To answer some questions

Sorry it's been forever. To answer some questions, the earth quake did wake me up. My first reaction was that it was a train, and the second was that someone was shaking the house (a totally legit thought, no?) before I realized what it really was. It lasted qute a long time, about 15-20 seconds so I was nervous and of course to me it felt like a big earthquake. We has a small presentation before we moved into our housing so I knew not to try to run outside or anything, also they said it was better to be upstairs and I was so I just stayed in bed and didn't worry too much about it. Later my host mother said it was a small earthquake. I wondered if she meant small on the scale or small as in they usually get larger ones, and a friend told me it was small as in they get larger ones.

My commute... okay so I wake up at 6:30, breakfast at 7, leave at 7:40, walk to the station, get to the station a little before 8:16, take the 8:16 train for like 15 minutes to the station for the city/area my school is in, then walk about 10 minutes to the actuall school. I do that every Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday. Tuesday and Fridays I rush to the station after class to take the same train back to my home station to go to my afternoon classes that are held at another school. I don't have to transfer.

The other picture was chocolate chip melon pan. Melon pan is sweet bread lightly covered with cookie dough.

Classes are fun but there is too much reading.

Everyone in the program is super nice. I was really surprised, everyone seems to get along and if you want to go somewhere, you can always find someone to go with you.

My host mom's name is Nakayama but she says to call her obaachan which means grandmother. She's a good cook and cooks things that I like. Sometimes there are things that are okay so I eat them but sometimes, like last night there was fish that I didn't like so she actually went and made me beef to eat >.< I guess the fish wasn't that bad but I wasn't in the mood to eat it. ANd it was more fishy-ish. She makes tuna too so I eat that and another fish um..budou or budo but that's the japanese name. The meat is kind of chicken consistency and it's not fishy so I like it. The cakes here are AMAZING. I think they are lighter and the slices are much smaller but they taste so good! Another think I like is inari-zushi. It's like very thin fried tofu but it's soggy bucause it's been put in a sweet sauce. I like the tofu just like that but when you wrap it around sushi rice (i think there is vinegar in it) then it's called inari zushi (It's shaped like sushi i guess). There's some story about a fox so it's like food for the fox god or something.

Konnichiwa means good afternoon and that song has a foul alternate meaning i believe.

I'm glad you're enjoying the blog ^_^


pic one is a rock with turtles on it taken near a temple in Narita during the drum festival. The second picture is a bento box for when we went to view the sakura trees but I didn't like anything. Even the rice had egg in it... The third picture is a yummy dessert I had the same day and the last picture is of random dressed up people from the drum festival. I have better pictures and even video from that day but it's on my laptop. I'm having trouble connecting my laptop to the internet at the center so I can't upload much stuff.

oh and here is a castle I went to but the inside is very modern looking.Not cool at all.
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