'Twas a busy week here in Japan. Lisa had an intensive 4-day Survival Japanese course Tues-Friday, 8 hours of nearly incomprehensible, 12-16 syllable words that sounded practically exactly the same. In one ear and out the other. Good thing I wrote them down, so I can study later. Can you say fried brains? Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of my classmates. : ( My teacher's name was Mayumi and she was very patient with us as we sounded pretty much like this guy--check out 2:10-3:00 of this video from Monty Python. "Ni! Ni!" "Noo! Noo!" no "Ni!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQfGd3G6dg
More Tokyo Street Adventures
Flutes or Fruits?? Which is it?
Shiny, happy buses.
Frank Lloyd Wright would definitely approve of this cool cantilevered house.
Trying new flavor sensations at Doner kebabs.
Getting adventurous.
Pretty awesome.
Cool Japanese junk-type ship. Bad picture--use your imagination. . .
Afterwards, we went shopping in the 100 yen store
(basically the Dollar Store.)
We were seriously tempted to buy these quality products.
Bring home your own hovering Darth Vader blow up figure.
With a side of sardines.
Speaking of sardines--
Learning some essential Japanese gestures.
We took a trip to the mall for a snack and found this-
Square watermelon. Seriously?
Looking for ice cream, without any luck. But found amazing French pasteries.
Yumster!
Attractively packaged, including mini ice packs.
Which we didn't need since we ate them on the spot.
Huge bamboo growing out of the floor. Fabulous!
Willa modeling $24 grapes (again attractively packaged). Needless to say, we didn't buy any.
Interviewing next week to teach Zumba here.
Looks like a great gym. Can't wait!
And ended the week by stuffing our faces with curry at
"Good Smell, Good Curry" (how could we resist.)
Read the directions on the spice-o-meter carefully before ordering. Consider the consequences.
More plastic food--my fave.
Went to church on Sunday and Lisa was called as 1st Counselor in the Primary (children's organization.)
Heaven help her.
Overall, it was a good week.
Love this post and all your adventures!!! So many memories of most of what you describe. We spend a lot of time at the dollar store! haha! We sure love you all!
ReplyDeleteLisa-lou! Keep them coming! Love them! I hate the eyelid trainers--that makes me so sad! My kids (especially Talmage) would be in heaven in Japan. They don't like pasta with sauce on it--no foods touching. But they will eat ANYTHING in a Japanese restaurant, including eel!
ReplyDeleteLook for mochi ice cream while you are there.
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They have some of the "weird" Asian flavors such as green tea, but also fruit flavors like mango. As long as it is a flavor you generally like, they are really tasty! (Meaning, if you don't like red bean anyway, you may not be impressed with the red bean mochi ice cream.)
Wonderful words and pictures! So appreciate you sharing your new experiences, Love every dear face.
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