Gouvernour Meeting and Half Personal Day

Goodevening everyone. It is twelve minutes past 2 right now. I am really tired and tomorrow will be a long and tough day since I will leave the Hanawa family and head for the second city of the second session; Toride. Today I am on the half of my stay in Japan. Time flies when you have fun. Just phoned my family in Holland, cause it was my little brother's 5th birthday. Really miss them, but I realize I see them in a couple of weeks. Just 4 weeks. Time flies, man, time flies.

Today we went to meet the gouvernour of the Ibaraki prefecture. Okaasan and I left home during rush hour, so we were late. I had to change into my formal outfit today, because it was really a formal meeting. So we went to the Ibaraki's prefecture office, a huge building you can see from far away in Mitoshi. The meeting was very nice. The gouvernour is a nice guy, but I do not agree with him on one point. He said that Ibaraki is famous for it's nature and that they stimulate science by building facilities for experiments and research. They cutted down forests to make that happen. So my question was: what is more important for Ibaraki, science or nature. He said there is a balance between science and nature in Ibaraki. I personnaly think you can not think in terms of balance considering nature. Because nature is not measurable. Also science is not measurable. So that was really a stupid answer from the gouvernour, in my opinion. But I did not say anything because we were overtime.

Fly in suit, Jake (USA)

Me and Kevin (USA)

Highest floor

View over Mitoshi, highest floor

Then we saw a introduction movie about the festivals in Ibaraki and we got a tour through the huge building.

After that, we had our half personal day. I did not bring any other clothes but my formal suit, so I wore it all the bloody hot day. First I chilled with Kevin (USA) and then Chong (China), Shin (Korea), Takashi (USA) and I went to the park we went before this week, Kairakuen. There we had some beers and talk about everything imaginable. About cultural differences and Guus Hiddink in Korea, irrigation of the Dutch agriculture and buildings in Hong Kong and Beijing. Really interesting and had a lot of fun too!

Fun at the Kairakuen!

The boys

Big guys

Then we when to karaoke, were we met all the other WCI members. We karaoke-d for 4 hours (which was really fun!) and then headed home. I was home at 10 o'clock ;)

Chong (China) , Shin (Korea)

My host mom gave me this game for the PSP, I wanted it a lot, And finally mom bought it for me. WOW!

I am sorry for the short blog, but I have to pack. I will leave Mitoshi in 4 and a half hours. So in that time I need sleep and do some other stuff. Sorry! I see ya later! And I hope I have internet in Toride.. That would be nice. If I don't update my blog in 3 days, I probably don't have internet access. So, bye bye for now!