okay so i went to the imperial palace and friday it was really pretty even though it rained almost the entire time!!!! then on saturday i had a yfu party!! it was neat! they brought in bon dancers ( a traditional japanese dance) they did a routine and then tried to teach us it was really really funny!!! We all looked rediculous!!!  then on sunday we went to MT.FUJI!!! it was awesome! my host family let one of the girls i met on the trip come with us her name is dani and she is from california!! when we went to the topish area lol it was really cloudy and rainy ( like it has been all week) so we could not see very well!!! then we went down and ate luch at a dog park! yeah an amusement park for dogs!!! lol! they had doggy cheesecake and that is what they got the dog to eat lol then we went to an onsen wich was neat! It is kinda like a spa! well altogether i had a great time!!! but i gotta go get ready to go to disney today!! YEAH!!!

Today is Thursday here! I went to a tour of Kikkomen( the company that sponsored my trip). They gave us a tour that was okay i suppose! At least now i can say i know how soy sauce is made! ha ha! Then they took us to a fancy hotel and gave us that food that you know is really expensive but looks disgusting!! Needless to say i had squid for the first time today! It really doesn't taste as bad as it sounds!!! Then we were presented with 2 DISNEY tickets so next week i am going to disney land and sea!!! I thought that was really nice of them!!!! Well i have to walk the dog so i better go!! lots of  love!!!

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  This weekend we went to a place called Chiba! It is about a 4 hour drive from where we live. We went and stayed at a house with one of my host mothers coworkers. They were a very nice family! Well to get there we took the Aqua Line witch is under the sea. It isn't really crazy cool because you can not see any thing it kind of freaked me out because the ceiling didn't look to sturdy and i kept thinking it was gonna crash down any minute. The town that we stayed in was out in the country and from the out side didn't look like it was in the best of shape, but when you went inside it was actually pretty nice. Well, the next day we went to the beach it was alot dirtier than our peaches the sand wasn't white, or tan, whatever color it should be anyway. The other family brought there niece and she goes to international school and they speak english there so she spoke really really good english well she failed to tell me that the meaning of this beach in japanese was cold waters until i got in! it was cold! well then we went home and i had my first experience eating sushi! it really wasn't that bad, i think me thinking about it was the only thing that really made me cringe. Then i ate this japanese plum but i didn't know you were supposed to mix it with rice rice! I think that was the sourest thing i have ever tasted in my life. well then monday it was kinda rainy so we didn't stay at the beach long so we went to a festival. In japan monday was a holiday called ocean day. my host mother said the goverment made it so that the japanese could have a day off basically. The festival was really small but i finally got to see some japanese dancing lol it was neat well the only other exciting thing about my trip was that we got lost on  the way home lol...but we made it back!

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   so this week i have been kinda busy in an odd way! Went to electricity city it is where alot of japans technology is it was pretty cool more electronic than i could dream of!!! Yesturday we went to a temple( i forgot the name) it was a harajuku which is where all the teens go shopping ( like i said lots of shopping)!The temple was really cool and alot bigger then the sensoji temple that i had seen! they also have a place where you can make 3 wishes you write them on tablets and i guess they come true! one of them was written by a small child and it said...i wish that no country would have war for at least one million years!... i thought  that was really cute! oh and another said....I wish i could be a captain of a ship..and that in would not sinke ( yes that is how he spelled sink) well today i am going to the edo museum..edo is a period in japanese history...so i dont know if i would be able to read the stuff (hopefully) but i will still be neat! well i gotta go get ready!