This is the welcome sign they made for me when we first met at the airport!!
This is my room. It is actually the oldest child (Mitsuru who is now in America through YFU).
The tatami rooms are connected. In Japan, there is no vents in every room like in America for air conditioning (same thing in Korea). There is like a airconditioner machine. In Osaka especially, it is really hot, so we all sleep in one room.
The Shinohara family has four children, so if you can see, the tatami doors got ripped, lol cute.
To be honest, I prefer sleeping in a tatami room (on the floor) than on a bed.
This is the living room. Everywhere is wooden floors, no carpet.
This is the bathroom without the toilet (toilet is in separte room) with the laundry room and shower/bath room that is connected. (yer saying "HUH?!) haha
This is a Japanese style shower. The rectangle shaped with buttons on the right corner above the bath, that is to turn on the sink and bath water for it to be hot. If you don't turn it on, then you will be showering in cold water. Yeah, I didn't know until two times after I showered in cold water. First week, I showered after the family at night time.. so they left the button on. Then I got lazy and showered in the morning, so (obviously they turned it off), I was thinking "maybe only hot water is available at night" LOL!... So finally I asked and I had to press that button, hahaha.
In the middle there are two silver handles. The left one is to control the temperture. 40 C is JUST perfect.. but I go really high (45 C). The right one is if you turn it all the way the the left then water wil come out through the shower, but if you turn it all the way to the right, water comes out underneath it. In Japanese baths, there are mirrors EVERYWHERE!
Btw, you sit on the pink stool and shower.
I think it is more easier to shower than standing up.
This is what a Japanese washer machine looks like.
It is actually very easy to perform.
Japanese people dries their clothes outside.
The thing that is so great about this machine, is that it soaks out literally ALL the water out from the clothes.. so when you put it out to dry outside, it dries in no time!
But if I did that at home.. It takes like 1 and half days to dry!!!
As you can tell, the tub is VERY small.
My family uses the washer machine A LOT. Because there are a lot of clothes due to the number of people in this family.
Part 2 will be uploading sooooooooooooooooooon.
As you can tell. There are two uniforms in Matsubara High School. 
Matsubara High only has chalkboards, its actually not that bad, and they have this chalkboard eraser machine, so it erases the board really well. I`ll have to take a picture of it sometime.
Above is my winter uniform.. I will take a pic of myself when the time comes, rofl.
Some stuff i bought. Up top is my school bag I bought at Loft (6th floor of Hoop department @ Tennoji Station). I love the bag!!!!!! I have the black puma bag... but its really big. So this medium-size brown bag is just perfect for school! It was 60 bucks XD.
As you can tell, the drive through the mountain is spontaneous.
IT IS SO MOUNTAINOUS!!!
What some Japanese houses looks like in the mountains..
Vehicle garage.. I was surprise that this one was so big, but probably because it is in the mountain, and there is more space..
Another view from inside of the car!
Just look how clear the water is.. no, I didn`t drink it.
I should have tried tho. lol
This is what the inside of the cabin looks like.
KANOKA`S POSE! w/ me in the background lol.
The steps to go down to the river.
With Host parents... rofl. 
This cliff is 5 meters high!! I don:t know how high it is in feet. But.. It was pretty high. It was my first time jumping off a cliff. I was a bit shaken at first.. but i did it anyways.
At first it feels like you are dying(?)... Like you are falling into a hole... and then as you hit the water, it feels sooooo good. But then, you are really deep in the water, and you are trying to grasp for air, so you are paddling really hard to reach the surface of the water.
Yeah I did it like 5 times. lol.
