Mood: Content
Listening to: Glamorous by Fergie

So I am doing this program called the SHOWA Connection which is when you are paired with 2 or 3 girls who have come from Japan to study in America. The are all English majors, and all girls, and all required to come here for a minimum of 5 months or can stay for the longer term of 15 months. So basically you are hooked up with them and have to hang out 5 times.

The first time you go to there school which is called SHOWA Boston where they feed you breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You play games, learn origami, how to write in Japanese, and even get dressed up in traditional Japanese clothing. It is so much fun and the girls are crazy nice. It is also so funny how much you have in common as well as how incredibly different they are.

Then on the second visit my three girls, Anna, Ayano, and Mayue came to Wentworth and attended class with me. I don't think they enjoyed it that much because it was lecture and I don't think they really understood what we were talking about. But afterwards we took a walk down to a church to help explain to them what we learned in class. Then to lunch at Mass Art and finally to my dorm to meet all my roommates.

Finally, for our third visit we had a blast!!! They came last friday and basically we had a dance party with everything from the Cotton Eyed Joe to Soulja Boy to Hannah Montana to Numa Numa to Japanese Idol. Lets just say it was an interesting night. I think they had fun and they really broke out of their shell and danced too. Props to my suitemates for helping. Then off to dinner at Beatty where we all sat quietly because we were exhausted from dancing for 3 hours. And finally the freezing trek back to the T stop where we had perfect timing and the T pulled up just as we got there.

So far we have one more visit on December 7th which is going to be sad because they will be going back to Japan soon after that. We are going to a Wentworth Hockey game with another SHOWA Connector and his 2 girls. It has been fun and an incredible experience. I truely made 3 new friends and am going to miss them
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