This week school was still pretty uneventful, fun, but nothing to really write about specifically. Friday night I rode the subway to my host brother Darren's school. His school's "Rock Club" was having a concert. I didn't really know what to expect, back home whenever teens had a concert it was for a talent show and it was usually low budget and not too special. Here, club concerts are a major production. They had a full stage with huge amps and speakers, fog machines, and lights. The kids are all amazing at their instruments because they spend hours a day practicing and rehearsing so it made for a really good show.
Saturday I spent mostly lounging around the house reading and sleeping. I was pretty sure I was gonna not leave the house for the whole day for the first time but my host family decided to go out to dinner. We went to a U.S. style burger restaurant. After staring at my menu for a few minutes and having my host brother attempt to translate it the waiter brought over an English menu with a big smile on his face. The food was really similar to the U.S. but a little different. They put eggs on all of their burgers which I had never had but it was actually pretty good. Then me and my host mom went to a nearby night market, but it was way too crowded to move much less shop for anything so we just headed home.
Today I went to Neidon forest with my host family and my third host family and another exchange student, Austin. We walked through the forest taking pictures of waterfalls for a while. The waterfalls were beautiful and the scenery was very green and I'm pretty sure it was the most wide open space I've seen for the last three weeks. After that we went to the restaurant that my second host family owns, I feasted on bamboo rice, plain bamboo, veggies and something new, ostrich meat. Ostrich is delicious, its very tender and it tastes somewhere between beef and chicken I would say so if you ever get the chance to try some, do it. Well that's about all for this week--I've added some pictures to Facebook you can click the link on the right to view them!
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