Saturday morning I had the place to myself – Kuniko was off to school to teach a few morning classes. I did a little laundry, a lot of studying, and had a some snacks for lunch. By the time Kuniko got back in the afternoon I was ready for a nap, so I slept just a little bit and then I was ready to head into Kobe to meet Nel and Antoine.
We had a good time in Sannomiya. We started at a pizza restaurant. There aren’t many restaurants in Japan dedicated to pizza, so this was a unique experience. Also, they number every pizza they make, so you can see exactly how many pizzas they have made before yours came out of the oven. As for the quality of the pizza, it was a little bit bland. The toppings were a little thin, but satisfying enough. We had a “Worker’s Pizza”, which had different meats and garlic, and a “Mexican Pizza” which had just a slight bit of spiciness, but otherwise didn’t seem very Mexican at all.
Afterwards we went and shot pool for about an hour, and from there went to a Japanese German beerhouse that I’ve wanted to try. I think it is owned by Sapporo, and they had a few homemade beers there that we could try out. One was quite good, but the other one, a wheat beer, didn’t taste very good at all. The waitresses were dressed like St. Pauli girl, so that was a big plus.
Nel and Antoine have two different directions they are heading after JET. Antoine will be looking for a job in the area, and Nel is looking for something in Tokyo. We talked about our different job strategies, and also about how we first met. It was good times. Hard to believe that we all started this adventure in Los Angeles about three years ago.
I came on back home and found Kuniko already crashed out – she has been working so hard lately. I curled up right beside her and went to sleep. I gotta plant rice tomorrow!
