Hey remember two seconds ago when I said it would be silly if it turned out that I actually had a computer at my new host family? No? Well, look down an inch or two then I guess. Yeah, there it is, last sentence of the pre-link post.

well anyway, it's actually sillier than I could have possibly imagined. Instead of having absolutely no computer, this host family has decided to let me borrow one of the laptops and ran a cable into my room so that I can use the internet in here. It's kind of an old computer and I can type faster than the letters appear on the screen, but at least it's a computer.

Anyway, this new host family is pretty nice. I've only got a host dad and mom in this family though, because all their children have already graduated from school and moved to Tokyo. They do, however, have two dogs. There's a middle-sized, old dog that just sort of wanders around doing nothing, and then there's a tiny little dog that's the most hyper little thing ever. At first it seemed pretty cute all jumping up and running around. I was even fine with it scratching at my door because it wanted to be with me, the new addition to the household. However, the cuteness stopped when he started scratching at my door in the middle of the night, waking me up and keeping me from falling back to sleep. The worst part was that he only really understands Japanese. I had no idea what to say in Japanese to get the dog to finally stop, so I just resorted to saying "Dangiiiiit leeeeeaaaaavveeeeee", and hoped he would catch on and quit.

The change of house also means that I have to take a different bus home now. The bus is called the "Shimabara line" (remember the castle?) which I thought was just a coincidence, but after talking to some of the people on the bus, it turns out that they actually do live near Shimabara, some even on Unzen, the mountain nearby. That's a long way to come for school every day. Like an hour and a half for the bus ride each way. I think. Thankfully for me it's only like ten, fifteen minutes.