Busy Busy Busy

Sorry for the abrupt ending to the post the other day, but my turn on the computer was about to finish, and then screen just turns off leaving everything you were doing (including being signed in to msn and my blog post) open. I was in Kyoto when I last posted, and since then caught the bullet train to Hiroshima, went to Miyajima Island, ate Okonomiyaki in Hiroshima, visited the Hiroshima Peace Museum and A-bomb memorials, it's all been very cool. Our youth hostel in Hiroshima was REALLY flash. Japanese style rooms with Tatami mats. We sat around on the tatami, dressed in yukata, sipping genuine green tea. Be jealous Amy, it was fantastic.

After Hiroshima we caught a bullet train all the way to Tokyo (it took 5 hours, despuite how fast we were going.) for a 2 day homestay in Narita (near Tokyo). The homestay was EXCELLENT. My host family was great. There was a 50~ year old couple, the Iwatas, their 18yo son Yuji and 30~ year old daughter Emily, Emily's 30~yo husband and their 3yo daughter. David is Chinese, but grew up in LA, where he met Emily who was living in the US for a while. They both speak fluent english (David actually doesn't speak Japanese, despite the fact he's been her for 5 years!) but Emily's parents don't speak english, which was a great opportunity to practice my Japanese. And they gave us lots of presents, so many that they gave us a BAG to put them in.

Tonight I'm in the Tokyo International Youth Hostel, where we finally have internet access again. It's odd here, me and the other guys on the trip are sleeping in a seperate room from Mr Mihos, our teacher. He's in a room with students from ANOTHER school (from somewhere in Victoria). Meanwhile, the spare beds in our room are taken by Logan bogans.

We also went to the Sony building here in Tokyo tonight, full of heaps of new, flash, Sony gear. By the way, I LOVE all the bright city lights, Japan's just so cool.

Till next time, (hopefully tomorrow)/