留学生の生活　: 家で At Home

So last week I caught a little bit of a cold. It was not much, just a fever and a soar throat, the usual cold that I keep getting since about a year ago (for whatever reason). It was doing much better and by last Friday, I was pretty much better, all I needed was a day more of rest and I would have been fine. But who has time for rest when studying abroad! Of course I partied all weekend long including going on an all day long field trip to Enoshima and Kamakura and then staying out all night to go to a club and being extremely drunk while doing so. It was fun, but to say the least, I had a little relapse into sickness. So Now I have time to catch up and write a blog post!

I have to say how wonderful my host family is! They are all so nice, and that is an understatement. they take care of me so well it is amazing. They are taking me to see Kabuki this Saturday, I'm very excited. My mother or Ka-san is so nice to me, she has taken me to see the doctor three times now, all along making me the most wonderfully well-balanced and delicious meals. That is not to mention the fact that everyday she cleans the house, makes everyone three meals a day, does all the dirty laundry by hand, and still so much more. She even is taking an English class that meets once a week on Wednesday mornings. She is amazingly Genki!

Today, Ka-san brought over her girlfriends so that I could help them with their English homework before they all went to the supermarket to buy things for dinner together. They are all so cute! They were very curious about me and asked me so many questions, about me and about English. Then I helped them to complete their homework, and finished off by showing them pictures of my home, family, and adventures in Japan. They seemed to enjoy talking with me, and I've been invited to their homes to meet their families :D

About the jam packed weekend. The field trip was to Enoshima and Kamakura to see the Buddhist Deity and one of the 7 lucky gods Benzaiten, and the Giant Buddha at Kamakura. The field trip was for a class, so we went with everyone from the class, including the professor. It was a fun trip! On Enoshima I ate this food called Taco Senbei. Senbei means rice cracker and Taco Octopus, so octopus rice cracker, or so you would think. In actuality, Taco Senbei is just Octopus pressure grilled in a cracker. Actually quite delicious. From there we took a famous train line along the coast (called the Enoden 江ノ電) to Kamakura. We went first to Hasedara, a famous Buddhist temple with a giant (I mean absolutely huge) Kannon (or in Chinese Guan Yin) statue. It was so beautiful. From there we finished the field trip by seeing the Kamakura Giant Buddha, also huge. If you would like to see more of the happenings I would suggest looking at the Facebook album!

That night we celebrated a friends (Derrick) birthday in at two different clubs called Arty Farty and the Annex in Shinjuku, ni chome to be specific. Look the area up ;) It was pretty fun...at least I think it was, I was a bit tipsy the whole night, haha