Saturday 5/8: Another Lazy Weekend

My host mom has been busy this weekend leading a massage workshop, so I mostly kept to my room yesterday. I did come out to eat lunch, and I got to talk to some of the customers- seeing as I was the only white person around. They all applauded me on my use of Japanese, though I still dont think my convo skills are up to snuff. I do feel more confident about my conversational ability but I feel like I have a long ways to go

For dinner we went out to a restaurant that sells Yakitori (fried chicken, not the Southern kind but the Japanese kind, served on a stick). Japanese restaurants are pretty similar to American ones, except that all the tables besides the bar are Japanese low tables that you sit on pillows around. They served courses one by one- first a sashimi plate, then some random conch thing with soy sauce, then seaweed with wasabi (not my favorite), then random chicken and ppork and beef parts on a stick with asparagus. It was pretty good, esp. with the spicy flakes (shimishi?) that you could put on it.