A Japanese house and a cat called Sasuke.
Nihon no ie to neko no Sasuke.
Whilst I am in Japan I am staying with families. The family that I am staying with in Tokyo are all Japanese and they are very nice. Yukosan has Helped me out no end form cooking amazing Japanese food to helping me with the train. She has even found me a place to train. (I will be studying Karate with the JKA. Sweet.)
There house is very cool. It is a mix of old and new and has lots of space and many rooms. The house here are mostly wooden and made in the traditional style. The living room has a sunken floor and walk way around it. Some of the rooms have sliding doors and some of them normal swing doors. Some of the rooms have wooden floors and some have Tatami (or mates), but every room has a very Japanese fell. It is just as I had hoped.
My room is very cool also, it is very big. I found the families through an online company called Home Stay. (Their is a link to there site in the side Bar.) On the site there is a form to fill in. They then send you a matched family. My family in Tokyo can speak very good English and they have been helping me with my Japanese. Yuko San has been feeding me very well and Yutaka San is showing me a very hidden side to Japanese life. I believe that Home Stay Has mad this trip even better.
I get all this for just over £700. (92,000 yen) This is for one months rent and 2 meals a day. (I don't now but staying in hotels would cost a lot more and I would still have to pay for food.) Home Stay and the Hagiwara family are making this stay one to remember.
O just one more thing. The form ask you about the familys you want to stay with. Things like do they have kids, are they smokers or do you mind pets? I don't know how this would affected your stay but I ticked all the box as I don't mind. So I have a cat at my house. This Is Sasuke the ninja cat.
Sasuke no ninja no neko. sagyo
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loving your blog, we are all checking it out, your new home looks great.
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Dan Im loving the blog....and am still jelous! Looking forward to hearing all about it when youre back - keep the pictures coming, very interesting. Ive seen the JKA Honbu dojo on youtube and its amazing. I would love to train there - be sure to drop my name ;)
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Charlie.
Come on Dan it's Wednesday and we have not had any news since Sunday. Where is the next instalment - what happened at the week-end? We look forward to haering about your exploits.
ReplyDeleteCarry on having a good time.
Sarah x