I woke up bright and early today in order to the the J-CAT (Japanese placement) test, which I scored lower than I expected on.  Apparently my knowledge of such useful verbs as funneling, stacking and praying was not up par.  Afterwards I had a short orientation session before meeting with Waseda students before dinner.  I found out that a snowboard club takes two trips a year and I'm very excited to go show them what American riding is all about.

For dinner we ate as a group at a Japanese Italian restaurant.  I ordered two entrees and about halfway through it began to look like a bad idea.  However, I was able to power through and downed the both of them.  My favorite part of the restaurant was an all you can drink soda machine with such flavors as a creamy melon soda, white grape, C.C. Lemon and Pepsi.  If only they had these in America.

After dinner I got my host family sheet and am very excited to meet them tomorrow.  I was told I was lucky to have gotten placed with them.

Thanks for all the prayers, I love you all!