on my 3rd week here) and I have 8 more left. It is 10:00 pm on Monday May 24th. After our long shopping day on saturday I was so tired it wasn't even funny. thats probably why I didn't get my homework done like I had planned. Sunday I felt awful and I didn't go to church :-( I pumped myself with pain meds so that I could go to the zoo. It was a girls day out Sunday (with the exception of Rob). Nadine ran back from Church and saw Markie over by the Ramen restaurant on the corner. She followed Nadine home and we all met some friends and made our way to Odori Station to meet up with Laura and Rob (Laura's Ipod case didn't fit her Ipod so she had to return it). After meeting Laura and Rob at Odori we got on another subway to Maruyama Koen (Koen is Park in Japanese) The station was about a 10-15 min walk from the zoo itself. The floor of the station was SO cool though. It had tiles of animals found at the Maruyama zoo. We walked for a bit and finally found the entrance, thankfully we were with a Japanese girl who had been there before. The zoo was small, but it was cool. The best part was that we saw PENGUINS!!! I was so happy haha, the Japanese girl thought I was crazy because I took like 7 pictures of the penguins alone. After the zoo we all were so hungry we decided to go out to eat. We were going to go to this hot pot restaurant, which didnt really look good. Laura said that she really didnt want to eat there (there was a wait and it didnt sound good, Im glad she spoke up) We ended up at Bikuri Donki (its basically a hamburger without the bun type place, but not... its kinda hard to explain). After dinner we got on the bus and headed back home, everyone was SO tired that not much conversation took place.
Monday (Today) was the LONGEST CLASS I have EVER been a part of. I was about ready to gouge my eyes out. It was SO painful... I stopped paying attention like half way through the 3 hour class because I mentally could not keep focused. After class we spent about an hour or so studying Kanji (Me, Laura, Markie, Nadine and Rob) in the tea room. I am determined to learn kanji before I leave japan. Tomorrow is tuesday! Tuesday=No class for Courtnie! Things on my to do list= Skype family in the morning, Grocery shopping after lunch, Laundry sometime and finishing homework. Im kinda excited about this weekend, Nadine and I have planned a movie night with Laura and we also are thinking about going Karaoke.... OH random fact for today. I learned about something cool the other day, its called Tabehodai (which basically means 'All you Care to eat') Its kinda like a buffet, you pay one set price and you can eat anything you want. The thing that was really crazy (and something I would never do because Im not a big drinker) is that they have a Nomihodai (which is the same thing, but with drinks) You pay a set price and you can drink whatever you want, how ever much you want, for a certain number of hours. It's not something that I want to do, but its interesting nonetheless...
Good night and I'll Update soon
Court