First week update

light festival
spaphetti ice cream?
okaasan made some western food...ai...
Kenrokuen, a park
me w/ Mr. Obama (obama-san, harvard student, smart, math major. half french, half black.)
Some girls from the program, all Asian.
When we went to the ninja otera, we went into a gift shop and saw a big cute cat. Jordan-san is from Princeton, half mexican. 
Tea ceremony. 
The first week somewhat flew by surprisingly fast, and now it's already Monday night. So a short update will be: 1. I got settled in Mizukami-san's family. 2. I got placed into 2.5 level class. 3. I participated in some interesting activities that PII planned. 

Mizukami-san's family is quite nice. I am the second student they have hosted, so they are not the type of very experienced host family, but they are nice enough to teach me many things. Usually, after I got home from school, instead of spending tons of time studying and doing homework (the homework is actually not that much, especially compared to Yale's Japanese class homework. Everyday, homework can be done in 1 hour, including lots of talking/zoning-out time. So the PII program is not as intensive as I thought it would be, at least not yet.), I would be sitting in the living room, asking questions. Since Mizukami family is not very experienced host family, they sometimes have a hard time explaining things, but we have wireless internet at home, so we can always use dictionaries. Da kara, everyday I learned some new kodoba(vocabs.) but I can't really memorize them all, especially since Japanese words are long and confusing. Also, the reason why I kept asking things b/c I always want to talk...haha. Sometimes they would talk to you first, but I usually just ask whatever that comes to my mind. I guess it's quite hard for them to understand my Japanese since my pronounciation is kinda bad. 

The one thing I don't really like about the family is that the mom doesn't really make traditional Japanese food. The family likes Italian food and like to eat carbs.--rice, noodle, and etc. Also, the mom likes to eat dessert a lot (But okaasan is very thin.) Anyways, I still haven't eaten fish since I come, which kinda disappointed, every other students I asked, their host family has made many times of fish, but my family...ai....so sad. Fish is quite cheap here, I don't understand why they wouldn't make it. 

Anyways, I attached somes pictures, some of festival, and some from other places. Ah, one thing: the food in Kanazawa is actually not that expensive, usually lunch, I would buy a rice ball (onigiri) for around 1 dollar, but then again, it's kinda small.  PII is a pretty good program. So far, so GREAT. 

Really, I have to thank Light fellowship for giving me an opportunity to experience all these!