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Food and Stitch
I went to the 24-hour supermarket to get some stuff. I was really bad and got three bags of Pro Yakyu Chips (cards: Hiroshima's Masayuki Hasegawa, Hawks' Tsuyoshi Wada, and Chunichi's Kazuhiro Wada; no, Anthony, you can't have them), and what was really funny was, I was thinking how silly it is that they have baseball cards here tied in with potato chips. It seems unhealthy. I hadn't eaten chips in months until these came out.
I rounded the corner and I kid you not, this is the Kellogg's display:
Yes. Their answer to Pro Yakyu Chips is to put MLB cards in breakfast cereal boxes.
I guess it's healthier!
(Countdown to Carl complaining about the lack of genmai flakes in America in 5... 4... 3...)
Ok, so anyway, more on food. Today was my 12-year-old's last class with me (she's just moving up to another class next week). Last week she went to Disneyland and I even ran into her and her mother in Akabane station when they were on their way to go there. So today I ask her at the start of class, "How was Disneyland? Was it fun? Exciting?" and she says "Great." And then gets this Mickey box out from her bag and gives it to me as omiyage:
It's Mickey-Mouse-shaped age sembei. I don't particularly like sembei, or at least not some kinds of it, but these are delicious. Seriously. And four flavors, too... sweet soy, spicy soy, etc. I almost feel guilty eating them since they're so cute but I think it'll come in handy a lot when I'm starving in the early evening and don't have time to grab dinner. Woo.
I had lunch at Heiroku today. It rocked. I get the distinct impression katsuo is a seasonal fish now so they've had a lot of it lately. It's stupid but I swear this kaitensushi place is my absolute favorite thing about Akabane. Oh, on another note, for like, the 3 people who might actually care... Little Spoon is closing down. Infact they should have already closed but I forgot to check. When I went there for dinner last week they had a sign in the window saying they were closing on 3/31... I asked them about it (since I had just seen the word "heiten" for shop closing in my kanji book that morning). So, it seems there are no curry places that I know of in Akabane anymore. That can't be true, but maybe they're just not near the station.
I need to figure out how to have a birthday party, but I'm clueless about how to do these things in Japan.
OH, also, I still get my ass kicked by Tentaikansoku, but I'm working on it anyway. Tonight at Kawaguchi I saw they had moved the elephant-costume Stitch to the "we don't have many of these left" UFO catcher. BUT they were left in a way such that the crane couldn't actually reach them. So I told a videogame attendant (holy shit, I know how to explain this stuff in Japanese now?) and they rearranged it for me. 2 coins in I couldn't tell how many it was going to take me so I just threw in a 500 yen coin for 6 plays. Got the elephant Stitch 2 tries later... so I thought I'd move the other Stitch closer and I got that one to fall 3 tries later! Hahaha. So uh great I'm a fucking retard who plunked 800 yen into a UFO catcher machine and got two Stitch plushies she doesn't need just for the sake of being able to get two Stitch plushies out of the machine.
On the other hand it's getting pretty funny how my UFO catcher plushie collection is taking over one corner of my classroom at GEOS. But they're USEFUL! Yesterday I was doing a lesson with one student on all the "place" prepositions, like "in/on/under/above/between/across from/next to" and so on. So I get out all these toys and put them on the table... "ok, so here is Stitch, here is Mickey. Where is Pooh?" "Okay, now Pooh is across from Mickey. Where is Kitty-chan?" Despite how dorky that sounds I think it makes for a much more fun lesson than "the pencil is next to the pen... the book is between the pencil and the eraser..."
I rounded the corner and I kid you not, this is the Kellogg's display:
Yes. Their answer to Pro Yakyu Chips is to put MLB cards in breakfast cereal boxes.
I guess it's healthier!
(Countdown to Carl complaining about the lack of genmai flakes in America in 5... 4... 3...)
Ok, so anyway, more on food. Today was my 12-year-old's last class with me (she's just moving up to another class next week). Last week she went to Disneyland and I even ran into her and her mother in Akabane station when they were on their way to go there. So today I ask her at the start of class, "How was Disneyland? Was it fun? Exciting?" and she says "Great." And then gets this Mickey box out from her bag and gives it to me as omiyage:
It's Mickey-Mouse-shaped age sembei. I don't particularly like sembei, or at least not some kinds of it, but these are delicious. Seriously. And four flavors, too... sweet soy, spicy soy, etc. I almost feel guilty eating them since they're so cute but I think it'll come in handy a lot when I'm starving in the early evening and don't have time to grab dinner. Woo.
I had lunch at Heiroku today. It rocked. I get the distinct impression katsuo is a seasonal fish now so they've had a lot of it lately. It's stupid but I swear this kaitensushi place is my absolute favorite thing about Akabane. Oh, on another note, for like, the 3 people who might actually care... Little Spoon is closing down. Infact they should have already closed but I forgot to check. When I went there for dinner last week they had a sign in the window saying they were closing on 3/31... I asked them about it (since I had just seen the word "heiten" for shop closing in my kanji book that morning). So, it seems there are no curry places that I know of in Akabane anymore. That can't be true, but maybe they're just not near the station.
I need to figure out how to have a birthday party, but I'm clueless about how to do these things in Japan.
OH, also, I still get my ass kicked by Tentaikansoku, but I'm working on it anyway. Tonight at Kawaguchi I saw they had moved the elephant-costume Stitch to the "we don't have many of these left" UFO catcher. BUT they were left in a way such that the crane couldn't actually reach them. So I told a videogame attendant (holy shit, I know how to explain this stuff in Japanese now?) and they rearranged it for me. 2 coins in I couldn't tell how many it was going to take me so I just threw in a 500 yen coin for 6 plays. Got the elephant Stitch 2 tries later... so I thought I'd move the other Stitch closer and I got that one to fall 3 tries later! Hahaha. So uh great I'm a fucking retard who plunked 800 yen into a UFO catcher machine and got two Stitch plushies she doesn't need just for the sake of being able to get two Stitch plushies out of the machine.
On the other hand it's getting pretty funny how my UFO catcher plushie collection is taking over one corner of my classroom at GEOS. But they're USEFUL! Yesterday I was doing a lesson with one student on all the "place" prepositions, like "in/on/under/above/between/across from/next to" and so on. So I get out all these toys and put them on the table... "ok, so here is Stitch, here is Mickey. Where is Pooh?" "Okay, now Pooh is across from Mickey. Where is Kitty-chan?" Despite how dorky that sounds I think it makes for a much more fun lesson than "the pencil is next to the pen... the book is between the pencil and the eraser..."
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I cry, because I thought he was going to do ok for once.
MOVE UP MORINO DAMMIT
that is all.
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