I am sooo lucky! :) My home town is Urakawa, Hokkaido, Japan!!! It is renown for its horses and is the racehorse capital of Japan!!!! Hokkaido is the upper most island of Japan, and Urakawa is located on its eastern coast. One of its main incomes is fishing!!! So it will be similar to home, lots of docks and boats :) It is amazing there, I found a few pictures, that you can see below, and its looks so green, and amazing. Its climate, sadly, is just like Alaska's but ohh well it will be sweeter because its japanese climate! I lucked out so much, I got the best town I could imagine! Thank you AFS!
Also I have a kick butt host family! I just received pictures of them and they look awesome. My host father, is a boys sports coach, originally I wasn't told what he coached. But I figured out.... Badminton!!! Hehehehe. Just because he does that, he is awesome. My Host sister also plays badminton, so I guess I will be a pro by the time I come home! They also gave me pictures of the house, and told me which rooms I could pick, they gave me three different choices!!! Craziness, and their house is beautiful. I am so excited to meet them! Thanks again AFS for the sweet family.
Ohhh yeah, I have also been in contact with the headmaster of my school, where I will be enrolled as a second grader..... And no, a second grader does not mean elementary, it means second year of high school. Hehe. I will have a uniform, and it does include a skirt, scary. My school week goes from Monday to Friday-thank God- and each day it goes 8 am to 3 pm. So its the same time as my school here. Some schools have class on Saturday, im super super grateful that I am in one of the lucky schools that do not participate in Saturday school. The classes I think I will be taking are- English, Biology, Home Economics, P.E, Calligraphy, and Music. I do not know how long I will be able to hold up in Music, so maybe it will be traded for math, if I can figure out how to do that.
My school also offers the most amazing sports! Baseball (boys), soccer (boys),basketball (boys & girls), volleyball ( boys & girls , badminton (boys & girls ), track and field ( boys & girls ) , horse riding ( boys& girls ), soft tennis ( boys & girls ), KYUDO-Japanese style-archery(boys & girls ) and KENDO ( boys but girl can also do ) club. There are also SYODO-Japanese calligraphy, SADO-Japanese tea ceremony, library and broadcasting club.
Needless to day, I will always be busy. So excited for my life in Japan, 13 days and counting!!!
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