Update time!
November has been a good month. I visited Korakuen for the first time. It's the historic park in Okayama City, near the Castle. It was beautiful. And free to Okadai foreign exchange students! I also threw together a Thanksgiving potluck. It was a great success, everybody had a good time. I'm glad to have the opportunity to hang out with such great people and eat such good food. Speaking of food, I also attended two more Nabe parties! (I really like Nabe parties). Oh! I also was the guest of honor at a casual tea ceremony! It was really cool! I like tea ceremonies a lot, though I kept messing up on the specific rules, haha. Very cool experience. I hope I get a chance to do another one. In Kuwanoki Dormitory, we've started having Sunday night dinners together. Pretty cool. One of the dinners was a Nabe party. We also celebrated my Birthday just yesterday! The Sunday night dinner was moved to Saturday, and we had home made Thai food and stir fried rice and stew and there were soft drinks and sweets. I had two cakes, a sushi cake and an ordinary cake. It was all very delicious. Then we watched Forrest Gump to continue the birthday celebration. I had the second Nabe party with my tutors today. This Nabe was probably my favorite. I think it used Soy Bean stock, or something. Very Good. We celebrated my birthday again. There was another cake! It was a very cute lion head! It was a chestnut cake and it was so good. I've decided Japanese bakeries just do cake better than American ones. Next weekend, I will be doing a homestay. I hope it goes well! I'm so happy to have met such good people, and so thankful to be in Japan. What an opportunity.
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