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.

On the 25th was a christmas party at dibec. It was nice to meet all the other excange students again. Well not all, only the ones from Tokyo.

That's a christmas cake which is eaten on christmas. It's a strawberrie cake and it's really delicious. I ate it on the 24th as a kind of lunch.

On christmas eve Nakajima Ayu, Sae, Ayu's friend and I went to an concert. The croup who performed was Arashi a japanese group. The concert was held in tokyo dome a super huge concert hall. It was soo much fun. The songs were super and the atmosphere too. The stage was awsome. Parts of the stage could be moved into the crowed and in the air.

From the left: Sae, me, Ayu and Hana

Yesterday Ayumi, her boyfriend Yuu and I went again to minato-mirai. First we went to the amusement park again. We wanted to drive the new Virtual Riality Vicicel. It was exually kinda lame. You expekted a 1000 m fall and the feeling of that but it was differed. It was like a 4 D cinema.

We also got on a lot of riedes and two haunted houses. The first one was not really scary but the second one had some really scary things In it. You could see the figurs so that was ok, but air came sometimes from above and at he end there was a real humen who came at you out of nowhere. That was scarry.
After that we went to the icescating ring at red brick. It was fun. I asked a man who was super good if he could teach me piruetts, he did. I can do them know and it's grate fun.

Because I didn't had school on monday Ayumi, her boyfriend and I went out. First we went to Harajuku, it's like a small Akihabara. That was fun and I ate a lot of sweets. After that we went to shinjuku to eat lunch. We had okonomijaki that was soo good. After lunch we wen't to minato-mirai. There we had a lot of fun at the amusement park. The park closed at 9 p.m. and we went to the red brick houses near the park after that. They had a christmas market there and german food. It was pretty expensive. The "nürnberger" I ate were like the real deal but costet 1000¥ for six " Nürnberger rost brat würscht"

We will go there tomorrow again because they have a ice ska ring there. I'm looking forward to it.

I bought that yesterday. Isn it cute🌸💗
So it's early but Happy before Christmas days

The girl next to me is Ayu

On Saturday I went with Ayu to Korea town to meet up with her boyfriend. He is nice and they are so cute together. He treated us to dinner , korean chicken, it was soo good. After dinner we went together to Shibuya to watch the Ilumination. It was nice.