Oh my goodness, Okaa-san has prepared a

feast for us. Look at this! From the morning. This is insane.

It smells so good

Ah yes! It's the soup from yesterday, I wanted to eat that again.

So we ate these yesterday but they had put them

in dry ice and it removed like the

bitterness but they want me to try like

the fresh ones so that I could see what it

actually tastes like

What? That's so weird

I don't think you're meant to eat this

Oh! "Pasty". You call it "pasty". It makes your

mouth really dry and pasty and it like

sticks together.

So it'll take two weeks for them to dry

Unfortunately we won't be here to eat them

We'll have to come back

After we finished preparing the fruit Okaa-san

taught me some Japanese that is only

used in her area of Japan. It is really

interesting so I hope you guys enjoy

that video. It will be out in a couple

days so keep an eye out for it.

I'm back at home now. I thought I would wrap up this video with

my final thoughts of my two day homestay

experience. In two words: freaking awesome! I had

such a good time

What a sweet family. Everybody there was

so nice. I didn't really show it in the

video but their daughter came home

during dinner and she was also super

lovely and just the way they all

welcomed us into their home and made it

feel like we were part of the family was

so nice and she taught us some of her

family recipes, so I learned some things that I

could take home with me and use myself

Not to mention all the really cool farm

activities that I got to do that I've

never done before. It was really

eye-opening to see all the work that

they put into harvesting their, um, what are they

called in English? I think they're called

like "lima beans" that could be right. The

really big "Soramame" (what they're called

in Japanese). But just to see all the work

and love that they put into their job

was really neat and now when I go to the

store and I see beans and like

produce like that in the store, it

reminds me of them and how much passion

they put into what they do but if you

guys are interested in doing a short

homestay experience like I did I'll put

all the information down below so if you

think this is something you're interested in, check that out

I think this is such a good opportunity for

people who are - really anybody - but

for people who are older and didn't get

the chance to do a high school exchange

because I did the two-week high school

exchange in Japan when I was really young -

16 or 17 or so - and when I made the

video about that so many of you guys were

like, "Oh man I wish I had done something

like that when I was younger," but this

gives you the chance to do exactly that

You can have this same experience even

when you're older

If you're here in Japan for a couple

weeks for vacation or something

just sign up for this homestay thing

and you can stay there for a couple days

and get to experience what a real

Japanese family is like. I just think

that's something that will add some

really special memories to a trip.

Most of my best memories of Japan come

from my experiences with Japanese

families. I just have so much fun and

lots of funny things happen too, like

language mistakes and, like, culture shock

related stuff and just lots of memories

that really stuck with me over the years

happened during my high school exchange and

I know I'm never gonna forget this

two-day experience that I had with the

Kauai (?) family they were just very

lovely people and I thank them so much

for inviting me into their home

I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If

you have any more questions, please let

me know. Leave comments down below and I

will try to respond to you. Please give

this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it

YouTube's kind of a mess at the moment

and it helps me out if you guys leave a

like on my videos so thank you so much

and I will see you soon. Bye!

I've listed several websites down below that you

guys can use to plan a trip to Tohoku

I really hope my videos have

encouraged you to want to go out there yourselves. It's

such an amazing place that does not get

enough publicity and I know you guys

would just love it if you went on a trip there

By the way, the high speed shinkansen is

definitely the easiest and most

convenient way to travel up there

there are Akita, Yamagata and Tohoku

shinkansen that offer service to cities

all over northern Japan.