Decent Chinese Food, Wasted Time, Mister Donuts?

  Okazaki, Chubu, Japan
Thursday, January 15, 2009

So on Tuesday, I had Aoyama's class in the first period. It was
not fulfilling, the students know the sounds...in any case there were
some very funny sayings such as "queer spears" and "Don't open the
window - Okay, I don't". Talk about some very bad english. In any case,
after Aoyama's class I hung out with Roxy and we were asked by Sasaki
sensei to help out with her nursery rhyme class. We got there and did
one round of itsy-bitsy spider, and then class was over. Talk about a
waste of time...so I went home and then went out to Nagoya. I met up
with John and we had onigiri for lunch and I tried this mango-apple
juice. It was yummy! We were watching the tv and talking, when all of a
sudden I realized what drama was on. I actually understood it! hahaha.
It was the one called "Attention, Please" oh the irony...Anyways we
also went for dinner, I wanted pasta but somehow we ended up going for
Chinese. I was extremely skeptical...but the food wasn't half bad. No
bbq pork though :(, only sweet and sour. I had this pork and egg chow
fun (it wasn't mediocre!), some wontons (those were okay...oddly they
were served dry, with no sauce) and lettuce wraps (I laughed at the
typo because the menu said lettuce rice lap). The stuffing for the
lettuce wraps was some chinese mushroom and beef mixture with rice
krispies on the outside? It was good, but so not Chinese hahahaha.
Still a fun time. I got home at around 8:30 and just went to sleep.



Wednesday, I had Sasaki's class first. We went through the second
chapter of homeless chuu gakusei and then Roxy and I had cloth dying
class, where we actually did nothing because we are ahead of the whole
class somehow...again waste of time. Why, oh why is school becoming
such a waste of time? I got home and I had an okay dinner I suppose, no
meat, and only one dish that I liked. Oh, well.



Thursday I went to school early and had Aoyama's class first. She went
through the concept of tameni which was good since I had never learned
that before. At lunch there was a surprise graduation party in
celebration of seijin shiki. There were so many people! There were
speeches and we were all given our own box of three donuts from Mister
Donuts as well as a drink (I chose the strawberry milk). We also got
graduation pens that say "Carpe Diem いいここに" so that was pretty cool.
Nishio's class was after lunch and for once the reading was easily
understandable, so maybe my Japanese is improving?The donuts we got!and the strawberry milkThe fancy pen!
Dinner was Oden with cognac(this gray jelly fiber thing), daikon, fish
as well as cabbage and ginger chicken and of course rice. oh there was
also this red thing that was good, don't know what it was, but you mix
it with the rice and it's good. tasted pepperoni-like? had an Okinawa
orange for dessert but then as I was leaving my host mom actually
glared at me because I misunderstood that she wasn't coming upstairs
and so I didn't close one of the doors fully. I'm a bit scared now, I
think I may have upset her...