8/30
Awesome times today. I gave Yuka and and Mom english lessons. Trying to describe the difference between ‘cloud’ and ‘crowd’ was hilarious. They can’t tell at all. We then talked about how mom wants to go to the states and needs a homestay – they were asking if my parents took homestay students, I said I didn’t know. They asked if my parents lived by themselves and when I said that they did, they both exclaimed at how lonely that must be. Then they said “oh but american people love each other, so maybe they aren’t so lonely.” Yuka said “my parent’s aren’t all ‘rabu rabu’ (love love)” “yes,” said host mom “dad and I don’t love each other, it is just a beneficial arrangement.” all in seriousness, then in joke: “the only thing dad loves is probably the TV.”
We went out to the supermarket this afternoon, there was a machine to change the brown rice into white rice – amazing! Then we bought ramen and snacks for lunch and came back! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
Tonight, I am going to try eating ‘natto’ … considered to be the one food that no foreigner can stomach without gagging. Even many Japanese can’t touch the stuff. It is basically sweet beans with a wierd sticky substance in the whole mix to connect it all. Apparently it smells really really strong. We will see what happens!
