Picture of my Host Family

We were on the shinkansen (bullet train) and I finally got everyone to cooperate and managed to get a picture of my whole host family! Yay!

Updating for Leah

Hey, everyone, this is Stephen doing an update for Leah.

She's had a pretty busy November and hasn't had much time to write a blog post. Despite being busy, she's still doing really well over there and seems to be getting on really well with her host family. Due to some odd problem or another she hasn't been able to get any form of internet. Her classes are going well, better than last semester I believe. She's still enjoying being in Japan, but she's really looking forward to getting back. Due to her lack of internet, she had a bit of a problem getting scheduled, fortunately between her mother and myself we were able to get her scheduled albeit a bit later than would have been ideal. Leah's also been working on writing a novel for the November Novel Writing Month. She's 19721 words into her novel, which sounds like a ton of writing to me but apparently that's behind where you're supposed to be at the point. So far it sounds like her novel has a somewhat Stranger in a Strange Land feel to it. I'm looking forward to seeing it when it's finished. If anyone wants to know anything more or get a message to Leah, give me a shout at CHSPub@gmail.com.

Signing off,

- Stephen

"Miya goes shopping! I love my baby sister!" - Leah