On the days leading up to Christmas I did some things with my friends. We made stocking and little styrofoam Christmas trees as we watched the movie Elf. Also saw the Christmas tree at Okayama Station and did a puzzle from the movie Elf that my friend got from her parents.
On Christmas Eve my friends got together to make gingerbread houses together. Some of them were quite interesting too. I can safely say none of them lasted that long after, we ate them too fast. We even had candy from America, that a friend's family sent over, that we were able to use. Was such a long time since having some of them. After that those who didn't make trees before made some then. One person even made a tree with a face and called it 木さま and even made him another tree girlfriend. I didn't really do much on actual Christmas day. I did Skype call my family a little, but we didn't talk for long. Apparently I did get gifts, but they wouldn't mail them to me, they did saw there was a package in the mail though that ended up being a ton of candy. On New Year's Eve and day I didn't do anything again. Didn't want to go out into the cold late at night. In classes we also celebrated New Years a bit. For my language class we played a New Years game where you put on a blindfold and people try to help you make a face. Then in one of my culture classes we made end of year soba before the break. After the break everyone made おせち for the class. My group made a anchovies and walnut dish. One group even made おぞに during class so we could eat it after we finished the other osechi. We even had New Year's sake in class. I did eventually make a shrine visit when in Kurashiki. We visited the Achi Shrine to pray for the new year. There I also bought an omikuji, daruma, and year of the boar souvenir. My fortune, lucky by the way. Lastly, I got a post card from my home stay family. It was very cute and had a picture of us together on it as if they had designed it themselves. So I sent the postcard I bought form the aquarium to them as a thank you and to wish them: 明けましておめでとうございます
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Lauren TorresI am a Japanese Language and Culture Major Student at CSUMB. I will be studying abroad at Okayama University in Okayama, Japan for the 2018-2019 academic year. Archives
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