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.
Thursday, August 2, 2007
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2 comments:
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
You've got all those shops in Miyako?! I was told by people it was "inaka" (i.e. countryside)!!!
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