Home Stay!!

During the thanksgiving holidays,I went to a home stay in Connecticut.
I left Keio at Wednesday and came back at Friday.


At the first day, we went to the shopping to find my gloves, because I said mother that I don’t have any gloves when we had lunch at the Cafe.
My host family was 5 people who were father, mother and 3 girls.
The 3 girls’ names are Samantha, Sidney, and Sharron and they are 16, 14 and 12 years old.
The girls and mother love the shopping so we go to the Marshals.
But I forgot my wallet in my room at Keio!!
I was upset and told the mother, however she said “OK, don’t worry. I’ll buy it for you.”
I think my host family was kind and… rich.

After shopping, we went to their house and played the Wii until dinner time with the sisters and their dog who names Shakespeare.
At the dinner, we went to the sushi restaurant.
I tried American sushi at the first time, and it was delicious!!
I had the lobster tempura roll and the avocado roll.


At next day, the sisters and I watched some movies in all day.
I got up at 12:00p.m. and then we had thanksgiving lunch, of course with turkey!!
There were small cabbages with meet, sweet potato pie, vegetable pasta , turkey and so on.
It was sooo delicious!!!

After that, we watched the movies that were the another Cinderella story, the Nim’s island and so on.
During the movies, we had ice-creams with the pumpkin pie.

At 8:00p.m, we went to brought back the movies to the DVD shop and borrowed some Wii games.
We played the games for long time until 11:30p.m.We had FUN time!!


The last day, I got up 10:00a.m.
The sisters and I made omelets and toasted bagels for our breakfast.
And then we began watching a new movie.
We planned that will go to see the famous new movie “Twilight” in the afternoon.
But when we watched the movie, the mother said “the plan was changed so you have to go back to Keio. Sorry.”
So we couldn’t go to watch the “twilight”.
After 20 minutes, I left the house and went back to Keio.


The home stay was sooo FUN and I love my host family!!
I wanted go there again!!!

Chelsea Market

Last Sunday, I went to Manhattan with my roommate, Haruka.

At the first, we went to the Clinton street baking company which is the best pancake restaurant for 7 years.
The restaurant opens at 10:00a.m. so we got there at 10:15a.m.
But when we got there, there were full of people in the restaurant and we had to wait for an hour.
So we went to Soho to find the UGG boots however most of the shops were still closed because it was too early for shopping.

After an hour, we went back to the Clinton and had blanched.
We ordered the banana-walnuts pancake and the smoke salmon benedicts.
It was so delicious!!
I thought it was not problem that waited an hour for the food.
I wanted to go there again!



After the Clinton, we went to Soho again to find the boots.
We walked around Soho for two hours and finally we found the UGG boots shop.
We bought the boots that colors were kind of white.


After Soho, we went to the Chelsea market.
At the Chelsea market, we went to the famous milk shop at first (I forgot the name of the shop….)
We bought the yogurts and coffee milk.
And next, we had fruits gelatos. It was little expensive but so good!
I also bought the cookies at the Eleny’s for the thanksgiving home stay.
At the end, we went to the fat witch brownies that was the most famous brownies shop in the U.S.
We bought some brownies and had one of them.
It was so delicious!! I wanted to go there again!

The Chelsea market was so nice place.
ＷＨＹ DON’T YOU GO THERE???

Misumi's Birthday!!

Last Saturday, it was Misumi’s birthday!
Her birthday was November 15 and she became 19 years old.

We planned to go to her room at 12:00a.m. with a birthday cake.
At Friday, but I hadn’t bought the present yet, so I went to the target trip that was planned by the dorm with Miho.

There were only two people that mean only Miho and me in the target trip.
The target trip needed at least five people but Mr. Akimoto said “if you want to go to the trip, I will take you.”So we could go to white planes (thank you, Mr. Akimoto!) and bought the birthday presents.

When I chose a present, I was puzzled about the two necklaces.
One of them had a pink ribbon with beads, and the pink was just like Misumi’s color for me.
The other one had two lines which were the cross with the beads and the heart with glass, and the heart was also like the image of Misumi in my mind.I thought about them for 20 minutes, and finally, I chose the heart and the cross one.

At 12:00a.m, Mariko, Miho, Hanako, Kana and I were in the Misumi’s room. (Also Mariko’s room)
We gave her the presents, took many pictures and of course, we had the birthday cake.
The birthday cake was the chocolate cake because she loves the chocolate!
It was nice and fun time!!

Harrison

Last Saturday, I went to the Harrison to have crapes with my roommate, Haruka.

To go to the Harrison, we took the taxi, but it was REALLY bad taxi!
The first problem happened when we left from the Keio.

As soon as we left, an old woman taxi driver went back to the North Dorm but we were just at the front of the MasterCard Company.
So Haruka asked the driver why she went back, however she was just angry and didn’t tell anything about it.
When we came back the dorm, there were three 11th grade girls and they waited the taxi.
They wanted to the Daido which was the Japanese market in the White Planes and it was different from the way to the Harrison.
Of course, they didn’t have any problem because the girls also just called the taxi, but they said sorry for us….

After they took off the taxi at the Daido, we started to go to the Harrison station again.
However, the other problem happened at the time.

After 15 minutes left, the taxi got the station, but the station’s name was Hartsdale!!
We told it to the taxi driver, and then she asked us “Will you go to the NYC?”We couldn’t understand what she wanted to say, but we answered “Yes,” because we were angry with her about the two mistakes, so we lied to her that we planned to go to the Manhattan and rendezvoused with other friends for it.
Then she lied to us “you can take the train to the Harrison here,” however we knew it was the different the train to the Harrison and the Harlem Line.
So we told her it, then she was silent for a while and said “ok,” with angry face.

After 5o minutes, we got the Harrison station.

When we got the station, we argued over how much the cost of the taxi.
We and the driver were angry at each other so we talked for 20 minutes.
She said that she wanted to take $23, but finally, she compromised with us at $16.


After that, now, we got the crepe restaurant!!
I ordered the sidewalk that had butter, sugar and lemon, and Haruka ordered mix-berries crepe.
It was so nice!!
We took out some other crepes and went to back to the Keio.

The taxi was so bad.., but the crepes made us so HAPPY!!

Halloween

Yesterday, Keio had the Halloween!

Most of the 12th grade girls became “Cats” that one of the Broadway musical.
We gathered the room of the dorm at 7:00a.m. and went to have a breakfast together.
It was so fun, but a lot of people in 12th grade were black and white costumes so there were kind of monochromatic people in the pictures.

There were many different characters in other grades.
Especially, the prettiest characters were some 11th grade girls.
They were waitresses, the girl from the Ooze and a girl kind of Alice.

It was fun day!! Except coming back the exam….

Finish the exam!

Girls' Soccer!!

On October 25, girls’ soccer team had a party for season over!!

It was the next day of the last game.
We had some Chinese foods, Sushi, and the SPECIAL cake from our coach.
The cake decollated like soccer field, and the coach’s, manager’ and senior’ names put on the side of the cake!!
I really loved the cake! The taste of the cake was so sweet, but it was happy time.

After finished the eating, we took a lot of pictures for long time.