Morning, guys! It's time for breakfast
Oh my goodness, Okaa-san has prepared a
feast for us. Look at this! From the morning. This is insane.
It smells so good
Ah yes! It's the soup from yesterday, I wanted to eat that again.
So we ate these yesterday but they had put them
in dry ice and it removed like the
bitterness but they want me to try like
the fresh ones so that I could see what it
actually tastes like
What? That's so weird
I don't think you're meant to eat this
Oh! "Pasty". You call it "pasty". It makes your
mouth really dry and pasty and it like
sticks together.
So it'll take two weeks for them to dry
Unfortunately we won't be here to eat them
We'll have to come back
After we finished preparing the fruit Okaa-san
taught me some Japanese that is only
used in her area of Japan. It is really
interesting so I hope you guys enjoy
that video. It will be out in a couple
days so keep an eye out for it.
I'm back at home now. I thought I would wrap up this video with
my final thoughts of my two day homestay
experience. In two words: freaking awesome! I had
such a good time
What a sweet family. Everybody there was
so nice. I didn't really show it in the
video but their daughter came home
during dinner and she was also super
lovely and just the way they all
welcomed us into their home and made it
feel like we were part of the family was
so nice and she taught us some of her
family recipes, so I learned some things that I
could take home with me and use myself
Not to mention all the really cool farm
activities that I got to do that I've
never done before. It was really
eye-opening to see all the work that
they put into harvesting their, um, what are they
called in English? I think they're called
like "lima beans" that could be right. The
really big "Soramame" (what they're called
in Japanese). But just to see all the work
and love that they put into their job
was really neat and now when I go to the
store and I see beans and like
produce like that in the store, it
reminds me of them and how much passion
they put into what they do but if you
guys are interested in doing a short
homestay experience like I did I'll put
all the information down below so if you
think this is something you're interested in, check that out
I think this is such a good opportunity for
people who are - really anybody - but
for people who are older and didn't get
the chance to do a high school exchange
because I did the two-week high school
exchange in Japan when I was really young -
16 or 17 or so - and when I made the
video about that so many of you guys were
like, "Oh man I wish I had done something
like that when I was younger," but this
gives you the chance to do exactly that
You can have this same experience even
when you're older
If you're here in Japan for a couple
weeks for vacation or something
just sign up for this homestay thing
and you can stay there for a couple days
and get to experience what a real
Japanese family is like. I just think
that's something that will add some
really special memories to a trip.
Most of my best memories of Japan come
from my experiences with Japanese
families. I just have so much fun and
lots of funny things happen too, like
language mistakes and, like, culture shock
related stuff and just lots of memories
that really stuck with me over the years
happened during my high school exchange and
I know I'm never gonna forget this
two-day experience that I had with the
Kauai (?) family they were just very
lovely people and I thank them so much
for inviting me into their home
I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If
you have any more questions, please let
me know. Leave comments down below and I
will try to respond to you. Please give
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YouTube's kind of a mess at the moment
and it helps me out if you guys leave a
like on my videos so thank you so much
and I will see you soon. Bye!
I've listed several websites down below that you
guys can use to plan a trip to Tohoku
I really hope my videos have
encouraged you to want to go out there yourselves. It's
such an amazing place that does not get
enough publicity and I know you guys
would just love it if you went on a trip there
By the way, the high speed shinkansen is
definitely the easiest and most
convenient way to travel up there
there are Akita, Yamagata and Tohoku
shinkansen that offer service to cities
all over northern Japan.