Homestay

    I signed up to participate in a homestay. So, when the weekend came around all students participating in this got to meet their host families. My host family was really nice. The dinner was really good. It was make your own sushi. Their was several ingredients and you got to choose, which was fun. After eating, I got to go see a fireworks show at a local park which was really exciting. The park was doing a winter celebration, so their was a lot of neat displays their too. The show was huge, with fireworks not only in front of you but over your head. Later that night, we watched a new anime movie that was on television. After it was over I went to bed. The bed was pretty neat.

 

     The next morning after eating breakfast, we watched a anime movie I haven't seen before. The movie was Porco Rosso by Hayao Miyazaki. After the movie finished, the husband showed me two plane models he is going to build that came from the movie. The mother then took me to a Japanese garden. It was very peaceful there. We also got to drink some tea that was served to us. At the Japanese garden, the mom even bought me a Japanese folding fan, which she surprised me with later that night, as a gift, which was really nice of her. The atmosphere was nice and I even got to see some huge Koi fish. When we returned to the house, the husband made some spaghetti for lunch. It was really good.  Later that night, the whole family took me to a restaurant I never went to before for dinner. The various foods we ate were really good. I got to try what looked like a mountain of white potato’s that you ate with chopsticks. As well as some other really good food on sticks which were amazing. After a little while, the mother drove me back to AUE. I think the whole experience was really fun.