Hospitality is the norm throughout Japan

The other day our class wondered into this temple area with grave sites everywhere and this lady came out and i was like Oh my god we just came into her backyard taking pictures how rude i feel so awkward!... she talked to Gary and he told us she said it was ok to look around. the grave sites here are so cool to look at no joke. I guess the lady gave us all these gift boxes made of origami paper, they are really pretty. hehe. so nice of her. today allison catherine jordan and I met this nice man on the bus stop who thought we didnt know our way home. he got on the bus with us wrote directions for us to get home, even tho we know how, and got off with us and pointed. jordan darted off to skype with his folks, and catherine went home. he was telling us that he was glad to meet us and that we were welcome to his home because he has 3 sons all moved out and he and his wife would like guests. so we said ok, and he said i will show you. omg soo freaky at first then we realized we are in japan and he doesnt seem like a creep plus hes old so no big. we followed him we talked about our hobbies i said music, and he plays igo. dunno what that is. you could see the mountains from the walk to his house. and he showed us where horses were. he said horses if you like. he also made sure to let us know not to walk there alone at night. we passed a dentist office and a greenhouse. we had soo much fun communicating and both kept saying that. he kept showing us that there were other ways to get there. he would pt to a road and say this way ok, and move along. hehe cute. and he showed us that we could get to his house from the back, this way ok, but let me show you, and i said "the formal way?" he said yes, i will show you. so he did, cute house long driveway it starts off a one story and goes down with the hill. he said they had to rebuild because it had been attacked by termites, he didnt know how to say termites. i said o termites, they eat houses? he said yes. also they call greenhouses temperature something. then he even walked us home and took us by the shrine that our class has been to. the one with the playground where i had the swing battle with sam. and he took us home that way this time. he gave us his email and i said i liked the houses here they are cute. he said nickname is rabbit house. because they are so small. tehehe. and then he offered to lend his bike to us if we have difficulties. i dunno what difficulties are but it was nice. and he said o i forgot introduce myself my name seki nagazami. and we introduced i said family name rutherford and then we ended up spelling it and i said call me candees. and he said candees easy to remember, and pointed to his head. hehehee so cute. he left and told us to email anytime. loved it. ok now i go to bed we have a field trip tomoro.
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