Orientation weekend!

This past weekend I attended a Rotary orientation for all the inbounds and outbounds. I got to meet the other students in my district. They are all really cool! There are four of us: another from the states named Hanley, a girl from France named Sophia, a girl from Australia, Emily, and me. Then there were a whole bunch of rebounds (those who went and came back) and they were all really awesome and helpful. It was funny though because Hanley and I were the only boys there. I made a lot of friends there, especially since most of the rebounds knew English! The youth hostel we stayed at was at this farm called Kamaya Green Farm, and there were cows and sheep and horses and stuff. We got to make sausages, and eat them, then we had a barbecue where we cooked our own food. Then they tried teaching us the Japanese version of rock, paper, scissors, and I won. I did not realize that winning meant that I had to cook and ostrich egg! I made scrambled eggs for everybody (one egg fed them all) and it was (surprisingly) oishikatta! delicious. We had fireworks and creemees (real creemees! from the cows at the farm!) and in the morning we got to milk cows! we milked into cups and drank right on the spot. Then we went and made butter, which was really cool too. For lunch we had nagashi somen. It was the craziest thing ever! no pictures yet, but heres how it works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnDz6GSJTMs After the orientation, my host mother, sister, and my sister's friend went to see Hancock. It just came out. I will get pictures up soon, I promise!! I am trying to get Picasa, and I'm also not on my computer right now. But soon. Maybe I'll do a video blog once too. Anyways, that's all from me, I'm having an awesome time here, but I still miss you all! Sayonara!!! ダコタ　ベンジャミン