The Road Less Traveled

Homestay #1: The Maeda Family

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

How’s it going, everyone? With Thanksgiving and Christmas coming on, everybody’s probably getting pretty busy with (not-really-)last-minute shopping, and I hear you even get snow there. I consider myself lucky that Japan is a country that doesn’t get much snow, or at least hasn’t yet. But there are probably the first sightings of Christmas lights (there are here, too), sales on turkeys (we don’t have those), and all kinds of other seasonal things, many of which are mimicked by Japan, but most of which are not.

I wish I could be there. I miss you all, and hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

But that’s neither here nor there. What I’m writing about today is my first homestay experience. I decided to skip over the University Festival, because I can pretty much sum the 3 days up in a couple sentences: I didn’t go Saturday, Sunday I ate a lot of good food, and Monday I saw an awesome comedy performance. All in all, it was pretty fun, but pretty much everything thus far in Japan (except MAYBE that beautiful view from the peak of Mt. Misen on Miyajima island) was overshadowed pretty easily by the homestay this past weekend.

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