I THINK I’M IN LOVE
Hi,Liz
On June 14,The day when we can meet you comes over soon. We look forward to the day very much.
By the way,
My daughter,Minami returns to Japan on June 17 and we go to
Narita Airport to meet her. At that time, we plan a trip to Tokyo Disneyresort. http://www.tokyodisneyresort.co.jp/index_e.htmlOn June 16, We leave our house early in the morning and we stay at the hotel after having played in Tokyo Disneyland. On June 17,We go to Narita Airport in the evening after having played in Tokyo DisneySea .
It is 20,000 yen (about 200 dollars) need for this travel budget. Ticket charges, a hotel bill, meal charges, transportation expenses are included in this travel budget. Though you arrived at Narita, you will come back to Narita again,
how do think about this trip? We arrange a ticket and the hotel if you want to go for this trip.Regards,
Hiromi Tamura
I HAVE THE BEST HOST FAMILY EVER.
FUCKING EVER.
My host family, school, summer plans… the everything blog!!
Click thumbnail to see my summer laid out!
Holy shit… How am I ever going to get all of my summer AP homework done?! @_@
My Home
Dear Liz,
I’m Hiromi Tamura and our family decided to accept your home-stay in Japan.
We live in NAGANO city in Japan.
Do you know the 18th winter Olympic games to have been held in Nagano.My family are my father(Takao), wife(Ichiko) and three daughters.
The eldest daughter,Ayumi is a college student and doesn’t live here together.
The second daughter, Minami is staying in the State of Nebraska
as a exchange student of YFU. She’ll return home next month.
If you’d like to make a contact with her, please mail it to the next address. [email]
or search “Minami Tamura” in facebook.com
The third daughter, Naomi was a 1st grader of high school this year.We’re looking forward to meeting you very much.
Kind regards
Hiromi Tamura
I’m staying in NAGANO (NOT IN KYUSHU!! YAY!! I’m not good with excessive heat…) in a family with THREE SISTERS (SIBILINGS = YES YES YES!!) and from the looks of it, they’ve hosted before (MY LIFE IS. SO GOOD.)
YEAH. And it’s only an hour and a half train ride to Tokyo. HELLS YES.
I DO NOT HAVE MUCH ELSE TO SAY AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME.
I’m already in love with my sisters, simply on the basis that THEY EXIST!!!!!
<3
My School
You will be attending to Nagano Nishi Highschool
with my second daughter Minami.
and you will attend to the freshman and
the international studies course.Your homeroom teacher is Mayumi Yoshida who is
an English and so nice woman.SCHOOL WEBSITE:
(Japanese)
(English)
So I pretty much get to walk by temples on the way to school. WHICH IS TOTALLY BALLIN! (I’m such a tourist, haha…) But you know what’s dumb? There are no good websites for Nagano at all… like all I ever get from google is Zenko-ji and the onsen monkeys. Oh well, I can just keep it all a surprise 
.
Nagano Nishi is introducing a new course of study in 1999: the International Studies Course. The ISC makes much of raising global awareness and of fostering the ability to actively participate in the global community. The program offers a number of features aimed at better preparing our students for this role: reduced class sizes; computer-based study; an enhanced language program offering classes in German, French, Chinese, and English…
OMG Taking French in Japan would be so LULZY. Paradox, much?!! I hope I get to at least visit that class! (For people who don’t know me: I’m planning to go to France next year and am really into the French language… learning a second language through a second language = WUT)
In the past they have had the school festival in July… I WANT TO PARTICIPATE! LOL I already have school spirit. But seriously, that would complete my existence.
Generally the websites are pretty bland, but I’m still excited! It looks like a picture-perfect Japanese senior high school 
. Oh… and… I PRAY TO THE EXCHANGE GODS THAT SOMEONE GIVES ME A UNIFORM!!! Although I still don’t know what the summer uniform looks like because the pictures are so tiny 
. Well, anything’s better than being that one chick who still has normal clothes on.
Update:
I answer your questions.
1. How long will I be attending school?
2. Do I need to buy a uniform?
1.
You go to the principal and the homeroom teacher to meet on June 18. And, you go to the school on June 24th – July 23rd.
2.
There is a uniform in the school. However, student’s freedom whether put on a uniform. Therefore, most students are the plain clothes such as t shirts and jeans.
Please question at any time.
AH HOLY SHIT!! I’m attending school for 5 WEEKS! I’m even going the day before I return to America! I’m so happy. I know it sounds pretty messed up that I’m excited to go to school just because it’s in a different country… but besides the host family, school is the second thing I’m most excited about. If I only went for 2 weeks, I’d be that random foreigner that came and went. This way I can make friends =D.
PLUS, MY ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE, I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND NOT HAVE TO TRY SO HARD. Whenever I’m drowning in school work, I always think “I wish I could be one of those kids who go to school who do nothing… those people who slack off FOR REAL and feel okay about it.” (Because my version of “slacking off”, still eventually results in finished homework. It’s weak slacking, haha.) Finally I can experience true cruising. Of course I’ll try, but the grades don’t count and I’m not expected to study. I don’t have to do shit in school and I can feel awesome about it. Hell yes.
I was disappointed at first that there’s no uniform. But, looking on the bright side of things, it’ll be pretty fun! =D They may or may not think my clothes are weird. I mean, even in America quite a few people think I dress differently.
ANYWAYS I’m packing (Hah…I would be that totally not-chill overly-excited kinda girl. XD), which is pretty cool besides the LIZ MA CHEMISTRY and MATH Massacre of 2008. ROFL. FUCK. Although I’m the only one getting brutally slaughtered, so I’m just exaggerating when I call it a massacre, eh?
T_T
Thinking about finals is just bringing me down… I need to make a “reasons to be happy and live” list!
Oh, and I know I’ll probably get homesick/tired of trying to comprehend slurred Japanese/bored once in a while. BUT THIS IS MY HAPPY LIST AND SUCH THINGS WILL NOT INTRUDE.
List of things I am looking forward to:
- School, finals, and all this shit being OVER. No more chemistry for the rest of my life. No more honors math until senior year (and hopefully having a B this semester… FUCKING “C+” FUCK THAT). Stop contemplating suicide over assignments. Leave everything behind and start a new life (…for two months. lol) Then realize how much I miss my old life during my new life, so I appreciate living here more. Yay full circle.
- San Jose orientation!! Hang out, make friends, get super excited for the month ahead… <3
- …all of the PLANE RIDES! Is that weird? I like them… they’re always a symbol of adventure.
-It’s the transition between the familiar and the new, the old and the exciting! XD
-There’s no more worrying about tests or homework or all that trivial school bs…
-A little bit of time to study my Japanese, mentally prepare myself for this new world.
-I’m going to treasure those 15 hours that I’m lost in transit… - Getting to know my family! HAVING SISTERS. I have always wanted a sister, and now I have three! I’m going to be so spoiled by the fact that Minami speaks English, lol. Living with all girls will be da bomb. (I’m really queer when I’m happy.)
- Going to a Japanese school. I know it’s so lame of me, but now I can finally be the “exchange student”. I want to meet new people and practice my shitty Japanese with them so bad! I even feel like walking to school will be fun, with the nice things to look at and all. >_>
- EXCURSIONS. Being taken nice places by my family, going to dinner, eating good legit Japanese food. Going shopping with my host sisters. Going to Tokyo with them would be hella sweet. If anything, I JUST WANNA BUY SHIT – ANYWHERE. XD
- Riding a train! LOL I AM SUCH A SIMPLETON.
- PASSING OFF AS A LOCAL! Well I fortunately already have the look (being an asian hybrid pays off sometimes)… and I’m confident I will eventually be able to buy things without being flagged with “aaa, ryuugakusei!!” lol.
- In continuation of #5, I want those ten minute school passing periods to hang out with any acquaintances. The nice lunch period. Reading during the boring lectures I don’t understand.
- Changing. I know a lot of people don’t change on this short of an exchange, but I want to make something out of this. I want to be one of those kids that get so attached to their host family that when I leave we all break out in tears! And I want to come back refreshed for my junior year~
I’m a cheezy bastard when I’m excited. XD
p.s. I have such an insane amount of fears, too… I’m chock-full of trepidations. What if I don’t get along with everyone and it’s the worst time ever, etc. But I’m going to do my best to not let things I’m fearing happen… @_@. Plus, beforehand, I have finals to worry my brains out about. I can’t juggle both at once…gah.
