十時間ひこきでなりたへ行きました。それから、一時間急行で東京へ行きました。それから、二時間しんかんせんでにいがたにつきました。

さとみ、私、ゆみ子

10 Hour plane ride, 1 hour express train from Narita Airport to Tokyo, then a 2 hour shinkansen ride, and we finally arrive in Niigata. (L>R) Satomi, Me, Yumiko (my host sisters)

デバンくんとしおりさん

DeVaughn's host sister Shiori

日本語の先生と万代高校の校長と大きいスーツケース

Sensei, Bandai High School's Headmaster, and a gigantic suitcase

私のホストかぞくのうち

This is my host family's house

私のホストかぞく。さとみさんとお母さんと私とゆみ子とおじいさんとおばあさん。

My host family (L>R): Satomi, my host mother Junko, Me, Yumiko, and my host grandparents

かんばらまつりへ行きました。

We dressed up for the Kanbara Festival

夏休みに学校へ行きました。

Yay. I took a week out of my summer to go to school.

デバンくんはつよいです。

DeVaughn can lift more than the basketball team. Well, thats what he said.

万代高校

Bandai High School

くつのロッカー

Shoe lockers at the school

When you go into schools in Japan, you have to change your shoes to indoor shoes. The same for when you go into someone's house.

デバンくんのくつと学生のくつ

Top: A third year (Senior) student's foot in DeVaughn's shoe. Bottom: DeVaughn's foot in said student's shoe.

ようこそのアセンブリ。

Welcome assembly. The band played as we walked in. >_>

私はに日本語でじこしょかいをしますか！？たくさんがくせいがありましたね！

Probably the largest group of people I've ever introduced myself in Japanese to.

万代高校の校長と日本語の先生とデバンくんと私とフランシン

Bandai's Headmaster, our Japanese sensei, DeVaughn, Me, and Francine

デバンくんはバスケットボールが上ずです。

DeVaughn was asked to show his mad basketball skills at the assembly. That meant he dribbled between his legs somewhat fast, which apparantly no one in Japan can do...

私はルビックキューブができました。でも、とてもおそかったです。

They made me solve a cube on a projector. The person who scrambled it took two turns and it popped.

I messed up the PLL :(