Monday, April 7
Oh my gosh, the trains were insane today! Spring vacation was over for most people, so they were heading back to school. I made the 7:47 and wasn't even last in line, but elected not to take it because it was so stuffed and I couldn't deal with almost fainting again. So I was first in line for the 57, which made for a better ride.
The subway was just as bad! Omg, I definitely don't remember it being that bad in January. Ugh, it was completely stuffed. But guess who got on? Yukari and Sara, my Brazilian-Japanese friends I met at coffee hour last week and then did hanami with afterwards!
So we all rode to school together and I got to practice Japanese with them!
At Yagoto Nisseki, I told them I had to go to Lawson's so I could buy a bento to eat during photography club today. So they went with me. I bought a large bento and then Sara bought a drink and some chocolate. She tried the chocolate with me after she heard I'd never tried it before. It was good!
Then we walked the rest of the way to Nanzan, before we parted ways.
I went into the CJS office before class to talk to my friends. Mitch (Matsui san) saw me and called me over, saying he wanted to talk to me. It turned out he wanted me to write a little something about last week's coffee hour to go on the CJS Facebook page! Yes, I'd been wanting to be selected to write about something for the CJS Facebook page!!
And he gave me a Nanzan highlighter as thanks! It was a weird highlighter that was waxy, so that it could be used over ink on paper. Cool!
In class, we had a test that I thought was pretty easy, and then we spent the rest of the period reviewing and then starting on chapter 13 in the new Genki book.
When class was over and it was lunch time, I reminded Natalia about photography club because I remembered she'd been interested in it, too.
I had no idea where the first meeting was supposed to be, but I knew there were two rooms where they said they usually met. One was in the clubhouse and one was in K building.
Natalia had brought a bento, so we went to Lawson's to heat them up and then headed to the clubhouse. The clubhouse was just like the clubhouses in manga and Japanese movies! It was so cool.
There were a bunch of music sakurus practicing. We looked in all the rooms and couldn't find the photography club. We asked one guy we saw and he had no idea where they meet.
So we decided to try K building and if they weren't there, then just give up and go eat our lunch somewhere.
We looked through all the rooms in K too and didn't see them anywhere! We saw a whole bunch of Japanese students leaving a classroom, so we asked two of the guys. One of them was really, really cute!! They were sooooo nice! They told us maybe they were in the kopan and said they'd walk there with us to look. On the way, they asked us where we were from and stuff. I found out they were both ichinensei.When we exited K, they realized we were talking about the photography club, haha. So they said the meeting place probably wouldn't be in the kopan.
They were really distraught about the fact that they couldn't help us, it was cute! I kept saying that it was fine! I asked what clubs they wanted to join and the cute one said a singing club, so I asked if he likes karaoke and he said he does! Then they told us they want to practice English with us, so the cute one gave me his email. It had "swimmer" in it, so I asked if he likes swimming and he does! I told him I do too and told him to come swim at the Nanzan pool sometime. And then the two of them headed to eat lunch and Natalia and I decided to eat our lunch out in the green area, because it was such a gorgeous day!
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| So many petals! |
Then Natalia left to go to class and Emma and I walked to the lockers so I could get my brushes for calligraphy. But we ended up not using our brushes in calligraphy.
We were starting making inkan with our names that we can use to sign our works of calligraphy.
We had to rub our block on sandpaper to smooth down the side we were going to carve on.
Then we looked up the kanji in our names and found the super fancy, curly way of writing it. I couldn't find
(kei) in the booklet we were given, so sensei had to look it up in her book. And she found it there! Haha, look how weird it looks! But I liked how the bottom looked like a little flower. :)
And here's "to"!
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| My attempts at carving the stone. It's harder than I thought! |
The senseis had brought out tatami mats with a red cloth over them and a red umbrella. We took turns sitting on the tatami under the umbrella. I was in the first group.
The dango was AMAZING!!! Sensei told us we couldn't eat it off the stick, lol. We had to take the stick out first and then use if to cut the dango (which was harder than you would think!) The green was filled with anko and the pink filled with sakura flavored paste! It was so, so delicious!
When it was my turn to go up and make tea, I had Pearl take my picture, haha.
We actually got to put in the matcha powder today! (Usually it's already in the tea cup and we just put water in and stir).
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| Me putting in the matcha powder |
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| Both my senseis. I like how the older sensei is in the back with the sakura. It makes the picture look so Japanese! |
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| Me stirring! |
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| All done! |
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| And now giving the tea to my guest |
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| Nanzan is so pretty with the falling sakura! |
On the way to the train station I popped in Lawson's to buy a snack. I had seen these this morning with Sara and Yukari, so I wanted to go back to get them.
It turned out they were mini donuts! They were covered in sugar and filled with anko and really, really sweet!
On the way home, I stopped at Nagoya Eki because I was meeting Mami under the golden clock so she could give me my glove I'd forgotten on the train yesterday. I got there 15 minutes early, but 5 minutes later she showed up! She told me she'd seen it right after I got off the train, and had run after me, but I'd been gone already. I was like, "so you got off the train??" And she said she did, but it was okay because she caught the next one. Oh my gosh, she is so, so nice!!!
After I thanked her and we parted ways, I was like, damn I should have given her something for coming all the way to give me back my glove, especially since she'd had the day off work today. I was trying to think of what I had to give her, when I remembered the donuts!
So I ran after her and gave her one. She told me they were her favorite! So I gave her another and she was so, so happy! Yay! :)
Then I went home. At home, I parked my bike and decided to walk across the street to Seiyu. When I'd been locked out Saturday night and had gone into Seiyu, I'd seen the new Kit Kats that Miya and I had seen advertised on TV one day, and knew I had to go back and buy them. So I did! And they were on sale!
When I exited, I saw Yuko walking to go pick up Miyabi. I told her I'd just bought the new Kit Kats haha, and then I headed inside.
After we ate dinner, I was still hungry, so I decided I'd crack into the Kit Kats. I brought them into the kitchen to share with Miya and Yuko. Miya was reading the package and told me we had to put them in the oven! It turned out we did, so Yuko asked if I wanted to try it now and I said I did!
We don't have an oven, so we used the microwave, lol. We weren't sure if that would work, but we decided to try!
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| The Kit Kats!! |
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| Back of the package |
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| One of the Kit Kats |
And then we saw them get all brown, so we took them out! Sugoi!! It seems like they melt first and then the melted part cooks!
They were SO SO SO GOOD!!!! They tasted like cake! Holy crap. New favorite Kit Kat!
I told my friends about it at school the next day and now they want to try them too, haha!
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| So good! |
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| What the inside looked like. Like a cookie! |
Ahhh, I freaking love Kit Kats!!!! Why are they so much cooler in Japan when they're an American dessert??
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