Woah! OK so i have been a little slow in updating this!

so on the 13Th and 14Th i didn't end up going to Tokyo... but i did go sailing! Horie-san (rotary member) took me and the American exchange student Mike, sailing! it was awesome! We saw fish jumping! it was very exciting!

My host mom took me to Kanazawaon the 15Th because it was a school holiday! She took me to The old ninja building and also a very beautiful garden

This weekend i went to Osaka and Kyoto with my host mom and her friend! We went to universal studios on Saturday in Osaka. It was so neat! everywhere you look is like the set of a movie.

Sunday morning we went to the Osaka aquarium!! It was beautiful!! I saw so many cool fishies! :P

Later We took the train to Kyoto! We saw some really cool temples and castles and walked around. The next day we went to more temples and then went shopping!!!! shopping in Japan is sooooo fun! There are so many cool things to buy! I am going to run out of money

Hey again!!

so this was a very very exciting weekend for me :D My host mom took me to Hakuba to see the mountains! We went with a group of her friends from her ladies choir. They were all very nice ladies! On the first day my host mom took me to the site of the 1998 winter Olympic ski jump!!! it was HUGE!

we went up and i got some great pictures and we even watched some people go off the jump!! I didn't know they could do that without snow but apparently they can. In the evening there was a concert at my hotel. It was great! We got all dressed up!! Everything was so professional and the musicians were extremely talented! WOW!

The second day we all went up the mountain! The view was amazing! Japan is so beautiful!

Next weekend I'm off to Tokyo!!!

I'll report back soon!!

Hey all!! so this was a very very interesting start of the week!! first off I bought a new cell phone!!! it is super nice!! And the instructions are in Japanese of course ha ha.

The next day was my FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!! I can't understand very much at all but i am trying. On my first day of school i had to do 3 speeches! one for the teachers one for my class and one for ALL the grade 2s(grade 2 is my grade which has 16 and 17 year old students). After school i went to my first Rotary meeting in Japan!! And i did yet another speech! ha ha Japanese like speeches i guess! Anyways i met the rest of my host fathers for the year there and they all seem like very very nice men!

After the meeting i went home to clean up and DRESS UP!! My host mom asked a very nice lady if she would help me wear my yukata! It looked so nice!!! We went to see the Owara dances which are very very famous in Japan! I was the only non Asian person there.. SERIOUS! and everyone wanted to take a picture with me! And the Owara dancers themselves came up to talk with me... not that they could say much.. haha.

The next day I went to school and then my host brother took me out for Kareoke!! which is an absolute BLAST! I have to admit that i almost did not try it but i am very glad i did! anyhow.. it is late and i am super sleepy!! OYASUMINASAI!!