Asuke, Yaba-cho, Unproductive
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Okazaki,
Chubu,
Japan
Sunday, January 18, 2009
such a sad ending, but I don't know what I was really expecting hahaha.
We then started watching "Grave of the Fireflies", that is one sad
movie. We aren't finished it yet, but it's about the survivors, or
rather the ghosts of the survivors of the air raids. Eerie, eerie stuff
there. Anyways then Nishio sensei drove us to Asuke , this old style
town. It was really cool to see how they made paper, and how they
cooked fish, and what toys they played with. We went for lunch and i
had that famous mochi covered in miso (can't quite remember the name)
as well as fish, soba, daikon, beans and green stuff that i still don't
know the name of. Anyways it was good. In the old town there was also a
cow named Kaede(hahaha like in Inuyasha) and there were of course
chickens and roosters. Nishio also took us to this other temple on the
way home where we saw koi and jizou. I got home and gave my souvenir
from Asuke to my host mom and to my surprise we ate that, senbei and
even cheesecake for snack. I then set to work taking notes for my
history paper, I have so much stuff to do! There's the four essays,
studying for two tests I have next week and writing a less than a
minute speech for the lunch on the 22nd.
Saturday I worked on my history essay from 8 in the morning to around
12:30 before having lunch and going out to Yaba-cho. I took my time, I
walked from Kanayama and went to Osu before wandering down to Yaba-cho.
I stumbled across a Chinese New Year celebration? in the park and I
filmed the drummers before my camera ran out of space. Saw the Lion
dancers too so that was cool. My plans fell through so I wandered back
down to Osu and bought a cheongsam on a whim. It was super cheap!
Anyways I got home and had an egg omelette, ham salad, miso soup,
korokke and of course rice.
Sunday was my blah day, I tried and tried to do work, but little
distractions just kept popping up. I ended up having dinner with just
the grandfather and boy was that confusing, he tried talking to me, but
he mumbles and so I understood very little. I had fish, korokke (ham and potato ones) and rice. I finally forced myself to
go to sleep after midnight, I am stressing because of the test I have
on Monday. *sigh*
