The Road Less Traveled

Kyoto & Toyota

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Hi again Just to start things off, let me update you all on what’s going on in my life. After we started going on trips, I began failing my kanji quizzes repeatedly because I didn’t have nearly enough time to study. Well, I finally got back on track yesterday, and I believe I got a 9/10! Yay! Keep your fingers crossed that I do as well on the one on Thursday. That’s pretty much it for class… everything else is going pretty steadily.

Aisde from that, this Saturday and Sunday we will be our first homestay experience. We got the information about the families we’ll be staying with today. I’ll be staying with the Maeda family, it seems. Their home has the mother, father, grandmother (they wrote “granma”), and 3 children: Shoichiro (10), Misato (7), and Kenjiro (7). If you can’t tell the gender by their names (I can XD), they’re boy, girl, boy, respectively. I’m a bit confused, to tell the truth, because the homestay thing is being conducted by a local middle school… and none of those children are in middle school. So yeah, I’m a bit confused… anyway, it’ll be interesting. Especially because on the form, they filled in the “Ability of English” item as “Poor”… that’ll be fun. XD

Anyway, I should probably get on to what I’m actually writing about, and what you were probably expecting to read about from the title of this post: Kyoto & Toyota. I’m going to wrap these trips up into one post, because honestly, I didn’t really enjoy either of them very much. But whatever. That’ll happen from time to time, am I right?

› Continue reading