#10 What are some items which I would bring to my host family'n'friends?

I would bring Pictures, Postcards, Print-Club Picture(Purikura), and a book which tells about Japanese customs or what we do.

I chose Pictures, because it's the best way to show what we usually do in Japan. To see something is easier to understand than reading or listening. So, I prefer Pictures.

Postcards has the same reason as the pictures. The difference is that postcards could show the things which I can't take with my camera. There are lots of interesting postcards recently like sumo, traditional Japanese pictures(Ukioe or Ukiyoe) and such...

Prikura is one of Japanese culture I guess, even though some other country has one. The quality could be different. When I brought the pictures of prikura to the US, my friends there or host family said it's interesting because they didn't have exactly the same machine like Japan.

Finally, the book I picked above would help a lot when we go abroad. It would help when we explain something. That's why I chose the book. Also, it'll help when we explain about our language, Japanese if the book has both English and Japanese.

Pic. from→http://image-search.yahoo.co.jp/search?p=postcard+katsushika&ei=