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(Mom and Dad keep saying I need to put up a picture of my house, so here it is!)

It's been a little while since I last blogged, but I haven't really been doing much. On Sunday I slept in, did some homework, and just enjoyed my last day of break. The highlight of summer was dinner. We had Kimochi Nabe (Nabe means pot in Japanese) - basically you have a big pot of boiling water in the middle of the table and put a whole bunch of veggies and meat in. Today's Nabe had Kimochi flavor, which is Korean. It was definitely one of my favorite things I have eaten in Japan.

Monday is my busy day, so I didn't get home from school until about 6:30. For dinner we had Kara-age, which is fried chicken. It tasted almost like Chik Filet, but the chicken had a hint of soy sauce flavor.

Tuesday is also a very busy day for me, so once again I didn't get home until almost 6:30. Tonight for dinner we had some kind of tasty meat that I thought was either chicken or fish. When I finally decided it was Chicken, Mrs. Yurikusa said that it was fish. I can't remember the name of it though.

(My first woodblock print- not very good
(My One Piece Pirate Flag woodblock on paper. It was supposed to be all black in the background but the Prof. said it was sad and i should make little mottles in it, as shown)

(The wood piece used to make the print)

Right after I woke up today there was a small earthquake!! I was really surprised since I've never experienced one before. It only lasted about 15 seconds, I think, but it startled me. Earthquakes aren't really anything unusual around here, so there wasn't much mention of it on the news. Wednesdays are the antithesis of busy for me, so after I finished class at 10:50 I ate lunch, came home and got to webcam with my friends online for almost 2 hours! I can't usually do that because by the time I normally get home everyone is asleep. Besides that I just napped and watched anime. Good Japanese practice! :)

Fact of the Day: In Japan tuna on sushi is called 'Maguro' (or a couple other terms depending on where the piece of meat came from on the fish). However, the kind of tuna that we would see in a can in America is called シーチキン, or Sea Chicken.