Hello everyone, I am now officially on holiday in Japan for two days until we fly back home. I went to sea world with the students today and watched killer whales and dolphins and sea lions and walrus` and all that stuff. I enjoyed watching the sea otters. They are so cute. The best part about it was seeing the japanese spider crabs though. Wow. They were huge, like almost the height of me (with their leg span). Embarassingly, I couldn:t help but think how yummy they would taste. I never look at animals and think how I would like to eat them.....but crab is yummy. (sorry Donal).
So I am now back at the hostel and wondering what to do with my freedom and have already been invited out for dinner with some people from the hostel. I went out with a few people last night. What an international group: a girl from Canada/NZ, a girl from Wales, a guy from Portugal and a guy from Sydney. We went to this recommended place in a very non-touristy place, and had a REAL japanese restaurant experience. These japanese business men who wanted to work on their english bought us heaps of Sake and showed us how to cook our meal. It was a big wok, in the middle of our table with raw fish and tofu and cabbage in it that we cooked while we ate squid and other things we ordered. It was yummy until I was served this thing that looked like a foot/claw of some animal. One of the guys said it was a fin, but it had nails, I swear. I thought I was game for most things, but I can:t eat something that might actually tickle my throat with its claws on the way down the old esophagus. Just like I don:t want to try tongue. I don:t want to taste something that used to taste other things. I politely offered it to someone else and they gladly accepted my gift of "claw".
So who knows what adventures await me tonight. Should be fun. Lena (the girl from Wales) is really sweet and reminds me very much of Jane Moore (for those from Pram College who know her). But Jane:s not welsh, is she?
I must brag though: my grandmother is Welsh and she and I argued about whether Wales has the longest place name in the world or NZ. So last night Lina and I showed off to each other and said the names to each other. I knew that trick would come in handy one day!!
(Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanitahu......or something like that....)
Oh, and I have decided to single handedly "smile-ify" this country. In Canada and New Zealand, strangers smile at each other when walking down the street. Its contagious and polite. Here they just stare at me or look away when I smile at them. (this is of course, when I am not trying to buy something from them. When I try to buy something , there is no lack of smiling...but thats just cause they want my Yen!!) So I am on a mission to see how many "smile-backs" I can get from these Asians. I am at 2 so far (and one of them was about 3 years old and it took me 5 minutes to get that one!)
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