Home Stay

One of the cool cultural things we get to do staying in Japan is to invite Japanese Students into our home to experience a little American/English culture with us. This weekend we had Shiori stay with us. We did some very American things with her and had a great time. We went paintballing (She got hit with one ball and that was enough pain for one day), Sleding, baked some cookies and went carolling, a little early but it was a lot of fun. We found out we had a lot of things in common, we all like to watch movies, Shiori had just returned from a trip to England and had visited some of our favorite touristy places like Warwick Castle, the Museums in London and of course Liverpool.

It's started to snow in Misawa

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone. So, we got up early this morning about 6:00am to find about 1 1/2 feet of snow on the ground. Joe and Jonah went outside to start shovelling and arrived back in 2 hours later, it looks like it's going to be quite a winter this year. Ben,Jonah and Abbey are all very excited about the snow and are looking forward to spending their last winter in Japan snowboarding like crazy. We'll see if they still feel like that after 4 months of shovelling us out the front door every morning.