Realizations and excitement!

Today, I finally got to kind of meet my host sister that I'll be with for a little bit! We Skyped which was really fun but really hard at the same time. I've always known that this will be a lot of work and is going to be really hard, but I think it's starting to really hit me just how challenging this journey will be. Yuri, my host sister, would ask me questions in Japanese which I'm sure were probably the simplest of questions but since my Japanese skills are sub-par, they ended up not being very simple questions. Even though I've been studying like nobody's business, I think I'm going to have to study a little bit more. Or a lot. Yeah, a lot. But besides finally being able to grasp just how tough this is going to be, this got me a lot more excited. Now believe me, I've been excited from the very beginning, but this puts my excitement on a whole new level.  It was wonderful seeing where I'm going to be living for a while and who I'm going to be staying with. I was able to say hello to my host mother and she seemed SO sweet. That, that right there, is very comforting. Not only did I get to fake meet some of my host family, but I was able to reply to a couple of questions they asked me. For example, when my host sister asked me what the weather was like, I was able to very confidently reply that it was indeed raining. So, yeah. Pretty dang exciting. Seriously, though. This is really exciting. This is big.