>>Host Family - Take Two<<

I still haven’t been able to secure pictures of the humans that live in my host house – I was more successful with my four legged friends (go figure). Here are pictures of the two cats and the dogs. The cats climb around and enjoy being terrified of me, often darting down the hall as I come by. The dogs mostly bark nonstop in an attempt to elicit sympathy from the humans and gain entrance into kitchen for attention and treats. Every night my host mother has to let Brad Pitt in specially to get his dinner of soft doggy French breads. This of course infuriates Stella and Jiiku who immediately barrel their way towards the sliding glass door. My host mom has to fend them off with a pole screaming “Oide, oide!” as Brad Pitt slowly lumbers his way in. She always starts the routine right as we sit down to dinner, so Brad can lop up his food next to us. This nightly ordeal is always prefaced with, “Brad wa me ga mienai kara” or “Because Brad is blind…”

I’ve also included a picture of my host family’s Sony Vaio desktop computer from hell (make date circa 1995). Man I HATE this computer. The phone above the computer on the wall is a video phone (there are several of these throughout the house). Whenever anyone rings the doorbell or knocks on the door, the previously invisible monitor on the phone illuminates to show you a picture of exactly who’s at the door.

B.E.W.