Wednesday: Business class, evening classes, and I probably cleaned or something.
Thursday: During my morning walk, I took my camera, with the intention of finally getting footage of the elusive black dragonfly. Ok, not elusive, just too small for phone camera.
I ate taiyaki!! Well. The ice-cream version.
And guess what’s inside —
ice cream and chocolate and... azuki beans!
And I ate this weird pudding thing.
It came with a little creamer. I had no idea what to do with it so I poured it on top. You may think the stuff at the bottom is chocolate, but you would be wrong. It’s azuki. But it was good anyway.
Friday: We had the UFO Meeting. I was handed some vocab sheets and told, for this upcoming week’s ‘Level Up’ program, I would be teaching these lists of vocabulary. Then playing a game or something. Very specific. I don’t really get it.
It was wonderful almost-cool weather. I walked to the store during the middle of the day and it was nice :O
Look at the progress of the rice:
I ate this strange jello thing.
I’d been wanting to try one. It’s basically just a jello thing. This one had azuki and kuri (chestnut).
Dance class was fun, though we spent the whole time on the rhumba.
Saturday: My baby class actually went well. Wow. Rest of the day ok. Kaori and I did zumba.
Sunday: We went to the beach again! Yay! We went rather early, which was nice, there weren’t too many people there. The weather was perfect and the water was great.
In the afternoon I went to Kaori’s house. Her mother did an informal tea ceremony for us and we chatted. That evening we pitched in to help her make okonomiyaki. Kaori’s version was veggies only, but (after asking if I would eat ika) her mother made our version with squid and pork. It also included cheese and tomatoes and liquified yamaimo (mountain potato). We cooked them on a big table-top grill, along with various vegetables. I ate a lot.
Recent Japanese:
hourensou = spinach
katayude tamago = hard-boiled egg
uku = to float
joukyou = situation
sono toki no joukyou ni yotte kawaru = it depends on the situation
kona = powder
aku = astringency (taste) — or to soak [eggplant] in water to lessen the bitter taste
aonori = type of seaweed (sprinkled on top of okonomiyaki)
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