Sunday with Rana and family!

It was so cold this morning! All the puddles were frozen. Ribbon watched me as I left this morning. It was cute and creepy at the same time haha.

This time I found the tea after church! I talked the the priest a lot because he speaks English and he gave me his email. He was cool. He'd lived in Dallas and Fort Worth for a bit, so he knew Texas. I also talked to this guy who had lived in San Antonio and worked as an aircraft engineer!

There was also okashi with the tea :)

The hard candy thing was prune flavored :/

Then I came home and had cereal and bunny apples. :)

And Ribbon ate breakfast with us. I'll never get over how they let him eat on the table!

At 10 we left for Rana's house because Rana's and my host family are friends so they were having a welcome party for Rana and me!

When we got there, I met Rana's host parents and her 11 year old host sister. Rana's host mom was nice! She told me my hair was kirei (pretty). :D

There was a lady there with her two sons. Her sons came up to Rana and me and told us their names and said "nice to meet you" in English. They saw my keychain and asked me if I liked Pokemon haha.

Then these two girls showed up who were 25. One works with Rana's host father. They're names were Yuri and Banana (a nickname lol).

Rana, Yuri, Banana, and I made pizza while the kids played with their DS's. I made 2 cheese-less pizzas! :)

We had lunch (potatoes and chicken wings) and Rana's host dad cooked the pizzas on the grill outside. Then we are them. Then Rana, all the other adults, and I had drinks (this lemony spritzer mixed drink). It was a little sour but good!

Then Rana and I went out and played a few games if dodgeball with the kids. It was really cold and windy though, so Rana and I only stayed out about 20 minutes and plus we wanted to go back in and talk with the Japanese girls.

Yuri went to sleep because she had a hangover lol so we talked a bunch with Banana. It was great practice even though Rana had to translate some for me.

When Banana woke up, Rana and I added the two girls on Facebook and Line and they invited us to a nomihoudai!!!! YES, finally! And even better it'll be with Japanese people! Rana and I are going to invite friends and Yuri and Banana are too.

The kids played with blocks while Rana and I talked and played a little too. Rana gave me this great lemon water drink that's supposed to help when you're sick. I hope it helps because I woke up still really sick this morning. :(

We had marshmallows, strawberries in jello, green tea mochi, and the peanuts and trail mix I brought from America (Yuko and Ken brought them) as snacks. 

Around 5, the woman and her two sons left and then Banana and Yuri left. Miyabi and Rana's host sister, Haruka, played together and Rana and I talked a lot.

(Haruka and Miyabi's creation)

 I got to see Rana's room! Her family's house is bigger than mine and is 2 floors. It has two bathrooms too! And the toilets have seat covers. It was cute. 

Also the toilet had this cool ball for the water to run over:

The architecture of the second floor was really cool. Their floors were all wood and upstairs there were a bunch of cutouts that looked down to the floor below and the master bedroom had a balcony that looked down to the floor below! It was so awesome. I was pretty jealous.

We had spaghetti and leftover pizza for dinner and apples for dessert. Rana's host mom didn't cut them into bunnies though. :(

At dinner, as well as earlier everyone talked a lot. Rana is so good at speaking Japanese, I was really jealous. Her mom is Japanese so she's had lots of practice. I had fun, but I would have had a really awesome time if I had spoken the language. I love dinner parties so much, but I was sad for a lot of tonight because I couldn't understand so much of what was being said and had to rely on Rana to translate.

Like the one lady with the sons told this hilarious story about when she got her first period but I had no idea why everyone was laughing until Rana filled me in later.

And everyone asked me a bunch of questions about Texas and I would have loved to tell them all about Texas, but I couldn't. And they stopped asking me questions when I kept not understanding them. Ugh!

Rana's host dad was funny, though. He asked me if I ride horses and stuff. And I did a bad job explaining that that stereotype isn't true haha.

At one point the topic of pools came up and Yuko and Ken told everyone I had a pool (I'd told them last weekend that everyone in Texas has pools), so everyone started asking me questions about it like how long it was and stuff, so I just decided to show them this picture:

And they all freaked out!! Like I felt kind of bad and thought maybe I shouldn't have showed them, but Rana said it was because they couldn't imagine using that much water. They all asked me if we paid for water in America lol.

Haha and they thought we changed the water in the pool. So I explained the purpose of chlorine.

I had to explain that we don't heat the pool because it's too expensive and anyway you don't need to in Texas. 

And dad, they thought it was awesome that you were the poolboy and did all the maintenance yourself!

I had been talking to Rana about how I wanted to buy a hand cloth for my hands because we both really want to go shopping and are planning to this week, when her host mom suddenly brought in presents for us.

And guess what they were?!? 

Yup, hand cloths! It was such a funny coincidence! I decided to take the pink one of course, because it was cute and fluffy!

Rana told her how I'd really been wanting one, so she told me I could have another, so I took the other one I wanted that wasn't as soft and fluffy (the train one). I like that one a lot!

But when it was time to go home, around 9, she ended up giving me all the ones that weren't claimed as well! So now I have more than I'll ever need! Omiyage, I guess?

It only took about 30 minutes from our house to theirs so we got home at 9:30. Ugh, I so don't want to wake up at 6 for school tomorrow. :((((

P.S. Sorry for all the typos in my posts, but I write them all on my cell phone!

P.P.S. I forgot to give the answer to the riddle yesterday, so here it is:

Why don't people in Hawaii need dentists?

Because ha wa ii !!

Hahahaha

In English: 

they're teeth are good