Serial Killers and A Bus full of Japanese Tourists

So on Friday, my host sister, Shiori and host mom left for Yokohama. Shiori took her university entrance exam on Saturday morning... she said it was really difficult. We'll find out this Thursday if she passed, so we're all on pins and needles.
On Friday, Otousan and I went out for Korean BBQ. IT was so adorable because my host mom is so picky about his diet. And he was like "We're gonna eat so much tonight, but don't tell Okaasan!!!" It was sooooo delicious; I love me some Korean BBQ.
Saturday morning, I had kendo. Then Addison and Max and Laurent and I saw a band concert at school; it was actually really, really good. Then we went downtown to see the movie "Disturbia." It was okay; it's about a serial killer, but it's exactly like the Alfred Hitchcock film "Rear Window."
Laurent has a new host family now, which is good. He really likes his new host family, and they don't speak English, which is good. That was a real problem with his first host family. Anyway, we took the train to his house and spent the whole night watching stuff on Youtube on using messenger to talk to our respective friends in Belgium and the USA. Then we had to wake madd early this morning because we went hiking. It turned out to be one those stereotypical Japanese bus tour things. So we boarded our little Japanese bus and went on our little highway to our little park, where we stopped every fifteen minutes for a break because there were so many obaasans and ojiisans (old people.) It was really beautiful; it was hike through green tea fields and mountains and things like that. It was really fun; Laurent and I did a lot reflecting over our past three months here, about our friends, culture, language, life in general. He said my French has gotten a lot better in the past three months; that made me happy! Yay! Then we went to a temple. THere was a Daibutsu (huge statue of the Buddha). And then a fish market. Yes, I also don't know how hiking, a temple, and a fish market are connected in the minds of Japanese tour operators. But it was really fun!
Now that it's fall, we eat a lot of stuff from the onabe. Onabe means pot. So you have the pot in the middle of the table and put meat and vegetables and broth into it and its soooo delicious. Then after its all done you put rice and egg into the broth and eat the rice. IT's soooo good and typical autumn food.
Ah I'm so exhausted tomorrow and I don't wanna go to school. Tuesday I have to go to Kakegawa for some Rotary thing; Thursday is my interview with a Columbia alum in Nagoya; and then next week (this is like the 234th time ive said this) is Kyoto, Nara, and Hiroshima. I'm deliriously excited.