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.