Since I’ve not had much time to write a lot I’m going to skip ahead a few chapters in my story and give an overview of whats been going on to clarify.                                                      First of all I have some of my hundreds of pictures up on a different website. If the want to check it out go to flickr.com and search for a user called roxus7a7c7. As I get more time I will try and put more pictures on it.                                                                                  I’m currently living with the kurogouchi family. They live not too far from downtown Iida and it’s about a good 30min walk. My family consists of my host father (whom I call father), my host mother (whom I call mother), my host grandmother (who I call grandmother), and two younger kids. The oldest of the siblings is 12 and his name is Tatsuya. He loves soccer and playing video games. The younger of the two is 8 and her name is Takako. She plays volleyball and loves to watch t.v. and aside from that is really very loud. Since nobody in the house speaks any English it’s a real challenge for me. Talking to the kids is tough since they use a lot of slang and talk very fast. It also doesn’t help that I’m seen as an outsider. They tend to keep to themselves. My host mother is very kind though. She talks to me a lot and it is really good practice. She teaches at a school during the day. My host father is a business man for some company I’ve never heard of. He normally keeps to himself though unless I ask him a question or need help getting somewhere. He also talks very very fast and it is very hard for me to understand words that I know most of the time. As for my host grandmother. Well, she is pretty old and hard of hearing which makes talking to her near to impossible. She also has a small dog which is incredibly loud and annoying. Anytime you walk past her room no matter what time of the day it is the dog goes nuts and barks for a good 5 minutes. The best part about it is that her room is located right next to the entrance of the house. J aside from that I really enjoy living with them.                                     

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