I arrived safely in Narita Airport yesterday after 20 hours of transit. I continued my journey for a nother 2.5 hours to my home in Nerima Ku. It`s so beautiful out here! There are a lot of really nice houses and patches of green. Since it`s a suberb far away from the center of Tokyo, it`s fairly quiet (for a city that is).
My room is a traditional tatami room fully loaded with a futon, desk and air conditioner (thank god! it`s still 24 degrees celcious here, and we`re expecting a typhoon to hit our area tomorrow or the day after). My host family`s house is spacious for a japanese house.
Houya station is a 10 minute walk from my house wich is pretty sweet. Increadibly convenient, although i still need a map to get there. Thankfully my host mom drew an excelent map for me. Today I went with Waka chan to Hibari ga oka (humming bird hill) station right next door. She showed me where my saturday hippo family club meetings would be before sitting down to some traditional rammen. Totemo oishii so!! (sooo delicious!) I`ll be going to hibari ga oka tomorrow for an open club before making my way to shibuya (about an hour long treck by train.)
tonight i helped make vegetable tempura. I was the one in charge of frying, except the Japanese doing use spatulas or straining laddles or tongs when frying...you MUST use o-hashi (chopsticks) I got to show off my mediochre chopsticks skills around hot oil. it doesn:t really leave a lot of room for mistakes hahaha! I joked with my host mom that it was like my chopsticks test since i had to work quickly around very hot oil to get the tempura just right. I had a lot of fun learning how to cook from my host mom. My host dad didn:t come home until late tonight but we could still enjoy talking about soccer (is favorite sport) and about each others days.
i`m finding that my japanese is coming back to me very quickly in the form of understanding what is being said around me. i am still struggling with forming sentances but i know it will all come in time.
anyway, i`m rather tiered from the jet lag and trying to injest all of the japanese. it:s time for me to roll out my futon and hit the sack.
just wanted to check in to let you all know that i:m doing just fine. i:ll be posting pictures in the near future.
ja ne!
Jess
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I'm glad to hear that you've arrived in Japan safely. :)
Please let me know any of your contact info as much as possible. My family is so anxious to hear your stories, and I cannot wait to see you again!
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
your alive : )
Glad you got there okay, sounds like you have a nice host family : )
Awesome! Can't wait to see some pictures!
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