Tomorrow I move to Kato san's house. They own a book store and also some apartments behind the house and store. Last night I went out to dinner with them and my (now) host mum. We went to a place called Rumble (Rumboru) which had a few Porsches, Ferraris, McLarens and a Lamborghini just around where you sit to eat. My next host family's house is pretty cool and they have a dog which is not like Lalo's house's dog (which was where I stayed when I went to Gotenba. They had a dog that looked like a horse and it looked like it wanted to eat us..... ). I also found out a little about my 3rd and 4th host families. One of them lives near the school and the last one is meant to be a professional ballroom dancer! Well, wish me luck for packing... I have a lot more than when I came!

Well it is all settled. Everyone (All the exchange students) will be coming down on the 4th for the festival and staying the night then going home on the 5th. We have also organised so we can all participate in the festival (this might be kite flying or the march kind of thing in the city). As I don't know much about the festival, I can't tell you much right now, but I soon will be able to! It should be a lot of fun!
Moving to my next host family on Monday!

News:
- Fixed Archive
- Fixed Photos in Tokyo1 photo page
- Fixed Photos in Hamamatsu photo page
- Added back the Rotary Monthly Report Form

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Tonight I am having dinner with my next host family and some Rotarians. My next host family is Kato san and they own a book store and live halfway between the city and my school.
Today at school I went to some new classes and one of them was English for the 3rd years (Like yr 12). The teacher made me teach part of the class. She had made up this number game for all the students and told me for one question say some numbers between 0 and 1000 and they had to write them down. It was alright, but what numbers do you choose???
Next month is the Hamamatsu festival (3rd, 4th and 5th) and I can't wait. From what Matt Hession has told me about it, it is going to be fantastic. At my next host family's house, it is in hamamatsu, so I will be able to participate in the festival from their part of the town. The festival also includes a kite fight. Different parts of the town makes huge kites and battle them to cut of the strings on the beach. Should be fun.. more news on it later!

Hmmm.. There is something weird going on with my rootshell email account. I can't access it at the moment.
I saw Matt Hession again last night and we had dinner with my host family and then went out to karaoke.
More detail later.

Happy Easter everyone!! I think it is about time to start eating the chocolate eggs my parents sent me :)

Last weekend we planned to go to tennis with my host sister and her husband but he sprained his ankle so instead we went to a fun park. At the park they had go-karts, but they were pretty slow... the thing I did like was the golf buggy kind of car that I was able to drive around the park to place to place (it wasn't too fast, but it had a horn!). After driving around for a while, we ended up playing mini golf and I tied 1st :)
I also got my box full of easter eggs from mum on monday. Thanks Mum!
Last night I was able to speak to Matt Hession who is now here in Hamamatsu for three weeks and we will catch up soon.

New photos and a new layout of the blog.

There has just been an election all over Japan and there has been some funny and weird people that got elected (I think it was for the mayor of the town or something). One person elected is a wrestler who always wears a mask even when he is doing his mayor (or whatever) work.. he won't take it off!

Did you know Saddam Hussein's Son's names mean smelly (Kusai) and mule (Udai) in Japanese?

Sorry everyone that I haven't written for a while. I have been busy!
Today is now the first day back at school and I have moved to a new home room and building. For the next few days we will be doing preparation for a new room and other things like that. Today we finished at 10:00 and didn't do much for the short time in the morning. We had an assembly in the gym and met the new teachers and a new exchange student from Canada.
On friday, I went with Mark (Australia) and Fernando (Mexico) to Gotenba to visit Lalo (Mexico). Fer and I stayed the night, but Mark had to go home for his town's festival. The next day we took the train to Kofu where Mika (America) and Franzi (Germany) live. We came to see their town's festival. The festival was about this powerful man who ran this battle against another section of Japan (I think) and they showed the march to the war. It was all very interesting and the costumes were fantastic, but it rained a bit and we all got wet. We ate dinner at the festival stalls and I had a kebab! (The Kebab guy was nice tho).
The next day we had to get home but it ended up costing us 5000 yen (about $70) to get back. By the end, I had 1000 yen (about $14) left and Fernando had 100 yen ($1.40)! Just enough. Thats about it!