New Year's Family Dinner, Kimono searching
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Sep 28, 2008
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Okazaki,
Chubu,
Japan
Monday, January 5, 2009
mean I was feeling better but I figured I just couldn't miss it. The
ceremony itself was alright, couldn't see too much but I don't know
what I was really expecting. After the sword ceremony we went and
looked at the special exhibitions they had, which was kind of cool I
suppose but swords really aren't my thing. We went to an art museum
afterwards and the coolest part of that was being able to make our own
prints ^_^. No origami unfortunately, only kirigami. Oh well, still was
worthwhile I suppose? No pictures allowed though. We went to the
supermarket and it was there that I saw how mochi was made. They
actually pound the rice with a hammer. So that was pretty cool, then I
went to Osu with Roxy and Emily, didn't really find anything and didn't
have time to look at kimonos, and even though I left at 6 to get home,
I was late for dinner. It was the big family dinner too! I still feel
really bad about that. One of my host sister's wasn't there yet though,
so I guess it was okay? I apologized to the entire family. My host mom
said it was okay...but I don't know. In any case, I had nabe, salmon,
roe, tai, buri, daikon, cognac(that's the name of this jelly fiber
thing) and sashimi for dinner. It was good but didn't exactly fill me
up, it seems I have my appetite back. One of the uncles gave me quite
the scare, I am going to assume that he was joking but still, he took
one of Raiki's toy butcher knives and grabbed me and tried to cut off
my neck, it actually hurt me...not sure if that was animosity or what.
He also wanted to play rock-paper-scissors with me. I only agreed after
my host dad said that if I won, he would give me 1000 yen. Thank
goodness I won! After this there was cake, yummy! For some reason my
host mom didn't want me to have another piece of cake though, so I
settled for half a piece. I'm not sure what that means...I played with
Raiki for the rest of the night before I finally went to sleep.
The next morning I was up at around 7:30ish, John called me at around 8
but I didn't feel like talking to anyone that early so I just let the
phone ring. I had my breakfast, shower and got ready to go to Osu
street again. I got to Osu at around 12:30ish and searched for a
kimono. I thought I'd finally found one but when I tried it on, the
sales girl told me that it was too short in the sleeves and wouldn't
let me buy it. Too bad. So I tried a couple more stores but all the
ones that I tried on were too short in the sleeves. I think I might be
better off renting one. In any case I met up with John at around 3 and
we had lunch in the park, it was so windy! The leaves blew right
through me hahaha. At least I didn't open my mouth, otherwise I would
have had a mouthful of leaves. I tried to do karaoke but my voice was
shot :( oh well better luck next time. I didn't get home until 8
unfortunately. Luckily my host mom set aside dinner for me, and boy
what a lot of yummy food, there was pork, tai, buri, kuromame, daikon
and of course rice. She even saved me a piece of cake ^_^.
Today was my lazy day, I actually slept in, well actually I woke up and
then went back to sleep for a couple hours, but still. I had buri and
rice and toast for brunch and then worked on one of the essays I have
to write. For dinner I had sushi, korokke, mochi and daikon. Dessert
consisted of pear and mandarins ^_^.
