2014年ようこそ！ Hello Everyone! First of all  明けましておめでとうございます！！！ Happy New Year! It’s been a while since my last post! But it’s already almost been 4 months since I have been here! I really can’t believe it! I had the most amazing New Year’s! Every year I usually just hang out with my friends and welcome the New Year but this year was my first time celebrating with a Japanese family. I did a lot of different things to welcome the New Year with my host family!  First of all to prepare for the New Year, everyone needs food! My host mom took me with her to the early morning fish market.  We woke up unbelievably early... and went by car. When I got there it was freezing cold as well! Who wants to be awake really ea rly and stand in the cold :（　 After getting past the cold I was able to enjoy the fish market. What was even more cool was that one of the Hippo Members husband owned a fish stand. So I was able to talk to him and get a close look at all the fish.  I walked