utsunomiya

I went to Tochigi this weekend, with my YSEP fellows and my YSEP professors, to have one night homestay with a Japanese family in Utsunomiya city. Utsunomiya was awesome. It doesn't look like Japan *at least Japan where I live now*. It is really closed to the nature: mountain, lake, hills, and even farm! And the people -somehow- look happier than people in Tokyo.

My hostfamily seemed to like nature a lot -as I enjoyed it very much too. We went to the farm, located 1030m high from the sea level. We were freezing -but then I found that having soft cream in 5 degree Celcius could throw your influenza away. *but I don't recommend you to try this anyway!*

Apart from that, the stay with my hostfamily was perfect. What a nice family. We talked a lot of things -until one o'clock in the morning and spent Sunday morning walking out to the green park.

It was really an enriching activity, both in cultural understanding and self understanding :p
Many thanks to my host family -Yoshi san and Yuki san, Utsunomiya no Hippo family club and Sato sensei! Now I arrived home with a bunch of things -and thoughts.

色々お世話になりまして、ありがとうございました。