Orientation

Orientation was today! They fitted my uniform (which I get to keep at a price) and I met some other exchange students there. I saw the coolest show on TV today which showed things you'd never think were that cool in slow motion, like seeing what happens when you shoot a pineapple or a knife or shoot two bullets at each other. I haven't mentioned the food yet, have I? Well, it's DELICIOUS. I can't emphasize that enough. Everything I've eaten has been sooooooo good. I just got a whole bunch of J rock from my host brother, mostly Orange Range and Asian Kung-fu Generation (my favorite anyway). Judging from the shows on TV, Japanese people find cross dressers hilarious. Just thought I'd point that out. It is pretty funny actually. I played go today with the exchange student from New Zealand (they call go "igo" because sometimes when you talk about go in Japanese you might think someone is saying 5 because go=5 in Japanese). By the way, people wear the coolest shirts here, they are beyond description. I also just finished watching Monday's Daily Show with Jon Stewart that I downloaded.

Answers to questions:
My family is awesome, everyone is really nice and very helpful. They are helping me learn Japanese MUCH more quickly, I'm talking in Japanese all the time now. I mostly speak Japanese at home and use my dictionary all the time, but I do help the family learn English as well, they learn incredibly quickly and it gets better everyday (as they say my Japanese does). I turn out to be the only one in the family who can use chopsticks correctly! My classes start on Friday (don't ask why school starts right before the weekend because I don't know).

I'll check back in later.

Ja ne. (By the way, that means "see ya.")