This entire week is a holiday for me – I go back to school on Monday, January 5th. Yesterday I spent catching up with things around the house, and today in the afternoon Mr. Hayashi is going to pick me up and take me to the central post office to pick up some packages that arrived while I was gone.
Tonight I’m going into Osaka with Antoine – he is shopping for a digital camera and I’m going to help him out. I’m also looking for a few things – an MP3 player to listen to, since I spend so much time on the trains staring out the window. I’m also looking for a new electric razor – mine holds a charge for about one minute and then starts dying.
Tomorrow I was supposed to go with Miss Kageyama to Universal Studios Japan, but she found out when she got home from Australia that her grandfather had passed away. She missed the funeral while she was away, and she was pretty depressed about it. Hopefully time spent with her family over the next week will help.
I’ve got a stocked fridge – meals should be very good this week. Last night I cooked up some chicken breasts that were jerked with some of the sauce that Nancy and Lynn sent. They were really spicy, and quite good. I also made some homemade onigiri (rice balls). They turned out really well – I was impressed with myself. I filled the rice balls with a bit of dried salty salmon, and sprinkled them with black sesame seeds. I wrapped the whole thing in dried seaweed, and it was great.
I’ve also got some pretty good thin sliced mad-cow beef from America, some nice pork, lots of carrots and tomatoes, chinese noodles, onions and some tonkatsu. Yum.
