Meals

Breakfast is usually laid out for me by the time I go down to the kitchen (it's the same for everyone in the family, but I get up later than everyone else because I can get ready much faster). Breakfast consists of orange juice or milk, a bowl of plain yogurt with sugar, and a bowl of either Frosted Flakes or Coco Crispies. Occasionally my host mother will make me ham with a sunny side egg on top, but as far as I can tell it's a spontaneous gesture. The really amazing part is that I actually eat it all.

For lunch all of the children (this includes me) get bentos (box lunches) prepared by host mother. She usually will give me leftovers from last night's dinner (that's definitely not a complaint, as you will see) or she will make something the night before. I've gotten anything from fried noodles to shrimp to beef to french fries (I could go on and on). But it's always different everyday except for onigiri (rice ball wrapped with nori, or seaweed), which is the staple in my lunch. By the way, I now like nori. Most of my friends in school get rice and put some stuff they call furikake on it, which seems to be some kind of yummy topping. But for me, onigiri just plain tastes better and is more convenience because I can hold it with one hand while I use my hashi (chopsticks) to eat the rest of my food with the other hand (as opposed to constantly switching back and forth between rice and other food with your hashi, which is what you are supposed to do, and what I do with the onigiri is what your are supposed to do as well).

Dinner is always different, but I'm sure you could've guessed that one. I don't think I've tried anything new, but that's only because I've already tried everything they offer me in LA. Well, actually, I probably tried some new kind of fish and didn't know it, but it was probably good. The only things I don't like here are natou (sticky bean things you have for breakfast sometimes) and mayonnaise (I'm pretty sure you all know what that is).
I'll list the different meals I've had in another post.

Yes, the toilet seat does have a cool warming functionality, and it is really quite nice on seriously

cold days. It doesn't have a bidet like ones in hotels here, but it'll do.
I've written enough for one post (although it would have been longer if I didn't accidentally delete part of it).

Ja ne.