Benjamin's Diary |
NOV 14TH, SUN |
1. I was on a air plane all day.
it was a very large plane.
2. my host family is very nice
and cool but they are very different and short
3. I love my very big room and it
is nice to
4. my bed is different thin my
bed at home it is very small
5. at my time it is 4:00 in the
morning so h am
going to bed
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NOV 15TH, MON |
1. I got up at 1:00 in the
morning and 2:00 and 3:00 and 4:00 and 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning. I
got no sleep so it is bin 46H.R. since I slept it was a long day today
2. I was thinking of my family
and teardrops came down I think they call that home sickness I love my
family very much and I miss them
3. I got to see my new school it
is very big I gave a speech it was very different I think my Japan
teacher said there is 500 kid's in my school so
it was very scary
4. I am very tired so I am going
to bed good night
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NOV
16TH, TUE
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It is a beautiful day it's 72
degrees out side it is a wonderful day. I
slept like a rock last night. that is a good thing. I
needed it. I'm feeling pretty good today. School today was very long but
good. P.E. was easy but
fun. study time was difficult but I managed. lunch was good my host
mother is a good cook. My
Japanese friends at school got me some ice cream it was different than
American ice cream but it was good. Japanese
kid's at my school are very nice and helpful. I like Japanese kid's
very much they are very different and interesting I like that. They
also have good manners. My English teacher at school gave me a lot of
home work so that's it.
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NOV 17TH, WED |
Today I did not get up. My host
mother had to get me up. I am very tired. I do not know why. I had
corn soup for breakfast it was O.K. not
bad but not good but O.K.. It is very very very very cold today.
School today was O.K. 1st subject is math. My math teacher does not
speak English. He likes to
hit the kid's. This is very different than America. In America
teachers are not aloud to touch the students. He talk very fast.
2nd subject is biology. My
biology teacher also does not speak any English.
He is very quiet and he has very little hair. 3rd
is chemistry. Japanese chemistry looks hard. My chemistry teacher is
also short and funny. 4th
is English. My English teacher is very nice. He speaks beautiful
English. Today he let me help him teach class. It was fun!. 5th
subject is physicist. WOW!!. Japanese physicist is hard. My physicist
teacher is 28 years old. Very young. And he is tall too. 6th
History. My history teacher is old short and bold. He also does not
speak English. He is a funny man. After
history class some of the boys tot me how to count in Japanese.
7th is P.E.. P.E. Was
very fun the boys tot me softball. We had a blast. For lunch I had
rice with seaweed shrimp and two egg roll. A diet coca cola. It was
good. And for dinner I had
"tofu "and "nimono" it's a root. and I had rice
and pork. After dinner my host brother and friends play
basketball I won 21to 18 YES!!!!!!!!!!!! that's it.(^O^)^
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NOV 18TH, THU |
Today I got up and had breakfast.
Breakfast was corn soup rice
green tea Japanese yogurt and a very hot Japanese root I do not know
the name. The yogurt was
good but the rest was O.K. and then my host bother's and
I talk about different kind's of music. Then I went to school .School
was O.K. It is cold and wet out side that mean's that P.E. is inside.
which mean's Basket ball YES!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Lunch was rice pork shrimp green tea octopus yes I said octopus. It
was goooood after lunch was art class. At
art class I learned how to write my name in Japanese. It was a lot of
fun. And then history you remember the old short bold one never mind.
Now it is cleaning time. I have
to clean the whole school. Just kidding I only have to clean my desk.
That's it. You're probably thinking what about dinner. SORRY.
For dinner I had sukiyaki and rice that is it.
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NOV 19TH, FRI |
Hay what's up. Today I have a new
English teacher he is Australien he speaks good English but it is
funny how he talks. He is nice 6ft tall and funny. After English is
P.E. today at P.E. we played softball. I made a homerun for my first
time. All 40 boys said SUGOI!!!!. It was a lot of fun. For
those of you who don't no what SUGOI means it means good
beautiful amazing. Now it is history time you remember I'm not
going there. Then my English teacher took me to a junior high.
All the kid's wanted to tell me their name WOW!!!!! a lot of names. It
was cool and then I met a true English man. he said to me what! the
bloody hek an American. We talked for about one hour. It
was so cool to speak English
when I got back to my school it was biology and chemistry
time. And then For lunch I had Japanese pizza mmmmmmm!!!
It was delicious after lunch my host mother got me from school
on the way home we talked about car's. I did not recognize any cars.
So she told me some name that I had never heard before when we got
home I took a quick shower and then we went to a party for me and Dara
eat was amazing if I could put the party in one word it wood be W.O.W!!
me and Dara both give a speech. And then we got some gifts and then
we eat we had many different food's. And then we talk and talk and
talk it was very nice. Then we left and went bowling got a
professional picture taken then Dai taught me how to speed throw. Then
we went home and I taught Dai and Tsukasa coin tricks until 12:00.
O.K. one's again that's it.
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NOV 20TH, SAT |
Today I got up at 9:00 it was
cool to sleep in. For breakfast I had corn soup again and fruit and
rice and Japanese cereal green tea and toast it was good. Then
we went to Dai's baseball practice it was amazing. Dai is really good
at baseball. Then we went to lunch. Lunch was good we went to
Nabeshima restaurant it was good. Then
we drove to Shiroyama park I took two roll of film it was very
beautiful. Then we drove home and got ready for my party my host
family had a party for me. They
invited 18 people. It was a lot of fun I stayed up until 1:00
learning Japanese. It was fun. I'm very tired so Guess
what. That's it.
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NOV 21ST, SUN |
Today I went to Sakurajima and
Kagoshima city and
Kagoshimajingu. And saw the Tsubame
train. And then we went shopping and took
picture and got picture taken and got gifts and ate a lot
of Japanese food. It was
a very very very very very very long day. So bye bye (^_^)/~
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NOV 22ND, MON |
Today I got up and brrrrrr it was
very samui. Samui means cold speaking of cold I think maybe I'm
catching a cold we don't realize the value of health until we lose it.
Anyways for breakfast I had
Japanese coffee it was very different than American coffee. After
breakfast I went to school. School today was good. I learned a little
bit of karate. It was
cool!!!!. Then it was English time. My English teacher let me help
teach class. It was interesting because English is a difficult
language to learn but we had fun. After
English I was talking with some Japanese friends about Japanese and
American culture I learned that Japanese people are very respectful
people and traditional people. I
like that. After we talked it was time for history then lunch. For
lunch I had rice octopus fried shrimp and 903 to drink it's a Japanese
drink. After lunch was
math biology chemistry and then home. At home I got cleaned up and
went shopping after shopping we went to a another party for me.
We had a good time first for
dinner I had chicken pork beef two different salad noodles about six
different fruits and a Japanese vegetable soup with about ten
different vegetable in it. I got asked what was my favorite food was.
I said spaghetti. So my host father's friend's wife made me
Japanese spaghetti with in 15 minute. Where talking major W.O.W!!. And
to top it off they invited a English teacher we talked and talked
and then she wanted me to teach her kid's a 8 year old and a 12
years old boy and a 16 years old girl to speak English we had a
lot of fun. Then the kid's wanted to teach me Japanese W.O.W!!!. Good
times. We talk until about 1:00 and went home. Tomorrow
is a holiday. That means that I can sleep and sleep and sleeeeeeeeep
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. And that was my day. that it.
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NOV 23RD, TUE |
Today was a good day because I
got to sleep inn yes!!!. First for breakfast I
had pink Japanese jello and some other stuff. After breakfast I
went shopping. We went to about 10 different shops. And I got some
small gift for my family. After shopping we went to lunch we had KFC.
Then we went home and my host brother's tot me some Japanese song's
WOW!!!!!. difficult but it was fun. Then my host mother
took me and Tsukasa shopping again we shopped until 6:00. Then we got
home and I sat down and that's all I remember. I slept about
two hours my host mother had to get me up. And then I took a long
hot beautiful shower. I think that showers
are a little bit of heaven. Anyways then me and my brother went on a
long bike ride throw Kokubu city it was really cool. On the way home
from the bike ride we rented a movie. When we got back we ate
dinner. For dinner we had American spaghetti it was oishii. That
means delicious. Then we just hang out for about two hours. After
hanging out we watched the movie that we rented it was called the day
after tomorrow. It was a good movie. When the movie was over I
cleaned my room and red a little bit and went to bed that it. Bye
bye. For those of you who don't know what bye bye means in
Japanese it means bye bye. So bye bye.
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NOV 24TH, WED |
Today when I got up and it
clicked but I only have two days left I do not want to go.
Anyways for breakfast I had food. It was good food too. After
breakfast I went to school.
First was math second was
chemistry third was English fourth was history. I'm really going to
miss that man. Fifth was lunch for lunch I had food it was good.
Sixth was biology seventh was
P.E.. P.E. was good. I didn't make no homerun but my team won!!!!!.
good times. After P.E. I went home and some homework that my English
teacher gave me. After my homework me and Tsukasa went on another bike
ride through Kokubu city. We saw just about everything there is to see
in Kokubu. It was a really
good time. When we got home we had dinner for dinner I had food. Just
kidding. For dinner we had vegetable soup fried pork and stew it was
OK. After dinner we talked
and watched a little television by then it was 11:45 so I went to bed
that was my day so sayonara.
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NOV 25TH, THU |
Today was goooood day. I got up
and WOW!!!!!! it was c c co co col col cold(>_<). After I got
over the c co col cold I got ready for school. Today school was
great!!! 1st was English I
got to teach class for about a half of one hour. It was scary. But it
went good we tried to memorize sentences it was fun. After English was
biology and chemistry. Then art art art class I learned the Japanese
alphabet. It was easy to say but difficult to write. But I lived. When
art was over it was lunch time YES!!!!. For
lunch some of my class mates took me to a cafeteria I had beef curry.
It was oishii. Then even better they paid for it as a sayonara gift
WOW!!!. And even
better on the way out I saw my host mother in the back. I learned that
she is a cook there WOW!!!!. I have been with my host
family for two weeks and I did not know that. Anyways after we got
back it was time for history after history was math. Math was
good it was a little fun to. After math is P.E.. In P.E. we played
softball again we didn't when but it was fun. Then my host mother
got me and we went shopping. On the way home from shopping my mother
got me a snack. when we got home me and my brothers road are bikes and
rented a movie when we got back we ate dinner for dinner we had some
kind of fish rice tofu and 903 to drink I was surprised it
was good. After dinner we watched a movie it was called airplane 45 by
then it was 12:00 so I went to bed. That's it.
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NOV 26TH, FRI |
Today is my last day at my school
I am disappointed that I can not stay longer. It a very sad day first
at school was English since it was my last day my English teacher
wanted me to help teach. It went really well. we tot on different
expression we learned happy sad worried angry delighted surprised
frightened nervous impatient proud disappointed hurt jealous curious
embarrassed relieved puzzled fed up shocked and grateful I think
that's all of them. Then it was time for history. I'm really really
really going to miss that man. he is soooooooo funny. Anyways then it
was lunch time for lunch my English teacher took me to joyful. I had
shrimp rice soup and french fries. It was really good. When
we got back it was time for old Japanese history it was very difficult
but fun. After old Japanese history was biology it was O.K.. After
biology was P.E.. P.E. today was karate I learned a lot. After karate
it was time to give a sayonara speech it went really well after I give
my speech my class said a speech to me. I just about cried after all
of that every body wanted a picture with me and my e-mail address WOW!!!!.
I must have given 30 people my address when I left every body
said "sayonara" hope to see you again. When I got home I got
cleaned up and went to another party we went to a Italian restaurant
and then bowling we also got are pictures taken WOW!!!! what
a night. When we got home we hang out for about two hours by then
it was 1:00 so we went to bed. That it.
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NOV 27TH, SAT |
Today is my last day so we did a
lot of stuff. I got up at 9:30am it was soooo cool to sleep in. After
I got cleaned up, I had breakfast. For breakfast I had some kind of
Japanese pastry. It was really good. After breakfast my host brothers
and I rode our bikes through town and then we went and did kareoke for
about five hours. It was soooo fun. Afterwards, we went home and ate
dinner. For dinner, I had Japanese beef stew and some kind of fish. It
was okay. After dinner my host mother and I packed and packed and
packed. Then I took my host father's video camera and took a tour of
my house and then we hung out for about 2 hours by then it was
12:00am. So I went to bed. That's it.
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NOV 28TH, SUN |
Today is the day that I go home.
Yes! But at the same time NO! I got up at 8:00am and took a long Hot
shower. It was sooo nice. Then I ate a quick breakfast. Then I packed
my carry on. We went to the airport. On the way to the airport, my
host brothers taught me two Japanese rap songs. We had soooo much fun.
When we got to the airport my host mother started crying. I wanted to
but waited until I got home. Anyways, when we got inside everybody was
there. We got a lot of pictures and lots of hugs and lots of good
byes. It was a very emotional time. Then MNCC had to tell us it's time
to go. So that was the beginning of a long, long, long, long, long,
trip home. It went really good. We were ahead of schedule the whole
trip. We saw Mt. Fuji, Tokyo Disneyland
in Tokyo, pokeyman air planes, beautiful clouds, and many amazing
thing, when we got home I wonted to kiss the ground and I would have
to if it wasn't carpeted. I knew we were home because just about
everybody was rude, Anyways, then Kyle and Amy
and Emily went home while I waited for my family. Come to fined
out they were there. They were just in a different area but we found
them so me and Dara went home. On the way home my family took me to
the spaghetti factory. Then we went home and talked and then I slept
for a little bit, And went to church. After church I went home and
talked a little more. Then I went to bed I slept like a rock, I
slept until 10:00am it was sooooo wonderful, That was my trip.
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