Sometime after breakfast, me and Otoosan went for a run next to the river! It was raining a bit, and VERY windy, but running next to the river was SUCH a good feeling. We talked a little, too. In the morning, the river is congested with joggers. I hope I can get up in the mornings to run on my own. Since I don't have a lot of my running clothes, I ran in jeans, so I must of looked a bit odd.
Sometime after that, we had lunch which was "tuki-soba" (付きそば）, probably called that because it is soba that you add other stuff to? Everyone gets a tiny bowl of a soy sauce, dashi, water mixture. You add spring onion, some other herb, and wasabi, then add from the communial soba bowl + black seasame seeds and slurp away! They encouraged me to slurp because, rather than being seen as rude, it is a sign of enjoyment. Heeh! I was more than happy to slurp away. After lunch, I reminded Okaasan about getting my Alien Registration card. For any longer than 90 days, you need one of these to stay in Japan. Once I have one, I can stop carrying around my passport.
After showering, I met Kyle at Tsunashima station. Kyle helped me buy a Pasmo card for tomorrow, since I'm going to have to commute to school on my own (scary!!!). Afterwards, we walked around for a bit to check out the area. There are many many nice places to shop. We saw some familiar "restaurants" too, like McDonalds and Subway.
Check out the special Nihon-dishes! :O
We went to Book Off! which is a store they have in New York City. It sells books/dvds/games/manga at CHEAP prices because they're (slightly) used. After that, we went to the 百円屋 (100 yen shop) and bought notebooks, and alarm clock, and a random candy. Our goal is to buy something new every time we buy candy/a drink etc. Today was black sesame gummies. Kinda weird but good! The alarm clock I bought is so ghetto but it will do the job for now. After walking around some more, Kyle came to my house for Tea and tea infused cake (good!). We talked about a lot of things. I am truly impressed by your skills, Kyle!
Kyle ended up staying for dinner and we had something that we both haven't had here yet-curry!! Oh my, SO GOOD.
The spread.
Otoosan & Okaasan!
Tomorrow, I have more Orientation things to do, plus a meet-up with Kamiya-sensei, my professor from Hamilton College who is on Spring Break here in Japan. I hope I can go hang out afterwords. I have a 10pm curfew! Aaaaack. I went from having no curfew to a rather early one. It's part of the experience, ne?
4 Comments:
I have a few points to address here. xD I appreciate a long entry.
1. Mainichi "penis butter?" Loves it. XD
You talked about the DEATH PENALTY? And OBAMA? Holy awesome. Dad is really opinionated and pretty much hates Obama right now along with Johnny. I want to give him more time myself. Oh well.
Slurp away! XD I was watching an episode of Mago Mago Arashi - Chinese Lessons and they talked about the slurping thing I think. Ok in Japan, not in China. :D I'm all for slurps.
LOL SUBWAY SAMMIES <3 They all look pretty good.... ok.. except for the egg.
Book Off!!?? Did they have a lot of awesome stuff? T^T omg.
Fun times with your ii tomodachi? :D LOL tea time... the curry looks totemo dericious.
Your host parents look interesting. :D Okaasan looks classy.
That's all for now. <3 Lovies.
I'm with Jeanine...im all for the slurps! Otoosan and Okaasan seem really cool...100 sit ups...I'm very impressed. And that is definitely some gripping morning conversation!
Running by the river sounds so tranquil and deep (i wanted to fit it in somewhere lol).
Wow, you have quite an active family ne?
Lol, and yes, you made it FINE by yourself to Jochi, I saw you there! I cannot believe that I made it home tonight!
Peanut Butter, so funny! When I hosted a french exchange student we introduced her to some "Jiffy" spread as well (are Americans the only who eat peanut butter?)
Love the blog and pics, keep it up leen-desu!! :)
LOL i'm gonna fight that curfew as soon as they start trusting me. i'm such a good girl. (bwahaha)
my otoosan totally said penis butter instead of peanut butter. LOL. man.
