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My host university in Nisshin offers a home stay opportunity for either one day or one night. Mine is scheduled for tomorrow aka six hours from now. When visiting a Japanese person's home it is customary to bring a small gift or food that the family can share. So I got the bright idea to make a cake, but that was before I remembered that I can't bake. I had a box of instant brownie mix and I figured that I would make a cake out of it. But then I decided to make icing, and cookies in case the cake failed, but I didn't have enough powdered sugar or eggs. So I ended up with a burnt cake, weird cookies and non-whipped icing because I don't have a mixer and I couldn't do it by hand.

Lesson learned: Never start baking without proper ingredients or better yet just don't bake. So in the end I woke up early and ran to the store and bought fruit and chocolate to make a fruit basket with. :(