Tuesday 13th September ~ school!

Today we sent our suitcases back to Tokyo as they are not coming to Kyoto with us. This is my last night with this host familyL. When I get home I will have to send Yui a birthday present (her birthday is the 20th)

This morning we went to the bank and cashed in our travellers cheques in. (walking to the bank “so I’m swapping my host mum for my real mum” – Shona) then we were back at school and actually attending lessons … what and odd thing to do at school.
First I went to a calligraphy class which was rather messy and we had a really crazy teacher… one of those people that talks with their whole body (although it did probably help us to understand him a bit better). * if you can see in the picture, the one in front that is numbered was the teachers way of trying to get me to use the correct stroke order... not something im very good at doing, usually coz i cant remember it*
After that we went to writing, basically English grammar, it was SO BORING so we (Brad, Melanie, and I) played hangman which lead to some amusing moment
“ how do you draw it?” – Mel
“Simpons” – Mel
_ _ _ _ / _ _ _ /_ _ _ _ = home and away – brad
We were then supposed to spend lunch with our writing student but they had club so we went back to our room instead. After lunch we went back to our writing room to help with the afternoon cleaning. After we finished our cleaning we had another class, this time I went with Melissa and Reece to a brale class, it was rather interesting the teacher seemed to think we would have known English brale and was teaching us the differences between English and Japanese.
Everyone then went the tatami room for a cultural display. We then had to wait for a while, while our welcome party was organized, rather ironic that the last thing we would ever do at Fujimi was attend our welcome party. At our welcome party a group from the band played (tuba friend = Rie) and we got to have a go at playing koto (Japanese harp)