Today I finally met my host family! I'm in my new room now, writing this post. I'll get back to this in a bit.
First of all, we KCJS students took our placement test today. It was way harder than I expected! I only knew half the kanji, and I didn't have enough time to finish the grammar. But the speaking part went well, so hopefully I'll be okay. We went to dinner in Kyoto at a buffet called Sara. Interesting fact - the word for buffet in Japanese is ヴァイキング, or viking. Hell if I know why, that's just how it is. Anyway, it was a lot of fun: I got to talk with a bunch of Japanese students, and I made a few new friends. I'm sure I'll get to know them better in coming days.
Anyway, the news we've all been waiting for! Well, at least I'VE been waiting for: my host family! As mentioned earlier, they're on the older side: 80 and 70. But they're really young at heart. Of course, I hardly know them, but they seem like wonderful people. I'm sure I'll enjoy living with them. The house is bigger than expected, but I also have more responsibility than I thought. They pretty much want me to do whatever I want, but I need to pretty much take care of my own stuff - laundry and whatnot. That's fine by me, I guess - maybe a little separated, but that's to be expected at first. I have my own key too!
My room is Japanese style - tatami mats and futon for sleeping. The rest of the house is pretty western though. They even have a piano! I'm going to get a keyboard anyway, since I can't practice during the night otherwise. I'll try to post my pictures this weekend, but no promises.
The plan for the weekend is pretty relaxed. Tomorrow, I get to chill in this area, taking it easy. Then on Sunday, I'll explore Kyoto a bit, then come back and have dinner with my host parents. Overall, things are pretty good. I'm a bit wiped though, so I'll stop here for now. More on the family life soon.
Ha, you think this version of the test is hard? Try the beginning of last year's where there was also a reading comprehension section with advanced passages and shyte which made even the people who got into E class feel depressed o_o Just....yeah, it could be worse. (Thankfully they got ride of it by the time I took the exit test, lol)
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