Just in case you Coulnt read it before.. AMERICANS iN THE HOUSE!!

Hey everyone its Sasha reporting from Japan!
and sorry for my bad punctuation, their keyboards over here are so different, but the keys are way softer!! haha.
So anyway, Japan is AMAZING!
Everything is so different, yet strangely similar to life back home. The people are very quiet and usually keep to themselves, but they do seem to be extremely curious about us foreiners and will try their best to break their quiet shells when you attempt to start up a convorsation with them first. Prior to this trip my teacher Ms. Morello had told that out of all the age groups, teenage Japanese boys were the most shy people to try to get to talk to you, so yesterday on the subway I decided to attempt to talk to one myself using the basic Japanese that i know (and from now on that will always be one of my most memorable moments from this trip!) but once i started talking to him and asking him questions about himself he turned SO red and shy! We could all tell he was embarressedand nevous, especially since his friends were off laughing and jokily teasing him from a distance. haha. and once he got off Ms.Morello immediatlty told me "you just made that guys day! That was probably the most exciting thing thats ever happened to him!" hahaha!
Today was was a very long and eventful day. We woke up arounf 9 and hit the town. We started out by eating a traditional japanese breakfast in a place where the chefs cooked the food fight onour counter where we sat ans told us to call them "Papa" and "Mama." They were a very sweet older couple who worked their hardest to try to comprehend our broken english and laugh laugh when Brian used him newly learned pick up line on them. It was hillarious!
We also visited a temple located very close to where we're staying in Tokyo. There were many places to shop and take pictures. After we left there we hopped on the train and went to Gilbli museum where the work of Hayao Miyazaki is displayed. It was the most fun and interesting museum i have ever seen in my life! There were so many childish hands on displays! (And just in case you aren't familiar with his work Hayao Miyazaki is the creator of animated movies such as Spirited away and Howl's Moving Castle)
once we got back into Tokyo, we had some adventurous flavors of ice cream and to top it all off, we went downtown and sang kareoke! it was so fun and the first time that i actually fully participated in singing with a group of friends!! haha.
I'm so tired right now it's 12:47am over here which means its like almost 8am back home! Just had to update my thoughts in the blog. :)

GoOd Night World!
.Sasha<3