a little more on the home life

my neighborhood, with the lovely blue preschool right next door (from which tiny children occasionally look out from the windows and wave at me, the curly-haired gaijin.)


my otousan (dad) with my host-nephew, on said host-nephew's first birthday! see the cake? THE CAKE OF DELICIOUSNESS AND STRAWBERRIES? yeah, so good. my okaasan (mom) always wonders if i'm okay eating japanese cakes, since they're "not as sweet as american cakes," which is true, but ya know, it's still damn tasty and not at all overly sugary. delish.


my host-niece cheesin' it up, with her new engrish tshirt.


broguen often comes over to play/party, since we're technically cousins now (what with her okaasan and my okaasan being sisters).


more tasty cakes. not that i'm complaining, but hey, i thoguht i'd be losing weight here with all the walking. gah. i literally had to tell my okaasan that i'm dieting now so she won't feed me ten tons of food every meal. it's like, i know americans are seen as the kind of people who can eat EVERYTHING on the table and more, but in japan its different, for some reason. wakarimaseeeeeeen (i don't get it).