Now that i've been in my home for about a week and half I have some other tales to share. It was the most shocking I think the first day because I was so engulfed in all the new sights that I couldnt really rely on any japanese to communicate with my family. And the first day mainly comprised of my host brother teaching me vocabulary words in japanese, and then having a party (because it was his birthday) as well as my welcoming party, so we went next door to where his uncles family and grandparents live, and I was questioned thoroughly (mostly in japanese) to which I answered as well as i could and they all laughed when I said something strange in japanese, it was very fun, theyre great. The next week was all the break before school, so I found that I didnt have an awful lot to do with any people, because clearly I hadnt made any friends considering I'd been there a couple of days. But still fun, because I had japanese lessons and met new exchange students, and I got to see a lot more of the city. On a side note where I live especially, you enjoy riding in a car because the VAST majority of the time you ride bikes every day, for longgggggg amounts of time every day. And finally the day before I went to school came around, but surprisingly I wasn't very nervous, despite having to give a speech in front of the whole student body, in Japanese. But I'll save the post about school for another time.
Thanks for reading
-Matt
Friday, April 9, 2010
Recent News!
I have been SO busy recently that I haven`t had any chance to post anything on here, but get ready for a lonnngggggg post.
Well I had a lot of fun at the Tokyo Oriention and made a lot of friends from America and from everywhere else, after all the shockingly new experiences like, 15 guys sleeping in one room, with only Futon (japanese sleeping mats) and tatami. And of course. The public baths of horror. Where droves of nude foreigners and japanese alike all gathered in one room to boil in HOT water. But after the initial shock, the bath itself was pretty nice :p At the end of the orientation, after we had breakfast in cafeteria with hundreds of japanese staring with shock and wonder at one of the exchange students who was 6 foot 6. o.o (you know who you are if you read this) They packed us all onto our buses to either the local flights or the shinkansen. I finally got onto my shinkansen and started the real Japanese experience.
Well I had a lot of fun at the Tokyo Oriention and made a lot of friends from America and from everywhere else, after all the shockingly new experiences like, 15 guys sleeping in one room, with only Futon (japanese sleeping mats) and tatami. And of course. The public baths of horror. Where droves of nude foreigners and japanese alike all gathered in one room to boil in HOT water. But after the initial shock, the bath itself was pretty nice :p At the end of the orientation, after we had breakfast in cafeteria with hundreds of japanese staring with shock and wonder at one of the exchange students who was 6 foot 6. o.o (you know who you are if you read this) They packed us all onto our buses to either the local flights or the shinkansen. I finally got onto my shinkansen and started the real Japanese experience.
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