26 June 94 Sunday "day" day ~3:30 pm there's a garbage or recycling (I think it's recycling) truck driving around playing a really awful announcement -- it sounds like a really robotic voice. I think it was probably calling people to bring their glass and newspapers out. Uck, I don't feel so well - I think it may be the food ... one moment. Better now. Anyway, we went to an elementary school yesterday -- just down the road from here, so I walked. The elementary school is 1st - 6th grade and boy were they ready for us. Each grade did a little performance for us -- 1st grade - danced to music, 2nd grade sang a song about birthdays, 3rd grade danced, 4th grade played "edelweiss" on recorders, 5th grade also played recorders and sang, and 6th grade acted out holidays throughout the year. (Mrs. Terai is playing koto now or something) We sang part of "It's a Small World" and got to introduce ourselves (again - and we'll be doing this til the end of our stay I think.) Then we split up w/ the classes. I got 3rd grade 3rd class along w/ a guy named Alan. We played a game called Fruit Basket -- I was a ringo [cherry [?]] - and then they asked questions we really couldn't answer, because really noone knows English well around here (even our teachers, somewhat unfortunately) Last night we had a welcome party.