Home Stay

It was beautiful. Styled like the buildings in his movies, and lots of plants and water pumps and old fashioned steam-punk things around… Just gorgeous. I wasn’t really allowed to take pictures inside, but I did take a lot outside and I get some video footage of inside at certain places. We all walked around and I was having a fit over just how beautiful everything was.

Then we went to the showing of Hoshi wo Katta Hi (”The Day I Harvested a Planet”), one of Miyazaki’s short films. From the posters I saw outside the theater, I noticed that the main character looked a lot like Howl when he was a young boy, so I was immediately attracted to this movie. But then it started, and it was so good and the soundtrack was so amazingly beautiful that I just fell in love.

As I walked around the gift shop, I was sad that there wasn’t really much Howl’s Moving Castle stuff (it’s my favorite book and the movie adaptation is also a favorite). I got to the section where they had like silverware and glass things… I saw a silver ring with red jewels and I just froze. Engraved on the inside was “Howl & Sophie”. My heart melted instantly and I asked to have a look at it to see if it would fit (since most of the time, rings are way too big for me), and it fit perfectly. I stood there for five minutes staring at the ring, then my host dad came over to ask what was up. I told him that I wanted the ring so bad, and that it was about $127. He talked to the cashier and told me that this was the only store you could get the ring at.

And as I looked at the names in the ring once more, I said, “I’ll buy it.”

After going to the register and getting everything wrapped up, we found out that I had just bought the last ring and they were now sold out. *___*

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Trying to prepare for the worst before I leave for Florence! Maybe you can help?

5 MORE WEEKS!!!

For those of you who are studying abroad, maybe you will have better luck than I had using these free and awesome homestay resources:

http://homestayfinder.com/
http://homestayweb.com/

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We have 3 rooms and 2 toilets, we can share 1 bedroom and 1 toilet for you for free, all you have to pay only 8 dollars/day for electric and water price.

Our family have 4 people, 2 are our kids, we hope you’ll loke them and if not, there’s no problem because they will be at school during daytime.

You can use our bicycle to buy food at the local market nearby, our house is quiet and peaceful, we usually play relaxing music when we are working
Recommend – There’s no pick up service.
- Our House is about 300 metres from the main road, not far from the city,
you can use our bicycle to take a tour (free bicycle )
- There’s many books for you, if you’re interested in reading.
- And free internet.
- You can help us to clean the house or wash the dish.
- Sometime in the evening, we’ll cook the local food, if you interest you can help us to cook and taste.
- We prefer you a place to stay for 8$/day at our house!
Contact Telephone: 053-408771
Fax: 053-408771
Hot line: 089-1827257
Address 4/42 Chotana Road, Soi 12, Chang Puek, Mueng Chiang Mai THAILAND 50300
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Open Chiang Mai is a small office open their doors to visitors wherever you are from to stay and learn the real life of locals.

Notice;
- There’s no pick up service.
- Our House is about 300 metres from the main road, not far from the city, you can use our bicycle to take a tour (free bicycle )
- There’s many books for you, if you’re interested in reading.
- And free internet.
- You can help us to clean the house or wash the dish.
- Sometime in the evening, we’ll cook the local food, if you interest you can help us to cook and taste.
- We prefer you a place to stay for 8$/day at our house!

Address : 4/42 Chotana Road, Soi 12, Chang Puek, Mueng Chiang Mai THAILAND 50300
Tel/Fax : 053-408771
Mobile/Hotline : 089-1827257 (Tong – English Speaking), 089-46633448 (Jane – Thai Speaking)
Email : open@openchiangmai.com

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http://carrieandjonathan.com/cajamarca-peru-was-caxamarca-other-lessons-learned-at-the-sillas-de-los-incas/

Casa De Mirita is not a hotel or apartment, but rather an opportunity to stay with a family in Cajamarca, Peru. We enjoyed our two nights here with Vicky, Mirita, and Vicky’s daughter Dianna.

If you are looking for an apartment or hotel during your stay in Cajamarca, why not live with a family instead and experience Peru as Peruvians experience Cajamarca, Peru?

Learn more about the Casa De Mirita at:

http://carrieandjonathan.com/cajamarca-peru-was-caxamarca-other-lessons-learned-at-the-sillas-de-los-incas/

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I went to Japan through YFU on the summer of 2008 and here are some suggestions or some things to expect if you want to study abroad and homestay in Japan as well. I’ve also been to Japan two other times and have had many Japanese exchange brothers and sisters who lived with my family as well, so I at least know a little something of what I’m talking about. XD

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At the Haruno residence. My host sister, Ayano-chan, and I chillin at 1 am…doing /helping out with Japanese School ENGLISH homework. INTENSE. Enjoy!

Cheers, Shans

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So we went out ot eat Yakitori one night and I gave Izumi the camera. And then they wanted me to pose for the picture…haha

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Edit: Friggin’ YouTube. I spent 3 hours uploading this video to find that it once again cut it to like 4:42 when my video was barely 10 minutes long. In order to reupload, I had to crapify the quality because my SUPER HIGH QUALITY IPHONE VIDEO is too much for YouTube to handle .__.

Documenting when my host family took me to Kamogawa! It was a little over a two hour drive from where we live, but it wasn’t so bad because of the beautiful scenery and the fact that we drove across a really long bridge from one side of the bay to the other, and that there never seems to be anyone on the freeway around here. Being from Los Angeles, that is amazing to me.

If you haven’t noticed yet, I bore easily and decided to color-code the subtitles.
Me – black
Youko – pink
Tomo – dark blue
Touse – light blue
Ryouei – green

And I know, I know. I filmed a lot of TV in this one. But some of the stuff we were watching was too hilarious to pass up. Samurai Sentai Shinkenger is actually really hilarious… And it must cost so much for them to make that show. It’s all high quality fighting sequences, effects… Lolz. Wish they had that kinda money for the live action Sailor Moon.

I didn’t get to film all the sea creatures I wanted to because my feeble iPhone battery couldn’t handle me constantly filming. But I got the best stuff, so it’s okay.

Enjoy!

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My older host brother from the Makki family. There’s two takes, included both just for kicks and giggles. He was really cool and really nice =]

In the second take you can see my younger host brother Yoshinori. He was SO GENEROUS to share his room with me for three months, so ultimate thanks to him!

I also had a host sister, but she is not in the video! She was also very cool =]

Basically what he says is that he’s a 2nd year student in college, I’m doing a homestay program with them, and it’s his YouTube debut. Oh, and that he lives in Osaka.

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Phone battery was a little low so I didn’t film as much as I wanted to. 8D Ohwell~ It was lots of fun.

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