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Well, I absolutely fail at bloging. But this is nothing new to anyone who ever seen me blog before (aka back when I used xanga). Well I suppose I have a lot to update people on. Let me pull out my diary and update you guys on the past month.

Lets see. October fourth I ate dinner at a Rotarians house. He was an ear nose and throat doctor, and his clinic was right by his house so we got a tour. And it frightened me. I’m not a fan of scary look instruments (torture devices) that are meant to go up your nose. But anyway we ate dinner at his house this time and his wife made all the food from scratch. It was really delicious and I’m sad that I couldn’t eat more than I did do to my sensitive stomach, aka there were mushrooms. I can sometimes stomach them, but honestly, when I say I don’t like a food, it means that if I put it in my mouth I will vomit. That simple. After dinner we watched my neighbor totoro! Very nice evening.

October fifth was the Halloween festival in Kisai, those pictures are posted on face book. I made a Jack-O-Lantern which unfortunately collected lots of bugs and had to be thrown away. I told my host mom you need to put a candle in the lantern, but she was like “its got to dry first”… pumpkins don’t dry. Anyway, poor lantern died. I saw a costume contest and for some reason lots of men where in women’s clothing while the women were in men’s clothing. The Japanese are very willing to cross dress when the occasion arises. Kisai’s mayor was there, and he fell off the stage. I felt bad for him, but it was also kind of funny. I’m horrible.

October tenth I went to Tokyo again, this time to celebrate Shinya’s birthday, and I got to sleep on the comfy futon again! I ate tempura at this famous tempura place in Ginza. Unfortunately I can’t name the place, all I can say is its famous and it was delicious. I even ate mushroom tempura. That night when celebrating shinya’s birthday we ate shabu shabu and sukiyaki. And for desert we ate this really expencise and delicious strawberry cream cake. I about died from the yummyness of this trip.

October sixteenth was the schools walking marathon to Tonegawa, aka a really big hill by a river. All the students in the school walked in there jerseys about 10 miles that day (five there and back). It was a sea of red, blue, and green. It was sunny all the way there and the entire time we were cooking. I made yakisoba and pancakes. It was funny when It did start to rain and the students were using the little roaster thingies to roast marshmallows they all pulled out umbrellas to hold over the tiny fires and over the baggage, and very few people actually kept the umbrella to cover themselves. It rained the entire time home and I happened to have forgotten my umbrella that day and got soaked and horrible blisters on my feet. But it was awesome.
I also totally got sick the next day. First time I ever threw up and still decided to go to school.

The nineteenth I walked in a parade in Kazo with the rotary club and got sunburn on my face. After the parade Natalie and I ate udon (our counselor has an udon booth open and so we got free lunch). Then we made our way to the station and met up with Izumi and went to Kawagoe. There was a festival and we chilled with the rotexs. I ate kakigori (shaved ice). These pictures are also somewhat loaded on face book.

Then last weekend I helped my host mother volunteer at a festival in Kisai and walked in another parade, this one much smaller. I also bought lots of cheap clothes, and watched lots of people do the Yosakoi dance, look it up on you tube.
Last weekend, actually Monday which was a holliday, I went to the three day march in Higashi Matsuyama. I walked 12 km with the rotex and Rotarians. We also picked up trash along the way. It was tons of fun, and I’ve been trying to load up pictures onto face book but face book hates me now so It may be another while.
I don’t feel like typing anymore. I’ll try to update more often later.
Love you
Miss you
Diana