OK, up to yesterday which is as far as I had to go for my journals this week. Hopefully I will type up today today's entry tonight.
Yesterday was the start of Golden Week, a week-long string of various national holidays. It's one of the biggest holiday seasons of the year, along with New Year's and summer holidays. Accordingly, there is a ton of commercial overexposure, with Golden Week sales everywhere. There's also a lot of traffic because everyone is going on trips everywhere.
I got to spend my morning in the best way possible in Japan: talking with Tyson on Skype. Afterward Sirocco and I hung out for the day at my place. We helped our host mom bake a chocolate cake (SOOOOO good) and ate some delicious Yakisoba. We also watched a kid's program on NHK (the Japanese equivalent of PBS) about the Pythagorean theorem, which was really cool.
After my host family finished work for the day, she took Sirocco and I to a pottery place. It was really cool- they've been making stuff there since 1655. Afterward we went to a place to look at tables for the Cafe. I was bored so I looked at the kid's toys. The store was one of those kinda cool stores with the fair-trade stuff and wooden, no-harmful-plastics kids toys.
Finally, the family took us out to pizza. It was kind of a strange experience. On the one hand, it seemed a bit like America. It had kind of a rustic, cabin-like feel, which is a popular theme for restaurants in Boise. They had the Black-Eyed Peas and Beyonce playing on the speakers, and brick ovens for the pizzas. However, the employees were far nicer than any would ever be in the US, there was no bar with ESPN playing on a big screen, and the pizzas were half the size of American pizzas. They're also thinner, and usually don't have tomato sauce. There weren't a lot of toppings either- the equivalent "meat-lovers" pizza only had a couple things of bacon and ham on it. I saw one pizza that had a raw (or barely cooked) egg cracked over the top of it.Also, Japanese people like to put Tabasco on top of their pizzas. If I didn't compare the pizzas to American ones, these were very very good. However, I did miss my American pizza.
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Great stories, auxiliary daughter. I remember the pizza in Japan. We used to go to the Noodle Shop near our JGSDF base every day for lunch-loved their ramen. Not much news here - Idaho Steelheads won their playoff game tonight over the Stockton Thunder, so they are looking good. AUX MOM and I went to Avatar tonight in 3D - she had not seen it yet and enjoyed it.
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