My friend Miyu

This is a picture of me (in middle) at my friend, Miyu's, school.


Miyu is one of my favorite memories of my time in Japan. She is 13 years old and speaks English and Chinese. Earlier in my stay at Japan I got to go to her school for a whole day. It's very different than any school I have ever been to. They start off by having a ton of extra time to play before the teacher comes in the room, even then they speak out of turn. We went to math, science, English, and other classes. We also had PE where the boys and girls split up. The boys went out and played soccer on this huge field and the girls played basketball in the gym. They barely eat anything for lunch, just a little bit of rice and meat and than they want to go play something again.

After the first trip to her school, a little months later I got to go spend time at her house. I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner there. One thing that they said that all Japanese house have are a rice cooker, that is filled with hot rice all day, and a water heater to make tea. For breakfast I ate a cup of tea, a bowl of rice, and a lot of Japanese cake which is very sweet. Me and Miyu played many Japanese games which were very fun. They were kind of like chess. And we played with her dogs. We were at her grandma's house at the time, and her grandma doesn't speak English. So for dinner we made Japanese spaghetti. Well, I normally am not a picky eater but I was not about to eat what they made for dinner. They put a ton of fish eggs mixed in mayonnaise in the noodles. They didn't use regular spaghetti sauce. And we had rice. But them made me a special bowl without fish eggs that was noodles and vegetables, it was pretty good. They also ate fish heads. But I had a really great time and I learned how the Japanese live!