Home Stay Hello Everyone, I want to take some time and talk about my home stay experience. First of all, my time at LEX is not my first time coming to Japan. I may have stated it previous before in older post, but just in case I didn't or maybe you forgot, I have studied in Japan at two different universities. During those stays I lived in the university dormitories and I lived alone. Therefore, coming to Japan through Hippo has been a very interesting and fun experience. Coming through Hippo I got the chance to live with 3 different Japanese host families. At first I was very anxious and worried about living with a family. After all I do not live with my own family in the U.S. so going back to a family setting was troublesome, I thought. But OH, I was wrong. I lived in three different areas of Japan. The first place I lived was in Omiya, Saitama. It was a family made of 5 people. "Dad" "Mom" and three brothers. Of course I did not call them Mom or Dad,

Yearlong Preparation Camp (Ali) Yearlong Preparation Camp        This last week we has a week long camp for the students going to America (and one student going to Canada). It was really nice to get to know the students and spend time together. During the mornings and afternoons we had classes, essay writing, presentations, American culture, and US History. All of them were taught in English to get the students ready for school. I spent the mornings teaching US History. It has been so long since I've taught!         Every year the students going to the States struggle in their History class (which is understandable because American students also struggle). So I designed the history class to give them a basic understanding of early American history. This way when they first start school in America  understanding the lectures from their teachers would not be so overwhelming. Our first day together was spent learning about the First Americans. About their travel acros