Monday, June 28, 2010

Staying at my Liasons house!

Okay, so my host parents uncle just died in Tokyo!! SAD! :( So they have to go there for a few days and I am staying with my liaison. Hopefully she will take me out to do fun things since I will be with her until Sunday! I had my fist day of school yesterday. Its not an actual school though. Me and the three other language students in this area actually go to the teachers house to learn, which is probably better I guess because we will learn more faster! I had my first bento! It was so cute and everything inside was sooo yummmy!

We had a little break during school, and my and Kelesa got to walk around for 20 minuets! We went to the store and I bought soo much stuff just because it was all cute and Japanese. I got lost on the way to school actually! (how could I have forgotten to mention that lol)...Ya so I missed the express train to Kurume station (where I am supposed to get off for school), so I took the other train. When I got off I had no idea where to go so I wandered aimlessly for like 5 minuets...then I finally went to the customer service type area where no one spoke English at all. They took out this book of English phrases and told me to point to the one that I wanted to say! Its funny now but at the time it was soo frustrating. I finally just gave them the paper with the school number on it. They called and I got where I needed to be safely! :3 Ya school was pretty easy for me...I think I should try to get into a harder class because I learned everything they were going over a loong time ago.

But ya so I wont be able to post pictures until I get back here so I'm going to past a lot now! Enjoy!










more Tokyo...









manga from my host sister...
airplane food on the way to Japan.
some temple that we passed on the way to school.
a street view of Kurume.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

I am IN JAPAN!!!

Hey everyone! So I had a six hour flight to Los Angeles, a ten hour flight to Japan, a 9 hour bus ride to Osaka, and a 3 hour shinkansen (Japanese bullet train) ride to Fukuoka where I an staying...sooo much traveling. Im tired lol. But I met so many new people. Japan is so beautiful and amazing!!! I am with my host family now. They are cute and nice. I start my first day of school tommorow so I am excited!

I stayed in Osaka for like 3 days. It was fun most of the time, but sometimes it was really boring when we had group sesssions for hours lol. I am trying to adjust to eating Japanese food...I have major vravings for good old American food a lot of the time. It rains here like everyday because it is the rainy season until mid July I think... I dont like the rain ahhh!!! It is my seconf day with my host family, and today I went to a welcoe party where I met other AFS students that are here for year and semester programs. They were nice.

Tonight I am having curry and rice for dinner...I hope I like curry lol. I reallly dont want to offend my family!! OH, I almost forgot Love-chan the cutest dog in the world!! I love him!! Oh ya lol, and at the orientation all of us AFSers bathed together, all naked and stuff. Awkward.....but we got used to it. It is part of Japanese culture after all. Sorry this post is all over the place lol. Using a Japanese keyboard is annoying...Well how about some pictures!!!




Japanese mountains!!!


Francesca me and Kelesa!

Kelesa!


Traditional Japanese toilet.

Ebi-chan is the hottest Japanese guy everrr lol



My friends at the Osaka orientation.





a yummy display at a store in Japan!


Japanese toilets are wickeddd sick! All tricked out with buttons and everything!!

We got to drive by Tokyo!!! It was HUGE and full of people! I wish I could have been there longer!