Meeting dem Japanese boys at lunch!

Monday, April 28

Ken had the day off today for some reason. So we all ate breakfast together. We ate at 6:15, so I had a lot of time afterwards. My tea was so hot I burned my tongue on it, so I left it and decided to come back for it. Then I went to my room, got dressed and then lay in bed for forty more minutes, because I decided I'd rather lie in bed than sit at the station waiting for the late train.

Yuko came to tell me I'd left my tea and I told her I was coming back for it, so I went back and drank it. Then Miya left and Yuko told me it was 7:40 already, so I headed out after her. 

In class, we had our kanji test first thing. It was easy. I messed up and got one wrong, though. Then we played my favorite kanji game that we hadn't played in forever! The one where Kondo sensei writes down a kanji radical and we write as many kanji as we can think of with that radical. 

Heather was in the lead. Tina wasn't doing as hot as she normally does, because she kept writing Chinese kanji that don't exist in Japanese. So when I saw that Heater was winning, I stepped up my game and soon Heather and I were tied! We were tied for the last three rounds with 24 points. When it was over, Kondo sensei was like, "ohh, yay! Heather and Cate won!" But everyone wanted a tie breaker, haha.

So sensei picked Natalia to be the radical writer. Then I decided Heather and I should write the kanji on paper instead of the board, so we wouldn't be tempted to look at what kanji the other was writing. So sensei sat us on different sides of the room, haha. 

Then Natalia wrote the radical. It was a weird one, just a line with a hook. Like the middle line of 小. I only knew a few kanji with that. But then Dylan said "we wanted you guys to be able to write as many kanji as possible." 

And that's when I realized that "radical" (I'm pretty sure it wasn't really a radical) they drew is in almost all kanji! Like 月 for example. So I drew a whole bunch of kanji with that. When time was up, Heather had only been able to think of one! I had drawn 7, but sensei only counted 6 of them because she said 刂wasn't a kanji. I was like, um, that's one of the first I learned! It's on the first page of the book, Kanji Look and Learn and it means knife. She didn't believe me, so I got out my kanji app and looked it up and showed her it really existed. She was surprised and said it's probably old and not used anymore. Psh. 

But I still won!! I was declared the champion of kanji!! :)

Then Kondo sensei let us practice the play Dylan had written while she went to the Logos Center to set up for the party. So Dylan told me to come in like I'm searching for a boyfriend and then I say I'm searching for a boyfriend and he told me to add in that I'm lonely haha. Then later I say I want a hot Japanese guy. Then, when we meet the princess (Heather) and she asks what we wish for, I say a boyfriend. But then I say melon pan too, haha. And Natalia says I want too much stuff, and I say "but I love melon pan." So the princess grants both my wishes.

Gosh, Dylan knows me too well, haha.

After one run through, I ran to the cafeteria to get a knife to ice the cupcakes. Kondo sensei had told me how to ask and I forgot, but I remembered when I got there once I realized it was the grammar we had just learned! The cafeteria ladies were all cool and gave me a knife, no questions asked. But just to be say I told them it was for a party and one of the ladies was like "for a party??" And I was like "yeah, to cut the cake." And then they understood, haha.

I felt super suspicious walking back to my building carrying a knife in one hand and nothing else. I felt like people were giving me weird stares, especially when I passed a police lady. But no one questioned me!

When I got back, I ran through the play with everyone again. Heather was practicing the song she was going to sing so Dylan was saying her lines in a super high pitched voice. It was funny!

Then class was over, so I decided we'd better head over. I went ahead so I could stop by my locker and get the cupcakes and heart cake. But I still ended up being the first one there. Mutsukawa and Kondo sensei were there setting up, so I started icing the cupcakes. Mutsukawa sensei talked to me about how I felt now after my fever, what I'd done over the weekend, and how long it had taken to make the cupcakes. He thanked me for my hard work when I said three hours, haha.

Then everyone else came. But Ryan wasn't there. They said he'd run off to his dorm to get his guitar, but they'd showed him where the Logos Center was.

We waited over 15 minutes for him to get back and when he hadn't, we decided to go ahead and start. It was a running joke among the rest of us how Ryan always seems like he's stoned and never knows what he's doing. We figured he was probably sleeping.

First, we played the kanji game with the cards. Kondo sensei said I don't get any hints because I had won the other kanji game, and I was the kanji champion. I mean, do I ever get any hints? 

But I ended up getting rid of my cards the fastest anyway! When we counted up our cards, Natalia had used one more kanji card than I did, but I figured I won anyway.

Next, we all sat in a half circle to watch those of us who were talented, show off their talents. Chris went first to read his poem. It was actually really good! I was surprised! He's so terrible at Japanese in class and gets really bad grades, but he wrote a really nice poem. And he read it really nicely too. I only understood a bit and I noticed he said "utsukushii" a lot (beautiful).

Right before Chris started, Dylan stood up and shouted that he saw Ryan. We saw Ryan outside walking over, carrying his guitar, haha. We went out to meet him and see what had taken him so long. He said he hadn't realized the party was today and his guitar hadn't had strings so he'd had to restring it. Oh, Ryan. Smh.

But holy crap. We were all blown away when he started playing. He was actually really good! And he said he'd made the song up as he was playing because he'd forgotten about the party today. Well, damn.

Then we performed the play! It was fun. I completely forgot to come in searching for boys. I kinda just walked in and stood there, lol. But Mutsukawa sensei laughed at my lines! Kondo sensei filmed it for YouTube. Ugh. 

When it was over, Heather sang her song. She sang the Japanese version of "Let It Go!" from Frozen (or in Japan, Ana to Yuki no Jo). She said she'd memorized it all yesterday!! Sugoi! And her voice was so pretty! 

I wish I had a talent. :( but I'm just average at everything. I always hate when people ask me my hobbies, because I literally have none. When I have free time, I usually just talk to people/hang out with friends, haha.

Anyway, after Heather sang it was finally time to eat!! We were all starving!

Tina made takoyaki. Two were regular, with tako, and one was kimchi. I stayed away from the kimchi one. Kondo sensei had brought chips, drinks, and snacks. I made the cupcakes and Natalia made rice pudding. Everything was so delicious!!

Everyone raved about my cupcakes and all the non-Americans thought the icing was the bomb dot com. In Japan, cakes just have cream on them, so Kondo sensei kept saying this was different from cream. Yeah, I know. It's better. Way better. I told her it's what's always on cakes in America, so she'll have to buy some in New York this summer.

After we finished eating, it was time for lunch, so we cleaned up and then headed out. I wasn't hungry after that, so I didn't want to buy lunch like Heather and Dylan were.

I reminded Natalia we had photography club, so we were going to head to that. But I didn't really want to go, so I suggested skipping and Natalia agreed, haha.

So she and I went to a bench to sit down. A Japanese guy sitting there looked up and smiled when he saw us coming over. I smiled back and said "konnichiwa." Then I saw Emma at the hamburger truck so I went over to tell her I had a cupcake for her. I saw Chris there too and wanted to give him a cupcake as thanks for the bike, so I went back to where Natalia and I were sitting to get one.

When I got back, Natalia was talking with the guy I'd said hi to. She was using crutches, so I be the used that as a way to start talking to her. I heard him say something to her that I understood and she didn't, so I translated for her and them she introduced me. But the guy seemed to only want to speak to Natalia.

So I grabbed Chris' cupcake and went to give it to him. He loved it! He was sitting with Taylor so I talked with her for a bit. Then I told Emma where we were and went back over to Natalia. Now there were more guys around her! What?? Was it her hurt leg that was attracting these guys or what?

When I got there, one of them who was over by my seat started talking to me. His name was Shogo. He was pretty good at English, so we used that. He was really into baseball, and asked if I liked it. I told him I played baseball a lot when I was younger, in two different states, and both times I was the only girl on my team! We talked about American teams and players. He liked the Red Sox and the Mets, so he wasn't too happy when I said I liked the Yankees. Whatever. Then he said he if he saved up enough money, he wanted to take me to a Japanese baseball game!! Whoa!

He also invited me to play baseball with him sometime. But he was a little disappointed when I said I didn't have a glove.

Then Emma came finally and they talked a bit too. Emma ate half the cupcake and didn't really like it, so offered the other half to Shogo. He tried it, but didn't like it either. It was too sweet for him, haha. He had icing all over his lips after he ate it. Also he took a picture of it! So I took a picture too, with him holding it.

(Yummay! Natalia the gimp in the background)

So I have the rest to the guy Natalia was talking to and he liked it! Yay!

Then Shogo added me on Line and later Emma too.

Unfortunately, Emma and I had calligraphy, or I would've stayed and talked all day. Heather and Dylan came from lunch to help Natalia walk to sadou, the class they all had next. So all of us ryuugakusei headed off to class with Shogo and Natalia's guy a little bit behind. Dylan was all like, "Did you get a boyfriend, Cate?"

And I was like, "actually, I got invited to a baseball game!" 

Heather was shocked, haha. But Dylan was just like "you know a baseball game's code for 'testicle play'?"

Smh.

Calligraphy was fun today! Sensei had made prints for us of the word in kanji we'd picked in each of the three different ways to write it!

Here's mine, "sakura blossom":

(I don't like this one. The kanji for "hana" looks like the hiragana, fu ふ)

Then we practiced drawing whichever one we wanted the whole period and then finally drew it on the special board! We got two boards and we turned in the better one. I completely messed up on my first one, haha. The word was totally off center. I didn't like how the second looked either, but I stamped it with the stamp I made and then turned it in.

Then sensei gave us all our calligraphy creations from each week, as well as a rolled up scroll with our extra long one from last week! And we got to take home our stone inkan!

Also, at the beginning of class, while we were filling out the end of year evaluations, I saw an inch worm on my backpack and so I took a picture of it.

Sensei saw me, so I said "mushi" and showed her the worm. She took pity on it and took it out to the fourth four balcony. It was cute!

At the end of class, I took a picture with sensei because I saw Pearl doing it and decided I wanted to too!

(Me holding my mess up of my kanji board. We got to keep that one)

I went downstairs after class to give Kano my last cupcake, since she helped me out so much this semester! She was really excited and told me she was going to bring it home to show her family, haha.

Then it was sadou time! 

(Today's set up. For children's day)

After we did our evaluations, it was time for tea and okashi. We all did the drinking and eating at the same time today.

Because it was the last class, we got special okashi! It was wrapped in leaves!

You unwound the string-like leaf and then peeled off the thick green leaves. Inside was this white sticky stuff. Then you ate the whole thing like a banana. The guys were all cracking up because the thing stood straight up and then wiggled like jello, so they were wiggling it around and laughing. Boys...

(All wrapped up!)

(Unwrapped! Mochi-like stuff inside!)

It tasted really good! Just like mochi. But I asked sensei if it was mochi, but she said it was called something else, but I forgot what she said. She said it's like mochi, though.

And we had matcha and made matcha. It was fun! And really sad at the same time. I thoroughly enjoyed this class and I'm going to miss this aspect of Japan. That's the whole reason I came to Japan in the first place. I was and still am, so in love with traditional Japanese culture!

After class, I headed back to the CJS office because Takada had wanted to talk to me. She and Mitch asked me if things were alright with my host family and that I could tell them anything in confidentiality, so I talked with them for a bit and then left for home.

At home, I studied more until dinner. For dinner we had curry rice. I'd been planning on sharing the heart cake with my host family after dinner. But throughout the entire dinner, they didn't talk to me once. Then I was full when we were finished and Miyabi was eating super slowly. So I decided I'd just bring it to school tomorrow and went back to studying for my kanji test tomorrow.

Photography club!

Monday, April 14

Guys, three more weeks of classes and that's it! I can't believe time has flown so fast, it's scary!!

We had cereal this morning!!!! Omg it's been so long! It was so so good. :P

On the way to school today, I studied for my test. I took the late train, so I didn't have much time before class. The station was bad this morning; people rushing to get somewhere crashed into me over 5 times! It hurt.

The test ended up being pretty easy. I'm not doing as badly as I thought I would now that we're into chapters I never learned! On the last test, which was the first that covered things I haven't learned, I was the only one who got an A! 

For reading & writing, we had Kandou sensei. She had us play Jeopardy. It was boys against girls and Natalia elected to not be on a team, and be the score keeper instead (since there're more girls than guys).

So at one point, we were tied with the boys, when we got this really hard question worth 400 points. It asked the meaning of "itamitome", which none of us had ever heard of!

It was written like:

痛み止め

With "ita" and "to" in kanji. Then I had an idea! I've noticed you can usually figure out what a word means by looking at the meanings of the kanji. 

I knew the second kanji meant "stop", so I asked Tina what the first kanji meant. She said it was the kanji for "ita", like in "itai", which is the Japanese word for "painful". So I was like "stop pain?"

And Heather was all like "medicine?" 

And I was like "yeah, like painkillers!"

So we all guessed painkillers and we ended up being right!! It was awesome!

All the boys had been cracking up when we first got the question, so sure we wouldn't get it, and when we first saw it, we figured we wouldn't get it either. But we did!! It was so awesome!

When sensei revealed the answer, we all screamed and high fived each other, haha.

So with that huge advantage, we ended up beating the boys. :)

But sensei didn't have prizes today... :(

During the break between classes, Natali had let me use her pocket wifi so I could see if Hikari from the photography club had responded. I'd emailed her this morning asking for the room number again. And she had! It was in F building where we'd gone last week, but was on the 3rd floor, where we hadn't gone.

I also ran to Lawson's with Dylan so I could buy a bento for lunchtime. All the bentos had noodles in them, and I don't like eating noodles in front of people, haha, so I got rice paper veggie rolls and one of those fruit and cream filled sandwhiches with three bear stickers!

Natalia and I ran over to F after class. There were a few Japanese students in there already, who turned out to be the photography club officers. The one in the center who must have been the president was super cute, btw.

Natalia left to go buy a bento and I sat there and started eating, because everyone else was eating their lunch. Then some ichinensei showed up as well. Natalia got back pretty quickly and then Natsumi, the girl I'd been emailing and had met that day showed up as well. She came over and explained that the meeting would start and then we might go around and do introductions or something.

So the meeting started and they read minutes from the last meeting and then had a mini debate because one of the guys wasn't sure about something and kind of arguing about it, but not in a mean way or anything.

Then everyone started going around and saying places they wanted to go in Japan, because the club was planning a trip. Most people were saying Takayama, which is the place Manaka's dad was telling me about with the giant walls of snow. I want to go there too!

When it got to Natalia and me, I said Okinawa and everyone liked that and started talking a bit about Okinawa. Then the meeting was over! So short!

Natsumi came over to explain to Natalia and me that we couldn't use digital cameras (contrary to what she'd told me when she'd met with me over their haruyasumi...), and they'd let us borrow film cameras, but we'd have to buy the film ourselves.

That pretty much killed anymore lingering interest I had in joining. Film is really expensive and I'd rather spend my money on other things, especially when I only have a month left. But Natalia is really into it and is going to go buy film.

Anyway, Natsumi said to email her so we could find a time to go see the dark room on campus. I'm excited about that though!

After the meeting, Natalia and I went to the green area. We found Emma eating by herself (she does that every day, eats at the green area and people watches) so we sat with her for a bit until class started.

I ate the Koala March I got from the matsuri yesterday (the one snack that I was smart and kept for myself) and here is a cute zebra koala!

Then Emma and I headed to calligraphy. We were carving our stone stamps again. Mine is sooo difficult! I should have picked easier kanji, but I wanted the same ones as are on my inkan. #cateproblems 

I was sure I wouldn't finish by the end of class, but I actually did!! It looks pretty bad because I accidentally carved over some of the kanji (where I wasn't supposed to), so it looks pretty broken up, but you can still read what it says and tell which characters they're supposed to be, and I'm fine with that.

Yay!! Next week we have to pick kanji that we like because we're going to make legitimate printings of them. I have no idea what kanji to use though!

After class, I saw the cute guy from photography club and he waved at me!! :D

Then was my all time favorite class!

Sadou!!

We were back to practicing entering the room and using fans today.

(My fan!)

The okashi was adorable today! 

It was called "haru" something and represented the air in springtime. The brown is the ground and the pink and white is the air, because the air in springtime has all the pink sakura petals in it.

It was hard to pick up because it was all jiggly. I was first so I didn't realize how hard it would be and I accidentally separated the pink and brown parts and everyone laughed.

The texture was also really weird. The brown part was good because it was anko, but the pink and white part was all gelatin-like and tasted weird, haha.

Then we made the tea for each other and switched groups. While the second group did the tea ceremony, my group listened to sensei's lecture. After her lecture, we got to make tea for ourselves! She said we could use however much matcha and water we wanted. I put in two pretty big spoonfuls of matcha powder and my turned out to be delicious!!

(And I got my favorite cup too! The one with the face)

After class, Brendan (aka Kuma chan) and I left together so we could talk about the presentation we have to do on The Mourning Forest for Folklore. He stopped at the green area to pick up his bag that he had left with a bunch of the dorm kids. While I waited, one of the Japanese guys in the group asked my name and introduced himself. I found out he's studying law at Nanzan. He was really nice!

So I'd kind of wanted to start working on our presentation today and thought that was what we'd been doing. I'd watched it over a week ago, but had had to wait for Brendan to watch it, which he hadn't done until this past weekend!

But he wanted to each research it first, so I gave him the questions she'd given us to answer last class (that he'd missed) and we split them up.

Then I headed to the computer building to see if I could find and buy the wheel for my bike online. Well, I did find them, but they were all over $500!!! I also looked up cheap bike places and found some bike recycle stores in Nagoya, but the cheapest bike was $50 and anyway I had to get it to Ichinomiya somehow.

Exasperated, I looked down at the time and saw it was already 5:50!! Crap!

So I rushed home. Walking home took feaking forever, so I only got home around 7:20. 

I'd been hungry during calligraphy and had figured I'd maybe get bread or something for the ride home, but since I hadn't gotten a chance to, I was starving now!! I was excited to just walk right in and start eating dinner right away.

But no one was home! Ahhh!! So I ran to my room and ate some snacks. Thankfully everyone, including Ken, came home about 10 minutes later and Yuko whipped up some spaghetti.

After dinner, I wrote the sakubun I had to do for homework and went to sleep.

Sadou under the sakura (and new Kit Kats)!!

 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!

We saw Emma eating under a tree, so we joined her. It was beautiful with the sakura petals falling all around us!

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"!

So then we had to draw them on our block and carve it. I chose to carve around the kanji, which is harder, but it will end up looking better, I think.

My attempts at carving the stone. It's harder than I thought!

Then it was time for my favorite class!!! Yay!! Today we had sadou outside so we could eat dango under the falling sakura petals. :D Therefore, I was super excited for today!

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).

Me putting in the matcha powder

Both my senseis. I like how the older sensei is in the back with the sakura. It makes the picture look so Japanese!

Me stirring!

All done!

And now giving the tea to my guest

Ah, so fun! After class, I took pictures of the Genki II book in the library so I could do my homework tonight (we can't check out the book). Then I headed home.

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!

The Kit Kats!!

Back of the package

One of the Kit Kats

We took them out after a while, but all that had happened was they had melted... :/ What a shame. Yuko told me to try one and then decide if we should put them back in. I did. It was pudding flavored! I decided we should try to bake them more. So we did!

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!

So good!

Thankfully I bought another package to take home to America!

What the inside looked like. Like a cookie!

Then I tried one plain and it definitely wasn't as good!

Ahhh, I freaking love Kit Kats!!!! Why are they so much cooler in Japan when they're an American dessert??