January 9th

Today was a very eventful day! I woke up and went down to the cafeteria in the American Annex and has some Japanese style eggs and toast along with miso soup and grapefruit juice! Then I got on skype for a while and chatted with trey, matt, and lauren! Miss ya guys already! Then I had orientation all morning and then we took a walk around Makuhari, which is the city where the IES Center is. Got lunch at a McDonalds and then went back to class for more orientation.

I meet with Kieko Yoshii, my host-mother, around 3:30. I just want to say how awesome she is! She was the first host mother there :) We rode the train home and then had a wonderful dinner, salmon/pork/tofu fondoo! :) I LOVE IT HERE! What a beautiful home they have! The father is big in Golf and said that we could play sometime next weekend!

Their english is very good, which helps us, but we have agreed to go Japanese here on out to make my transition faster! I am very fortunate to have such a wonderful family and I am blessed to be in such good hands!