May 16, 2009
A student post: my home stay brother
Hey my name's Fraser and I would like to write about my host brother 他家 (Take).
Take is currently at a cram school out in Ikebukuro. If those reading this don't know what Ikebukuro is it's one center of Tokyo with tons of activities. The train station there is one of the main stations for transfering to other lines so it is a very handy place.
Like some of us though Take dislikes school. He is also 19 and he will turn 20 in October so he is definitely excited about being a full adult.
Since I came to Japan Take has always been nice to me and he has taken me out often. For a example he took me out around the time of my arrival, showed me around Ikebukuro and later we met up with his friends which was an enjoyable evening. Thanks to him I met a lot of new people and I now have a ton of new contacts in Japan. Now I just call up my new friends and go out and do whatever, but I will always try to drag my brother out with me. He was a little shy at the begininng but I could see that was natural because I was the stranger coming into his home to live for maybe the next 2 years.
I am very happy that I was put with my current host family or else I would have never met my new host brother. I have actually never had a brother before and I am happy to call him my brother.
Fraser