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Hi everybody :) Well I am in Japan since 1 month and almost 10 days. This time just went so so fast. It seems like a week to me. Maybe because I had too many things to do, maybe because everything was different( and it is still different)but this 40 days were really important for me! I have learned a lot of things since I am here. Like I said everything is really different and everyday, I learn something new about Japan, its culture and people.I can say my Japanese is getting better, since my host family does not speak English, so all our comunication depends of my Japanese skills and an electronic dictionary. School is OK, classmates are really nice ( communication so so,no English or only a little bit). Last week they had their terminal exams so I was given a holiday :) I had 10 days holiday,which is pretty cool,since I had to rest all the excitement and change made me reaaly tired,and to visit a lot of things. So during my holiday I studied kanjis, read some English books which i got at the prefecture library(the biggest one ) helped my hostmum a LOT, cooked "tortilla" for my HF,listened to music,went out,had an AFS orientation, spent some time with my host grandma, and slept( in Spain I would not say that I have slept because there I used to sleep till 11,12 am and here if I sleep till 9 I am the happiest person on the world).This last days the weather is rare, we had a typhoon (its name was Jalewat) when it arrived my city it was 3 am so I was sleeping,but when it arrived sleeping finished!!! It was raining and raining without stopping and wind was reealllyy strong, so you can imagine that I spent a couple of hours laying in my bed. I had gone to bed at 7 pm that day(which is really early) because I had spent the day helping my host mum at the seaside. She supports the volunteers who help to clean the seaside after the tsunami,so we cooked and cleaned.It was a really good experience, I had the opportunity to heard about the tsunami,they told all that happened,and after that I spoke with my host family who explained me how they lived the tsunami. I was listening and could not imagine what they had lived.Here goes a little bit of what they told me: All my family was at home, my host mum,dad,grandma and sister. My host mum was at the second floor,cooking,when everything started to shake.She ran under the table, and everything fall down, forn,pictures, frige,everything! When it stopped( it was about 5 minutes) she ran down stairs where the rest of my host family was. It was cold,March. They turned off the gas stoove and went out,like the rest of the neighboors did. They had no electricity, no water,no gas, and outside was really cold. More and more earthquakes happened,hundreds of them, some even more than 7,5 in the Richter scale. So my host mum and dad decided to sleep in their cars,where it was more safe and hot, but my host sister and grandma decided to stay in the house. From the radio they knew that a tsunami was coming but nobody was nervous,they have had tsunamis before,but only a few centimeters or a meter.Nobody expected that a huge tsunami was coming. Soon the news arrived and everybody was shoked. Volunteers from all over the world came, in my neighboorhood they were from America.My host mum showed me the blankets they gave them. She explained me they gave them food(easy to cook) blankets water,etc.After the house passed the revision and they said it is OK ,no danger to live in, they were less worried. Then my host mum have given more than the half of her kimonos to sell, to win money for the people who lost their houses. She really helped a lot,and still doing it. I am really happy to be in this city,with this people and this Host Family . Thank you for reading Have a nice day :)