Japan Update

Hi all, Kay's mom here. Kay is in Japan now and is with her host family. She is having a great time, although a bit tired from all the time changes. Unfortunately she is having trouble signing on to this blog, so she may not be able to post. I'll try to help out, but please don't be mad if you don't hear from her for a bit.

Lisa
(Kay's mom)

Host Family

Well, I probably should have updated this quite a while ago. ^-^ Silly me.... so about two days after my last post, I received an email about my permanent host family! So since then, I've emailed them (in my very poor ro-maji). They're really nice! I'm leaving for LA in 6 DAYS!!!!!!!!! I'm actually leaving a day early and staying with my cousin because we have to be there by 2 pm on the 23rd, and so I didn't want to worry about my flight getting in late. Anywho, I'm getting REALLY excited.... wow.... ^-^ WOO!!!! I'm going to be staying in Tokyo. ^-^ I'm not sure if I can post any info/pictures of my host family (AFS rules apparently say that I have to ask first, which makes sense), but I hope they'll say yes, and then I can tell you all about them. I'm going to have a host dad & mom and two sisters, which is great because I've never had a sister. >.< I'm SO psyched!

The other big thing right now is all the talk about swine flu. Once we get to Japan, we're going to be quarantined for a day (which we kind of would have been anyways, for our 2-day orientation) to make sure we're not sick. It makes sense- it's swelled into a panic at my school, and a lot of kids have been out with potential swine flu cases.

On that note, wish me luck on my finals (Thursday and Friday) and on fitting my stuff into a suitcase- and making it under 44 lbs. Shouldn't be too difficult, I hope... ^-^

~Kay