MOA!

Mall of America is the biggest shopping mall in the U.S. I went there with Momo, Aya, Momo's host sister and Momo's host mother. We moved there by car. We looked around many shops. Momo's host sister told us her favorite shops, so we followed her. H&M and Forever 21 was our favorite shops. These shops were cheap but high quality. We bought some clothes and some jewelries. There were a lot of choices to buy. At lunch time, we went to Burger King. Potatoes and drink were so big, so we couldn't eat them. But the tastes was great. We thought "We want to eat there again!". We enjoyed shopping and spent a good time there.

After shopping, we went back to Momo's home and I and Aya waited our host mother. My mother came first, but Aya's mother was busy. My mother picked us and went to my house. Aya decided to wait at my house until her mother come. We dropped to United Noodles and we bought pizza in neighborhood. We ate it on watching TV. I'm glad Aya enjoyed spending at my house with me, my mom, and Jenny even a short time.

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Oliver Kelly History Farm

I couldn't forget that day. In July 29th, we went to Oliver Kelly Farm. It was too strong sunlight and actually we wanted to stay at our cold class room... I knew that there is famous and has a big history, but we couldn't endure the weather. We sweated too much and we wanted to go back to Bethel at once. At lunch, we ate Domino's pizza in outside. But pizza was hot and outside was hot! It was like a picnic, but..pizza was good.Many flies interrupted our sight.

Yesterday Hiroyo came to my house, so today, I and my mom was invited dinner at her house. We ate lasagna and chocolate cake that were cooked by her host mother. She had two children, so we played with them. The two girls were cute and naughty. They chased us many times. We were exhausted but we enjoyed having a dinner together. The noisy day was finished..

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Curry night

In July 28th, we swam in Johanna beach. MN has many rivers, and Johanna beach is one of them. It is small river but people often go there. I saw people who talked, taked a walk, swam...  The water was little dirty, so I was shocked. I just talked with my friends on the beach. At night, Hiroyo came to my hose because her host family went out. My host mom has planned the dinner for her before the day. She has examined the recipi on the internet and her cooking book. We cooked chicken curry together ;)

I cut vegetables and Hiroyo also helped. My mom cooked chicken and stired curry. It smelled good, we excited the completion.We cooperated in cooking dinner! We ate two helpings of it. Jenny was so happy because she was waiting that another person came to our house. I have talked with Hiroyo until we went to bed. We laughed a lot and many Japanese words popped in our conversation lol I missed Japansese, so I was calm. Curry night was so fun!

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Jet lag :(

First week was worst week for me. July 25th, I went to Bethel University by car pool. My driver was near my age, so she was very friendly. It took 30-40 minutes for Bethel. Bethel University had beautiful nature and fresh facilities. It was my first day to go to Bethel. We looked around the school, and in the afternoon, we went to Mississippi river boat cruise. In the boat, I felt bad sleepiness. I couldn't open my eyes easily. I fought sleep, but Mississippi river was so big...
I wanted to sleep right now.

In July 26th, when I went back to home, I had a migraine. My host mother suggested to follow to take a walk with Jenny and watch movies at home. But my head condition was become worse, I couldn't do these activity with her. I slept in my bed  about three hours and I could recover by my self. I suffered for jet lag and also I couldn't communicate well with my host mother. I had a big anxiety. Can I really enjoy in MN? I thought it many times. Jet lag was so terrible...

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My first day in MN

In July25th, it was a special day for me. I arrived in Minnesota in the U.S. My host mother welcomed me warmly. She is single, so she lives with her dog, "Jenny". I remember that I was very nervous when I met her first. She picked up me at the airport, and we gathered with Yurika's host mother and Hiroyo's host mother. Then I found they are good friend each other. We ate tacos at the restaurant. I couldn't speak only a few words, but it was a first experience for me to eat real tacos. I remember it was yummy.

At night, we went to Minnehaha park to join welcome picnic. We did group presentation that we have prepared before we went to MN. I introduced studio ziburi animation with Aya, Momo, Saori. We used a picturecard show. I'm glad that many host families came to us and listened our speak. The next day, my jet lag started.....

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