Mr. Kishi is 37 years old and works in Toyko as a electrical maintenance engineer. He is very friendly and really funny. He always wore sandals and smoked Hope cigarettes and carried a gold ashtray thing around his neck. He told us in sign language/charades that he got his jewelry from a gum ball machine it was pretty funny ( you had to be there)		Takafumi is 8 years old and alot of fun, he was so good my mom wanted to keep him. He likes to collect bugs and is a great little soccer player. He is the coolest 8 year old I know. He has a cell phone that you can see and send pictures over the internet with and and a wrist watch that plays cool video games.

That's Karumi on the left, she is 4 years old and very cute. Her mom's name is Yoshiko, she is only as tall as me. Mrs Kishi took really good care of me while I was in Japan, she is a nice mom. Karumi was tired alot and her mom had to carry her around everywhere. When she would cry her dad would made fun of her crying by rubbing his eyes and making a sad face. Mrs. Kishi liked our pancakes so much, she bought a box to take home with her. She also really liked our dishwasher, she never saw one before, Her and Mr Kishi looked all around inside it.

	And this is Kotaro and me. he is the same age as I am (12). Even though I can't speak Japanese and he can't speak English, we can talk to each other, I don't know how, but we do. We are best friends and are like brothers. I miss him.