Feb. 8th

So recently Mcdonald's has been having a promotion where every month they have a different burger themed after a different state from the US. Last month was the Texas burger, and this month is the IDAHO burger!! Of course I just HAD to try one, lol. It was pretty good :). It was a large (by Japanese standards) hamburger patty with cheese, bacon, onions, bbq sauce, mustard, and of course, a hashbrown patty! Even way over here in Japan, Idaho is famous for its potatoes, lolol. Braden and I have been trying to be thrifty so we haven't been to McDonalds in a long time, it was a nice little treat to go there yesterday. After dinner we went to the birthday party of Miyara Kun, the Japanese student who lives with the exchange students and helps them out with stuff when they need Japanese help. He's super nice and helpful so everyone decided to throw a surprise party for him. We decorated the lounge and everyone brought snacks, and then one of the German girls called him while he was at the campus and told him she needed help translating something, and when he came we all yelled surprise and sang Happy Birthday. He seemed really surprised and happy, and we had a lot of fun talking and chatting and playing with Zabine's Kendama (a Japanese toy which has a ball on a rope attached to a wooden handle, and you try and catch the ball with the scoops and peg on the handle.) After that some of us, including Braden and I, went and sang Karaoke. It was tons of fun :D. Here's a pic of all of exchange students:

This photo was taken last sunday, and almost all the exchange students are in it. Braden and I almost missed it, cause we weren't told about it till just before everyone got together for it and we were just about to leave to accompany the missionaries on a visit. (Which was a fun visit. We visited a Japanese man who had lived in Argentina for a long time and he was fluent in Spanish, so I got a chance to meet him and talk to him in Spanish for a while :). ) Anywho, its been a fun week, and the weather has warmed up a bit, which is nice. Hopefully it'll stay that way for a little while at least ;P.