Christmas!

(Austin) Christmas finally came and our friend Yusaku's birthday is on Christmas day, so Elijah, Georgia and I surprised Yusaku by taking him to karaoke. Sadly, I completely forgot to take pictures :/
After sing at karaoke for a few hours we went to a local ramen shop that Yusaku loves and Elijah got the TRIPLE SPICY ramen. So red....
It was a ton of fun.

The picture is the decoration I helped setup at my host family's home before I moved out.

The Last Supper

(Austin) On Dec 24th I have to move out of my host family's home and into a school dorm for winter break, so before that happened, my host family decided to take me out to a very fancy tofu restaurant. Now I imagine many of you just read that sentence and cringed. Tofu? Really?
I was the same; I was concerned, however this was an amazing meal. It was simply delicious, no other way to explain it. It was a 15 course meal. I didn't take many pictures of the food (sorry), but trust me, it was good.
Also, the two people pictures are my host mom and dad.

Completion of a Semester

(Austin) With Christmas right around the corner the 2015 fall semester at Kansai Gaidai finished. This is a picture of my class on our last day. Sadly, our teacher won't be teaching at kansai next semester because she is moving to Tokyo where her husband works and lives. She still plans to be a teacher there too though!

Tofukuji Temple

(Austin) During the last week or so that could be considered fall, Ryosuke, Elijah and I want to Tofukuji temple to see the pretty changing colors. My house mom had recommended that we should come. I'm glad we went :D

The wooden buildings in the last 5 or so pictures are HUGE. The doors are about 6-7 times as tall as I am. The buildings are built without using ANY nails.