Left Tokyo this morning for Kurimoto town and to go to Kurimoto Jnr High to meet our host students.

Went to the Council in Kurimoto for a welcome ceremony, was very cute!
The we arrived at Kurimoto school where me and paige and the rest of the students met their hosts.
Paige and i are staying with a girl Maya, we think she is a tom boy but a really really nice girl!! We also met her family this afternoon, she has 3 brothers 2 are married with children and are all really nice people... her brothers are all good looking! hehe

Dinner was a bit of a culture shock for me and paige, we ate raw prawns, and other kinda of fish and other meat, we hadnt tryed it untill tonight though im really glad we did because it didnt taste as bad as i imagined!

A family friend came over for dinner also to meet me and paige. We then sat up for hours talking... well trying to talking since we couldnt really understand each other.. i tested out my japanese and they tested out their english and if worst came to worst we just played charades and acted out what we were trying to say! was so fun and an absolute crack up!!

The brothers also bought fire works and we spent time out in the yard playing with them it was fun! and then when we ran out they took us out shopping for more in the middle of the night!

Ended up going to bed quite late though i could have stayed up all night!

Was an awsome day, im so lucky to have ended up with such an awsome host family!

will add pictures soon! i need to put them on to my computer!

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Today was our last day in Tokyo, went shopping again in Electrial city (akihabara) and then tonight in the lounge area of the hotel we met some hot canadian guys! hehe

Also went to the Edo-Tokyo Museum, was interesting but a little bit boring!

Later went to Shinjuku Tokyu Hands and Takashimaya Department Store awwwwsome shoping people go there!!!

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Had our "western style" breakky this morning.... was interesting to see their take on western... was interesting but it was great and kind of them to attempt it hehe.

We went to an observatory first thing this morning it was pretty good, un real view of tokyo!

We went to Asakusa, this was one of my favourite places in japan was so cool! its a big long street that seems to go for miles with heaps and heaps of little shops and markets!
Then we all went shopping i spent sooo much money... ooops!

(Entrance to Asakusa)

Later in the afternoon we went to Akihabara, we spent hours there, its known to most people as electrical city it is soo cool... sorry i know i have discribed alot of places as sooo cool but they were!
(on the street in Akihabara)

While me and some friends were sitting down i ran in to one of the aussies i met at disney land i was so excited and it was pretty incredible that we even seen each other again!

Some friends and i went for a coffee in a really nice little french (yes french) coffe shop and then later when we got back to the hostel we went for pizza at this really funky pizza shop down the bottom of our hostel.

then we went back to the room and i went for a shower and lost my watch wil have to go ask at the front desk!
funnyest thing in the bathroom on the mirror is a sign ill have to post a pic of on here later saying "Please do not wash hands, clothes or hair in the toilets" was hillarious!.. concidering it was above the basins im assuming they ment basins!

At about 11pm to night i got a knock at my bedroom door from one of the adults who came along on the trip to get dressed straight away we were going for coffee and shopping... believe it or not japan is just as busy at 11-12 at night as it is at 11-12 during the day, that was fun we went for a wander and found a starbucks not far from where we were staying.

Then when we got back to the hostel i couldnt seem to find any of the girls... i went up to the lounge area and found them all crowded around this young guy from Cambrige in England all mystifyed by him and drooling was so funny but later i found my self doing the same he was gorgeous and his accent drew us in haha the teachers had a hard time getting us away from him and back to our rooms... good on them for trying though!

Rang mum and dad tonight but forgot they were at Alice Cooper concert so i spoke to Uncle Brian, MItch and Teri, it was good to hear their voice!

anyway need sleep
goodnight!

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Went to Nara today and saw Daibutsu (huuuuuuuuuuuuge statue of Buddha) i couldnt believe how huge it was its located in a big shrine in Nara.

On the way to the Shine we were walking and all of a sudden hundreds of dears appearedout of now where it was insane!



They were so cute i named them all Bambi! hehe

After seeing the big Buddha we got on a train to Kyoto and had lunch and then caught the bullet train to Tokyo.

We then went to the Tokyo International Youth Hostel, omg the view from out room is incredible it on the 19th floor soo high up and all you can see out our window was tokyo and buildings from miles!

After arriving at our hostel we then went shopping at the Ginza and had tea.. there is some really cool shops down the bottom of our hostel building there is a cool book shop and awsome restaurants and a supermarket!

(Shopping in Ginza at night, it was incredible like something you would see inthe movies!)

Out at dinner the boys we went with were asking some japanese girls for sexual favours i was so embarrassed by what they were saying but thank god the japanese girls thaught it was funny and didnt take offence and thank god the guys were only joking!

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10:50pm
Back in my hotel room in Osaka now.
Hiroshima was so so so sad, after seeing the memorial we then went walking through the peace park and over to the atomic dome and then went for lunch and shopping!



We found some 100Yen shops... i suggest people go to them if they are ever in japan they are unreal and great bargains!!

After seeing Hiroshima we then went to Kobe it was really cool, exept the teachers wanted us to do some science thing and me and paige couldnt be bothered so we just sat down and enjoyed the views!
We seen the Bridge which collapsed during a big earth quake it was pretty incredible.

(ruins of the bridge that collapsed during the earthquake)

(the new bridge built next to the collapsed one!)

After that we went shopping i went off on my own and looked around and mad friends with a really friendly japanese guy who owned a really cool clothing store who was so unbelievably excited to meet an Aussie, i felt like a celebrity it was funny, especially since everytime i walked back past his shop he would call out my name he would pronounce it Bleane Hickus and would wave histerically at me.

After spending the night last nght with out our luggage its apparently arriving in our hotel tonight thank god!

I really love this place!!

Here is something you really dont want to know but for the last hour me and paige have been trying to teach a friend staying in our hotel room how to use something i girl should already know how to use a tampon... sorry people i dont mean to offend anyone by saying this in my blog!

And before that we had to walk down to family mart, that shop is so awsome its like a mini supermarket or as my mate bianca calls it a "milk bar"

Anyway Chow for now!

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8:20pm
Osaka castle was really cool but my fave Temple today was the Kiyomizu Temple... mainly because there was hundreds of little markets and shops leading up to the temple was awsome!

(group out side osaka castle)
(kiyomizu temple)
Also did a bit of shopping. Me and paige decided we werent game enough to try the Japanese food so we tryed to look for what we thaught was edible today for lunch(not very cultural of us but we were scared its out first day) so we had ice cream and octopus on a stick coveredin cheese it was crazy of course we didnt realize it was octopus at first but hey it was actually nice.. though a bit sickening after a while!
Once we got back to Osaka we went wandering around the streets exploring for a while, there is this shop called family mart... im pretty sure its an american franchise.. it was pretty cool me and paige loved it!

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