Sunday and Monday 20th and 21st- getting to my next host family

Hi all! Sunday was a very interesting day.
Yokotasan, the lady who had taken me out to sushi, picked me up at 9:15 in the morning to go to her church. I have been having a slight prolem i my baggge. Besides the act hat it is way heavy, becuase it was left in the heat, and made in china, all of the plastic in the indside fell out I didn't think it was that big of a proble until, becuaseit was lacking support, the wheels got jacked up, and now I couldn't pull it. Try carrying a 50 pund bag, and a 25 pound backpack around. Not fun, especailly up all those stairs at the station. I did drag it some, but then it started whereing out the suitcase and making holes. So my suitcase was falling apart.
Back to where we were before, she picked me up and some other women from a nursing home and we went to church. The congragation is about 30 people. All old people except for maybe like 2 people in their 30's or 40's. It was in Japanese, so I didn't understand much, but she wrote sticky notes about what he was saying. It was about Jesus multiplying the loaves. After the service she took me to her house. She is probably one of thenicest people I have ever met. First off, unlike in America it is not as common in Japan to take people to your house. Main reason for this is that their houses are usually super crammed apartments. Hers wasn't, but still. Then she called my next host family and got their address, so that she could ship my bag to their house. Otherwise I would have had to take i with me tHimeji and then to my host families house from there , and all this during rush hour, when the trains are very full. In Japan there is a service thatdoes that, you can ship your bags to prety much anywhere. It is not the mail, it is something diffrent. I had considered using it when mom and I were in Japan, but I didn't becuase our bags werent that big. On top of that she paid for it and fed me lunch. But I think the nicest thing that she did, was give me a new suitcase! She has traveled a lot in the past, so she had a big suitcase. She doesn't travel anymore, so She gave it to me. Then she dropped me off at the station that heads to Himeji. She was very very kind.
On the way to Himeji I got off at the wrong station. Himeji-bassho, not Himeji. Dumb mistake. Then i had to wait forever for the next train, becuase it was a very small station. I met Tomoko, and we hung out for about 3 hours.
Then at 5 I took a train to the town of Hirakata. I got there at about 7:15. I had to call the family and ask them to pick me up. Their english isn't the greatest, so that was fun. Wen I got here they were having dinner. They have 4 WWHOOFers right now. 2 girls from Tiawan who will be leaving in a few days, a lady who is Japanese, and an American guy in his 30's. They also have a lot of workers who come in off and on, so two of them there that night. Hopefully I will actually end up taking pictures when i am here, becuase Kamitakesan takes pictures of everything!!!
     Today, Monday we started work at 8:30. Iya from Japan, Todd from America, Kamitakesan, two workers and myself. Frist we went and picked spinach and some other lettuces and stuff at one plot of land. Then we went to another spot and fed the chickens and collected eggs.There is also a huge pile of decomposing horse manure there, and we had to scoop  whole bunch of that into buckets.
Todd cooked lunch. Then we headed back to work. We went to the forest in another spot and we packed wood into the back of the truck. Some of it was smaller wood and others big chunks of logs. We brought that back and then returned. We climbed up the side of this mountain and cut down some of the trees and threw the pieces of wood down the  mountain. We did this in different spots maybe three times. Then we would bring it back and Kamitakesan would cut it smaller and we would stack it all up.
My favorite part of the day? Riding in the bad of the truck. The truck only has two seats inside. And beleive me there is NOT room for another person in there!
So, us extra people had to ride in the back. I would stand up and hold onto the back of the cab. The roads in this area are TINY! They are smaller then one of our lanes in America, and there are NOT one way streets, they are both way. And they drive crazy.
I was comparing this experince to our church camping trip, wehn Dave drove us down to the river. Well, I totally undertand his driving habits now.aka: driving really fast around curves, no slowing down. So all you people who got to have fun ont that trip, imagine that only on a tiny raod with LOTS of curves and hills. So I don't wanna hear any complaining from any of yu! thats from P90X.
Well, I loved it!
Now it is 5 in the evening. I will write a little bit about what the place is like: First off all of the bedrooms for WWHOOFers are seperate from the house. You have to walk up these REALLY steep metal stairs to get to them. Mom, they are like the stairs at our first hostel, only steeper. Ther are four bedrooms, no shoes allowed, that each have a different picture of a flower on the door. I'm in the sunflower room! I sleep on a futon on the ground. The bathroom is down stairs, outside. It doesn't have any running water. You have to fill a bucket froma sink outside put some disinfectint stuff in it, and then pour it in the back of the toilet. You don't have to do this every time though, just about evry 5 or 6 times. And then you have to wash your hands in a sink outside.
There is a kitchen and, shower and laundry room adjesant the house that all of the workers and WWHOOFers use.

Um... I think that's it for today!