Ghibli Museum with host family, pics and engraved Howl’s Moving Castle ring
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by admin
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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Homestay in Petaluma and Sightseeing in San Francisco in January 2007.
More Matsuri Clips — I apologize in advance for the cussing, I was just too excited to speak ENGLISH.. HAHA
I’ve come to japan using LanguBridge and wanted to show other’s my experience with them!
My name is Miyuki and I am exchange student from Japan. I hope someone will watch my video. (^-^)
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
This is a short clip from my Japanese homestay in 2007. The family I stayed with were great.. and really funny.. 
At the Haruno residence. 
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
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 .__.