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Gifts from the host family!

Today I went on my host family visit. I think my expectations were high to begin with, so it was not as much fun as I had anticipated? Unfortunately we went to places that I had already been too, since we like to explore a lot during the weekends...and honestly, we really have nothing better to do here when there is no homework xD

Our first stop was the fish market where we bought things for dinner. I forgot that when you say that you like something, the host family will typically buy it right away. Without even thinking, I stupidly said that I love eel which is really expensive in comparison, and the mother bought some without even thinking twice! It was so nice of her, but I felt really bad about it. We also bought some type of white fish, and tuna for sushi, some random vegetable like thing, and a lot of sweets at some department store. I honestly could not get over the amount of food she was buying for us, since it was only for a day visit.

Afterward, we walked around the Tatemachi shopping area which I had been to the previous weekend. We did manage to find a used bookstore which had a lot of neat graphic items like old magazines etc...but they were so expensive! 20 bucks for a vintage magazine is a bit much D:

Dinner! There was more, but I could not fit it into one photo haha~

Apparently what the host mother bought at the market was not all she was planning on serving. I sat down and saw the items that we hda bought earlier in the day, but then more things kept coming out and everything barely fit on the table. We ended up making our own sushi and I tried a lot of interesting things like nato (which was disgusting btw), some random white fish, raw shrimp, tuna tartar mixture, meat sushi and mini clam miso soup which was delicious!

The mother wants me to teach the daughter about NYC since she is studying abroad there in September. I then proceeded to explain that Rochester is nowhere near NYC and that I really don't know much about the area. Haha we'll see where this goes~