Thursday, August 2, 2007

Walking around

So, since I was awake and had nothing better to do with lack of internet, I went for a walk. The water place isn’t open until 8 (7:30 now) so I asked a nice lady for the nearest convenience store, which is apparently on the same street. After finding it I walked down to the end of the street (not very far at all) and came back. On my way I saw:

A Basken Robbins 31. This is so not good for my diet.

A Mos Burger, in case I need a similar taste to home.

A nice man who greeted me with “morning” and was so surprise he stumbled when I replied “ohayo gozaimasu.”

3 cats, and yes, Jeanelle, I have pictures of all of them. The first came down the steps of my sudo-apartment. Grey tabby. The second was marking a store’s sign with his face, orange stripes. The third was a KITTEN, again a grey tabby. His head wasn’t even the size of my fist. More like a golf ball. Sooooo cute. None of them would let me get close, and they are all so SKINNY. Remind me how much I don’t need a cat?

A fish food place that may or may not have sushi.

A suviner shop where I see many Christmas presents in the future.

2 convienence stores.

A fuji film store.

Tons of vending machines.

The moon.

A dog.

2 adorable children, all by themselves, neither a day older than 4.

And lots of other really nice people.

For breakfast I popped by the conbini, and was hoping to get an ume onigiri, a rice ball (although it’s really more of a triangle) with a pickled plum inside, but the only thing with an ume in it had other kanji I didn’t understand on it. The clerk explained that it had nori inside. I don’t know what nori was, but it tasted like an ume with inari sauce on it. He asked me if I wanted to heat it up, and I asked if that was normal. He said yes, so I did. It wasn’t bad, but I think I might try a different flavor next time.

Then I came home. I have another hour before I have to be ready to go to work. I might go for another walk in the other direction.

2 comments:

Patti said...

Don't you love it when you can surprise someone with their own language? lol Enjoyed your description of the "street".
As I recall, Nori is seaweed. We get it here in paper thin sheets to use in rolling California Rolls and other sushi.
Later toots,
Patti

Anonymous said...

You've got all those shops in Miyako?! I was told by people it was "inaka" (i.e. countryside)!!!