So, first the motion activated toilet since everyone has been dying to hear about it — as soon as you walk into the bathroom, the lid automatically opens for you. You then sits down, and it goes into some standby mode, which I still do not understand but it is basically kind of a flush, but a tiny flush. You then do you business, and there is a panel with at least 10 buttons which I do not really want to mess with, then the lid closes via button (if I closes automatically and the motion detection failed you would be squashed.). But anyway it is all really cool n magical; you walk in and the toilet opens for you.

Today we had one hour of practice for Undoukai in which we ran a really cool race-type thing with a long pole and lines, and then practiced ESA, the dance we will perform on Undoukai day. We were supposed to have another hour after lunch but it started pouring, do we didn’t. Instead we had Bio, English (which I love), and Math, in which they spend about 1.5 days per problem, or do it seems. I am learning more colloquial Japanese words from my friends, which is nice. BTW, we took an English test today, which actually wasn’t too bad except for the translations, on which I think I may have done okay. It’s really funny how much of the time my friends and I am basically playing charades/taboo with each other to convey what we want to say.

My host family is amazingly nice, we spent a lot of time chatting tonight, they are really very jovial. There is s period of time after I get home from school that the house is quite empty but I think that will be solved tomorrow because 1) I am going to Kumon with the granddaughters to improve my Japanese (I read a bit from their books today), and 2) I gave them the Klutz book of Games, so we have to play that.

Okay, it is quite late, so gnite!