Day 5 Image hevy. lol

The original question for dad was something about a song and your mood, but I think that's stupid. lol. 

So instead, I'm going to write about my favorite trip!!

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The summer of 2009, I had the AMAZING opportunity to go to JAPAN!!!!!!!!! for a month!!! :D It was truly one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced. ^^ 

We traveled all over Japan!!! We went to Kyoto, Miyajima, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kumamoto, and Ogaki!!! I got to experience so much awesomeness! I got to try tons of weird foods, and see lots of new and different things! Two of the foods that I tried that stood out the most was Katsudon, and this thing I don't remember the name of. xD 

 Katsudon ^ is probably one of the most delicious things I have ever eaten in my life. It's chicken with egg and rice. :D Absolutely amazing! <3

And then, there's this thing that looks disgusting, but is positively amazing. It's a cabbage sort of pancake thing! You could either put this chicken meat thing in it or squid. I had both. It was literally one of the most amazing things I've ever eaten in my life. <3

I also got to experience festivals and what it's like to grow up in Japan.

 All the girls got to try on Kimono's! It's insane the amount of fabric that is used! I literally couldn't bend over because of the amount of layers I had on! I wouldn't ever take it back though. <3 <3 <3

 I got to make Soba!!! It was actually really hard to make. xD You had to add the right amount of ingredients, make it super flat (like what I'm doing there) and then cut it by HAND the specific width and length. Luckily, after we had suffered enough, they let us use a giant paper cutter looking thing to cut them. xD

Then we got to eat it. It was way yummier after you made it yourself~ <3

And here! This is a wish tree! I don't remember what the holiday is actually called- but it was amazing! I don't remember what I wished for, but it was really cool to be able to participate in something I had only read about in comics! And even though I couldn't read what all the other people had wrote (I suck at Kanji. lol), I think it was best that I couldn't. (: Because it was awesome to see even adults doing something that they knew wouldn't happen, but still did anyway! <3

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 And then- the week of all weeks!

I GOT TO VISIT MY BEST FRIEND EVER!

This girl right here is Ayako Sendai! She is the Asian me who lives in the other side of the world! I love her so much! She was my exchange student March of 2009, and when she found out I was going to Japan for 3 weeks, she demanded that I stay with her an extra week and go to her school. If I could have just gone to her house for that whole month, I would have! It was the best week of my entire week! <3

I miss her so much. <3

 

So, when me and my friend Amanda got to their classroom that first day of Japanese school, we found THIS! Her whole class was so excited to have us stay there and visit, that they decorated the entire blackboard!!! There's Pokemon, random Japanese words, scribbles, pictures, and random words that we had taught some of them when they visited America! It was one of the warmest welcomes I've ever seen. <3

  

 This is the whole class! <3

 Here's just some random things to make ya'll laugh. xD