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Day 11

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Hello!!! Today was sooooo fun! This morning me and my host mom played cards! She was supposed to come with me today but she was sick! I ended up meeting the other foreign exchange student from my school and her host family! We made our way to the city of Chiba! We visited a shrine and it was absolutely beautiful. I got some gifts and I got my fortune slip! It was a paper that told me my fortune. I have favorable luck/general luck. A lot of what my slip said made sense to me! So I will take it seriously. After that we went to a cafe and got the most delicious pancakes EVER. They were the fluffy ones and they were so good. I got the strawberry one while Stef’s host mom got macadamia nut one and Stef got a matcha one! I ate the entire thing and it was so good. We went shopping after and I got some manga! We also went thrifting and I got some cute clothes. We went back to their house and hung out for a bit. Then they drove me to my house and met my host family! For dinner we had some dish
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Day 10

 Hello! Today was a chill day! I woke up at 7:30! My host mom brought me a banana, some yogurt, and some vitamin c water for breakfast. I was already feeling a lot better. So I hung out downstairs with my host and brother. My host dad had to work today so it was jusy us three. We had lunch and decided to go shopping! We rented the second Mama Mia movie because I havent seen it and my host mom loves it. Today was supposed to be rainy and cloudy but it ended ip being sunny! We went to a grocery store and it kind of reminded me of home! It was set up in a similar way to stores at home. We grabbed some stuff and headed home so baby could take a nap. While he was napping, my host mom and I decided to play a card game called trump (lol). We played for like an hour and it was so fun. She also let me know that a family friend would be coming over for dinner and to spend the night. We decided to take Halu to the park as he was getting antsy. We walked to the park and then a convenience store ca
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Day 9

 Hello! Today was lowkey kinda bad. Not too much to report on so heres the gist of it. It was rainy today and kind of chilly. At school I got a really bad stomachache and went to the nurses. It was kind of funny because somehow the majority of the staff got involved lol. My homeroom teacher walked me to the nurse but it was closed! So he took me to his office which was in the teachers lounge area. His office was with everybody elses office area, kind of hard to explain. But all the teachers were there and were like “why is she here?…” and so he had to explain to them so they all tried to help me out. Then the principal came in and was asking me if I was okay, if I had a fever, and if I needed anything. They then opened the nurses office for me and the principal went back to my classroom to retrieve my bags. I then discovered that a banana exploded in my bad so I had to clean the bag and they gave me a temporary replacement bag. They sent a teacher to look over me while I waited for som
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Day 8

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Hello! Today I went to school as usual. Today started out kind of chaotic. I spilled yogurt all over my uniform 🫠. I got to buy lunch and it was pretty good. They have a cream filled bread and it is so good. At school my service ran out lol. Thankfully a classmate let me use his hotspot so I could finish a presentation we were working on for english. After school, I decided to go straight home. These past few days Ive either gone out with friends or had club but today I decided to have a break from that. I got off the bus only to realize that I had left my water bottle on the bus 😐. My host dad called the bus company and went to pick it up for me as they had found it. In the meantime, my host mom wanted to shower so I ended up babysitting baby Halu. No complaints here, he is so sweet. We watched cocomelon and hung out. After that, my host mom and I relaxed with Halu in the living room. My host dad returned with my water bottle and started on dinner. Dinner was SO delicious. I really
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Day 7

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Hello! It’s officially been 1 week since I got here! Its been a great time so far :). Today I went to to school again and had the dreaded PE class today. PE wasnt too bad because we had a skills test. My PE class is volleyball so it was very easy. I’m very surprised about how many teachers make an effort to include me in class! In one of our Japanese class, I don’t know what is going on and the teacher likes to print things off in english or he writes questions in english for me to answer. Today he used google translate to make me a worksheet of 4 questions. He asked “How do you perceive others? What do you want to learn about Japanese culture and why? What world issues are you interested in the most? Describe characteristics of your school in america.” So I answered it during work time. He then read me some traditional Japanese poetry and asked a student to help translate it. My history teacher is very encouraging, which is very surprising because a lot of students said they dont like
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Day 6

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Hello everyone! Today was kind of a slow day. I made it to school with Nanami and her boyfriend Ibuki. School was pretty good today! It was soooo hot tho. For lunch my host mom packed me tuna and ham sandwiches 😋. They were sooooo good. I had all learning classes today, meaning no PE thank god. For english class, they have been studying about sesame street! We ended up watching an episode of sesame street lol. I havent seen that show since I was very little so it was pretty nostalgic. Our last class of the day was Traditional Japanese which was all kanji. I couldnt understand any of it. The teacher talked and wrote on the chalkboard the whole time and I didnt understand it. At the end of class, some guy came up to me and handed me a paper. He had translated all of the kanji that the teacher wrote on the board to english and wrote it by hand down on the paper. I was really impressed and it was so sweet. All of my classmates are very kind and im so grateful. After school, me and Stef he
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Day 5

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 Today was a long day! I went to school today and started out with PE 🥲. I caught the train with my new friend Nanami and we walked to school together. We had lots of classes and it was kind of boring. I ate linch with Nanami and her boyfriend and the other exchange student Stef. My host mom packs me the left over karaage and rice from yesterday. It was soooo good. We had an assembly today where a retired athlete came to talk to us. His story is very cool. He is blind and he managed to participate in many track events and was very good at it. After school, me, stef and some friends went to Karaoke! It was so fun, I would highly recommend. We sang and sang until it was time to go home. We almost missed the train so we had to run and I got really sweaty 💔. It is SO hot in japan. However, we made it with no time to spare. The sunset was gorgeous and we had a nice view on the ride home. I got home and took a cold shower that felt SO GOOD. I am very tired so I will be going to sleep now.
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