Today I mailed my final two boxes in the morning. Then at 2:00 I went to meet Mami, Shiho, Mutsumi, and Eri from class 2-D *who were kind of like my fan club this year, but they were really nice XD* and we went bowling together. Mami and Mutsumi were on one team, and Eri, Shiho, and I were on the other. It was so much fun. We clapped and cheered ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to Tsuchizaki to say goodbye to the Kobayashis. I stayed for lunch and then after buying cakes from their shop to bring back for my host family, I went home ( Read more... )

On Thursday (the 4th), some returnee named Rikako who went to Denmark came over with her mother and one of her guy friends from Denmark for lunch. At one point, Rikako was telling us about how she and Mads (pronounced something like mets or mes in Danish. I dunno.) went to a ski area near Lake Tazawa the previous day, but Mads didn`t have such a ( Read more... )

Saturday night at dinner, I learned that when Kouki was in kindergarten, he climbed out of his bedroom window, rolled down the roof, and fell to the ground below. Apparently he wanted to see if he could fly XD ( Read more... )

I better get in at least one more update before December comes to a close (I`m sorry if my summaries sound weird. My memory`s a little fuzzy.)

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Today was my last day of real classes. During lunch time I got an email from one of the girls that sat in front of me during my computer class and asked her to give my email to the girl next to her. I also went to 2-C`s classroom to get Akane`s email, and then to 2-D to get Mami and Mutsumi`s emails. Then when a bunch of the girls saw us preparing ( Read more... )

Here are some pictures of yesterday from my host father`s camera:

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So two Fridays ago, my current host mom and I were having a discussion and somehow the topic of AIU`s school festival came up. It was in the middle of October (at that time I was still in my first host family`s house), and she said that Kouki had seen Tomoko there without me. He didn`t think much of it at first and just assumed I was busy that day ( Read more... )

So I was considering going home early for Christmas a week ago but I decided against it because I really don`t want to leave Japan yet ( Read more... )

Yesterday while I was at school, I got an email from my parents saying that they were contacted by YFU USA again. Why? This time YFU Japan had called them expressing concerns about me possibly having clinical depression because my psycho first host mother called them on the 26th with complaints about me. *WTF?! THAT`S NEARLY A MONTH SINCE I LEFT ( Read more... )