Sorry it has taken me so long to write in the blog! One of my excuses for not writing is that two or three weeks ago the home stay program started! My host family is so nice. My host family consists of my host mom and my host dad. Last weekend my host family took me to Mt. Fuji. It is beautiful from any angle you look at it.
Since it is fall i wasn't able to climb to the top because the mountain is closed but i did climb up one section of it. I can now see why it would take a couple days to climb it!
This week all of us exchange students took a study tour to Nikko. I can't even try to explain how beautiful the nature is in Nikko. It looked like something out of a dream. At Nikko we got to stay at a ryokan, or a traditional Japanese inn. The first floor of the ryokan had an onsen. An onsen is a natural hot spring that people soak in. It was so ridiculously relaxing. I even got to wear a yukata or a summer kimono! The Japanese really know how to relax haha Recently, since the home stay has started, I have been really busy. It is getting harder to juggle doing school work and playing around haha Today I went to my first Aikido class in Japan!I have done a year of Aikido in Arkansas before coming to Japan. I really enjoyed the club. I was worried before class started but once I started to do some familiar exercises I felt alot better. It was interesting how even though we couldn't understand each other completely we could still communicate through Aikido. I'm looking forward to the next meeting. Next week is fall break and some of us are planning on going to Kyoto! I am really excited about getting to see some more traditional culture there. In a few weeks I will write a blog post and tell you all about it!
Isaac Morgan
