It feels incredibly surreal; I just can not believe that this is really my life. That this will continue to be my life for months. That my life will change because of this.
I wonder how long this feeling will last.
Yesterday I went to the Kawaramachi/Sanjo area with two other students in my program and a Japanese student of Ritsumeikan University.
We ate lunch at a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. At the bottom of the picture is the belt with various sushi and other foods going around the restaurant. On top of the belt is a toy-like shinkansen which the staff uses to deliver special orders to the tables. That is our chocolate mousse arriving!
This lovely dish is my tako nigiri sushi -- octopus on a rice ball with a small dab of wasabi between the two. Never in my life would I think that I could enjoy this! Yum! Each plate here is only 94 yen, except for desserts and other non-sushi items. Most sushi plates were 2 pieces of nigiri or maki. Higher quality pieces were still 1 for 94 yen. I got a delicious and filling meal of sushi for less than $5!
We shopped in the Kawaramachi/Sanjo area all afternoon. I got some hand towels, kerchiefs, and a couple other everyday necessities, as well as a t-shirt from Uniglo (790 yen), three (!) pairs of shoes from Cross Over (1990 yen each), and two dresses from the Gap (originally 6800 yen, I got them for 1900 yen each). We got ice cream at Baskin Robbins (where we received coupons for 1000 yen off admission to Universal Studios Japan--I think we're going on Tuesday!) and later had dinner at Second House, a restaurant specializing in spaghetti and cake.
I decided to try their pizza -- mozzarella, ham, and mushrooms.
The crust was incredibly thin and all the ham and mushrooms were in a lump in the center of the pizza. There were also chunks of tomato thrown in there, and very little sauce. Definitely not like any pizza I've ever had before, but still delicious!
There's a co-op nearby that I'll go to later today to pick up some more things for everyday life--like an umbrella. The forecast calls for showers and isolated storms today, high in the mid 80s. In other words, gross. It'll be a good day for studying, I guess. The language placement exams are in less than a week and I have a lot of brushing up to do!
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