Hotel Piena Kobe

... 7. The restaurants where everyone kneels on the floor with their shoes off. One we went to had a big hot plate where we cooked our own food (mostly cabbage and lettuce and meat). It looked really simple but it tasted really good with loads of flavour. <br>8. The plastic models of the food they have outside restaurants which are all shiny and perfect!<br><br>After Osaka we had a quick day trip to Nara which was the first permanent capital of Japan around 1300 years ago ...

... at Steak Ron, delicious Sakuyaki at Hariju and more helpings of takoyaki/okonomuyaki/yakisoba.<br><br>S teak Ron<br>1-10-2 Sonezaki Shinchi, Kita-ku | Umeda, Osaka<br><br>Hariju<br>1-9-26 Nishishinsaibashi Chuo-ku Osaka<br><br>Takontetsu (Pizza Ball House)<br>1-9-20 Maru Bldg Umeda 1 Chome <br>

... us. She flipped a sand-filled timer and left us to our delight.<br><br>I followed suit and formed the perfect okonomiyaki disk! The tricky part is the flip. With the skill of a seasoned chef, I performed a perfect flip! The crowning achievement is to baste it with your choice of sauces and finally top it off with streams of mayo. I artistically scrawled a large star on mine:) "swami*"<br><br>It was almost too beautiful to eat... but I was quite hungry and dug ...

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... as a good place to try Wagyu or Kobe style beef. This is beef is notable visually as it much more marbled with fat than beef you would normally buy in Tescos. The cows are treated very well and given high quality feed to make their meat more tasty and succulent. It is not cheap but we had a set menu for about 15 pounds each that included rice, salad, soup, assorted vegetables and 150 g of the precious meat. We sat around an open hot stove ...

... have an accent when I speak normally. I've spent the past year trying to deny the fact that I have an accent, but if I'm speaking differently when I teach my students- perhaps the Midwestern dialect isn't as straightforward and clear as I'd like to believe. Wednesday night for dinner we went out for yakiniku (meat on a grill.) This was one of my family's favorite foods in Japan.

... to grab a blown up photo of him holding chocolate. Apparently the photo was taken in America. We visited Weathercock, one of the western-style houses, but ended up watching a Japanese clown instead. He had a few basic tricks, but he pulled them off well. We finished our walk at the Shin-Kobe gondolas. A six person bucket smoothly pulls you 300 meters up the mountain. The ride is beautiful with a full view of the harbor straight ahead, and ...

Well folks- my new school has been decided! Starting next Monday, I will be teaching at Ibukidai Junior High school instead of Tomogaoka Junior High school. I visited the school yesterday and got the run down from the current ALT who is working there. Here are some of the differences that I noticed: * Ibukidai is over twice the size of Tomogaoka ( I will have over 1000 students there, and at ...

... easy feat. Here there are lots of deer, just like Miyajima near Hiroshima, which also like to eat maps (not mine this time). Transport in Nara isn't as good as in Kyoto so it took a lot longer to get to places, but I saw what I wanted to see. After 3 days of continuous walking, my legs were sore, but not as sore as I expected. I guess I'm getting used to it. On the evening of the 22nd I caught the overnight bus back to Tokyo. This bus was unbelievable - much ...

... fulfilling sensation...it was the first time I have felt satiated since I arrived! Anyway, we meet a guy from Canada named Victor who decides to hang out with us for the evening. Great guy, lots of information about places to go and teaching English. We bar hop a bit, tell stories, and he gives us the low down on the love hotels. See, most people live with their parents until the at least get married, then they still live with their ...