With that my exchange stay is officially over that's why I end my blog with this.
Thanks for reading

My mum came on Saturday and I picked her up. After that we went straight to my achool ,because I had club at that day and I asked if it would be ok to bring my mum.

On Friday I went to the goodbye party for the exchange students. There we got our partitioned diploms and we had to hold a speech. That was acually preaty much it.

From the right: my second host mother, me, my second host sister, naruho
in the back: david and alex. They also stayed for a bit at mishima's house.

On Thursday I had my last day of school. It was pretty normal because it didn't feel like the last day at all. I also gonna go back on monday for the fourth period with my mum, so I gonna see them again.

Today we had Sport festival. It's an event where the hole school participates. The classes are dividend into two teams in all three years, red and blue. The the teams compete against eachother in different games.
My class was red and I also joined the "sport festival program" . It the group of student who were in charge of the oranization of the games. We made the games and rules before. Then today we had to prepare each game and watch if they were played correctly. It was really fun but also exausting.
By the way red won.

Today Ayu, Sae and I were participating in a piano concert. It was a concert from our piano teacher and only for our families but it was fun. I played two songs together with my sisters.
when you wish upon a star (ほしのねがい) with Sae
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O christmas tree (もみの木) with Ayu

After dinner I went to a camp for japanese exchange students from dibec. They asked me and two others to help them for the three days (3~5). It was fun to talk to the japanese students and teachers in both english and japanese. We spent the night there so it was a bit like a school trip. Oh yeah, we staied at the olympic center in sangubashi.

I went on thursday with my family and their friends to a restaurant in Shinyuku. It was a fish restaurant where you had to catch the fish yourself. When you caught one you gave it to the personal told them how you like it and then they make it. Catching the fish isn't that hard when you go after their bellys or tail with a short rute.

I kried after I caught the first fish because I felt sorry for the fish. The panict outside the water and there was blood to. But they were super delicious. 

Yesterday I went to Harajuku with Aya and Sae. They helped me to buy a goth-lolli (gothic lollita) outfit.

I went with my family to Hakone over the weekend. Two days onsen. It was super. Hakone is like an onesen city. They have a lot of hotels there. We also stayed in one. The baths were grate as well as the food.

Yesterday wn went to Odawara to visit odawara castle. The castles in Japan are competly different from the ones in germany so it was really interesting.

The main building of the castle 

That's a few from the top. It lookes like a ocean of cherryblossoms  

I'm looking forward to tomorrow because I'll go to an costplay event

On Wendsday I was asked if I could acompanie terui-san and the two knew exchange students from germany to the edo tokyo museum. Umfortunely the museum was closed do to renovations, so we went to asuksa. We visited a famous temple and had lunch together. It was fun.

It's bin a while. This week was and still is pretty busy. Before I forget my teacher teched me how to put on an kimono by myself last week. The on Sunday mama, papa and me went to see the cherryblossom and I put on the kimono by myself with mamas help ( It's almoat impossible to put on the obi alone) she also made my hair.

On Thuesday we went to Kamakura. Kamakura is famous for it's many shrines and temples. In total there are 200. We vistited three. A friend of my host family showed us around. It was super nice especially because the cherry trees are in blossom right know. After the visites we had lunch at the friends house. It was soo yummy.

We stayed then overnight at gradpas (mamas side) house

Last week on monday students from an american boys school came to our school. We showed them around our school, showed them a japanese teeceremony and made Okonomoyaki together. The Okonomiyaki was delicious and the students liked it too. It was super cool and fun. We talked alot in english, of course.

1-A, second year students, our cooking teacher, the american boys and their teachers

Today was the ceremony for the third years. Now they are out of High School. Because of that we first years had free, but I went with mama to watch Ayu's. It was different from my own ceremony and the speaches were way to long ,but it interesting.

February 24th, sat
Today my class went to Tokyo University for the Quest Cup.
The Quest Cup is a event from different companies. Every year a Quest is given to the different schools. In does school,  mostly the first years, form teams for the different companies and work on the Quest. Then they have to hold a presentation, those are filmed and probably sent to the organizater. Then the team with the best presentation goes to the Cup and has to compet against the other schools.
Normaly only Kirara, Aya and Kazuki would have gone but we are only six people in class ,and with only three students it wouldn't make much sence. So we all went. It was fun to watch the presentations even so we didn't win.

The teams from TV Tokyo with maskot nanana the banana

Sorry that I haven't written for so long but I'm really bad when it comes to updating.
February 18, sun
Today was my 17th birthday. We went to  a trick art museum in Takao. That was super fun. Everywhere were pictures on the wall and floor but it lokked like it was real.

In the evening we went to sweets paradise a cake banking. I ate a lot of cake and it was soo good. They also had curry, pasta, sup and salat too.
My family also gave me a present. CD from Arashi

Yesterday was Valentine's Day so I made chocolate. Chinamon, Orange and normal.

In Japan you give your friends chocolate (giri chocolate) and when you have someone you like or a boyfriend you give him some too (umei chocolate). Only the girls give something in valentine because in Japan they have the White day on March 14th. On white day the boys give some small present to the girl they like, there girlfriend or friend.

Today we went to the open campus at Tokyo university of tecnology in hachoji. It was super. They had a lot of different courses there and everyone had top equipment. They had a cours where they made anime caracters, animated them and a lot more with media. They also had a big stage hall where they learn light, sound and everything else what is important for events. We also visited the engeenier cours and electric cours. They were cool too.

Yesterday was also the 105 birthday of my hostfamilies greatgrandma. We went to see her today after we came back from Open Campus.

Sae, Ayu and I went to Tokyo Disneyland yesterday. It was great. We went the hole day so we were pretty exausted when we came home.
We got on almost every ride in tomorrow land and we got on a lot more rides in other parks. Thunder mountain, splash mountain and space mountain were the best ones.

We also watched two parades, one at the beginning and the electrical parade in the evening. At the one in the evening I sat for 30 minutes on my legs so I couldn't stand up, even so we were in a hurry to use our fast pass in time.

My favourite part was toontown because of it's scenary and the funny photo spots.

A few days ago we had a red moon because the moon was in the earths shadow. It was really red and looked so nice.

One week ago I changed back to my first host family. On Sunday we went a strawberry greenhous where we could eat as much strawberries as we wanted for 30min. There were a lot of flavors and they were super yummy.

It super cold right know. We have snow in Tokyo for the first time in like 40 years and it's around -3℃, but I am happy that I'm not in Nagano there it has -30℃.

The weather is nice but cold 

The snow has melted abit too 

I took that on Monday 

Alot of my classmates are going tomorrow for 3 months to New Zealand and 2 are going to Kanada on Sunday. One for 6 months and the other one for one year, so I won't see them again. Becaise of that we are only six students until the second year starts.

                             my classroom

 Ayumi and me infront of the Haruko volleyball championship maskot Babo-chan

 The court of the semi finals. The stadium where the championship is held is the Tokyo stadium in sendagaya. The matches were shown live on TV too.

My school is the first from A block.

From January 4th until the 8th were the 70th all Japan high school volleyball championship. My school shmokitazawa seitoku high school won last year. This year we lost in the semi finals, but it was super exiting.
Mama, Ayumi and I went to the quater finals on the 5th. We had two natches and won bouth in 2 sets. Because my school played and we were cheerind them on every student was free. The matches were super and the cheering was fun too.
On sunday mama and I went again to see the semi finals. It was great but the school we played against from Osaka was super srong. They have 6 players in Japans  U-18. After our match mama and I stayed to watch the other games. The last girl game and then the boy semi finals.

My hostfamily and I went to numazu-shi on December 29th. My hostmama's mum lives there. We stayed with her for four days. We took the "shinkansen", the fases train to get there. It was my first time with it so I was kinda exited. The train looks from the inside like a plane.
It was fun a lot of people came and we stayed awake until 12 something every day. The food was also really good but so much. Grandmas cooking is always to much. The not so nice part was that grandma woke us up at 8 o'clock in the morning every day. She went to bed at 9 ir so, so she wasn't tired. Ayumi and I were.

In the 31st we went to an Onsen a, hot spring bath,  It was super. The wather has a temperature of 40 degres and you go in naked. The atmosphere was nice to. The outside was decorated like an old Japanese garden. It looked really nice. After a hot bath you drink some milk in japan because of that there were a milk machine there.  They have differed flavors and are really tasty.

New Years eve is alot differed here than in america or germany. Here in Japan you go to a temple and listen to the tample bell. The bell announces that the Year is over and a new has begun. Because you should listen to the bells it's a silent night , it's nothing really special so you dont really realize that the new Year has begun. You dont have ro go on New Year to a tempel. Te temples are super crouded at that time so we went to one on January 1st. We visited grandmas sister before that and ate there. Some other family members were there to and one of them teached me Majong. We went back home at 7 with the shinkansen.
It were only four days but I really had alot of fun.
By the way in Japan you also have the twelve animals. Every year is a differed one. 2017 was the roster and 2018 is the dog.