Bday :)

Hi everyone :) I want to tell you about my Birthday. It was last Monday... My hostmum told me she is going to make a chocolate cake ( she knows I love Chocolate) for my Birthday,so the day before we went to buy all the ingredients and so... So on Monday morning I got up and my hostmum took me to the shopping center with my hostgrandmum to choose what I want for my Birthday, and to buy a present for my hostgrandmum, because the same day was Old aged day. So we went to a shopping center(huge shopping center, they are like 5,6,7,8,till 10 floors. And I bought 3 pairs of long socks( here in Japan almost everybody wears long socks and they are crazy about socks)a one piece and a pair of shorts.My hostmum bought shoes for my host grandma and we went back home. I helped my Okaasan doing the cake and some friends of her came. They gave me presents such as CHOCOLATe,mhm CHOCOLATE, let me think ...CHOCOLATE yeahh this is why I am 2 kg more since I am here.I received a box with towells too( here they use them a lot, it is toooooo hot).My Okaasan friends play a lot of instruments so they played Happy Birthday for me(saxo,piano and other strange instrument that I had never seen before). In the afternoon my Otousan came back home, so we ate cake again and he gave me a soo　nice present, all the CDs of Koda Kumi!!!!!! It was really nice.I skyped with my natural family ,too. So now I am still eating my Bday presents and I try to do some exercise,because I do not want to get fat,hah Yesterday school started(we had 2 days off) and some of my classmates gave me more presents, and I could not believe it.... I am writing down all their Bdays so I can give them something for theirs... Well tomorrow the terminal exams start,but I do not have to do them, so my school responsible told me I can have some holidays,because these 4 days school will be only till lunch time,and all they will do is EXAMS, so I can stay home and study Japanese.But there are 4 days holiday for the other students so, I will have like 10 days holiday,wich is pretty cool, I have a lot of things to do,study,visit,and rest( I am so tired). Well that is all people Have a nice day

Happy

Hi everyone! A lot of things happened these last days. Starting from last week, I visited the Sendai castle with my host family. It was really nice, there was an English guide too, who explained me a lot of things about the castle , that is not actually there because they destroyed it. I took a lot of pics with ninjas and other japanese folks and everybody asked me where I am from and tryed to speak with me. Then we went to the Shrine and I made a wish and wrote down a wish on a wood piece. I ate "zdunda" and I still do not know what it is but it was delicious. On Sunday I went to the Jazz Festival of my city, and it seems it is the biggest Jazz festival in Japan, there were like 700 bands playing it was really cool. Now comes the funny one. Last week I asked my mum if there is an Onsen near our home, and she told me that yes and that she would bring me there someday, but it resulted that both my hostdad and my hostmum love Onsen so yestarday we went. First we went in like 4 or 5 different "saunas" with stones and we swear and swear ahah, then we went in in one that had a temperature of 95 degrees!!! I could not stay there for more than 4 minutes. And after that we put off our clothes and went to have a shower and then to the baths! Everybody was "hadaka" ( naked) and there were like small pools with different types of water and it was really cool, we spent 3 hours there and I really liked it, even in the beggining I was really shy and it took me like 20 minutes to put my clothes off, but it was worthy.My Bday is next Monday there is no school,and my classmates were so cute,nice and sweet to me,they brought a present for me to school and wrote a so sweet Birthday card,that I started to cry when I read it. I can not believe that in 2 weeks,we have become so good friends.They bought for me a big bag with sweets, a very cool scarf and things for my hair. I am really happy with them and i wannt to tell them a big THANK YOU for everything.Then I would like to say Thank you to my Italian friend who had been with me these few weeks in Japan and I would like to tell her that I hope wee will keep in touch after our year in Japan.I want to say a HUGE thank you to my host family,because they are really nice to me and they are making my experience unforgettable, and finally an enormous thank you to AFS for making this possible.

First days in Japan

Hello! I am in Japan since exactly 10 days,and so much things have happened. Well starting from the begining.After a long long flight ,actually 2 flights but the firts one was only 2 hours, I arrived to Narita Airport the last friday (24th). Everthing was Ok, but my luggage was lost, so i spoke with a really nice staff,and they told me my luggage will arrive to my hotel the next day. So all of us went to our hotel.We had 2 days orientation wth other students from all over the world and then, everybody departured to his destination,in my case ,Miyagi. My host family was waiting for me on the train station with my LP. Both my host family and my LP are really really nice. They do their best to help me, but as you can imagine Japanese culture is so different, it costs a little bit to get used to a lot of things. Well, after that,I visited my host school, it is one of the best schools in the region and everybody is very nice, all my classmaes are reall kind and they try to help me with everything. I have gone to school 3 days,and those 3 days was the school festival, and it was pretty cool,there were dancers,singers, shops with handmade things,and all the money they win they give it to an organisation from Africa. My Japanese sucks, and next month we have a lot of exams, like Japanese classics, Maths, World histoy,etc in japanese, so i have to study really hard, and learn a lot of kanjis,I hope my Japanese gets better next months. Have a nice day BYE BYE