{"id":1151,"date":"2016-06-14T00:15:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T00:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2016-06-17T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:25:08","slug":"blog-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/2016\/06\/14\/blog-12\/","title":{"rendered":"My host family in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"on-way-to-shrine\"<\/a>There are no words to describe my experience with my host family. It was more than I was expecting. When I first met my host father, he was dressed casually wearing a cap. He had a bag full of trash because he goes around picking up trash off the streets. On the way to his house, we took a detour to a local shrine. He mentions that the area looks gorgeous in the springtime.<\/p>\n

When we arrived at his house, it was a pretty common Japanese house. I met his wife and daughter, who prepared a delicious dinner and breakfast. I later found out that he is very talented. He is a artist and a musician. He was very insightful and humble. I plan on writing him monthly to see how he is doing. I had never seen the inside of a family house in Japan. It was quite the experience.<\/p>\n

\"walking-near-shrine\"<\/a>I enjoyed my first karaoke party. Just seeing everyone having a good time really made my night. Although I wasn\u2019t in the mix of all the singing, I still had a great time seeing others sing. I actually prefer the way Japanese interact with one another during karaoke versus anything we do here in America. Coming together singing your favorite songs really brings people closer together. I admire that.<\/p>\n

The photos here are at\u00a0the entrance to the shrine. My host father told me this was a very popular spot for people to get married. Ironically, when we left this shrine there was a wedding ceremony that was taking place at this very same spot. I would have love to take a photo of the wedding, but ran out of storage space. Nevertheless, this is a lovely photo that I wanted to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are no words to describe my experience with my host family. It was more than I was expecting. When I first met my host father, he was dressed casually wearing a cap. He had a bag full of trash because he goes around picking up trash off the streets. On the way to his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/adventures-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}